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Thank you so much! I continue to enjoy all of your ideas and recipes. Even though cooking has not been on my to do list during treatments. I will soon be finished and hope my appetite and strength comes back.

Your website and information is wonderful!!

Martha - We really love your easy soup, stew and casserole recipes - especially during the winter weather we are having.

I appreciate your hard work for our enjoyment!

Hi Martha, Thank you for all the help and encouragement.

I love your recipes!

I just the made the broccoli cheese soup today and tomorrow I'm making your chicken salad.

Hi Martha - Thank you for the assistance and being such a great resource/inspiration on my weight loss journey. I have seen a few websites in my position, but yours is truly the best!

Martha... This is amazing!!!!

I found a great recipe for Shepherds Pie in seconds using your new WW Recipe Search Engine!!

I love the new WW recipe search tool and your recipes.

Thank you so much!!

Hi Martha, I am sooooo excited because yesterday, in just 15 minutes, I had two crockpots going and two delicious meals ready for suppers this week!

I have always loved your recipes and have followed you for a long time, but having these crockpot recipes all in one place is fantastic! Love them!!

Thank you so much Martha for reaching out and helping me to get a turkey so perfect. Sounds easy and great.

You have no idea what this means to me! I have been going through a lot and now I am a happy camper.

Thank you. Will let you know how it works out.

Hi Martha! Thank you for all of the information you have shared with me the last many months. I am finally seeing results thru your recipes and my Weight Watchers program. Your recipes and suggestions have helped me a lot.

Thank you for all your recipes. I have tried so many and they are all delicious.

I am enjoying Weight Watchers more now, than ever before. Everyday I have something different to eat!

Dear Martha - Thank you! This is very helpful. The most helpful things I have come across in a long time. All the stuff on this meal plan menu is stuff I actually can buy easily.

Thank you so much for your constant help Martha!

I appreciate your tips, advice and recipes more than you know.

My weight is a constant battle... so thank you!!

Hi Martha - I just want to tell you how much I am loving your work, suggestions, recipes, etc.

The daily connection and reminders are just what I needed.

I joined Weight Watchers a month ago and am down 8.2 lbs. so far, but it's so easy to slip away.

Your program is just the booster I need. Thank you!!

Hi Martha - I'm getting so much inspiration from your slow cooker recipes. My slow cooker is at least 30 years old and still working beautifully. It has one feature I love which is the ability to cook on HIGH for an hour, then auto switch to LOW. I haven't come across any new models that do this and my old friend is still cooking perfectly.

Which it did yesterday with your apple cranberry chicken and what a fabulous recipe that turned out to be. Amazing that so few ingredients can produce such wonderful results!

I served it with sweet potatoes and a saute of multi-colored peppers and spinach. Not only was the dinner absolutely delicious, but the plate was just bursting with color. Thank you for your inspiration and a really delicious dinner!!

Martha - I made your spicy red lentil soup and it was the best! In fact, we have enough for tomorrow night too!!

Thank you so much - we'll be sure to save this recipe for another soup day.

Thank you, Martha, for your inspiration. Today's quote about deprivation is ME. I have had dessert every single day of my journey for the past year and have lost 64.4 lbs. I do not feel deprived.

I feel WW is sustainable because I don't feel deprived. I AM a Weight Watchers; I am not ON Weight Watchers. Such a difference.

Thank you for all you do for the WW community! I recommend your site to everyone!

Thank you Martha! I love all the recipes and inspiration you send me!!

Martha, you are awesome! You have helped me soooooo much.

I have been going to Weight Watchers for 4 weeks now and I have lost 14 pounds. I have learned how to eat veggies and fruit.

Thanks a bunch!!

Hi Martha - Thank you very much for all your helpful emails.

I have tried your Broccoli Salad with Grapes and it was Awesome!!

Hi Martha - Thank you for this email, it was exactly what I needed to hear!

It feels like you've been watching me lately and were sending this email directly to me!

Thank you again!!

Your information is great. I am a Lifetime Weight Watcher Member of 10 years and after losing 100 lbs. have kept off 80 of it and have been looking for something to help me get focused again. Meetings never seem to do much for me - I feel it is a solo commitment.

Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!

Martha, I have been reading your emails for a few months and love your insight. That said I had yet to make a Slow Cooker recipe until the Chicken Marsala.

OMG are you kidding? It is so fabulous I will make it again and again and again. One certainly does not feel on a diet of any kind eating that. I had sauteed carrots with it. Also, though I am a wine lover, I only had 1/3 cup of the Marsala so used broth as the other liquid and it turned out well. No shallots but used quite a lot of red onion.

