MIDWEEK MINUTES December 8, 2014
Midweek
Minutes
December 6,
2014
Happy St. Nicholas Day,
Winners!
Yes! It's
here! (well, yes, St. Nicholas Day is today), but MORE THAN THAT....tell all
your friends and fellow members not to miss the meeting this week as we unroll
the program changes for 2015! If you go to the Weight Watchers' website, you
can find out something about it in advance, but for details, you need to be at
the meeting! It's going to be exciting! It's just what we need to ease us
through the holidays! You'll be sorry if you miss it.
What would
your holiday season be like this year if you had NOT joined Weight Watchers?
(Thinking of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life). Kind of depressing,
huh? But you
DID join! Do you feel better? Are your clothes smaller? Are you learning about
portion control and eating healthy? Are you thinking first before mindlessly
eating? Does what we do effect others? Oh, yeah!
When we have a losing list to help us focus on the real goals we
want and not let the holiday season distract us, then we realize that all the
things we are doing on the program do NOT make up a diet, but we are living life
to the fullest and managing our weight, too! That makes us glad we
joined!
You'll be even gladder this
week when we give out all the details of the new program because it's all good!
Some come and learn all about it! Remember too, to SHARE YOUR SUCCCESS and earn
rewards as well as be entered into a drawing for a GRAND PRIZE at the end of
December!
You KNOW, it IS A
Wonderful Weight Watcher's Life!
See you then!!! from
your Angel...er, Leader—Zig
Member
Milestones
Superior: –6.2
lbs.
Hastings: –8
lbs.
Find Motivation Where You Least Expect It
Too harried to be healthy? Get your motivation back on track
by indulging in a little me time. These ideas are worth making time
for.
It's hard to stay motivated when it seems
like you're spending every waking moment taking care of everyone but yourself.
But the resourceful members of our Community have found some creative, easy ways
to free up time and space, allowing them to slip into blissful
quietude.
Read their inspiring strategies for
carving out some much-needed "me time," then think about ways you can schedule
in your own self-pampering asap
Create a space of
serenity“Instead of using the
overhead lighting that came with the house, I use lamps. This way I can get that
nice, cozy glow that I want in my home instead of being bombarded from above. I
even use lamps in my kitchen, because it only has a fluorescent light.”
—HOLVICH
“I insist on keeping my home as neat and uncluttered as possible. It's especially important that my kitchen, which is the first room I enter from my front door, is neat and the table is clear or has a vase of flowers or a decorative bowl on it.” —KLAROTONDA
“I insist on keeping my home as neat and uncluttered as possible. It's especially important that my kitchen, which is the first room I enter from my front door, is neat and the table is clear or has a vase of flowers or a decorative bowl on it.” —KLAROTONDA
Take time for
you“My favorite haven is a hot
bath with no light except a great scented candle.” —SANDYP99
“I get up when it's still dark outside and very quiet inside. I enjoy my coffee, maybe I’ll read or watch some news, but this is my time.” —GINNYLV
“Exercising is purely my time. “Whether I'm on the elliptical or in a kickboxing class, I think of nothing but working out and what is happening in the present.” —LAURABETH22
“My favorite spot to meditate is on my cushion in a quiet part of the house. I light a candle, set a meditation timer for 10 minutes and allow myself to enter a tranquil space, putting down my burdens for at least that portion of time.” —EARTHINSONG
“I get up when it's still dark outside and very quiet inside. I enjoy my coffee, maybe I’ll read or watch some news, but this is my time.” —GINNYLV
“Exercising is purely my time. “Whether I'm on the elliptical or in a kickboxing class, I think of nothing but working out and what is happening in the present.” —LAURABETH22
“My favorite spot to meditate is on my cushion in a quiet part of the house. I light a candle, set a meditation timer for 10 minutes and allow myself to enter a tranquil space, putting down my burdens for at least that portion of time.” —EARTHINSONG
Carve out solo
space“We have a fourth bedroom
in our house that has been set aside as my ‘office.’ I painted and decorated the
room to my liking. In there I have my computer, TV, books, workout equipment and
exercise DVDs. The best part is, it's on the opposite side of the house from the
noise and bustle of the TV room. My boys know that it is ‘Mom's area.’”
—KATIENAP
“The bathtub is my sanctuary. I grab the bubble bath, and either a good book or my laptop to watch a movie while I relax. I always bring two glasses of water in with me — it's a good time to get in two of my eight.” —MOONLITMAGNOLIA
“The bathtub is my sanctuary. I grab the bubble bath, and either a good book or my laptop to watch a movie while I relax. I always bring two glasses of water in with me — it's a good time to get in two of my eight.” —MOONLITMAGNOLIA
Embrace
nature"I lead an extremely busy
and hectic life, but one hour per day is mine. During that hour I walk or jog
alone in the hills where I live. That hour always helps me to refocus and to
relax, and when I’ve returned I feel energized, refocused, and ready resume my
busy life.” —KCA195
“My peaceful time to myself is after I drop my grandkids off at school. I walk along by the river. It is a beautiful walk that relaxes me and gets me off to a good start for the day. When it is warmer, I sometimes take a book along, and just enjoy the river and people going by." —BDBOWTIMOM
“My peaceful time to myself is after I drop my grandkids off at school. I walk along by the river. It is a beautiful walk that relaxes me and gets me off to a good start for the day. When it is warmer, I sometimes take a book along, and just enjoy the river and people going by." —BDBOWTIMOM
‘Tis
the season for special offers! From 12/7 to 12/20, Weight Watchers will be
offering all currently Monthly Pass members the opportunity to get ActiveLink 2.0 for only
$24.95!
