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Welcome to Simple Nourished Living’s weekly WW Friendly Recipe and Link Roundup!
Encouragement and inspiration are critical whenever you’re trying to change your habits. This is especially true when the habits involve eating better, losing weight and creating a healthy balanced lifestyle.
Sticking with the slow and steady sensible balanced approach to lasting change can seem dull and out of step when compared with our society’s obsession with the opposing messages of overindulgent excess on one hand, and extreme fad diets on the other.
My mission is to provide you with a constant supply of helpful articles, inspiring success stories and enticing Weight Watchers friendly recipes to support your pursuit of a happy, healthy, balanced life.
Here are my hand-picked selections, as well as most popular recipes on Simple Nourished Living this week. Enjoy!
WW Friendly Recipes and Healthy Living Articles:
Free Weight Watchers Meal Plan with Freestyle SmartPoints
(Slender Kitchen) – When starting a new diet, having a meal plan is one of the things that can help the most.
To help you get started, Slender Kitchen put together this free NEW myWW friendly meal plan (with green, blue, purple options) that includes ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even some snacks.
Plus it has a complete shopping list to make grocery shopping easy.
How to Stop Procrastinating in 10 Seconds
(Stephen Guise) – Is procrastination preventing you from hitting your healthy eating and/or exercise targets?
If so you’ll want to read this effective technique to get you on track in 10 seconds. They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but often it’s the first step that is the most challenging!
WW Southern Style Oven Friend Chicken (WeightWatchers)
My mom used to make a version of this using big pieces of bone-in, skin on chicken. I was happy to come across this lightened up, flavor-boosted version from an old WW Weekly.
Busting One of the Biggest Myths About Boosting Metabolism (MindBodyGreen) – We’re constantly told to snack to boost our metabolism, but might that advice be completely wrong causing you to gain more weight???
In this video, JJ Virgin explains the hormonal consequences of snacking regularly, and a better way to manage the insulin ups and downs of food consumption.
Cutting back on the snacking habit, which I first adopted when trying to eat more like a French lady and is consistent with the concept of Intermittent Fasting, has made it easier for me to maintain my weight. Everyone’s different, but this is worth considering.
Brownie Batter Chocolate Hummus
Chocolate Hummus is the perfect sweet, healthy snack and you won’t believe how delicious it tastes with fruit, pretzels, and more. No one will guess it is made with beans! It’s a favorite in our house.
Five (5) of the Most Popular Recipes on Simple-Nourished-Living This Week:
- Ground Beef Enchilada Casserole
- Slow Cooker Ham & Split Pea Soup
- Easy Slow Cooker Chicken and Gravy
- Chicken Salad with Apples and Cranberries
- No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Featured Weight Loss Success Story of the Week:
Alexis E. was 280 lbs when she joined WW for the last time. She was morbidly obese, physically incapable of walking up the stairs without getting winded, and was unhappy.
Alexis lost 100 pounds and now shares the ups and downs of finding JOY in a healthy lifestyle, the ongoing struggles of maintenance and moderation on Trading Cardio for Cosmos where she blogs to “lift others up, create a safe space for friends to cheer each other on, & to embrace every opportunity the journey affords us.”
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Natalie
I just saw your post about your golden retriever; I’m so sorry! Our fur babies are a part of our families and the loss is so real! I, unfortunately, have been there too many times with our own goldens. Prayers for you and your family!
Cyndy
I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your beautiful pet, my daughter has two goldens and they are such gentle, sweet natured dogs. We lost our Shetland Sheepdog who was 13, many years ago and we still remember wonderful times with her – I have a large painting I did of her, still. Bless you and your family.
I have just spent quite a lot of time these past two days studying this … “Best Diets, Kindness, etc …”. I am a 75-year-old widow and this particular one really tripped my trigger. I can do this. I like these recipes (most generally do), Not too expensive or complicated. I love this.
Hi Rosemary, Thanks so much for letting me know! I appreciate your feedback.
I have purchased the comfort food and slow cooker recipes…Have enjoyed many of them, but the one problem I have is this: it is just my husband and I and he
has a problem with his esophagus and cannot eat many spicy foods. So many of
the recipes have a lot of spices in them….Would love to see more recipes with
less spices in them….
Hi Libbie,
Thanks for your suggestion! One thing to keep in mind is that recipes are only guides and can
be amended to suit your needs. In any recipe, spices are always optional. I’d suggest using the
recipes you have and just leaving the spices out!! You can always season your portion after it is
cooked so that the recipes can work for both you and your husband. Hope this helps.