Anyway thank you so much for the emails and the quotes I love reading those.

Martha - Thank you so much for this great WW recipe search tool!

I have just discovered how filling baked oatmeal is for breakfast and found a recipe for chocolate cherry oatmeal bites that sound scrumptious!

Hi Martha, I just had to tell you that my teen son just loves, loves the hamburger stew recipe. I've made it 3 times already!

I also made your slow cooker chicken & gravy - it's great too!!

Thanks for these recipes that make losing weight with WW easier!

Hi Martha - I get ideas from recipes and always end up doing my own thing. But I love making food in large batches, cooking one full day a week. I then freeze some and when I have nothing in the refrigerator, I head to the freezer.

Thank you so much!

I juste wanted to let you know that I'm really happy to have ordered your Skinny Slow Cooker Recipes cookbook. I've tried 3 recipes now, and have liked all of them!

Also, your emails are both practical and inspirational!! Your ideas about weight loss make me feel like it's doable, instead of an insurmountable task.

Thank you for sharing your gifts with us!

Martha, I just wanted you to know how much I appreciate your column.

My favorite recipe so far has been the Slow Cooker Meatballs with French Onion Soup. My husband loved it. I was thinking next time I might add a bit of low fat sour cream to the broth.

Thank you for taking time to do this. I have both of your cook books and love them.

Thank you Martha! I have failed at this walk so many times before. I certainly needed this pep talk today.

I am starting your 28-Day Smart Start Challenge today and can't wait!

Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

I love reading your emails Martha.

Especially the one today which helped me so much.

Thank you!

Thank you so very much.

I am diabetic type 2. The days that I chant "no sugar" to myself are the days my sugar stays low and I get creative with food.

It works, for now! As does your encouragement. You know that a human is not just an eating machine.

Kudos

Hi Martha - Thank you so much for reaching out to me. When I started Weight Watchers it was easy to follow the program, but lately it has become more difficult since medical issues have intervened.

People like you, help people like me get back on track. Thank you for your help.

I love your recipe for skinny broccoli salad! I have some in my fridge right now. I've made it 3 times already.

The grapes add a nice, sweet touch. I like to add a little more Greek yogurt and pack of Equal.

Martha - Thank you for your ever-so-helpful recipes. You are an excellent resource to help our getting back to healthy eating. God bless.

Martha, Thank you so much for all the time you spend helping all of us with healthy recipes and wonderful tips.

I also love the quotes you put in your emails. Awesome!!

Martha, thank you so much for your recipes and helpful WW points!

You are very helpful to me on my weight loss journey.

Hi Martha - I am kicking myself and wish I knew about this bountiful website before I committed to other, more expensive, coaching blogs.

I am a Weight Watcher and truly believe in the program. I love your down-to-earth approach and thank you for your sincere support.

I plan on purchasing the Book Target 100 and want to lose 30-40 lbs.

Just a quick thank you and I am grateful I have found you!

I know you are very busy, but I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your encouraging emails. I am really inspired again to eat healthy and lose some weight.

I love your 28-Day Challenge and all your recipes, tips and hints. My husband loves everything we have tried so far.

A big thank you!!

Thank you, thank you, Martha!

Today I made your most delicious Roasted Shrimp & Broccoli recipe! We both loved it.

I have been printing out your weekly meal plan and the recipes associated with it. I clip them all together for easy access/reference.

Works out great as I can make my weekly shopping list and all the recipes are right there. No forgetting which grocery item goes with what, no confusion. Neat little bundle.

Everything I’ve tried so far has been excellent. God is good!

Thank you again!

Not only are the recipes great, but your chatty emails are like hearing from a good friend... Thank you!

Also and absolutely not lastly, the motivational quotes at the beginning of your emails are very important to me. Maybe a tad bit more important than the recipes... I save all of them.

Hi Martha - I love your emails!

I'm a Weight Watchers leader and I always pass along your stories and inspirations, as well as your recipes to my members.

Thanks for all you do!!

Martha - Thank you for all your wonderful recipes. They are really helping me on my journey!

Morning Martha - I just don't know how you do it. I love your emails, in fact I so look forward to each and every one of them.

Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge and all your fantastic meal plans. You are a GEM!!

Martha - I really love getting recipe and meal ideas from you.

Thank you so much for your time.

I'm no chef, so I need all the help I can get!

