If you’re trying to eat better or lose weight, do you find yourself preparing healthy meals for you and letting the kids eat the same old crap? Well Weight Watchers is here to help with their new book, Weight Watchers Eat! Move! Play!: A Parent's Guide for Raising Healthy, Happy Kids.
The book motivates you to become a healthier role model for your children by helping you understand four important elements for a healthy lifestyle:
- developing a positive body image
- helping kids learn how to enjoy wholesome, nutritious foods
- establishing smart eating habits
- fostering a love of physical activity
In addition, Weight Watchers Eat! Move! Play!:
- presents five simple rules for family fitness
- provides quizzes and self-assessments for parents to understand their parenting styles better
- explains what a healthy weight is for a child and provides advice on how to talk to your kids and their doctor about healthy weight and nutrition
- delivers hundreds of doable tips, ideas, and checklists so parents can implement the best practices for eating healthier and moving more
Best of all for those of you struggling to cook healthy meals for the whole family, the book contains more than 75 kid-friendly recipes that also encourage children to help out in the kitchen with their “Kids Can…” tips. Each recipe also provides nutritional information. However, you’ll need to figure out Weight Watchers POINTS on your own.
Hummus Heads
Serves 2
Prep 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- 2 romaine lettuce leaves, cut into very thin strips
- 1/4 cup drained bottled roasted red pepper strips
- 8 cherry tomatoes, halved
- 4 pitted black olives, sliced
- 1 Kirby cucumber, sliced
- 2 whole-wheat English muffins, split in half and toasted
- 1/2 cup hummus
Directions:
- Place the lettuce, red pepper strips, tomatoes, olives, and cucumber slices
in piles on a plate. - Spread the English muffins with the hummus
- Use the vegetables to make funny faces on them: lettuce or pepper strips can be
hair, tomatoes or olives can be eyes, cucumber slices can be ears-use your
imagination, adding any vegetables you like, and have fun!
Nutritional information per serving (2 decorated English muffins halves)
279 Calories, 9g Fat, 7g Sat Fat, 0gTrans Fat, 0 mg Cholesterol, 819 mg Sodium, 42g Carbs, 10g Fiber, 12g Protein, 278 mg Calcium.
Weight Watchers POINTS = 5
“Kids Can…” tips:
- In addition to decorating their own sandwiches, kids can use plastic knives to halve the cherry tomatoes and slice the black olives.
- Sprinkle on some salba seeds to make “freckles” on the hummus heads.
This Mama’s tips:
- Other ideas for veggies to use include avocado slices, edamame beans, jicama, peas, and raw asparagus (crunchy!)
- You could make a sweet variation with nut butter instead of hummus and apple slices, raisins, nuts, seeds and dried fruit instead of vegetables.
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over the past couple of weeks. Tosca’s philosophy is that we need to eat the way nature intended – lean protein, complex carbs, and healthy fats – no processed foods and lots of water. She believes that when you Eat Clean, you body functions the way it’s supposed to and you will feel and look better and lose weight. 
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In most social situations where food is involved, the key is to treat yourself to a few of your favorite hors d'oeuvres, in moderation. If you try to resist the food, your craving will only get stronger and harder to control. By following a few simple strategies, you can enjoy yourself without overeating. 
The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well, Enjoy Life, Lose Weight
by the weight-loss experts at the Mayo Clinic and Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H. is a no nonsense approach to healthy eating and weight loss. It’s the only diet developed at the Mayo Clinic and uses a common sense approach to losing weight and keeping it off. 
Long term success with a weight program sometimes follows a bumpy, uneven path. Many obstacles can keep you from achieving a more healthy weight. Learning to identify potential roadblocks and confront personal temptations is an important part of being successful in losing weight. To make it past the rough spots, it's important to have strategies ready to guide your response as problems arise. 
Today is the start of my seven-week whirlwind tour of four blogging conferences and one mom blogger event. It’s not exactly around the world in 90 days, but it’ll be an adventure. After all, how could I resist two food blogging conferences, a free ticket to IzeaFest and 50% off a full access pass to BlogWorld Expo? All I can say is thank goodness for frequent flier mileage and roommates helping to share expenses.
, a book I’ve been dipping into lately. 
that’s good for anyone trying to lose weight or eat healthy. The author’s diet theories are interesting and worth looking into.
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by Karen R. Koenig.
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. Born to a cruel father and a long-suffering mother in the insulated Polish Catholic community of upstate New York, Linda learned martyrdom as a way of life. 
. The real title of this exercise video should be “Jillian Michaels comes to your house to kick your ass.” Besides that it’s challenging, I like it because it only takes 20 minutes a day (thank goodness!) and Jillian has you use big and small muscles at the same time for maximum calorie burn.
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. No I’m not pregnant! However, the book is full of non-alcoholic mocktails that you can modify to make even healthier and lower in calories. Here’s a sample:
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