Honest question: is Oprah Winfrey like Kirstie Alley in her yo-yo dieting, only more realistic and less annoying? We’ve seen both women gain and lose weight using different diets multiple times. While Kirstie is a cult member who has sold diet concoctions of vitamins and cranberry juice and is now endorsing Jenny Craig, Oprah follows various spiritual leaders and is the new Weight Watchers spokesperson. I hope Oprah keeps it off this time. In a new conference call for Weight Watchers, Oprah revealed that she’s lost 30 lbs but said that she doesn’t have a goal weight in mind. (Isn’t that antithetical to everything she says about money and goal setting?) Oprah revealed some of her tips and tricks to weight loss. She explained that she chooses fish for dinner with the lowest weight watchers “points” (which roughly translate to calories) and said that if she doesn’t know the points for a food item she won’t eat it.
“I basically eat exactly what I want and if I can’t figure out what the points are…I just say I’m going to pass on that. If I can’t begin to measure the points, I usually pass.”
She also gave fellow Weight Watchers members some tricks on how to jazz up their meals (grab your notepads!).
One caller noted that spaghetti squash was a tasty alternative to the carb-heavy cuisine and Oprah added, “I do that too and what I found is that if you put just a few noodles in with the spaghetti squash, just a few, like a little mixture…like two points worth of noodles instead of five points worth of noodles, it’s a lot more satisfying.”
And as for another healthy option? Cauliflower mash! Oprah dished that she’ll pop one potato into the mixture to help with the taste and texture.
Another go-to for Oprah during her weight loss this year has been seafood—especially cod since it only racks up one point.
But there was one major pointer that callers taught Oprah about during the chat today: the magical powers of water!“I’ve seen a lot of comments about water, maybe that’s my problem,” she explained to one member. “I don’t get enough water in the day. I don’t really like water but I’m grateful to have it.”
She joked, “I’m drinking right now, like right now as I’m talking to you all, I’m drinking a tea. It’s like water infused with ginger and a hint of vanilla—I’m trying to trick myself that way.”
But when water and all the tricks in the book don’t seem to help, Oprah shared:
“When something shows up that is going to make me uncomfortable and that would normally make me want to reach for a bowl of nuts or a bowl of chips…I literally take a deep breath to remind myself that I am here right now and what’s going on right here with me does not have to overwhelm me.”
I’ve never tried cauliflower mash but it seems to be trendy now that Oprah is touting it and Ashley Greene is talking about it in interviews. If you guys have any good recipes for cauliflower mash please share them in the comments.
Weight Watchers just seems so outdated to me. I know they’ve tried to update the point system to encourage people to eat more fruits and vegetables but there’s so much more awareness of calories now and better ways to track food. Sidenote: chain restaurants were previously required by the FDA to include calories on their menus by the end of this year, but the FDA just delayed this ruling pretty much indefinitely. I’m so disappointed. So far requiring calories on menus has only been legislated on a state by state basis, but some restaurants have complied nation wide. I know I chose to eat at Panera and McDonalds over other places because they list calories on everything.
Photos credit: Weight Watchers
Thank god. Now I can sleep tonight.
Try the Cauliflower cilantro lime rice. Actually pretty good.
http://popularpaleo.com/cilantro-lime-cauliflower-rice/
Ooh now I’m going to try this. That site is making me hungry.
I had Middle Eastern deep-fried cauliflower and it was unbelievably good. Not greasy, not breaded, so it was actually probably healthy too.
Heat and spice elevate your mood [capsacin?] and satisfies with less food.
Also, I weigh myself every day. The moment I’m a lb. over I resort to chicken broth and sugarless Jello or other light food.
Losing 1 lb. is a lot easier than losing 30.
Cauliflower mash is disgusting. There are no “good” recipes for it.
Yup, totally agree. I was forced to eat cauliflower as a child. I was “allowed” to mash it to make it more “palatable”. You can’t disguise the flavor.
I bake it with a little Campells creams of celery soup, then toss it in a blender.
A good substitute for mashed potatoes.
Usually cauliflower sits in the vegetable crisper till I throw it out.
