Top Reasons Why Weight Watchers is a Good Diet Choice

Choosing the right weight loss program can be difficult and depends on your lifestyle, fitness levels and the types of foods you love to eat. Shedding a few pounds requires commitment and determination. One of the most popular weight loss plans is Weight Watchers that offers a wide variety of foods for a balanced way of eating. The top five reasons to choose WW are:

Reason # 1 – Ease in Following the Plan, Eating Any Foods

Sweet or healthy food

The Weight watchers plan is a rather easy plan to follow because it is not just a diet but learning a new way of eating. The premise is not to limit any type food or count calories but to determine a point’s value for all you eat. You can still eat your favorite foods and desserts, but learn to control portions and allow for the points. To be more successful, you may want to opt for higher fiber foods, leaner proteins plus fruits and vegetables. When starting the program, you are provided a point’s calculator that you can take with you anywhere you go to determine with ease what and how much to eat.

Reason #2 – Choice of Online or Local Memberships

You may choose to attend weekly meetings in your area, if that fits into your schedule, or join the online program if you lead a busy lifestyle. Either way, you get all the tools necessary to begin losing weight immediately; a list of the best food choices, a discreet weekly weigh-in, recipe ideas, coupons for weight watcher food choices and the encouragement and support of other members and staff. Going to a meeting near you may allow you more incentive because of the personal interaction with other members and the one-on-one encouragement received for each achievement of weight loss; but the choice is yours according to your needs and schedule.

Reason #3 – Affordable: Weight Watchers Promotions Throughout the Year

Promotion codes are published every month, bringing the cost down to $5 a week for Weight Watchers Online and $30 a month for Weight Watchers Monthly Pass. For promotional discounts look at:

Promotion codes are published every month, bringing the cost down to $5 a week for Weight Watchers Online and $30 a month for Weight Watchers Monthly Pass. For promotional discounts look at:

You can find sites with coupons for Weight Watchers if you search on Google for “Weight Watchers promotional codes.”

Reason #4 – Specialty Foods and Products

You are provided all the special products necessary in following the program, such as food diaries, points calculator, how to follow the plan, plus tips, recipes and more. If you choose to follow the plan on your own with tips from online, there are many available weight watchers products at your local grocery store. They may be labeled as weight watcher or smart one’s foods to include frozen meals and entrée’s, breakfast, snacks, cakes, desserts, candy and more. However, you don’t have to eat specialty foods to be successful.

Reason #5 – List of Zero Points Endless Foods

You never have to starve while on the WW program because there is a full listing of foods provided you that consist of zero points. You can eat as much as you like to feel satisfied. Typically, the foods on the zero points list consist of most fresh fruits and non-starchy vegetables. Enjoy and lose!

As mentioned previously, one of the best tools for success on weight watchers is the support and motivation gained from meeting leaders, WW staff and fellow members. This is the best way to guarantee you stay on track and achieve your goals.

An Apple A Day

It’s so much easier for me to adhere to the old adage when the apples look like this:

 

Happy Fall!

Snack Food Boredom


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I’m trying to make sure to fit nicely in a little red number for this weekend. Cousin’s wedding reception. You know. Lots of family I haven’t seen in ages. At a very fancy location in the city. Anyway, this magazine in my kitchen is not helping with the prospect of that red dress. I’m sooo hungry and could really go for a cheeseburger and fries right about now. After all one can only eat so many baby carrots in one day before her nose starts to twitch. Must step away from the magazine… Help me! Pry it away from my starving little hands! Alright it’s not quite that bad. But I really could use some help on some healthy snack ideas. Ready? Go! You know just to get me through the rest of the week. *wink*

41 Meals

Forty-one.  That’s the number of baby food meals I made over the weekend.

 

It will last Ruby roughly 13.7 days.  Give or take.

Then I’ll just start the process all over again.

You know what I’ll be doing in about 10 days…

 

Do you make your own baby food?  If you do then feel free to share away!  I could use some new recipes to mix it up a bit.  🙂

What are you having for breakfast???

Remember this posting all about Weight Watchers and pancakes?  You can also get

desserts under 300 calories, frozen meals, frozen dinners, low calorie meals, frozen dinner

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Top 100 Baby Purees & The Healthy Baby Meal Planner {Giveaway} ***ENDED***

 

 

Yum.  Baby food making.  Yum.  Making your own baby food can be a bit intimidating at first.  I was sooooo nervous!  Would I do it right?  Would I mess up?  Would Ruby like the taste of it?  But you know what?  Making baby food doesn’t have to be scary.  If you are considering making baby food yourself (or if you already make it) then the go to person for all things baby nutritional health is Annabel Karmel.

I recently received her Top 100 Baby Purees & The Healthy Baby Meal Planner.  Both are the perfect addition for moms who choose to make their own baby food purees.  The meal planner is also a great way to plan healthy foods for more than just babies!  It’s full of delicious recipes that I myself found to be mouth watering.  French Toast Cutouts…  Need I say more?

One very lucky winner is going to receive Annabel Karmel’s Top 100 Baby Purees AND The Healthy Baby Meal Planner, so this is one giveaway that you aren’t going to want to miss out on!

 

*This giveaway is open to entries in the US only

*Winners are not notified through email, so you have to check back to find out if you won! The winner of this giveaway will be posted no later than the evening of Monday, August 13th. Be sure and check back then to see if you won, so you can claim your prize.

 

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This posting and giveaway were sponsored by Simon & Schuster, but all opinions are strictly my own.

