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Hey it’s time at dish with d That’s me thank you for coming this video making yourself a priority I’m Denise it is Monday and Monday is weighin and weekly meeting topic from the WW yes ma’am I Do cover the Weight Watchers weekly meeting topic as being a Weight Watchers lifetime member I do
Feel it’s my d diligence to share that with you cuz a lot of you can’t get to meeting don’t have meetings want to go to meetings there’s no meetings around meetings have closed and you just want to be part of the community still so yes
There is zoom there is but you have to pay for that extra so a lot of you can’t afford to pay for those you know zooms and lot of you don’t think it’s worth it I kind of get it so I being the Sweet Child I I bring you the Weight Watchers weekly
Meeting topic for this week but we also bring you my weekly wife and if you were here last week it yeah it’s it’s something’s going on here so we are working through it though we didn’t have a bad week we didn’t have a bad week we did not go Hog Wild I did
Not track anything at all I will be honest with you I I to tell you I think I wasn’t going to track I did not track anything um I was more mindful I was trying to get in food groups I was really trying to pay attention to what I
Was eating and not really think about what the points were so with that being said how did you do how’s your mindset mindsets getting better um it wasn’t great last week at all but I definitely think I’m in a better frame than I was last week am I
In the best frame no but I am I in a better frame I am so that’s that’s good I’m getting there um I don’t want to like rush anything or you just have to like you know take baby steps I’ve said it all the time baby stps baby steps
Baby stps and that is what I’m trying I feel like this camera I feel like my head’s cut off I don’t know baby steps and I just try to practice what I preach um there is I well I’ll get to that um how’d you do on the Scout how’ Timmy do
On the Scout well Timmy was down another 1.4 this week he’s happy he was what as big as last week I’m like Tim sometimes you know it’s never going to be that two and a half pounds yes you you know you’re you’re active and you’re young
But you know what you’re down and that’s all that counts so he was happy um that he was still in the downward slide so he has another one .4 so that’s good for him um he’s doing well he um he had a couple he had a couple you know second
Portions that week and I said well see you still had a second portion you were probably mindful on that second portion and you still had a weight loss so he’s getting there he’s getting there and I try to again trying to keep him not in that diet mentality where he’s being you
Know not eating anything or he’s I try to make him you know just has to cut back cuz I I feel like I want to do a whole video on moderation like that is to me one of the biggest things we don’t think about we don’t realize we could have anything in
Moderation and I know some people oh I can’t have that I I but if you know you’re going to have something does it make it easier like if I’m going to have like Doritos always pick Doritos I don’t know why it’s like I even they’re not
Even one of my kiles things sometimes a cool ranch could be um if you get them individually bagged and if you know you’re going to have them a couple times during the week would you look forward to it would you not feel like you have to eat a second bag it’s something that
You know it a lot of this journey is a a head game we play with ourselves and I wonder if we just can change the conversation in our head that’s another video the conversation in my head that’s where it all stems from it’s not even my belly it’s the conversation
In my head my head sometimes has an argument but yeah we should a whole video of conversations in our head moderate it’s like it’s all it’s it’s what we goes on in our brain that affects what we do and I think a lot of us think it’s I’m just
Hungry I’m you it’s the head Hunger it’s that want and I feel like that’s where I’m at now it’s just I want this I want this but anyway how what did the scale say D I was up uh point4 which I don’t think is bad considering like I said I
Wasn’t tracking I wasn’t even trying to lose it wasn’t like was sitting there mindfully trying to lose weight this week I was mindfully trying not to have a overeating attack that’s where I was this week trying to stay in the zone trying to be you know like I said I
Wasn’t thinking of losing weight this week so honestly for that I I’m grateful that it was only half pound um I had a lot of bread this week if you watched yesterday Saturdays this is Monday Saturday had a little special video I found a loaf of bread in the freezer
That needed to get used up so we had bread week so yeah bread every I bread every day sometimes twice a day it was like bread but bread nonetheless carbs nonetheless um so it was a very heavy bread and gluten week so up a half a
Pound is actually a gift so I am taking it and running with that um also the I’m going to do Saturday weigh-ins and this upload on on Monday because I don’t feel like filming on I decided yeah I don’t really feel like filming on Saturday I like having Saturday and Sunday
Completely YouTube free I made answer a comment or two if I choose I don’t like what I feel obligated um it’s been really nice not having to worry about you know it’s just nice being me for two full days a weekend when everybody’s around I don’t have to wor picking up
The camera oh I need to film that oh I need to film that oh I should put that on yeah no if anything ever goes up on a weekend trust me it’s been filmed during the week so sometimes I’ll schedule things for the weekend but I will not