Roasted cauliflower is delicious! I just toss with a little oil at roast until a little burnt around the edges @ 450 degrees
I’ve tried mashed but I don’t think it’s as good.
Disagree.
I hated cauliflower as a child and most of my adult life… considered it broccoli’s sad cousin. Hahaha.
Cauliflower mash and/or cauliflower puree has completely changed my opinion of it. Lots of garlic, a little seasoning and a dash of cream …. Y U M ! ! !
Why would anyone mash it when you can roast it?????? I like to toss florets with a tablespoon of evoo and some baby portabellas. I do a whole baking sheet full at 425 for about 30-40 minutes. Soooooooooo delish- the cauliflower becomes nutty and sweet, and the shrooms are just wonderful.
Or lightly steam it and slather it in some good Kerrygold!
I second roasting cauliflower! Quicker and tastier, IMO. We use strips of onion instead (and occasionally mix in bacon before serving), but mushrooms sound good.
Roast it, then mash it. With parmesan and Kerrygold.
Roast it with some good Balsamic and olive oil, then mash it. Add a bit of cream, sour cream, or butter. Salt and pepper.
(By good I mean the 25 year old stuff from Modena)
I agree that roasting transforms it. So tasty! I season with salt, paprika, and chile powder.
I love cauliflower. But cauliflower is cauliflower. Rice is rice. Potatoes are potatoes. Why try to make cauliflower seem like rice or potatoes? And yes, I’ve tried cauliflower rice and cauliflower mash.
Exactly!
I am not 100% sure, this craze about cauliflower rice and mash is a Paleo thing?
Completely agree. If you want mashed potatoes, have a small serving of mashed potatoes.
Instead of potatoes because potatoes are higher in carbs and their nutritional values are not considered as healthy as cauliflower.
Cauliflower is the non-fattening substitute for potatoes basically, so they say. I’m not advocating for one over the other, just explaining as it was told to me.
I searched cauliflower vs. potatoe and a great chart came up comparing their nutrition amounts. Explains it better than I can.
Cauliflower mash has been popping up on my FB page for the past couple years (before Oprah touted them). Haven’t tried any so, sorry, don’t have a good recipe.
I have never had cauliflower mash alone but will make mashed potatoes with about a third of cauliflower in it. That works well for me. Not sure if I would like straight up cauliflower, maybe over time I could change the ratios and get to mostly cauliflower but I doubt it. I love mashed potatoes and don’t want to be sad when I eat them.
My problem with making any dish is that I live alone and if I make anything of anything over a serving or two, I’m eating it all week and get tired of it quickly. When I make chili or tuna casserole I have a daughter who always wants some and I make chili dogs for the kiddos if I’m watching them at dinner time so it’s not as bad.
@Swak-Yes this is the same for me. I always make stew and stuff in my slowcooker and end up giving 75% of it to my downstairs neighbor, an older gentleman who lives alone and subsists on TV dinners.
But yeah, I can’t eat stew every night for a week. Too much.
@Kitten: Admittedly I am a bit hormonal, but your comment made me tear up a little. We’d love to think that gestures like yours go on all the time, but sadly they just don’t – not enough anyway. I just think it’s sweet, is what I’m trying to say.
I just came out of a crazy slowcooker phase. After about 3 months of making EVERYTHING in it my husband begged me to put it away for a while. He said he’d enjoy some “dry overcooked chicken or something” for a change.
Kitten, do you have a big enough freezer to freeze half of it? I love to do that. Even though there are two of us, I still feel like we waste a lot of food, but I’m pretty good now about freezing.
This is my take on cauliflower mash:
Chop a head of cauliflower into bite-sized pieces and throw them in a bowl. Drizzle with 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil, add salt, pepper, garlic powder, smoked paprika, and curry powder. Toss to coat, and dump onto a lined cookie sheet. Pop it in a 350° F oven.for 20 minutes to roast. Once it’s done, mash the cauliflower with forks or a masher (or put it through a ricer). Garnish with fresh chives and parsley. Super yummy, and healthy. 🙂
This sounds good. I’ve been kind of burnt out on Cauli for a while now but maybe I just need to mix it up..