Mumi&Bubi {Giveaway} ***ENDED***

 

We established last week that I’m big into saving money.  Do you think I make Ruby’s baby food myself or buy the jars from the store???  You guessed it.  I make it!  At Ruby’s 6 month appointment her doctor asked if we would be making her food or buying it.  When I told him that I was thinking about making it he said that was an excellent idea.  He said that you are only paying for the convenience of the jar food and that with making it yourself you actually know what’s in it.  So that had me sold.  I save money and feel good about giving my baby fresh food.  It’s a win, win.  I figured that over 6 months I’ll be saving well over $400 by making Ruby’s food instead of buying it in the store.  That’s huge!

About a month ago Mumi&Bubi sent me their Solids Starter Kit and it’s the perfect way to store the food I make for Ruby!

Each Starter Kit includes:

  • 2 freezer trays with lids
  • an e-guide with 27 recipes
A tray makes 21 cubes, so you are covered for A LOT of meals!
Here are the carrots I made and stored:
Ruby loves them!
The freezer trays stack really nicely, too.
Want to win one?  One very lucky winner is going to receive their very own Solids Starter Kit from Mumi&Bubi!

 

 

*This giveaway is open to entries worldwide.

*Winners are not notified through email, so you have to check back to find out if you won! The winner of this giveaway will be posted no later than the evening of Monday, August 6th. Be sure and check back then to see if you won, so you can claim your prize.

 

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This posting and giveaway were sponsored by Mumi&Bubi, but all opinions are strictly my own.

Country Bob’s {Giveaway} ***ENDED***

BBQ.  It’s a dad thing.  So a great gift for dad would be some way yummy sauce!  Country Bob’s is locally owned, so I’ve been consuming this sauce for about 20 years now.  It’s sooooo very dandy!  There are quite a few different options at Country Bob’s to assist in the barbecue season:

My personal favorite is the All Purpose Sauce.  It’s perfect for dipping steak, chicken, and fish.  I also love it on my burger right off the grill in place of ketchup and mustard!

For this giveaway two extremely lucky winners are going to receive 4 bottles of Country Bob’s All Purpose Sauce.  Remember it’s my favorite!  🙂

*This giveaway is open to entries in the US only

*Winners are not notified through email, so you have to check back to find out if you won! The winner of this giveaway will be posted on Monday, June 11th. Be sure and check back then to see if you won, so you can claim your prize!
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This posting and giveaway was sponsored by Country Bob’s, but all opinions are strictly my own.

Holiday Gift Idea #3: Obol

 

What do you get for that person on your holiday list who you think already has EVERYTHING?  An Obol!  What is that you may ask?  Well, for starters it has revolutionized breakfast cereal.

 

I for one cannot stand soggy cereal.  Honestly…it makes me gag.  Who’s with me on this???  I believe that I’m not alone in this.  EVERYONE hates soggy cereal.  My disgust is to the point that I refuse to finish the entire serving, because it’s not worth the sogginess.  With the Obol you don’t have to waste your cereal!  It has this unique design that keeps your cereal and milk separate.  The Obol is even perfect for the kiddos:

  

Banjo inherited my aversion to soggy cereal!

There are also lots of other great uses for the Obol:

Get your own Obol HERE.  Available in colors:  White, Lime, Tangerine, Cranberry, Berry Blue, and Watermelon (pink).

Watch this cute commercial about Obol!

 

This posting was sponsored by Obol, but all opinions are strictly my own.

{Giveaway} Chobani ***ENDED***

I LOVE yogurt.  For breakfast.  For a snack.  I could literally eat it multiple times a day!  I first learned about yogurt of the Greek variety in a Weight Watchers meeting several months back.  (Some of you may remember that I lost 40 lbs. and hit lifetime membership recently through the Weight Watchers program.)  Everyone was talking about Chobani and how great it tasted.  How their Greek yogurt was so much easier for you to stick to the points plan.  So when I was on a shopping trip here and saw Chobani I knew that I had to give it a try.  And from that moment… I was hooked!  Since then I’ve acquired even more Chobani straight from the source.   Thanks Chobani for sending me the awesome variety pack!  It had so many great flavors and I’m still in heaven eating away.  Here are just a few of my favorites:

Yummy, right?

Chobani also has plain yogurt that is perfect for consumption, but also can be use as a healthy alternative to sour cream!

Who wants to win some Chobani???  Get entering, because one lucky winner is going to receive a free 12 pack sample case!!!

*** This giveaway is open to US entries only***

And…

***Open for entries for 2 whole weeks!***

There are 7 chances to win. Be sure and leave separate comments for each entry on this posting to enter. **If you qualify for all 7 chances then leave 7 separate comments**

(1): Leave your name, email address, or whatever you feel most comfortable leaving in a comment. (ex: “Dandy Smith”)

(2): Go to Chobani, have a look around, and then tell us your favorite flavor of yogurt. (ex: “Dandy Smith = Peach!)

(3): Tell people how much you love Dandy Giveaway by blogging this exact statement:  “Are you looking for the best giveaway ever?  Then you really don’t want to miss out on all that is Dandy Giveaway!”    (ex: “Dandy Smith= blogged”)

(4): Like Chobani on Facebook or if you already do. (ex: “Dandy Smith= like”)

(5): Follow Chobani on Twitter and then tweet about this giveaway. (ex: “Dandy Smith= twitter and tweet”)

(6): Tell people about this giveaway and then tell us how you told. (ex: “Dandy Smith= I called.  I texted.  I emailed.”)

(7): Place the Dandy Giveaway button (in the bottom right hand sidebar) on your own blog.  (ex: “Dandy Smith= blog button”)

***Remember*** Winners are not notified through email, so you have to check back to find out if you won! This giveaway will be open for entries for 2 whole weeks!  So from July 4th-July 17th at 5:30pm CST.  Be sure and check back on Monday, July 18th to see if you won, so you can claim your prize! ***Remember*** Winners are not notified through email, so you have to check back to find out if you won!