This is an excellent Thai chicken soup recipe to help along the way to your weight loss goal. It is delicious and zesty. Remember that the secret to weight loss is to eat your points. Portion control is everything. Don’t forget to journal as you go.

Bon Appetit!!

Thai Chicken Soup Recipe

• 1 tab spoon Olive Oil 2 med chicken breasts chopped.
• 1 Stick Lemon Grass 1 small b nut squash chopped 100ml 3.5 fl ozs low fat coconut milk.
• 1 tab sp thai curry paste 12g 4.5 ozs spinach. *
• 1 cm .5inch fresh Ginger chopped 850 ml 1.5pts Chicken stock Salt freshly ground pepper black.
• 2 garlic cloves chopped.
• 3 spring onions.
• 3 tab spoon flaked almonds toasted.*

1. Heat the oil in a medium pan and stir fry the lemongrass ginger and garlic for 2-3 mins.
2. Add the chicken and stir fry for 5-6 mins before adding the butter squash and thai curry paste.
3. Stir well to coat the chicken and veg with the flavouring.
4. Pour in the chicken stock and bring to a simmer.  Cook for 15 mins or until squash is soft.
5. Add the coconut milk spinach and spring onion.  
6. Simmer for further 4-5 mins to heat everything.
7. Season to taste and serve sprinkled with toasted almonds.

I also know this and say this despite the fact that Weight Watchers turned down my application to be a member of their affiliate program.

Yes it is true I am not and have never been a member of weight watchers and have never attended a single weight watchers meeting. I have however driven to countless weight watchers locations over the years. You see my life’s partner you could call her my wife has flirted with bulging waistline syndrome over the years.

Within the confined of our marriage which today February 14^th is officially Pearl (30^th) my wife has yoyo dieted and swung from mini skirt hot to baggy pants and long top fat and frumpy.

She tried so many diets that didn’t work, however the two times that she lost major weight it was with weight watchers.

Losing weight is easy, the whole “weight scenario” is so simple that a brain dead monkey can comprehend it with ease, yet so many rocket scientists and brain surgeons whose Mensa scores are off the Richter Scale are confounded by it and rendered obese jellied masses in its presence.

Simplified Brain Dead Monkey Formula for Weight Loss:

1. Commitment to lose weight. Without commitment nothing within the realms of achievement is ever possible.
2. Template or plan. A goal is a great thing but without a method for its achievement a goal like a dream is transient.
3. Determination. Determination could be equated to commitment but the reality of the human mind is that it loves to have high ideals but hates the work of achieving them, hence the silver bullet mentality of weight loss pills and fad diets that promise utopia but rarely if ever deliver. Determination takes a dream by the scruff of the neck and marches it to its destination.

So Why Does Weight Watchers Work:

Weight Watchers is nothing more than a weight loss template or weight loss plan. The fact that you have gone to your first meeting probably means that you have some element of commitment within your being to lose the “half person” that is hitching a ride on your ass.

If you follow your commitment and Weight Watchers Template with determined effort success is guaranteed.

Weight Watchers Template Consists Of:

• Weekly meetings which offer motivational support from a leader who has walked for at least a mile in your shoes and other fellow travelers who are stumbling over the same pitfalls as you are.
• A daily point’s allowance which is weight watchers marvelous way of counting calories and fat consumption. Basically by inputting the calories and fat content of a food into a chart or computer program you can instantly know how many points from your daily allowance this food choice will cost you.
• Food journal is where you write up your daily food/points consumption.

Having seen dismal weight loss failure and the absolute degenerate mental state that accompanies it, but also having witnessed the transformation of an obese self esteem less frumpy woman into a sleek strong beautiful creature I know what works and why it works.

The secret to success with Weight Watchers it proper food journaling.

Filling in your journal in the evening is like balancing your check book after you have written 20 checks. You need to know your check book balance before you write a check; you need to know your points balance before you stuff that Crab Rangoon in your mouth.