Film and I will not do any editing on the week and uploading on the weekend so I decid yeah no we’re not going back to that I’m enjoying this so I will still have this video posted today I’ll film it again like I’m filming it now early
Monday morning but the weigh will have taken place on Saturday not that’s any big deal it doesn’t even matter when it takes place but but I did weigh in this morning I wasn’t going to I think I said that in the live last night thinking
Maybe I seen a no way in week and I thought again what’s that going to do you made the choices you made this week so you need to see it so so I I was you know I was like yeah you’re right just get weighed so the
Next weighin will be so which means today which is my weigh-in day today CU I to get weight today I got to behave because I’m getting weight on Saturday which is what 5 days Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday five days so that’s a good thing because
Usually and I know a lot of you do it too I’m not like crazy crazy on wed day but I’m a little bit Loosey Goosey which we can’t be Loosey Goosey day maybe Lucy gooy with vegetables if I’m head to the store after this I am out of zucchini
And I was like I haven’t had a zucchini scramble like a week and a half cing some zucchini and yeah I need to grab some veg that I’m out of so yeah so that’s the update for me oh what I want to talk about was and also this clicked
With me this morning as I was looking at the calendar Sunday is daylight savings times for some of us um we turn our clocks back so you know today I’m starting and I’m tracking on a new app um I don’t want to talk about it yet because I
Haven’t decided whether I want to work with them or not so I got to tell I I said I like the app or not because I might not like it and if I don’t like it I’m not going to sit there and tell you oh this is the next best thing if I
Don’t like it so I’m going to track strictly on that app this week and if I do like it then next week we will do a little um Deep dive into it and and we’ll see um they approached me you know and I said well let me let let me just
See it first because CU I don’t care you know you can s tell me you got this you got that I got to see how easy it is to do and if it’s doable for people so and if it’s worth it actually I don’t think there’s a charge for it I think it’s
Free but still if and I’m don’t work it don’t work cuz there’s a lot of free ones out there that we could use so so we’re going to start that today and we are resetting yet again remember I don’t care how many times you reset that clock you reset that Journey
As long as you keep doing it and it’s you know it’s time to set it back so it a daylight which means we spring ahead we ahead sorry set ahead which means we don’t look back that’s what I was going with that we are springing forward so you want to spring
Forward you know don’t now start now do not start on Sunday well that’s when it starts so I’m going to eat my face off this whole week no you know put yourself in a deeper hole you already are no I I I’ve given up that well I’m going to start on Monday
So I’m going to eat like like this week I knew I was last week I knew I wasn’t going to have you know but I didn’t mean I didn’t sit there and go well I’m just going to eat and then I’ll worry about it next week cuz then I’ll restart no I
Used to do that many I haven’t done that a long time but now because then you put yourself deeper in a hole we don’t need that maybe we can like plan this week what you want to do for the reset what you want to get in the house what app
You want to use do you want to change how you how you track food there’s no harm in changing something up there isn’t and you know and I I’m going to hear well Weight Watchers works for me it works until it doesn’t is it weight watchers’ fault no is it your fault sure
Is so yes trying something new helps you because it’s just a little bit different so maybe trying a different app maybe trying a different way of calculating for me I need definitely need a change and I feel really terrible saying that because I love Weight Watchers I love
The plan I love the the system I love everything about it it’s not working and when you you have to sit there and say to yourself it’s not working Denise you need to do something else does it mean I’ll always not do Weight Watchers no of
Course not I mean I I’m a lifetime member it’s defin and I only have like I said grand scheme of things I have a few pounds to get off it’s not like I got 110 oh my God that yeah that we’re talking but I have 10 so I feel we
Watchers is a great maintenance app so I’m going to hold on to it just for maintenance but then again we know I’ll try St I may hate it I may be back to tracking Weight Watchers in two days who knows but I always try to say try
Something when I never put my I never put my light n said why is it so dark in here I never put my ring light on oh my gosh should I take that out of the video nah so let’s get to the late Watchers weekly reading topic oh isn’t that
Better it makes my hair shine how to build healthy habits at stack I we just did this okay ever try focusing yourself to do something you dislike over and over because it was supposedly good for you science says there’s a better way choose a focus now they have eating
Better sleeping sadly or moving more or shifting your thinking I’ve definitely shifted my thinking it took me a week to do that but yes moving more is always a great option I think that should always be secondary to eating better I definitely think eating better should be the top