Martha - I love getting your menus, recipes, thoughts, and encouragement. You are a GREAT source of practical help!

Thanks for all your encouragement!

Just hearing from you and others that share keeps me aware that it is not easy, but I am not alone either.

You motivated me to get out my crock pot and cook some chicken breasts. They were moist and tender and I can now use them in other dishes too.

Thanks again!!!!

Hello Martha - I somehow came across your website as I was looking for yet another miracle diet and I watched your video on your WW journey. It brought me to years as you were actually telling my story, even the childhood "fat names".

After many many diets and also including re-joining WW more times than I can remember, I actually got to my goal weight . (I’ve always been about 30-40 overweight through my ups and downs of life). It was the best feeling ever and yet after I stood up in front of the group to tell my story and accept my "lifetime," I never went back.

This was in August of last year and I had just attended my 35th high school reunion and it never felt better. Well here I am 6 months later and 20 pounds heavier and so disappointed in myself.

I'm 53 and I still haven't made that connection.

I follow WW online but mostly just read comments at this point. I’m too embarrassed to go back as you mentioned.

I wanted to reach out to you and let you know that you have been my ah ha moment today.

This has to be a lifestyle for me because as I can see, the diet thing is not working for me.

Thank you for taking the time to read my note.

Hi Martha - I just love your recipes!!! So far I've made the chicken pot pie soup and the pasta fagioli!

They were both excellent - I'll be making more recipes for sure!

Hi Martha - I'm a new subscriber to your website and I'm also a Lifetime Weight Watchers member who has struggled this past year in keeping my weight off.

I've now made several dishes this past week from your Skinny Slow Cooker Recipes eCookbook and they were all excellent!

I also lost 3.6 pounds from last week, which I have credited to your wonderful dishes!

Thanks again for everything!!

Thank you for all the helpful information!

I love food, I know it is a source of comfort to me and even an easy friend when you live alone.

I want peace with food and to be able to enjoy it but not make it an obsession or a cause for failure.

Thanks again for all your help, you have been down same the road!

Hi Martha - I've been enjoying your recipes, especially the slow cooker ones!

I too am a WW girl - for many years now. I have kept my weight off within a few pounds!

Martha - we have been meal planning like this for a year now. It helps with groceries, and also meal prep on the day. I need to remember what to pull out of the freezer, or to prep the night before.

Most of the meals that I find online - such as Slenderkitchen - or in cookbooks, I put on the notes section. I also place the recipes on Pinterest that I have interest in - and then move them to copymethat when I have made them.

Your site, since I found it a month or so ago, has become invaluable in both my planning and cooking, as I am on Weight Watchers. 15 pounds down, and counting!

Thank you!

Hi Martha - So far I have made 4 of your great Weight Watchers recipes and each one has been very tasty. Thank you so much!!

Martha - I am so excited! I just purchased and downloaded the new "Month of Meal Plans" as well as "Comfort Food Favorites." We are having an incredible nor'easter storm here in Rhode Island at this moment, but I am going to choose something wonderful to cook for tonight (provided the power stays on!)

Once again, thank you so much!

Martha - We have tried several of you slow cooker recipes and have loved them all!!

I have lost 8 lbs. since my husband and I started 'healthy eating' and going to the gym.

Thank you!

Thank you Martha! I just wanted to share with you that I reached my goal weight of 185 pounds.

I have been at or near my weight for 8 weeks now. This week I weight in at 184.5!

I really appreciate your devotion to healthy eating and weight control!!

Martha - This is such an amazing bargain!!

I have belonged to Weight Watchers several times, but was never able to determine how many points there were for a homemade recipe!

Thank you for all you do!

I just wanted to let you know that I love your emails and I love your site.

I am also a Lifetime WW members for about 4 years now.

Thank you for all you do!

Thanks Martha!

I've been on the "struggle bus" these days, and your recipes and words of encouragement help so much!

Thank you!!

Hi Martha - Thank you for pulling together the list of healthy St. Patrick's Day recipes. I made the roasted cabbage and split pea soup from there and both were totally delicious!

Thank you, Martha.

You are an amazing inspiration and your emails are such a motivation for me!!

Martha - I just wanted to say thanks a million! My husband has lost 13 lbs. in 3 weeks and I have lost 11.

I must lose weight for my knees, heart and overall health. Thank you for your inspiration.

To our good health!

Thank you Martha - I just found you and your website and I am so excited! You are the first "real" person who I feel can help me be successful on my better health journey. I look forward to your inspiration, your recipes and tips. Feeling hopeful!