And that is the key to making cauliflower palatable – SPICES!! Cauliflower by itself, especially in a mashed form, is just bland. Experiment with different spices to jazz it up.
Or fry bite-sized pieces with eggs. That’s a good way to tolerate it.
Also my mother stems them and makes a cold salad with potatoes, carrots…..and other vegetables that i’m to lazy to find the names (basically all you want), salt, acceto balsamico, olive oil. I eat that sometimes but not really liking. If i want to lose weight i limit my portions intake. But losing weight it’s a long road and it takes time ad effort. And can we talk please about physical activity also that is very very important and by it i mean anything even walking for 30 minutes a day.
Yo-yo weight problems usually means the person manages emotions by overeating. I would think Oprah would help differentiate WW and update the brand if she talked about ways to better manage emotional eating.
This. Tired of her schtick. Whenever she’s not in the limelight, Hello! “Join me on my journey….blah blah blah.” She does not really care or she would have stayed committed to it along time ago. She has chefs, fitness gurus, dieticians, you name it and yet, she always goes back to her old habits. It’s predictable and she’s not anybody I’d have faith in to follow because she can’t maintain it herself even with all her staff help. She will lose enough to be a “success” story and get paid, and then she will drop out of site so she can eat a ton of bread and gain it all back. This is all just a money making tactic because her “Own” Network is dying.
Wow.
The reason why Oprah is so unsuccessful in her diets is because, and she said it in this very interview, she eliminates entire foods. In this case, she doesn’t even touch something because she doesn’t know the points value. Restriction is a fad, it is not a lifelong change that one can sustain for long. Once you start cutting out certain things and seeing them as “bad,” you’re setting yourself up for failure. There’s nutritious food and there’s less nutritious food.
You can’t look at it as “good” food and “bad” food. Eliminating McDonald’s and fast food is one thing. Eliminating chips or dessert let’s say? Yeah that can’t last forever. And when someone sees chips as “off limits,” once they cave and have a handful of Lays at a party, they’re going to view themselves as failures and the diet will be over. “I’m off the wagon, I ate chips or a cupcake, now I’ll eat whatever I want.”
The key is eating predominantly nutritious food (fruits, vegetables, protein, healthy fats) and indulge very once in a while in whatever you want. So if you go out to dinner with friends and share a bottle of wine and have dessert, don’t punish yourself for it. Enjoy it, savor it. Tomorrow maybe take a walk or go to a spin class, drink a lot of water, eat better, and it’s like it never happened. It’s about moderation.
So next time you go out to eat, don’t devour that entire bowl of fries in front of you, but don’t swear it off like it’s evil. Enjoy a handful and move on. It’s food and we need it to survive, it’s not the devil.
Then just try to move more than you stay idle and you’ll never be on a diet a day in your life.
I guess Weight Watchers is dated in the sense that it is not the latest/hip diet.
But I do feel it is more tried and true than the vast majority of diets.
My sister and another friend both lost a lot of weight (slowly) using it and have kept if off because it helped them think differently about food and portions. And it does not use magic bullets or the need to buy their special food.
Cauliflower mash sounds unappealing. Like it would have the texture of baby food.
But these days you can just have some calorie counter app on your phone. You do not need Weight Watchers points or other stuff. Weightwatchers actually left my country because of reasons like this, they were not neened anymore.
I hear you. There is a camaraderie among members/those doing the diet that my sister really relied on and that support was important for her.
If you are a strong dieter who doesn’t need the sharing and pep talks, then the phone calorie app is definitely a better (and cheaper) way to go.
Roasted/baked cauliflower is delicious…I bake for about 30 min after chopping, tossing with extra virgin olive oil, fresh pepper & using dashes of garlic and a bit of dried parmasean cheese. I forget I’m eating veggies.
Oh yeah….it’s really good! Roasting totally brings out a different flavour!
My youngest, who is a vegetarian, will roast it with other veggies and make a veggie pot pie. It’s delicious!
That sounds delicious! I’m really bad at eating veggies since I was kid never liked them, never ate them. Now I kinda have to, so I cheat myself into finding good recipes that’ll make me eat more of them. I actually had cauliflower mash & loved it, the adding the potato for texture & flavor from Oprah is something that I might try next with roasting it.