Thing because no matter how much you move if you’re not eating good it doesn’t really matter um sleeping S I already do and it’s important if you don’t sleeping a good night’s sleep if you are well rested good things happen like you all know I take I’m on a CPAP
And when I went to my doctor I’ll rewind this real quick um I had lost weight being on on it for a year and I said oh my gosh you know people think this is a miracle machine and he’s like no the cpat machine didn’t help you lose weight
He said it helped you sleep so you were energized focused to do the work work to lose weight and that’s what it is when you sleep you have more energy to deal with all this stuff this isn’t this ain’t Child’s Play there’s stuff we have
To think about and plan and do and if you’re tired you’re not going to feel like doing any of it so that’s why sleeping is important because if you’re not focused you’re tired you’re not going to care so yeah list three specific behaviors that will help you with your focus so they
Have um eating better as the focus um eating breakfast daily which is huge having vegetables at every meal did I write this is huge and I’ve been incorporating more vegetables with breakfast cuz that was probably my one meal that I didn’t have a lot of vegetables with but the veggie scramble
Zucchini peppers onions mushrooms have spinach have been a game changer try pre pre-t tring dinner which is a good thing because it gives you dinner’s always notoriously the highest point meal so if you could have that tracked already you could have see what you have for breakfast for lunch for
Snacks please have snacks can I sit Sarah this is lifestyle we have snacks there’s nothing wrong and I’m not talking about a buffet of snacks I’m talking about a piece of fruit I’m talking about a/4 cup of nuts I’m talking about a rice cake with nut butter I’m not talking about sitting
There having a full-fledged Fallout meal I’m talking about having a little bit of something and I think when we don’t allow our El to have that that’s not sustainable like long term it’s just not and when you have that snack sit down with a plate and enjoy it don’t sitting
There throw the nuts in your palm and walk around eating them put them in a bowl sit down track them and then enjoy them because make so you’ll remember that you eat it when you sit there and you’re throwing it in like what did I did I eat anything and you’re not
Satisfied because your brain is way behind your mouth so you have to definitely enjoy that snack this is eating breakfast daily pick one to try then decide how you will do it three times this week so they’re basically trying to tell you to ease into this don’t sit there and say well
I’m going to you know do this every day if you could do three days this week and then maybe four days next week you’re building on that I’ll prep breakfast after cleaning up dinner on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday so that’s great now you could Prep Prep or you could prep mine like
Some things mind day like some things don’t need to be prepped for breakfast they have to you know maybe you could just write a little note to yourself what breakfast is in the morning I always prep my breakfast mentally in my head the night before like today I know
I’m having a yogurt Bowl that’s what I felt like so I’m having a yogurt Bowl after we’re done here cuz that’s what I wanted for breakf I still want it and that’s why I can’t meal prep ahead like I can’t have the same thing several days
In a week cuz I like variety and there’s nothing against meal Preppers it if it works it’s great but I like variety and I like to eat what I want versus what I think I should have well I prep this I should eat that I don’t want it and if I
Don’t want it I’m not going to feel satisfied and then I’m going to look for something else or I’m going to eat it you know yeah you want to eat that you want to be like satiated and like the yeah you know the that’s what you want so definitely
If you’re a meal prepper and you’re just not enjoying like you’re just kind of like going through the motions we don’t want to go through the motion he want to enjoy like now the other night um we were home for dinner we were supposed to
Go out we W up not going out so I had to sit there and refocus what I was going to make for dinner so I went in the freezer and see what I had I had a bag of ch’s chicken cilantro and wantons like o I can go for those they just and
Then light bulb in my head went off Denise you have a g Hughes Asian dressing upstairs that’s right that would go really good with these wons yes it would so I grabbed the wons and then I remembered ooh Denise you have a leftover piece of grilled chicken from
The other night would that go good in there too so there I am cooking the wons I I did Four Points worth my chicken was Zero my dressing I think was two or three points I use oh I use a little extra why cuz as I’m cooking I’m like o
Wouldn’t this be good over greens you have masculine Greens in there so I have my masculine greens when I had Trader Joe’s peppers and uh I think it’s fire roasted peppers and onions in the freezer I threw them in there so I put that warm chicken chicken cilant wons and the pepper on
Top of the masculine greens that already had a little bit of that J dressing on it and I put I dressed the greens with it and I put the warm thing shut up I needed a cigarette and I was done that was so amazing and that was just pulling things that I had
That’s why I always say a well stocked Pantry things that you like should be there like I’m not going to sit there and pull out something I don’t like like like suckatash I don’t like suckatash so yeah to sit there I’m never going to pick it out of the the thing but Soy
Cach from Trader Jo if I had it I would have pulled that in there too but definitely um I was so enjoyed that and that was relatively four points for the noodles the wontons and the dressing so I think it was seven or eight points for