Its so tiny and so innocent looking and so good but its like ten points and you cant afford it and if you don’t know your points balance because you haven’t been recording what you have been stuffing into your mouth all day long you will blank out and the next thing you know the Crab Rangoon will be plural and tonight when you fill in your journal you will be devastated and will feel like quitting and worst still you will be filled with self loathing.

Wouldn’t you rather be obsessive compulsive strutting your stuff in a slinky black number than Crab Rangoon frumpy. Fill in your journal as you consume, that’s all it takes to guarantee success.

Remember an overdraft is an overdraft is an overdraft. The bank will hit you with fees and charges; your body will hit you with no weight loss or worst still a weight gain.

Write every morsel in your journal as you eat it and if you are truthful and sincere in your weight loss dream you will succeed, this is not idle blogosphere chatter, it is a cast iron guarantee.

Weight Watchers are not paying me to say this. I am not in any way affiliated with Weight Watchers other than having witnessed a fifty two year old woman lose over 50 pounds which was more the a quarter of her body weight in less than a year.

I have also witnessed this fifty two year old woman being magically transformed mentally as well as psychically. She now possesses a vibrancy and self confidence that is viral, it touches, it infects and it is a pleasure to be around.

* 1 cup of raw leafy vegetables (such as lettuce or spinach)

* 1/2 cup of other vegetables, cooked or chopped raw

* 1/2 cup cooked or canned legumes (beans and peas)

* 3/4 cup of vegetable juice

* 1 medium apple, banana, orange

* 1/2 cup of chopped, cooked, or canned fruit

* 3/4 cup of fruit juice

* 1/4 cup dried fruit

Here are some practical tips anyone can use:

* Be sure to include at least one fruit serving at breakfast, preferably two. Try a glass of orange juice and a whole piece of fruit, or a smoothie using both juice and whole fruit.

* Use snacktime to add a serving or two of fruits or vegetables to your daily diet, such as raw vegetables with some light dip or dressing, or a bowl of chopped fruit topped with some fat-free yogurt.

* Include at least two servings of vegetables with both lunch and dinner. A lunch example would be to add both lettuce and tomato to a sandwich, and some raw vegetables on the side. For dinner, try serving 2 sides of steamed vegetables. Or, eat a bowl of tomato or vegetable soup or gazpacho as an appetizer. Try a pizza with lots of veggie toppings.

* Before you prepare dinner, fix a bowl of fresh veggies to munch on and then place it on the table with dinner. You’d be surprised how easy it is to down a 1/2 cup of cherry tomatoes or sliced cucumbers when you’re munching away.

* Fill half your dinner plate with vegetables, and go for seconds on veggies before you’ll allow yourself seconds of the entree.

* If you don’t have any fresh vegetables or fruit, keep frozen and canned on hand – they are surprisingly comparable in terms of nutrition.

* Drink an ice-cold glass of vegetable juice with a meal or for a snack.

* Make it a point to try a new fruit or vegetable as often as you can – it’s a great way to discover wonderful new favorites!

* Include fruit in your dessert selections. You can serve it with angel food cake, yogurt, light whipping topping, chocolate syrup, light ice cream, or all by itself!

If you use all of the suggestions in this list, you’d get 5-6 servings of vegetables and 3-4 servings of fruit in a day. That doesn’t seem so hard, does it? Happy eating!

Article written by Erin Rogers

So I am writing this post to fill in the blanks from my starting point back opoint’s calculatorn May 6^th 2009  to the present day. My first post was “First Day at Weight Watchers”. 

Lets cut to the chase. Here are numbers and believe me in my first post I defrinately would not have spilled the beans re my starting weight. I guess it is easier to be brave in hindsight.

My start date:                May 6^th 2009

My starting weight:       198.8 pounds

My goal weight             150    pounds

I reached my goal weight of 150 pounds on November 25^th 2009

My weight today January 11^th 2010 is 144.4 pounds.

So my total weight loss to date is 54.4 pounds.

To put my body frame into context I am a female 5ft 7 in.

So now that the figures are out of the way the question that must be asked and answered is how did I succeed this time when I faltered so many times in the past.