Agreed! I much prefer roasted to mashed! I also adore roasted chick peas, okra, brussels sprouts, and on and on.
But for some people mashed potatoes are an emotional comfort and so finding a healthier alternative allows them to use a more healthy coping mechanism.
omg, roasted brussels sprouts…. I could eat them all day long.
Well, i have no opinion on Oprahs weight loss, other than, if she feels good and talking about her diet has nothong to do with shilling Weight Watchers for personl gain (hhmmm..), then fine, good for her.
On a personal level, I love cauliflower mash and fish is great too. I’m lucky though as I live in a seafood rich place, so fish of all kinds are abundant, my fav being fresh salmon.
Recipe wise, I steam my cauliflower until soft, then just mash it with butter (probably not the weight loss version of mash), a small amount of parmesan & season with salt and pepper. Sometimes I add a crushed garlic clove or some chopped garlic chives. Just like mashed potatoes minus the milk or cream. Easy as.
Cauliflower mash is seriously one of my favorite all time foods, and basically if you Doctor it up with a *little* butter, salt and pepper and/or sour cream they can taste really incredible.
I steam about two heads, then add approx:
2-4 tbs butter
2 tbs sour cream
2 tbs Milk for creamier texture
Optional add ins;
Chives, thyme, garlic, Parmesan cheese, cheddar cheese
Roasted cauliflower with olive oil, salt and crushed garlic is also AMAZING because it almost gets a sweet savory thing going on. You can also do that same recipe with butternut squash!
Just roast the cauliflower with olive oil and sea salt and don’t bother mashing it. Could eat it all day that way. I’ve seen recipes where paleo folks mash cauliflower up to make pizza crust, which sounds awful to me. I have used spaghetti squash in place of noodles with stir fry. My kids know something is off but generally eat it anyway.
I love roasted vegetables. So much. Even Brussels sprouts are delicious roasted, just the way you do cauliflower.
That sounds delicious. I had no idea that cauliflower was disliked by a lot of people.
It’s like candy when you roast it! I do this all the time lately. I’ve also tried the paleo fried rice using cauliflower in place of the rice. Yummy.
I make cauliflower mash potatoes all the time, and my husband likes it better than my regular mashed potatoes.
There are no exact amounts here.
Half cauliflower flowerettes.
Half peeled russet pototoes sliced into rounds about the width of your finger.
Put the cauliflower in salted water and bring to a boil.
Add the potatoes and boil 15 minutes.
Drain.
Return to pan.
Add salt, white pepper, a tablespoon of margarine, and a dollop of mayonnaise (trust me).
Mash with a potato masher or with a wooden spoon.
Sprinkle with hot paprika after serving.
That sounds good! I will try that thank you.
Wow. What revelations. You mean fish is low in calories? Who knew?
It’s amazing what we can learn from celeb diet tips. If it wasn’t for them, I’d never know what to eat!!
My thoughts exactly! As an educated and obviously intelligent adult woman, her attitude toward food confuses me. Maybe her traumatic past trumps figuring this out? When I graduated college and got married I read about nutrition and got informed, have always exercised and haven’t had a weight problem. I know I’m lucky genetically too, but it’s not rocket science!
Emotional eating is not logical, but many problems are not logical. If they were logical, they’d easily be fixed.
You’re successful at maintaining your weight, but don’t crap on Oprah or other people who logically know what needs to be done to stay healthy and still miss the mark because they may emotionally eat.
Mental health is a part of overall health.
I am on day 19 of Whole 30, and as someone who has probably eaten about 15 servings of vegetables in my adult life, I can say I have been won over to the side of veggies by cauliflower “rice,” spaghetti squash, and zucchini “noodles” (zoodles).
I buy a bag of cauliflower florets, pulse it in my Ninja a few times, then sauté it with olive oil, garlic salt, and some Mrs. Dash. For a ‘fried rice’ taste, I will toss in a couple eggs, onions, and some coconut aminos. Once I get done with Whole 30, I will probably go back to soy sauce, but I think cauliflower is pretty good at being stealth and taking on the flavor of whatever you cook it in. It’s been a lifesaver.