The whole dinner and it was a nice Bowl so good it was ridiculously good like I’m going to have this again this week cuz that’s how good it was but I how off on that but being satisfied is what I’m saying at the end of the week reflect
Did you feel a positive impact on on doing that one step prepping breakfast after cleaning up dinner definitely if you do it only takes you minutes like especially go overnight Nots takes you four minutes to put that together and you have your delicious high protein oh my God fantastic breakfast I prepped
That the other night cuz we were I was going out early on Saturday so I needed to have a quick breakfast and I thought that’s ready to go when I get up oh my gosh it was amazing I sat there and enjoyed every stinking bite of it oh my
Gosh um so yeah definitely you got to eat what you like and you have you know and and make some tweaks that work for you not all tweaks work let’s put that all of them do and they work in theory but they don’t work in flavor or your
Powder what you’re looking for like sometimes like oh this this tweak is great and and doesn’t work now like putting the banana in like the Breads and the cakes some people don’t like the texture so for them that’s not cake it’s more of a muffin I love it so for me that works
For me but it might not work for you so remember if the tweak doesn’t work don’t do it if the twak works then run with it but if it doesn’t work then don’t do it all right did there did the did you feel a positive impact Bingo the
Behavior is ripe for a habit formation now choose a cue that reminds you to repeat the action consistently not really then test drive another behavior from your list but if it did let’s dive deeper I guess I thought there was another continuation of that one think of this technique as like a
Loop but the kind that you’re actually okay getting stuck in it starts with a Q dinner cleanup which signals a healthy Behavior to prepping breakfast which leads to a positive impact you’ll feel in control knowing you’re all set up for a filling morning meal then all the repeats the next night
Um so yeah so they want you to associate cleaning up like I got to get breakfast and like I said breakfast is not to be complicated it doesn’t in some breakfasts you can prep the night before but write it down on a notepad right where you sit and it’s there and okay I
Have to do this do this this and I get my breakfast done sometimes little notes help us little checklists like I know for like for me it’s holiday meals like when I’m making Thanksgiving I write a checklist of what I need to do chop onions chop celery get this out boil
Gizzards you know like I have to not cuz you have so much to do especially if you’re going out to work in the morning you might not remember that you thought about what you thought about for breakfast L because your your minds are getting the kids out for school getting
The husband out you know so how do I you got to write yourself notes now I’m all about pen pen and paper notes sticky notes but maybe it’s your phone it’s an alert it goes off you know what time you’re going to be down there the alert
Goes off and oh that’s right I want to cuz let’s face it it’s been 12 hours since you’ve been in that kitchen you might forgot what you wanted to do was some of us have so much on our mind we don’t remember what we wanted to what
What was it going to have for breakfast don’t depend on your memory if you don’t leave here leave here with that don’t depend on your memory if your behavior has an immediate positive impact consider it a bonus those actions are even more reinforcing meaning we’re more likely to want to do
Them again and the more we repeat the simple Behavior at the same time using the same cue we’re more likely to become a habit and what’s the definition of a habit predictable actions we automatically do under similar circumstances It’s Kind like brushing our teeth we go in the bathroom in the
Morning we brush our teeth we go to the bathroom we wipe ourselves at least I hope we do like it’s just an action like do you ever think about I have to grab the toilet paper no you just do it because it’s a habit so we have to learn new habits for healthy
Lifestyle because our old habits didn’t work seea food eat it that’s a habit not a good one there are so many ways to reach your goals avoid forcing anything that gives you the I don’t like breakfast at home dread the treadmill take them off the roster and focus only
The things that you enjoy and if any Behavior seems too easy that’s the point habits like the rest of the journey don’t have to be complicated and if you’re not a per big line is I don’t like to cook I get that one all the time
I don’t like to cook we find a way to prep an easy breakfast like sometimes like the little um cream a wheat loaves the oatmeal loaves that I have here on the channel they’re ready to go you take them out of the fridge and you toast
Them out up my favorite as you know lately has been the Grits loaf which I’ve not made but it’s been on my mind it’s a Gritz loaf with instant grits and you toast it now if you love corn like I love corn then you make a cracked out
Egg salad which is eggs I use yogurt you could use mayonnaise if you want I don’t mind the yogurt and and um bacon bits and ranch dressing like Ranch powder I know it sounds weird for make a great lunch too I like it for breakfast that is something that can be prepped
The night before your loaf is done your egg salad is done you just put it on you just toast it and put it on there eat what eat things that are easy like the loaf or the overnight oats or even regular oatmeal like boil the oats it’s
