I can't stop eating this soup. It is sooo good- I have to share with you all.
White Bean Soup
3 cans white beans(small white beans in lightly seasoned broth)
1 can fat free cream of chicken soup
3 chicken breasts, cooked and diced, (slow sautee in non-stick pan)
1 onion diced (sauteed in pan where chicken was cooked)
Spray pan to coat, sautee chicken slice and dice. Sautee chapped onions until translucent and slightly golden. Add chicken and onions to stock pot with the beans and soups. Season to taste.
I got this recipe from Energy For Women's Magazine the March Issue
Submitted by Deanna Colaizzi
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Wanting
There are two ways to want. You can want from a place of believing or you can want from a place of doubt. The only difference is pain.
When you want something (like thinness), and you believe you will have it, you most likely will feel excited and happy and motivated. I remember the moment when this happened to me. I had committed to taking better care of myself, and had been at it for a while, when it occurred to me that I would be thin and I would never abuse my body fat again. It was exhilarating. I was still in my heavier body, but I was bouncing around with excitement. I was happy; I wanted more and I believed I would get it.
Most often, new clients come to me and want with doubt. They want to be thin more than almost anything and they are very doubtful that this will ever happen for them. Even though they have hired me with mild hope that "this" will work, deep down they later admit that they don't believe it will.
It think this is why many people just stop wanting. "I want for nothing," they will say. "I have just accepted that I will be obese and that this is just my life." It is heartbreaking and completely unnecessary.
I do think it is important to keep wanting. Wanting more is how we grow and how we are inspired to action. I think what we want is actually very important information, that when followed, can lead us to the life we are most joyful living.
So think about what you want in your life and notice how it feels to want it. If it feels good, you most likely believe that you will have it. If it feels painful, there may be some doubtful thoughts that you can work through in order to unleash your inspiration to act.
You can follow these steps:
1. Write down what you want.
2. Write down the feeling associated with the want.
3. If it feels painful-write down why you believe you might not have what you want.
4. Evaluate these thoughts of doubt for logic and then test their turn-arounds.
5. Change these thoughts to thoughts that support your belief that you can and will have what you want.
6. Repeat as necessary.
What I want is for you to live in your body at it's natural weight and to eat in a way that feels healthy and invigorating to you. I am feeling very good about this want because I believe you can and will have it!
When you want something (like thinness), and you believe you will have it, you most likely will feel excited and happy and motivated. I remember the moment when this happened to me. I had committed to taking better care of myself, and had been at it for a while, when it occurred to me that I would be thin and I would never abuse my body fat again. It was exhilarating. I was still in my heavier body, but I was bouncing around with excitement. I was happy; I wanted more and I believed I would get it.
Most often, new clients come to me and want with doubt. They want to be thin more than almost anything and they are very doubtful that this will ever happen for them. Even though they have hired me with mild hope that "this" will work, deep down they later admit that they don't believe it will.
It think this is why many people just stop wanting. "I want for nothing," they will say. "I have just accepted that I will be obese and that this is just my life." It is heartbreaking and completely unnecessary.
I do think it is important to keep wanting. Wanting more is how we grow and how we are inspired to action. I think what we want is actually very important information, that when followed, can lead us to the life we are most joyful living.
So think about what you want in your life and notice how it feels to want it. If it feels good, you most likely believe that you will have it. If it feels painful, there may be some doubtful thoughts that you can work through in order to unleash your inspiration to act.
You can follow these steps:
1. Write down what you want.
2. Write down the feeling associated with the want.
3. If it feels painful-write down why you believe you might not have what you want.
4. Evaluate these thoughts of doubt for logic and then test their turn-arounds.
5. Change these thoughts to thoughts that support your belief that you can and will have what you want.
6. Repeat as necessary.
What I want is for you to live in your body at it's natural weight and to eat in a way that feels healthy and invigorating to you. I am feeling very good about this want because I believe you can and will have it!
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Inhabit Your Body
I am reading Marianne Williamson's new book "The Age of Miracles" right now, and I must say I am loving it. I have been a fan of Marianne's writing since she wrote "A Return to Love" and "A Woman's Worth." (If you haven't read "A Woman's Worth" -you must.) The books she wrote after those two seemed to get political and too angry for my taste, but she comes back to the inward focus in this latest book and I love it.
The main message of her book is that as we get older we care less about the external validation and more about our own. She discusses the process of letting go of the "thought tracks" that were laid down in childhood in favor of consciously choosing our own thoughts. And she writes beautifully about how it is less important to figure out what we want to do, and more important to figure out who we want to be.