The email will be sent out on 12/7 with the special offer to pay only $24.95 for ActiveLink in meeting rooms when you show the email (printed out or on your device). This offer will be valid until 12/20/2014.
The email will be sent out on 12/7 with the special offer to pay only $24.95 for ActiveLink in meeting rooms when you show the email (printed out or on your device). This offer will be valid until 12/20/2014.
Surviving the Cookie Swap
Follow these smart
strategies and you'll put more cookies in the tin than your tummy at the next
cookie swap party.
Every winter holiday season, folks pull
out their favorite family cookie recipes, commandeer the kitchen for a day or
two, and get baking. Dusted with a light coating of flour, they peer proudly at
the trays of cookies and wonder just what to do with such a large quantity.
Apart from the obvious.
Years ago some very savvy cookie connoisseurs came up with a great solution: Host cookie swap parties. Guests bring their homemade family favorites, decorated on platters or already in individual gift bags. When all the guests have arrived let the fun begin! Swapping and tasting, tasting and swapping. At the end of the event, each person goes home with a package of goodies.
It’s fun, frugal and delicious — but also a potential pitfall to someone who is trying to lose weight or maintain a loss. Yet not participating and feeling deprived can have the same result. So what to do?
The answer is simple and fun: Create your own personal cookie tin. Not just any old tin; one that you have designated and decorated for you, and you alone. Don’t just slap a sticky note on a recycled cracker box; decorate an empty tin for yourself just as you would if you were making it a gift for a loved one. Then fill it with the cookies you're most looking forward to eating this season.
Before the swap
Years ago some very savvy cookie connoisseurs came up with a great solution: Host cookie swap parties. Guests bring their homemade family favorites, decorated on platters or already in individual gift bags. When all the guests have arrived let the fun begin! Swapping and tasting, tasting and swapping. At the end of the event, each person goes home with a package of goodies.
It’s fun, frugal and delicious — but also a potential pitfall to someone who is trying to lose weight or maintain a loss. Yet not participating and feeling deprived can have the same result. So what to do?
The answer is simple and fun: Create your own personal cookie tin. Not just any old tin; one that you have designated and decorated for you, and you alone. Don’t just slap a sticky note on a recycled cracker box; decorate an empty tin for yourself just as you would if you were making it a gift for a loved one. Then fill it with the cookies you're most looking forward to eating this season.
Before the swap
- Giving cookies to others as a gift? Bring a stash of gift bags and/or boxes with pre-written labels and ribbon or tape to seal them.
- Think: How many PointsPlus® values worth of cookes will you eat this season?Keep in mind, there will be other goodies that you'll want to use your PointsPlus values on over the next month or so. Got your number? Write it down.
- Put the "gift" cookies straight into their bags. All packaged up and pretty? Great, now seal them.
- Select the cookies you plan to eat yourself.Be choosy! Add cookies to your own tin until you have reached the PointsPlus budget you set yourself. (You might need to pull out your Tracker to help calculate as you go.)
- Grab a pen!List the cookies and their PointsPlus values, either on the bottom of your tin or a separate piece of paper. If necessary, run your fellow swappers’ recipes through the Recipe Builder.
12/7-12/27--Members who purchase the
Love It, Cook It, Eat It cookbook can purchase any other cookbook (up
to
10) for 50% off ($7.45 for large
cookbooks, $4.95 for small cookbooks)
12/7-12/21--Select Fitness Products
will be on sale. Exercise mat for $9.95; PointsPlus Fitness Series, Target
&
Tone Pilates Fitness Kit &
Ultimate Dance Party for $19.95
SPOILER ALERT
24/7 Chat is available to all
members who have a monthly subscription to any of our 4 product offerings.
There’s no
extra fee to use the
service!
BAD WEATHER: If there will be a meeting
cancellation due to SNOW, etc., please stay tuned to NTV or KHAS-TV. I will call
them to announce a meeting cancellation by 3 P.M. for Superior...and as early
as I can (or the night before) for Hastings Saturday morning meetings. You can
also log on to their websites where they have weather closings.
You can also call
the Weight Watchers' 800 number to find out if we are having a meeting.
1-800-651-6000.
Member
Recipes
Chocolate-Hazelnut
Thumbprints
4 1/2 ounces all-purpose flour (about 1 cup)
1 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon instant espresso (optional)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup finely chopped hazelnuts, toasted
1/3 cup hazelnut-chocolate spread (such as
Nutella)
1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Weigh or lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, and salt; stir with a whisk. Place butter in a large bowl, and beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy (about 2 minutes). Stir egg yolks with a whisk, adding espresso, if desired. Add the yolk mixture and vanilla to butter; beat well. Add flour mixture to butter mixture; beat at low speed just until combined.