Hey Wam, I am on Day 17, and it’s been great! Excellent recipes, no cravings, and the weight is falling off, never hungry. Glad I found it, and enjoying the creative recipes for veggies.
Waiting for amazon to deliver my veggie spiralizer, to make noodles. I tried the cauliflower rice, chopped up in the food processor, and and it was terrific.
Lots of butter and parmesan! Though that might not work if calories are your priority.
I have no opinion on its effectiveness, but Weight Watchers has been around for so long I’m surprised she didn’t try it a long time ago.
She probably did, pre-Points.
I respect Oprah, but there is no way I would take weight loss advice from her. She is the epitome of a yo yo dieter. Talk to me after you’ve kept the weight off for 10 years.
OTOH, she does give good advice. My favorite is that once you give somebody something, it is no longer yours, and you have no say in how it’s used. So, if you give someone money for their education and they take a vacation with it, you need to shut up. I’ve shared that with several people. It kept me sane when my sister sold all the baby gear and toys I gave her and bragged about how much money she made. Haha
Oh, that would have hurt my feelings. 😡
You are a better person than I am. I would be pretty mad that she was so inconsiderate of my feelings to even brag to me about it, not at least hide that she did that. LOL
I. LOVE. BREAD. I love bread. I have bread every day. BREAD! BREAD!
Tired of it and over it.
That made me laugh.
I picture her in a closet smearing cauliflower mash on a thick giant slab of bread.
My weight also fluctuates every 2-3 years and I know the exact reason why it happens. I really don’t need someone like Oprah telling me what is basic common sense when it comes to weight loss. The simple formula is regular exercise and eating fewer calories than one expends each day. There are many apps that can help a person do this but I personally know and can estimate when I overeat, eat unhealthily, and consume more calories than I have burned on a particular day. I think most people who are self-aware would know this. The hardest part is the will-power to eat salmon over fried chicken, a salad over several slices of pizza, etc. along with getting one’s ass to the gym either before or after work when there are so many other obligations to fulfill not to mention just being exhausted. I’m sorry but Oprah should not have as many excuses as the regular person who cannot afford a personal chef, a personal doctor, and a private gym with trainer. If she cannot remain fit with all of those advantages which she can buy with her billions of dollars, then the blame lies squarely on her. I would never take advice from someone like this. My life is very different from hers and when I am set on losing the weight, I know that it takes regular exercise and eating more vegetables and less fried food and carbs. It isn’t rocket science.
Kibbles, I could have written this post. I too have been up and down over the past few seconds years and you are so spot on. It just requires the will to say no and to workout. I cosign on everything that you have said about Oprah. Right on.
Hmm, that blind item makes more sense now!!!
The one or two that claimed she’s an alcoholic and that’s why she can’t keep the weight off? I always wondered about that. We know she can talk out of both sides of her mouth…
She invested $12.5 mil in WW and became their spokesperson so it’s a matter of business that she drops pounds and tells everyone about it. I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets colonic treatments or lipo to help her along. Lol
She’s part owner, not a “spokesperson”. She happens to be vocal of the company as she is invested in it on a personal and financial level. She was not hired to lose weight.
I love spaghetti squash, but not with sauce. Just a little bit of salt and pepper is all I need.
CB, check this out http://www.ottolenghi.co.uk/roasted-cauliflower-hazelnut-salad-shop
And this is how my Granny made cauliflower mash when I was little: 1 cauliflower, chopped into rather small cubes / florrets. Heat a heavy bottomed pan and oil it lightly. Fry the cauliflower on medium to low heat until it browns and softens. Now coat it with some flour, just a sprinkle. Add some butter, salt to taste. Increase the heat, brown the florrets again, you’re making a tiny bit of roux. Add in a bit of milk, some nutmeg and freshly chopped parsley. Mash with a fork. To me that’s the hight of comfort food.
Oh wow…she’s drinking…right now?! How does she ever do it?!?! Lmao 😂😂
No word on bread? I’ve been Hulu binging for a while now and I’m so sick and tired of her
“I. LOVE. BREAD!” commercial for Weight Watchers I have to see about three times per episode of whatever I’m watching.
