Since I started the blog after the program started, two years after, I am going to start archiving some of the information from the old weekly packets, a few meetings at a time. I will only include electronic articles that current blog readers may find useful.
I add my own commentary at each meeting which, at this point, isn't in the blog although I plan on adding that for future meetings (maybe even video one day) once I catch up with archiving the past select electronic materials.
I verbally hit the highlights of the packet at the meetings and encourage the members to read the packets at home during the next week.
Do’s and Don’ts
If you Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail
GO TO THE GROCERY STORE with a LIST
1. LESS real eggs – more Eggbeaters or egg whites
2. NO DONUTS – Light or Wheat Bagels – ½ with Lite butter or lite cream cheese
3. NO CHIPS – FF Saltines, Reduced Fat Wheat Thins
4. NO REAL ICE CREAM – Light Sherbet or Reduced Calorie Ice Cream –or Skinny Cows
5. NO CAKE or Cookies – 100 calorie packs
6. LESS BREAD – light rye/light wheat – get that fiber in there
7. NO PIZZA – get Lean Cuisine Pizza
8. NO WINGS – boneless chicken breasts
9. NO BLUE CHEESE DRESSING – Light or Fat Free DRESSINGS or light oil and balsamic vinaigrette
10. NO FAST FOODS – or have salads there or ½ of a veggie Subway Sub with NO Mayo
11. Use light or fat free mayonnaise or better yet Dijonaise
12. Watch going out to dinner!! ½ portions or the lower calorie choices
13. NO Alcohol or very limited
14. Substitute Ham with Lean turkey
15. Use ground turkey in chili or goulash
16. Use wheat pasta
17. Try a fiber cereal – Kashi Good Friends with Raisins is Great
18. Watch Canned Soups – use Healthy Choice – Low Sodium
19. MORE Salads with dressings on the sides
20. NO BACON – use turkey bacon
21. No burgers/hot dogs – try Boca chicken patties/veggies patties – GREAT
22. Three Meals a Day with one snack (fruit/100 calorie packs)
23. Skim Milk – no whole milk!!
24. Fat Free Creamer in Coffee
25. Look on the web for ideas www.freedieting.com
WEIGHT WATCHER BASIC SOUP
Printed from COOKS.COM
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5 c. cabbage, sliced fine
2 c. celery, chopped
2 c. green beans
5 c. V-8 juice or tomato
5 c. water
5 bouillon cubes, beef
2 tbsp. onion, chopped
2 tbsp. lemon juice
2-4 tsp. Equal sweetener (optional)
Combine all ingredients in a large kettle and cook until vegetables are tender but not overcooked.
STAY WITH ME LORD – a St. PIO Prayer
Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have
You present so that I do not forget You.
You know how easily I abandon You.
Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak
and I need Your strength,
that I may not fall so often.
Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life,
and without You, I am without fervor.
Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light,
and without You, I am in darkness.
Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will.
Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice
and follow You.
Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You
very much, and always be in Your company.
Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.
Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is,
I want it to be a place of consolation for You, a nest of love.
Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming to a close, and life passes; death, judgment, eternity approaches. It is necessary to renew my strength,
so that I will not stop along the way and for that, I need You.
It is getting late and death approaches,
I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the cross, the sorrows.
O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile!
Stay with me tonight, Jesus, in life with all it’s dangers. I need You.
Let me recognize You as Your disciples did at the breaking of the bread,
so that the Eucharistic Communion be the Light which disperses the darkness,
the force which sustains me, the unique joy of my heart.
Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to remain united to You, if not by communion, at least by grace and love.
Stay with me, Jesus, I do not ask for divine consolation, because I do not merit it,
but the gift of Your Presence, oh yes, I ask this of You!
Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love, Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more.
With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on earth
and continue to love You perfectly during all eternity AMEN
I AM
I was regretting the past
and fearing the future.
Suddenly my Lord was speaking:
"My name is I am"
He paused.
I waited. He continued,
"When you live in the past
with its mistakes and regrets,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I WAS.
When you live in the future,
with its problems and fears,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I WILL BE.
When you live in this moment
it is not hard. I am here,
My name I AM."
Helen Mallicoat
The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous
(From Overeatersanonymous.com)
1. We admit we are powerless over food — that our lives have become unmanageable.
2. Come to believe that a Power (JESUS CHRIST) greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.
4. Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. (Confession)
6. We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Make a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admit it.
11. Seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we try to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
SHOW ME THE PATH
From Beliefnet.com
Dear God,
I admit that I have come to both love
and hate the word "diet."
On the one hand, it represents hope for change.
On the other, it's like a sign flashing "Failure ahead!"
I don't want to embark on another faulty plan, Lord.
I want to embark on a journey with You
that is led by You and depends on Your power.
I can do nothing on my own!
Show me the path that will enable me to change.
Show me, as only You can,
what works for me, what is healthy for me.
I want to think of this venture in positive terms, Lord--
not that I am signing up to be miserable or in want.
I want to learn to feed my body what it truly needs when it truly needs it.
And to feed my soul with the Bread of Life--You!
Today I place my future, my failures, my setbacks,
all of my hopes and plans into Your hands.
There alone will I find meaning
and true success in my life.
Amen.
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