Monday, June 10, 2013
Some places you can control — your home, your workplace, your car. Others, not so much — restaurants, airports, Grandma’s house... We get it, and the Weight Watchers Community gets it too! The ingenious Spaces tool gives you Tips and Action Plans for all kinds of challenges wherever you are, and lets you grab control of a world gone food-mad. Better yet, you can also see how other Weight Watchers subscribers deal! Browse through the tips, and don’t be shy. We’ve all got our own little ways of dealing with challenges, so we encourage you to share yours with the Community. The Spaces tool will be even better for including your ideas for how you manage your environment and stay on Plan in your the toughest moments.
Just feel like browsing? Not a problem. Sort comments by newest or most helpful. You can even Favorite a Tip that you know you’ll want to go back to.
Let’s take this opportunity to learn from each other. Hop in and join the conversation!
The Weight Watchers Digital Team
Categories:
General
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Summer Solstice isn’t for a couple weeks, but the warm weather has definitely arrived. In my head at least, Memorial Day marks the beginning of the season: pool parties, beach vacations and (my favorite) backyard barbeques. This year we’ve revamped our Summer Grilling Guide , which features technique videos from grilling expert Adam Perry Lang, grill maintenance pointers, tips on finding the best grilling gadgets, recipes for everything from burgers and spice rubs to tofu and veggies, and our favorite drinks and desserts to accompany them.
My favorite tip is about grilling squid—something I’ve never thought about bringing to a traditional cookout. Mark and Bruce (our resident “Sunday in the Kitchen with…” columnists) suggest tossing the squid in a mixture of soy sauce, lime juice, diet ginger ale and black pepper, then skewering and grilling for three to four minutes. I’ll definitely try that this summer. Yum!
What’s your favorite unique dish to make when you fire up the grill?
-Mary Elizabeth Hurn, associate editor
Categories:
Food
Friday, May 31, 2013
It’s a #WWFitParty! Get up and get moving for an exciting celebration tomorrow. Join us on Facebook from 10-noon EDT where we’ll be hosting a LIVE fitness event with a variety of fitness experts who’ll answer your fitness questions, demonstrate quick and easy workouts and much more.
Additonally, Meeting rooms across the country will be hosting their own Live Life Active themed-parties and celebrating all day with demonstrations, special offers and great savings. Find a participating meeting room location and celebration time near you at www.bit.ly/livelifeactive
Categories:
Fitness
Thursday, May 23, 2013
We know all you iPhone 5 users have been waiting a long time for this announcement, so we’re just going to blurt it out: The Weight Watchers Tracker app display is now optimized for the iPhone 5 screen! Be sure to update your app with our latest release (from the App Store) to see the gorgeous new iPhone 5 look. Of course, we couldn’t just stop there. We’ve got a few other goodies in the update, too: We resolved some crashing issues. Make sure you re-enter your user name and password after you update the app, otherwise these stability changes won’t take effect. We’ve squished a load of other bugs to make your app experience better than ever We love hearing your feedback! Please keep the reviews in the App Store coming as they help us improve the quality of the app.
The Weight Watchers Digital Team
Categories:
General
Monday, May 20, 2013
You asked for more foods in our Food Tracker, and we're delivering! (Well, we're not actually delivering the food to your house…you get the point though.) As part of our latest website and mobile update, we've added many new foods for you to search for and track. Be on the lookout for new items from companies and brands such as:· Roland · Its Delish · Dietz & Watson · Racconto · Liebers · Stonewall Kitchen · Robert Rothschild Farm · Producers · Gefen · Supremo · Soda Stream · Paskesz · Ziyad · Traditional Medicinals · Sintons · Premio · Jelly Belly · Great American Deli · Gatorade · Blue Bunny · Goya · McCormick · Trident · Simply Organic · Quaker · Hersheys · Yoplait · Jell-O · Dannon · Sour Patch Plus many more! Of course, we can't list every new item here, so make sure to search the Food Tracker for specific foods you're interested in. We hope these new foods will help make tracking and staying on plan that much easier for you! The Weight Watchers Team
Categories:
General
Monday, May 13, 2013
With seasonal vegetables it’s simple to make fresh and vibrant (not to mention healthy) dishes. This is especially true of spring veggies, many of which are crunchy, green, and (in my opinion) delicious: asparagus, fava beans, artichokes, ramps, peas, fennel, radishes, etc..
This past weekend I participated in the New York Culinary Experience—a two-day gathering where 30 of the country’s best chefs—think David Bouley, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Masaharu Morimoto—come together to teach food-lovers new cooking techniques and recipes.
The first day I took a class with chef Shaun Hergatt called “Market Vegetables, Seasonal Herbs, and Edible Flowers.” For an appetizer we made an asparagus salad with shimeji mushrooms, chives, and chickpeas. Most of these were simply peeled, blanched, dipped in an ice bath and tossed in a while balsamic dressing. Delicious. Add a rich, tiny boiled quail egg and you’re good to go.