Though, I suppose I admire all you counters and dieters out there, because I do not have the mental strength to do it. If I have to watch, curb or omit, I’m doomed to failure.
When I’m actually being mindful about my eating, I love Skinnytaste. All of her recipes not only show WW point values but also regular caloric values as well if you prefer that. And her food is DELICIOUS.
I make the BEST. MASHED. CAULIFLOWER. EVER.
I’ve been making it for awhile, kind of annoyed it’s becoming trendy.
So, the only way anyone should be making the mash:
(Roasting is a whole other thing, also delicious.)
Boil cauliflower until it is easy to mash, drain the water
Add in a dollop of coconut oil
Mash
Add in a fair amount of goat cheese
*We also add in diced shallots sometimes and garlic, this is where you can get creative with what you add in – chives, green onions, paprika etc etc*
Once it is creamy smooth, transfer to a baking dish and bake at 350 for 30 mins until golden brown on the top
Add salt and pepper to taste
It is NOT the same if you don’t bake it!
No potatoes, butter etc needed and, to me, tastes better than regular mash. Fairly healthy compared to a lot of other things you could be eating and SO TASTY.
I made this for some (picky) friends recently and they couldn’t even believe it was cauliflower.
There were so many “concerned” comments about Ashley Graham not looking “healthy” and being ok with her weight. Now here’s a person sharing her lifelong struggle to change her health and appearance, but, she gets negative comments too. Fat people cannot catch a break.
No one is criticizing her weight. It’s the fact that she has come forward 15 times in her life with “the answer” to weight loss, when she obviously doesn’t have one. And she’s acting like WW is this new, revolutionary idea when the “new” part is her investment in the company. She’s doing this for the money and she’s spouting the same old stuff she always does as if it’s news.
Cali Mash
1 head broken into pieces
3-4 whole peeled garlic cloves
1.5-2 cups low sodium chicken broth
bring to boil for 12-18 minutes…test with knife when soft
spoon cali and garlic into food processor add 2-4 oz goat cheese or low fat cream cheese….I’ve used some parm or pecorinio when out of others….pulse until smooth with fresh ground salt and pepper to taste adding in the broth for desired consistency. If you want you can drizzle in some olive oil and use less cheese….for us it’s the addition of the fat that makes it and make it a staple of a lower carb dealio. I’ve added butter before and found the lighter cheeses add more flavor for the calories.
For me, the nice thing about cauliflower mash is that it gets me through the need for comfort food when i have had too many salads. There are a lot of good cauliflower options at this site:
http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/tag/cauliflower
Here is my favorite – the pepper jack cheese makes it awesome.
http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/2013/08/cheesy-cauliflower-gratin-recipe-low-carb-and-gluten-free.html
As someone who lost a HUGE amount of weight and has kept it off for years….
Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig are for people who won’t ever make the right changes to sustain longterm health. You join, succeed, fail, join again, or don’t. Either way, the money has been had. True change starts with you and not with the ‘help’ of those companies.
Oprah is actually a great example of why Weight Watchers DOESN’T work.
I don’t get why anybody would pay money for a “program” and “support” and even gym memberships, when all one needs to do is cut down on one’s intake and walk. Walk around your neighborhood, walk around your office, walk at a track, walk your dog, walk with your friends or family. Walking burns tons of calories, it’s completely natural, easy, and you don’t need any memberships, gym access, or equipment to do it.
Congratulations on not only getting healthier but especially for maintaining it. You should be O’s trainer. She would learn more from a person who experienced the need to get healthy and got there more than all this hired help she pays for that evidentally doesn’t work for her in the end. She makes me angsty because she’s NOT paying for WW but heavily vested in it now and trying to get us normal folk to pay for it in order to acheive a goal they dont’ even need that program for to reach said goal. Scam!
Walking doesn’t actually burn that many calories. If you are 5’6″ 130 pounds for example, walking at a nice clip for an hour burns about 250-270 depending on which TDE calculator you use. That’s not even going to offset a light lunch.
Congratulations!! That is a real accomplishment! You are in the top 5% of people who lose weight and then keep it off.