Here is a sample of her wonderful writing:
"There's little in life more satisfying than feeling that at last you've taken ownership of yourself. You don't have to be afraid anymore that some part of you-some fractal not yet integrated into your personality-is going to trip you up. You feel at last like you inhabit yourself. You finally went into all the rooms, turned the lights on, and settled in."
"Taking ownership of yourself" is something to think about. Have we really fully stepped into the ownership role in our own lives?
When we take full ownership and responsibility, blaming stops. We have no reason to escape our own pain, because we can now see that we are the ones creating it. In our past, the pain may have seem to come from the external world. As adults, we understand that we alone are the ones carrying the torch of suffering and all that is required is acknowledging this fact and putting it down.
Fog eating is a way that we attempt to escape ourselves. We use food to get out of inhabiting own bodies by focusing on food and feeling numb to the space of vibration within us. As we realize that we can change our lives by "re-inhabiting" our bodies, we may experience what it means to be fully engaged with life.
Ultimately, we learn that living our lives has very little to do with how our bodies look and much more to do with how we feel. When we learn this very important lesson, we eat less and we love ourselves more. Of course, this leads to weight loss. But we feel so good already, it hardly matters so much.
You can find Marianne Williamson's book, The Age of Miracles at amazon.com
The main message of her book is that as we get older we care less about the external validation and more about our own. She discusses the process of letting go of the "thought tracks" that were laid down in childhood in favor of consciously choosing our own thoughts. And she writes beautifully about how it is less important to figure out what we want to do, and more important to figure out who we want to be.
Here is a sample of her wonderful writing:
"There's little in life more satisfying than feeling that at last you've taken ownership of yourself. You don't have to be afraid anymore that some part of you-some fractal not yet integrated into your personality-is going to trip you up. You feel at last like you inhabit yourself. You finally went into all the rooms, turned the lights on, and settled in."
"Taking ownership of yourself" is something to think about. Have we really fully stepped into the ownership role in our own lives?
When we take full ownership and responsibility, blaming stops. We have no reason to escape our own pain, because we can now see that we are the ones creating it. In our past, the pain may have seem to come from the external world. As adults, we understand that we alone are the ones carrying the torch of suffering and all that is required is acknowledging this fact and putting it down.
Fog eating is a way that we attempt to escape ourselves. We use food to get out of inhabiting own bodies by focusing on food and feeling numb to the space of vibration within us. As we realize that we can change our lives by "re-inhabiting" our bodies, we may experience what it means to be fully engaged with life.
Ultimately, we learn that living our lives has very little to do with how our bodies look and much more to do with how we feel. When we learn this very important lesson, we eat less and we love ourselves more. Of course, this leads to weight loss. But we feel so good already, it hardly matters so much.
You can find Marianne Williamson's book, The Age of Miracles at amazon.com
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
My Client, Angela, Loves Exercise (What?!)
Following is a post from my client, Angela. She is fantastic in every way, and I really do mean every way. But one of the things Angela hated when I met her was exercise. She literally didn't want to go into the gym, let alone work out.
Now I am amazed every time she sends me an email about her hour long workouts! She has literally rewired her own brain to like going to the gym.
She is an inspiration to anyone who wants to give themselves the gift of exercise.
Enjoy:
For most of my life I hated exercise. I dreaded gym class, played inside, and picked my college based on the fact it didn’t have a phys. ed. requirement. Periodically, I would give exercising a try. I'd go to the gym dutifully for a week or two, spending most of my time there just wanting to die inside when I would look over at the lean girls in their cute outfits and expensive sneakers. I was in a t-shirt and shorts with tennis shoes I’d gotten in back high school. Considering how intermittently I exercised, I told myself, it really wasn’t worth the money to buy nice things.
My weight fluctuated between 150 and 250 lbs but after having my first baby, my weight reached and all time high and didn’t seem to be going anywhere but up. The day I had my baby I was 315 lbs. – an 85 lb. gain! A year later I was still skimming the 300 lb. mark and the weight was making it hard to enjoy being a mom. I vowed, once and for all, to “get to the bottom” of this “weight problem.”
Five months later I had shed about 40 lbs and to celebrate, I treated myself to a seminar based on the work I’d been doing with the book “If I’m So Smart, Why Can’t I Lose Weight.” My intention was to stop hating exercise so much.
At the seminar, there was a “ropes” course challenge. I knew climbing a thirty foot poll only to face a tight rope walk was not for me. I sat it out. Later that night, most of the women were on cloud nine celebrating their accomplishment. Another woman shared my lack of enthusiasm. “I never would have done it,” she said, “if Theresa hadn’t asked me.”
“Oh,” I said, quickly, “if Theresa asked me I would have done it.” Somehow the scary parts of the course melted away in my mind at the thought of doing it for someone else.