Martha - Thank you for your kindness. I am so encouraged by the things that you are sending.

You are such an encourager and full of practical help and wisdom. May you be blessed today!

Hi Martha - Thanks for all your hard work! I love your recipes! I share them with my local WW group and everyone I can. Thank you for including gluten-free.

Martha, I just can't tell you how helpful you are!

Keep up the great work, please!!

Hi Martha - I love your cookbooks! I wanted to also share my 27 pound weight loss since I started Weight Watchers on 2/1/17.

I am on Day #2 of your 28-Day Challenge. I'm looking forward to a successful journey.

Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful recipes!!!!

Martha, I just wanted you to know that I'm sharing this with my sister.

I love all the information and recipes that you are sharing on your site and in your emails.

Thank you for your time and experience along the way!

Thank you for all your great tips, hints, recipes and everything else you share either by email, Facebook or your website!!

It has helped me stay on track with my WW journey, which is a little slow right now!

Hi! I have followed you on Facebook for quite a while and have enjoyed a number of your crock pot recipes. Delicious!! I work at a small hospital in Kansas. I am the grant coordinator for a grant we received from Blue Cross Blue Shield. The grant is for improving health in our community through healthy food choices and physical activity. I am going to start publishing healthy recipes on our Facebook page, as well as putting those recipes on cards that will be available at our local supermarket. I wondered if I could use some of your recipes in both places, giving you credit for them, of course. Thank you!!

Hi Martha - As a Lifetime Weight Watcher, I have used many of your recipes and found them to be tasty and husband-friendly - especially your Skinny Slow Cooker Recipes!

Thank you for everything!!

Martha, not only do I delight in making and serving your delicious and healthy meals, I find that your messages - such as the one you sent just now - are life altering.

Power. Choices. Response to stresses. All are based upon our own internal power in our ability to choose in each moment how we will react/respond.

I so needed to hear this message at this moment. Thank you. You are a guiding angel on earth.

I have all your cookbooks, but I look forward to your messages and insights such as this one.

Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU.

Thank you Martha for sharing your recipes. I've had weighty issues all my life and have been on the weight loss see saw with several different diets and even going to the doctor for help.

I was on WW before, but never got the hang of it. So I'm dedicated this time to learning and doing things right, in order to get my weight off and keeping it off.

Martha - I made your chicken, apple and cranberry salad yesterday and loved it!!

Thank you for your recipes!

Love, love, love your messages. I plan to drop more weight, spend more time with good friends, eat great food, drink good wine and exercise.

Thank you for this wonderful site. I look forward to your emails, every time!

I cannot tell you how much your emails mean to me. The chattiness, the recipes & especially the quotes.

Without ever meeting you ....in person.... you have become like a friend that I look forward to hearing from.

Thank you!

Hi Martha, I just wanted to thank your for all your positive messages and great recipe links.

I greatly appreciate the wonderful service that you provide for free!!

Thank you Martha for all the delicious looking recipes! I have only been back on Weight Watchers for a week today! I am having a hard time getting in all my points that count (if you can believe that).

I am looking forward to trying some of these recipes! They look delicious. I also enjoy getting your emails.

Thank you so much for doing this!

Martha... I love your website and facebook page. Thank you for such wonderful information. I have lost 24 pounds (and kept it off) since October 2016. I am jumpstarting my WW again, but without the meetings and without the app. I need to pretty much follow the program the rest of my life and your website is helping me tremendously. Thank you!!

I just purchased your Skinny Slow Cooker Recipes eCookbook and have the Sausage and Peppers cooking now.

Haven't tried it yet, but it sure smells wonderful!!

Thank you!

Martha, We just made the crock pot Kalua pork and cabbage. Amazing!!

We lived in Hawaii for six years with the army and missed the taste.

I've made the pork with cabbage many times, but adding the bacon and sea salt made all the difference!

Thank you!!

Love the WW zero points slow cook vegetable soup. Going to look up more recipes after work today with your awesome recipe search engine. This is a great site.

I tried Trisha Yearwood's Lightened Orzo Salad and it's delicious!

I used basil-infused olive oil and fresh basil, then added some chicken.

So much I can do with this basic salad! Thank you!!

Hi Martha, I love your emails! The last one makes perfect sense... focus on one thing at a time!

I did focus on my weight for a year now and I am down 31 pounds! I've taken the steps to keep it off forever and I'm not losing focus this time around.

Thank you so much for your encouraging words and posts. Your recipes are great too!

