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Surrey Holistic Weight Loss Group

Brenda — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:24 +0000

Would you like to lose weight and get healthier at the same time? Would you like to have more energy and better sleep? I find it easier to make healthy changes when I have someone else I can talk to who is also making the same changes. This will be a small group of women who meet each week to learn, discuss and cheer each other on. I will present what I know about losing weight in a healthy way and bring in some speakers to talk about nutrition, exercise and blocks to losing weight. I will teach the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and share some healthy recipes that my family love.

Topics: balancing your blood sugar levels, emotional eating, fitting exercise into your life, food intolerances and allergies, candida overgrowth, busy lives, listening to your body, learning to say no, importance of water, and more.

One group will meet on Tuesday nights
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm followed by optional 1/2 hour walk
Another group will meet on Thursday afternoons
Time: 12:30pm-2:00pm followed by optional 1/2 hour walk
Cost: free!
Location: my livingroom in Cloverdale
Sign up by sending me an email to let me know you are interested: coachbrenda@reachyourpotential.ca

Using George Foreman Grills to Lose Weight

Brenda — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:00:53 +0000

George Foreman grill

I used to think that George Foreman grills were over-hyped and not worth purchasing – just another electrical device to take up room in my kitchen cupboards. If my husband didn’t want to barbecue the chicken breasts, I could cook them on my frying pan. Then my 7 yr old daughter and I were visiting garage sales, looking for toys and other things she didn’t need, when I came across a George Foreman grill. At a cost of $9 I decided to give it a try. They were selling it because they felt that burgers cooked on it were not juicy enough. Since we rarely cook burgers I didn’t feel that would be a problem for us.

The first thing we tried was cooking raw chicken breasts. Wow – was it fast. And they tasted good! Since then we have cooked pork chops, lamb burgers, frozen chicken breasts, lamb skewers and bison burgers. I have also used it to quickly grill sliced red peppers and red onion. We still use the barbecue outside sometimes, and we can’t grill a whole salmon on it like we can outside, but it sure is nice when it is raining or we are out of propane. It is also faster than our outside barbecue. I’m a George Foreman grill convert!

Healthier in 2009?

Brenda — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:08:56 +0000

Jan, Feb, Mar

Will you be healthier in 2009? Will you choose to make the changes?

Take the first step: decide what you’d like to be different.

Now take the next step: what is one thing you can do that will take you in that direction?

Last step: remind yourself to make that change. Whenever you change habits it takes time before the new habit is integrated into your life. Put appointments on your calendar, sticky notes on your bathroom mirror, send scheduled emails to yourself, put a symbol of the change in your pocket or on your bedside table.