Firstly weight watchers is a great program but only if you go to the meetings and count your points and most importantly keep your food journal on a meal to meal basis. If you think I will fill it in, in the evening then you will forget some tasty morsel or other that will lie forever on your hips.

Portion size is a huge part of the weight loss process. Be honest in converting your portions to points. Feel free to use the handy point’s calculator at the bottom of every page on this site.

There is a third factor in my success which has little to do with diet but all to do with self worth.

In 2008 I went back to school and graduated as a massage therapist. Previously I had been offering reflexology which is an absolutely great therapy but demand is limited.

Offering massage therapy allowed me to in a sense spread my wings and the validation I received coupled with the success of my practice acted like rocket fuel to my self esteem.

I really feel that this boost in self esteem was vital to my weight loss success. Feeling like a different woman I didn’t need the comfort that I had previously sought in food.

Back to the food, from a purely scientific viewpoint it is an energy in, energy out process. Although we as humans like to see eating food as a pleasurable experience our bodies see eating as replenishing its fuel supply.

So if you constantly take in more fuel than your body expends in its daily activities then you will store this fuel in your body. The term for stored fuel is fat.

So we come to the fourth factor, exercise. I like to walk but living in the Northeast with horrendous winter weather walking can sometimes be difficult. So I turned my attention to the treadmill that had been gathering dust in the basement for years. At first I walked for fifteen minutes a day and it was hard but I kept at it and now I do an average of 4 miles a day running. The secret is to do it most days and as with the food if you break out then get back on track as soon as possible.

Great as my achievement in losing the weight was/is. I also started, ran and finished the Tufts 10K for women on October 12^th 2009.

Weight loss appears to be such a simple process to people who fill their needs for comfort in other ways. And if the truth be told weight loss is really a simple process, for everyone that is except overweight people.

What I have found is that besides of the nitty gritty of dieting and exercise regimes, successful weight loss needs that third motivating factor which is called commitment.

The commitment comes when your need to lose weight outweigh your need to continue with your everyday life habits. Change your habits, change your life sounds great but the real quote is change your thinking, change your life.

The thinking you need to change is how you think about yourself. Self esteem, self love, validation.

Good luck on your journey. If you need support feel free to comment on any of the posts on this blog or email mlsmass@yahoo.com

I was forced to remove this article as legal council for Caroline Schley have objected to the readership of Weight Watch having access to what they describe as copyright material this despite the fact that Caroline Schley was note as the author.  

The article appeared as an ehow article and in my innocence it thought it might be of help to Weight Watch readers in their battle to defeat overeating and regain control over their health and their life.  

Apparently copyright law is of more importance to ehow in their efforts to boost corporate bottom lines than is the health of ordinary people fighting their way back to health.  

If Ms Schley is not affiliated with the Mayo Clinic I will endeavor to have the deleted information returned to Weight Watch in an originally authored format.  

Thank you all for your support over the years and if you do feel angry at the forcible deletion of this article please feel free to express you anger at ehow and Ms Schley  

Article written by Caroline Schley

You are probably wondering what’s with the new theme on Weight Watch.

Well the reality of life on the web is that the site was hijacked and we found ourselves host to a spammer selling Cialis

Ths spammer is tadalafil4 “dot”com/cialis-side-effects/
I put in the dot so as not to give them any more link value.

Hope you enjoy the new format. I will post more often from now on.

Regarding the Weight Watch Points Calculator it is located in the footer at the bottom of the page.

The greatest killer of a goal is the goal itself. Mostly when we set out to climb a mountain we decide to start with Mount Everest, no ordinary hillock will do for us. But it should be like shoveling the snow from the driveway after a northeaster, one shovel at a time.

So by every means be intent on partying in the black number but the trick to weight loss is one pound at a time. Imagine if you were to lose just one pound a week, which would be 52 pounds in a year and if you kept going 102 pounds in two years and if you really keep going to absurdity a 520 pound mortal would completely disappear simply by losing a measly one pound a week for 10 years.

