LA Weight Loss

[slick]

Thanks Randi. Since I'm a soup nut, I spotted this from the site. Sounds wonderful!!!!

Soup
2 heads of garlic, peeled and minced or pressed
8 cups water
3 celery stalks, finely chopped
3 carrots cut into 1 inch pieces
1 T dried parsley or finely chopped fresh
1 tsp. dried basil
1 bay leaf
salt & pepper to taste

Dumplings (Makes about 24 small dumplings)
1 1/3 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1 beaten egg
1 1/2 T vegetable oil
1/3 cup milk
2 T chopped fresh cilantro

Makes About 8 Cups

1. Add all soup ingredients together and simmer for anout thirty minutes.
2. While soup is simmering, prepare dumplings. Mix dry ingredients together. Add remaining ingredients and mix into a stiff batter. Drop batter into boiling soup about 1/2 teaspoon full at a time. When dumplings float (which should only take a minute or so), they are cooked and your soup is ready to be served.

[Blue_Frog]

I'm sure a lot of you have seen this site before, but its pretty handy anyway!

http://allrecipes.com/

They have links for Healty Living Recipes, and general advice about healty eating, as well as a really large searchable database of all kinds of stuff. I usually take 4 or 5 recipes for the things I want to make, and then just kind of combine and alter to suit myself

[Logan]

I have done LA Weight Loss. I lost 30 pounds. Their plan is very detailed and easy to follow. There is nothing unhealthy about it in my opinion and is something I could be following right now, if I would try. They customized our diet plans (Helen and me).

By the way, the people in our local LA WL center were lovely, never anything but upbeat and pleasant. Unfortunately, they had no autonomy. They were completely controlled by their corporate headquarters. I have issues with a couple of things with their corporate rules, though. One is it was incredibly expensive and not only do you prepay for a certain period to lose your alloted weight, if you go past that date, you have to pay more. That's when I stopped going. Also, they have their own supplements called LA Lites that they want you to buy (in advance....always pushing a good deal on those things) and eat or drink, twice/day. Well, I couldn't stomach them. I really tried. I am not a "prepackaged" food person. So they adjusted my diet, taking those out of it, but instead of allowing me to take the huge credit balance I had for those Lites and transfer it over to some other products I was using and also purchasing, their corporate office said it was my loss. I could transfer those prepurchased LA Lites to another dieter or lose my money. I lost over $300, just on LA Lites, because at the time, Helen and I were doing this diet and I had prepurchased a ton of them. That was the other reason I quit going there.

Weighing in 3 times per week is good for holding you accountable, but it is cumbersome when you work fulltime and have other obligations. If they had opened earlier in the mornings, it would have been easier.

I wish you luck. And if you have any other questions, feel free to send me a PM. I know exactly what you are dealing with.

Logan

[sirrahbed]

hi slick - just wondering if you have done the ww meeting thing yet? I started back about the same time you started this thread.

[slick]

Nope, never got there. The meeting starts at 7pm and I can never make it on time because of work. I'm not dieting, I'm not really watching what I eat (except for lunches at work)....I just keep getting fatter and fatter and hating myself for it. Sorry, not in a good frame of mind right now.

[Rachel]

Well, Slick, at least you are not alone. I've gained five pounds and can't seem to get back to making that extra effort it takes to deny my appetite. I just don't know what to do.