3. Turn dough out onto a sheet of wax paper; knead 6 times or until smooth and shiny. Shape dough into 28 (1-inch) balls. Roll sides of balls in nuts, pressing gently. Arrange balls 1 inch apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Press thumb into center of each cookie, leaving an indentation. Bake, 1 batch at a time, at 350° for 10 minutes. Remove cookies from pans; cool completely on wire racks. Spoon a scant 1/2 teaspoon hazelnut-chocolate spread into center of each cookie.
Entire recipe
makes 24 cookies
Serving size is 1 cookie
Each cookie = 2 Points +
2. Weigh or lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, and salt; stir with a whisk. Place butter in a large bowl, and beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy (about 2 minutes). Stir egg yolks with a whisk, adding espresso, if desired. Add the yolk mixture and vanilla to butter; beat well. Add flour mixture to butter mixture; beat at low speed just until combined.
3. Turn dough out onto a sheet of wax paper; knead 6 times or until smooth and shiny. Shape dough into 28 (1-inch) balls. Roll sides of balls in nuts, pressing gently. Arrange balls 1 inch apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Press thumb into center of each cookie, leaving an indentation. Bake, 1 batch at a time, at 350° for 10 minutes. Remove cookies from pans; cool completely on wire racks. Spoon a scant 1/2 teaspoon hazelnut-chocolate spread into center of each cookie.
Ham and Potato
Soup
Points: 4 Weight Watchers Points plus
Servings: 8
Serving Size: 1 cup
Points: 4 Weight Watchers Points plus
Servings: 8
Serving Size: 1 cup
2 tbsp
butter
1 onion,
diced
4 ribs
celery, diced
2 cloves
garlic, minced
2 cups
chopped ham
3 cups diced
potatoes
1/8 cup
flour
1 bay
leaf
1 tsp black
pepper
3 cups
chicken broth
2 cups
reduced fat milk
Salt to
taste
Melt
the butter over medium heat in a large soup pot. Add the onion, garlic, and
celery and saute for about ten minutes until the onion begins to become
translucent.
Add
the ham and potatoes and stir together. Add the flour and stir to coat
everything. This will help to thicken the soup.
Add
the chicken broth, bay leaf, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil and then simmer
for 15-20 minutes until the potatoes are mostly cooked through.
Stir
in the milk and simmer for an additional 5 minutes. Season with salt and
pepper.
Mini Oreo
cheesecakes
12 Oreo cookies
8 oz Cream cheese, room temp
1/3 cup Sugar
1 Egg
8 oz Cream cheese, room temp
1/3 cup Sugar
1 Egg
Directions
Line a muffin pan with 12 liners.
Place one oreo cookie in each liner.
Blend Cream cheese and sugar. Blend in eggs.
Pour evenly into each liner, covering the oreo. Bake at
350 for 15 minutes.
Top with a little cool whip and sprinkle with a few baking
crumbs.
Makes 12 servings.
At Christmas time, I do half with the regular oreo and half with the white oreo and sprinkle the white with graham crumbs
At Christmas time, I do half with the regular oreo and half with the white oreo and sprinkle the white with graham crumbs
and the regular oreo with oreo crumbs, and top with a
hershey's kiss. It's always a big topic of conversation.
Number of Servings: 12
Number of Servings: 12
PointsPlus Value = 4
White
Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
1 ¼ cups white whole wheat all-purpose
flour
1/2 cup light butter-like spread, at room
temp (I used Country Crock)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup white chocolate
chips
1/3 cup roughly chopped raw macadamia
nuts
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp almond extract
Preheat oven to 350
degrees.
In a medium sized bowl, combine the
butter and sugar and smooth. Then add in the egg, the vanilla extract and the
almond extract.
In a large bowl, mix together the
flour, salt and baking soda.
Slowly stir the sugar mixture into the
flour mixture and stir until combined.
Stir in the white chocolate chips and
nuts. Drop the dough by tablespoon onto cookie sheet. There should be enough
dough for 24 cookies.
Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven
and let sit on cookie sheet for another 10 minutes before transferring to a wire
rack to finish cooling.
Serving size is 1 cookie
Each cookie = 2 Points +
Makes 28 cookies
Serving Size: 1 cookie
PointsPlus = 3
Garlic Rosemary Roasted
Vegetables
Ingredients
1 cup mushrooms
2 cups broccoli florets
2 cups cauliflower florets
1 red pepper, chopped
1 red onion, chopped
1 zucchini chopped
2 tbsp. butter, melted
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp. dried rosemary
1/2 tsp. oregano
Salt and pepper
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 400
degrees.
2. Toss together the vegetables, butter
garlic, rosemary, oregano, salt, and pepper in
a glass baking dish.
3. Bake for 30 minutes, tossing
vegetables half way through cooking.
4. Serve with Parmesan cheese.
Servings: 6 Servings: 4
Serving Size: 2/3 cup Serving Size: 1.25
cups
Weight Watchers®: 3 PointsPlus®
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