You, too, are a reason I am where I am today!! Thank you!

Martha, I really appreciate your emails. I am struggling so much right now.

I am a Lifetime WW and have gained 20 lbs., and I can't seem to get my head around my life choices anymore.

I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate all that you are doing!

Hi Martha - I made your Crock Pot Hamburger Stew 2nite. It was oh so good!

My husband thought we was at a restaurant. I added chopped spinach, pinto beans and rather than 2 cups of water, I added 4 cups of vegetable broth.

Thanks for the basics! There are so many more of your recipes I'm anxious to try!

You are so right! I attended my first WW meeting in 1965 or 1966. I had many cookbooks from that era. I was an on/off dieter, with emphasis on diet for many years. I earned Lifetime (first time) around 1977 and re-earned it in 2001.

I have been wrestling with 10 pounds this past year, but this current journey to take it off is probably the best one as I am making changes that I can live with for the rest of my life. I am finding the newer emphasis of beyond the scale to be helpful.

Thanks for all you do for us!

Dear Martha,

Happy a Monday to you! I'm doing well, got a great report on my Cholesterol during my Wellness Visit. So excited. I'm down 38lbs and only a few more to go to be Lifetime.

I have passed your emails to several friends and family. Some are on WW, others just want to lose and get motivated.

I find your emails so inspirational I just had to share. I hope they feel the same and sign up.

Have a great week. And many thanks!

Martha - You have helped me lose 20 pounds and you are an important part of my life. Thank you for all you have done!

I made your 5-ingredient chicken parmesan for dinner last night and it was AMAZING!!! My husband loved it as much (maybe more) as me!!

I used FF Ricotta and think that may have brought the SP value down even more. Wish I knew how to calculate that.

Thank you for another great recipe. Making this for the family over the holidays.

I just made your 4-ingredient artichoke chicken crock pot dinner - it was fabulous!

My husband and I both loved it. We're saving it to have it again.

I just love your recipes!! I started back to Weight Watchers and your recipes are a life saver! Thank you.

Thank you Martha!

These words of encouragement were just what I needed to hear and the best by far!!

I had to write back to tell you how much we enjoyed this delicious Italian Pork and White Bean Stew recipe.

My Italian heritage was doing a happy dance while eating dinner. My husband, the picky eater, couldn't believe how Old World it tasted. It was something my grandmother or mom would have made.

Healthy and good for you it did not taste. Anything I can fix in one of my 3 slow cooker is fine by me. This recipe is now a recipe card in the front of my box. I just had to thank you for sharing!!

Martha - I just love all of your advice.

I am about a week into your 28-Day Smart Start Challenge and learning a lot about the importance of small changes.

Thank you for making a difference in my life!

I have tried every diet out there, I need to lose 35 pounds!!

Thank you so much for your encouragement!

I love the personalized messages you send!

I recently rejoined Weight Watchers after gaining back 25 of my 55 pounds.

The information you provide is so helpful and provides for my success!!

Martha - I do enjoy your recipes and ideas. I made your slow cooker salmon and it was delish!

I also have your slow cooker soup book and have made many of the soups.

Ignore negative comments, your messages are right on - not long, never boring and always valuable info.

Thank you so much Martha!

I have reached my weight goal (losing 45 pounds) and know that this is something I must do for life. Only 5 more weeks until Lifetime!

Your recipes are such a great help - thank you!!

Martha - I've been on the Weight Watchers program for the last year and your website is a huge help!

Over the holidays I've kind of lost some of my initial incentive, so I thought I would try your 28-Day Smart Start Challenge to help me refocus.

I would still like to lose about 40 or 50 pounds and then maintain that, which is something I have never been able to do.

Thank you so much - I look forward to starting again today!

Hello Martha - I've made your Cheeseburger Casserole and Meatloaf and both were so yummy. We loved them both so much, I'll definitely be making them again soon!

Looking forward to trying some other recipes soon. Thanks a bunch!!

Hi Martha. Im on Weight Watchers right now and your site aligns with the program so well. I have limited menu choices since I eat no mammals, but I do eat shrimp and salmon and chicken and turkey.

In addition, I am into healthy eating but I am very specific about the veggies I eat, so I search for recipes that can work for me. I've found several in your offerings and I am grateful for those.

I rarely buy or download cookbooks because they never fit into to my specific food choices but rather research individual recipes that will work.

I love the fact that you provide smart points and appreciate that you have done the work to provide those! Thanks for allowing me to benefit from your wonderful offerings.