So your primary goal should not be to lose 50 or 100 pounds but to lose just 1 pound most weeks and to gain less than 1 pound very, very, very few weeks.

How can this be achieved. Well the answer is simple and harsh. Change your diet, change your exercising habits and you will quite literally change your life.

Eat small portions of your favorite foods, avoid weight watcher rat poisons like cheese cake and crab rangoon like the plague, eat some fruit and lots of fiber and for gods sake get off your butt and get the cardio vascular’s moving.

To look at your present weight situation from a different angle, put yourself back into the time when the jeans gathering dust at the back of the closet need a belt to keep them up on your lean butt. Ah yes I remember it well you were skinny then, and wasn’t it so, so easy to pile on the pounds.

Well no it wasn’t that easy to pile on the pounds you did it one pound at a time and you stuck arduously by your chosen regime of fast fatty food and little to no exercise.

Well as in all things the same reality holds for losing weight as for gaining it. Stick with your chosen regime.

I will lay it out for you in 3 easy steps and if I stretch it to 4 or 5 forgive my rambling fingers (on the keyboard):

1. Make healthier food choices.
2. Smaller Portions. Imagine that you are in Europe where an American Prime Rib dinner would feed a family of four.
3. Walk somewhere that is like preferably 2 miles there and 2 miles back most days.
4. Rinse and repeat.
5. Remember me here at WeightWatch.net when you are smiling at yourself in the mirror.

Because I have been having a constant week in week out weight loss with no slip up gain week I was asked to explain my approach.

First and foremost I stick to the program robot like. I count everything that enters my mouth and I journal everything that I eat.

I never miss a meeting, period. Missing meeting is a sure sign that you are not committed and that it is only a matter of time before you revert back to your old dysfunctional eating and exercising habits.

I exercise daily on a treadmill and walking on the street. 30 to 60 minute’s a day at least.

To relieve the monotony of being on a diet I vary the foods I eat. This satisfies my taste buds and they in turn are not too hard on me.

This is the most important point. Portion Size. The reality is that even on a calorie controlled diet you can eat basically anything. It is the quantity of this “anything” that dictates if you will or will not reach your goal weight.

As has been said so many times in the past weight loss just like weight gain is the result of a lifestyle choice/decision.

The choice is yours the only question that remains is are you willing to pay the price of a slinky little black number hanging from your shoulders.

With weight loss the word is; “No Pain no loss”.

Have a great day

Time was when a pint of plain was your only man that’s when it comes to enjoying a drink. However when it comes to achievement it’s commitment every time.

Lost 4.4pounds this week, that’s a current grand total of 16.8pounds

The first requirement of success is action.
The first requirement of action is commitment.
Without commitment there is nothing.

What this translates to is that if your are not committed success is not an option. Or put another way if you are not committed failure is guaranteed.

For instance if you set out to visit your local supermarket with a list of groceries and halfway to your destination answer your cell phone to your best friend who just needs you to have lunch at your favorite restaurant on her right now, and being the good but poorly disciplined friend that you are you can’t refuse, well what do you know, no groceries this trip.

As above so below translates into; as with grocery shopping so with weight loss program.

Don’t go to the supermarket = don’t get the groceries. Don’t follow the program = don’t lose the weight.

It’s not brain science it’s as simple as 1+1=2, yes it really is that simple.

If you head west then you are not heading east. If you are not on the program you are not on the program.

It really is amazing the excuses that flow from the fat mouths of pretend weight loss losers. Well here’s a tip. Winners don’t have excuses, there are no excuses.

Excuses are just your way of saying I don’t feel like losing weight anymore, it was a nice idea but I just couldn’t be bothered. You know you only live once, this is not a practice run and deep inside where my god head resides I just know that the reason for this incarnation was to consume masses of greasy fat food and burden the earth beneath my feet with an obese mass, not to mention inconveniencing fellow airline travelers.

Ok but there is one thing that you should know before you go!!!!!
Quitters have bigger knickers.