Gosh, didn’t expect to see so many Oprah and Weight Watchers haters on this thread. Sheesh.
Many of us “emotional eaters” and otherwise lose weight and improve habits best when we have others we are accountable to or check in with regularly (for more on this concept, google Gretchen Rubin and her Four Tendencies, specifically the Obliger tendency). Weight Watchers, in its latest approach if not before, is about having a healthy lifestyle, including eating moderately of the foods you want to eat–like Oprah and her bread–pursuing some fitness activities, and *feeling good about yourself*, whatever that means to you. And no, “smart points” are not just calories. WW has updated how points are calculated and they now take into account that many naturally occurring fats are *good for you* and help keep you feeling full, many “low cal” items are often full of human-made crap, etc.
Please do not dis and otherwise opine on Weight Watchers and such unless you know what you are talking about. I recently joined and have found the weekly meetings helpful in pursuing my goals. One woman in there has lost 30 pounds in the last year. There are no gimmicks about WW, and there’s no expensive food you must buy.
I did WW and found it completely ineffective. Sorry.
This recipe is my favorite — it uses green onion and garlic to hide the cauliflower taste!
http://www.allergyfreevintagecookery.com/#!mashed-cauliflower/cpn1
Make your cauliflower mash, add a little powered chicken stock and powdered wasabi. Serve it under a juicy steak w green beans and a glass of red. #ohyeah
Yo-yo dieting is SO hard on your body. She has probably taken years off her life with her ups and downs, to say nothing of how hard being overweight is on your body.
It has been said a thousand times and it is absolutely true: losing weight is easy. Keeping it off is the real challenge.
Keeping it off is definitely the hardest part. I’ve lost the same 20-30 lbs twice and working on losing it again.
All the facilities she has at her disposal and yet, here she still is, decades later, still failing to understand that calories are the least of her weight problem.
I find her utterly ridiculous.
My grandmother ran a rooming house. It had the grand name of Hotel, but it was a rooming house. Only transients she had were people like James Earl Ray, who was caught for post office robberies by the FBI, who staked out in the “hotel” – exciting days in our town of 1800 people! But at one point she took a boarder, an elderly blind man who she also fed, and she would often make mashed cauliflower for him, with a little cheese melted on top, and he loved it.
I like almost any vegetable BUT cauliflower. And collards. The smells get me every time.
I think WW’s attraction is it’s so grounded. I’m not a fan of counting calories and obsessing – your body and appetite will take care of itself / regulate itself if you eat well and keep balanced psychologically. Also WW has a strong community. But still, it’s all so simple: make time to buy your own food and master about 25 go-to recipes for meals and snacks. Connect with your food. Eat organic and mainly if not all plant based. Drink lots of water (how can anyone not like water?). Look up some superfoods and use them from time to time. Simple as. And don’t obsess – have other focuses in your life.
Simply Recipes, Food Network and Food and Wine have great recipes for cauliflower. I like their recipes across the board and in the comment sections people share their variations. I love to cook but don’t measure so I am bad at sharing personal recipes. Cauliflower can be tasty in many ways. One of my favorites is deep frying it like tempura with an Asian dipping sauce on the side. If making the sauce from scratch isn’t your thing Trader Joes sells a gyoza dipping sauce that is delicious and great for pot stickers, or egg rolls or anything that lends itself to Asian flavors.
I’m late to this thread but I’ve had a lot of success with the ‘dinner to dinner fast’. The jist of it is you eat nothing all day but you can eat whatever you like for dinner.
Sounds completely nuts but it actually really works. I chest a bit and I dont actually eat nothing cos I start with a coffee in the morning and if I get hungry I might have a carrot or green apple but the huge payoff is I get to look forward to a delicious dinner. Last night we had vegetarian nachos with the works: sour cream, a corn and cucumber and coriander spicy salsa, guac and beers.
The point is you end up not even being hungry during the day and the anticipation of a kickarse dinner is very very exciting. Plus your stomach shrinks so even though you think you’ll pig out you actually get full pretty quickly.
I was struggling to lose about 5 kg and this has been a godsend. It really works for me.