Not really tragic get the I I love my mini Dash rice cooker if I want hot oatmeal put it in there plug it in click it on go about my morning take the dog out when I come in the oatmeal is ready and hot I just top it with what I like
Toast avocado toast you know me and the avocado toast oh my God toast how a peanut butter sandwich I mean like what do you like to eat how can we make it lighter eggs are always everybody’s favorite you know I do the mini pancake muffins excuse me I also do
A pancake big one and a mug in the microwave so if you don’t want to sit there and make the little ones and have to put them in the little visual cups you know you can make one mug cake one mug pancake where they have a scrambled
Pancake which is big on Tik Tok where you put the whole batter in the frying pan and you scrambled up like eggs not my favorite it’s okay but even making if you get a big enough skill you can make four or five pancakes in there you know
Decent size at one time fantastic you know what do you like to eat how can we make it easy for you if you have any questions you know you can message me I will help you out you know I I’m the queen of food I I’ve I’ve crowned myself the queen of quick
Food quick and easy food but those are are choose your focus choose your focus my focus this week is keeping focused that’s my focus trying a new app realizing that it’s time to set the clocks forward where do you want to be an hour later yep we are springing ahead so I
Need to leave all this the hour behind and we need to just trudge forward because the options are I can’t give up and thank you again for all your kind words in last week’s video all your comments and all your words of encouragement and caring like I it it
Just overwhelms me to see that there was hundreds of messages not even on that video I’ve been messaged I’ve been emailed I’ve been it’s just it’s overwhelming and I thank you all and we all and you guys get it you know you get it um I don’t sit here and and try to
Sugarcoat anything it’s not easy to to do this it’s not and I always say to you I commend you all for trying because it’s a very difficult thing to do but and thank you like I said thank you for all your support you guys just it is it
It just it gets in your heart and it just makes you warm and it makes you want to fight like sometimes all the fights out of you and you get all that encouragement from people you’re like the F like the burns it’s like logs on a fire it’s like it reinforces why you’re
Here and why you do this and why you struggle you know I I carry all your struggles with me and I struggle just right there with you so it’s not easy I wish it were I wish it were I wish it was just something I got it I got an injection
I’m good it’s not we have to deal with what’s up here and that my friends is a whole other video so if you want me to do that video let me know but yes it is springing forward week so do not wait till do not wait till Sunday to Spring
Forward I don’t want to hear well yeah I’m going to I’m going to focus more on Sunday I’m going to start next week week so we going to you know if you want a Big Mac go out and get a Big Mac you know what you could you have weekly
Points if you go there’s days where you just want that I mean I’ve had days where I just want that greasy burger there’s nothing wrong with it there’s nothing wrong with having a fast food meal occasionally track it move on don’t sit there and have day after day
After day I’m going to have five days of fast food because I’m GNA start on Sunday no there’s no food off limits moderation you know I eat off the kids menu when I go to plac that’s my secret I eat off the kids menu it satisfies
That need it tastes just as good and it’s not as big you’d be surprised you think you know like what is it your eyes are bigger than your stomach which is so true how many times have I’ve gotten this oh yeah I’m going to get this and
Then I I eat half of it I’m like I’m done and I’ve been very very good about packing that up and not sitting there just picking at it I get get it right in the box or let’s give it to Steve cuz once he gets his fork in there I’m done anyway so
That’s a secret um so that is it for me I hope you enjoyed this video if you did give it a thumbs up if you are new here welcome we’ve had a lot of influx of new subscribers and I’m so grateful for that and if you haven’t hit that subscribe
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With that so I will dish with you another day like I said Saturday was 5 days of light bread recipes they were all fantastic all delicious I mean one was better than the other they were all just fantastic great to keep in your repertoire and we had Food Finds Friday
I don’t know if we’re would to have Food Finds this week there was something about Friday that I don’t think I could film I don’t remember I felt like I couldn’t do it this we’ll see but it’ll definitely be continued these are the earrings I got at when I went to our
Vendor event because you all love the pink ones so I got blue ones it matches my mother’s um burstone ring that’s what actually I wanted a blue and she said she went over and then she said aquamarine I’m like oh I should get my mother’s burth in so those are those so
I love but that is it thank you for watching I will dish with you tomorrow for what I eat in a day and that is it for me for today have a great rest of your day and remember we are springing forward but let’s start today do not
Wait till next week cuz I’m not waiting I am starting today cuz I got to wait it on Saturday so that’s not going to be good if I pork out all week so fit it in moderation if you want the chips count them out eat them that’s it for me bye-bye for Now