On hearing that, Brooke retorted, “YOU didn’t ask YOU.”
She was right. Why would I have been willing to scale a 30 ft. poll and walk across a tight rope for Theresa – a woman I had only met a few days before? I was willing to take a physical risk for someone else’s approval and pleasure, but not for my own.
I thought of the number of times I promised myself I’d go to the gym and then broke the promise. I would never break a promise to a friend! But what if I changed the paradigm, what if I asked myself to work out as if it was Theresa asking instead of beating myself up that I should go. I returned home from the seminar and did just that. I invited myself to the gym every morning as if it was my best friend asking me out for dinner and a movie.
The day I was able to jog for 10 straight minutes it occurred to me. It wasn’t a thought or a decision, just an occurrence. I’m going to do a triathlon. We’re still a few months away from the event and my workouts have increased considerably.
I’m jogging and lifting weights for an hour minutes almost every day, swimming and biking a few times a week, and I just plopped a couple thousand dollars down on a fancy carbon road bike. I hired a trainer who I see 2 times a week for additional core strength workouts. I say things like carbon road bike and core strength work out! I even bought more than one cute work out outfit and an expensive pair of sneakers.
I’ve gone not just from someone who hated exercise to someone who loves it. I’ve gone from someone who doubted her abilities to someone who has confidence and excitement about what’s possible. I’ve gone from someone who put herself last, to someone who puts herself first because I know I'm worth it!
Now I am amazed every time she sends me an email about her hour long workouts! She has literally rewired her own brain to like going to the gym.
She is an inspiration to anyone who wants to give themselves the gift of exercise.
Enjoy:
For most of my life I hated exercise. I dreaded gym class, played inside, and picked my college based on the fact it didn’t have a phys. ed. requirement. Periodically, I would give exercising a try. I'd go to the gym dutifully for a week or two, spending most of my time there just wanting to die inside when I would look over at the lean girls in their cute outfits and expensive sneakers. I was in a t-shirt and shorts with tennis shoes I’d gotten in back high school. Considering how intermittently I exercised, I told myself, it really wasn’t worth the money to buy nice things.
My weight fluctuated between 150 and 250 lbs but after having my first baby, my weight reached and all time high and didn’t seem to be going anywhere but up. The day I had my baby I was 315 lbs. – an 85 lb. gain! A year later I was still skimming the 300 lb. mark and the weight was making it hard to enjoy being a mom. I vowed, once and for all, to “get to the bottom” of this “weight problem.”
Five months later I had shed about 40 lbs and to celebrate, I treated myself to a seminar based on the work I’d been doing with the book “If I’m So Smart, Why Can’t I Lose Weight.” My intention was to stop hating exercise so much.
At the seminar, there was a “ropes” course challenge. I knew climbing a thirty foot poll only to face a tight rope walk was not for me. I sat it out. Later that night, most of the women were on cloud nine celebrating their accomplishment. Another woman shared my lack of enthusiasm. “I never would have done it,” she said, “if Theresa hadn’t asked me.”
“Oh,” I said, quickly, “if Theresa asked me I would have done it.” Somehow the scary parts of the course melted away in my mind at the thought of doing it for someone else.
On hearing that, Brooke retorted, “YOU didn’t ask YOU.”
She was right. Why would I have been willing to scale a 30 ft. poll and walk across a tight rope for Theresa – a woman I had only met a few days before? I was willing to take a physical risk for someone else’s approval and pleasure, but not for my own.
I thought of the number of times I promised myself I’d go to the gym and then broke the promise. I would never break a promise to a friend! But what if I changed the paradigm, what if I asked myself to work out as if it was Theresa asking instead of beating myself up that I should go. I returned home from the seminar and did just that. I invited myself to the gym every morning as if it was my best friend asking me out for dinner and a movie.
The day I was able to jog for 10 straight minutes it occurred to me. It wasn’t a thought or a decision, just an occurrence. I’m going to do a triathlon. We’re still a few months away from the event and my workouts have increased considerably.
I’m jogging and lifting weights for an hour minutes almost every day, swimming and biking a few times a week, and I just plopped a couple thousand dollars down on a fancy carbon road bike. I hired a trainer who I see 2 times a week for additional core strength workouts. I say things like carbon road bike and core strength work out! I even bought more than one cute work out outfit and an expensive pair of sneakers.
I’ve gone not just from someone who hated exercise to someone who loves it. I’ve gone from someone who doubted her abilities to someone who has confidence and excitement about what’s possible. I’ve gone from someone who put herself last, to someone who puts herself first because I know I'm worth it!
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