For the entrée we made halibut with a carrot puree and fava beans in a meyer lemon sauce with a drizzle of basil and mint oil. We topped the dish with fiddlehead ferns. What the what? Fiddlehead ferns? Yep, those are the little guys you might have seen at your farmer’s market that look like little curled-up string beans (they kind of taste like them, too). Along with the sauce of chicken stock, cream, lemon juice, salt and pepper, those quickly blanched fiddleheads added a great crunch and brightness to an already delicious dish.
What you can also see in the photo is the addition of edible flowers like nasturtiums and lavender. While the flowers don’t exactly add a punch of flavor, they do make the dish look just a little prettier—an impressive touch if you’re throwing a dinner party.
All in all, this dish is a delicious and healthy celebration of spring. What’s your favorite dish that incorporates seasonal spring veggies?
-Mary Elizabeth Hurn, associate editor
Categories:
Food
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Ok, all you Online and eTools subscribers, we need your opinions. Do you use the weightwatchers.com site search (where you search everything on the site, not just in the tracker)? (Have we lost you already? Hope not – we are talking about the little barin the upper right hand corner that says “I’m looking for…” and has a magnifying glass in a green button right next to it.)
Anyway, when you search, what are you looking for, exactly? We made a list of different searchable topics/info below – tell us which you search for, and then be honest: tell us what you love and what frustrates the heck out of you when you search on WeightWatchers.com. (We promise we won’t get insulted.)
a) Info on what a specific Weight Watchers term or concept means
b) Info on how many PointsPlus Values are in a specific food or drink
c) New ideas for what to eat
d) New ideas for activity
e) Recipes
f) Planning what to eat for a specific occasion
g) Planning what to eat at a specific restaurant
h) Planning what to eat at a specific cuisine of restaurant
i) Planning what to eat at any restaurant
j) Finding a page I’d seen before but didn’t know how to get back to
k) New ideas for family/healthy living/travel/etc
The Weight Watchers Team
Categories:
General
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Finding gifts for Mother’s Day can be tricky—especially for food lovers trying to stay healthy.
One of our favorite new gadgets is the Click and Grow. It’s an easy way to grow basil, chili peppers, and even tomatoes right in your kitchen. With a little water and a lot of sunlight, you’ll begin to see sprouts in about 10 days. A mess-free mini-garden is perfect for the home chef. $79
Here are some of other great gift ideas:
A chic electric pepper mill from Joseph Joseph. $45
An adorable macaron-shaped trinket box for jewelry or vitamins. $10
A bowtie-, fusilli-, or penne-shaped necklace for the pasta lover. $18
Extra points for using the word “Emeril”? Yes, please. Enter Scrabble: Cooking Edition. $25
Spice up mom’s fridge with Magnetic Poetry for Foodies. $13
What healthy gifts are you getting mom this year?
-Mary Elizabeth Hurn, associate editor
Categories:
Family
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Weight loss isn’t easy, but then you get those flashed, those “a-ha!” moments when something just seems to click, when Weight Watchers suddenly makes perfect sense. You know what we’re talking about, right? Maybe it’s that you suddenly ate something that made you realize that vegetables tasted better than you thought. Or you discovered that exercise wasn’t your biggest enemy. Or even that eating breakfast made all the difference to how you felt all day. We want to hear those stories! We’d love to know: What was it that you learned about Weight Watchers or about yourself that clicked? What was so enlightening about it?
We appreciate you sharing with us and with the rest of the Community. It’s great to share stories and inspiration. We can’t wait to hear them!
The Weight Watchers Team
Categories:
My weight loss
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Spring is in full swing, so it’s time to take part in Weight Watchers® Live Life Active. This year, it doesn’t matter if you walk, jog, hula hoop, swim with the dolphins, or just play with your kids, we just want you to move! Even if you don’t see yourself as an active person, this promotion is still for you — it may even be the inspiration you have been looking for, so get started!
Want more details? Through June 1st we’re encouraging all Weight Watchers eTool users and subscribers to get active in any way that excites you. We want you to track your activity to unlock exclusive content to keep you motivated!
Check out the Live Life Active site where eTools and Online subscribers can discover your “Activity Personality” by completing the Activity Profile.You’ll get suggestions for activities that you might like to try for the first time, training guides for those just starting out, and more advanced workouts for exercise gurus. You can also create your own customized plan.
Get ready for a little healthy competition!
Raise the stakes! Compete with others in the Live Life Active Community Challenge. Track your activity each week, check in to the Challenge and see how you and your Community friends are ranking!
We’re also offering $5* off all Weight Watchers fitness products, including ActiveLink** through June 1!
What are you waiting for? Get up, get moving and have fun!
-The Weight Watchers Team
* While supplies last. Available in meeting rooms or in the Online store. The Online store is only available to Weight Watchers Online Subscribers.
**To purchase and use the ActiveLink monitor, you must be a Weight Watchers meetings member with an active subscription to eTools or an active Weight Watchers Online subscriber. An additional ActiveLink subscription of $5 per month is required, which can be purchased during the activation process and automatically renews each month until you cancel. The ActiveLink Monitor cannot be returned once the package seal is broken. Inside your ActiveLink package, you will find more information on how to activate it. ActiveLink is for your personal non-commercial use only and is not transferable. Further restrictions apply.
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Fitness
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