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Melanie

This is a fabulous low fat recipe courtesy the American Heart Association. Be sure to use FRESH lime … makes all the difference!!

Flank Steak Salad with Sesame-Lime Dressing

Serves 4; 1 1/2 cups salad, 2 ounces steak, and 2 tablespoons dressing per serving. The dressing in this recipe is a fine complement for grilled steak saved from a previous meal.

Salad
3 cups shredded napa cabbage (about 1/2 medium)
2 cups torn mixed salad greens (spring greens preferred)
8-ounce can sliced water chestnuts, rinsed and drained
7-ounce jar pickled baby corn, rinsed and drained
8 grape tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
4 medium green onions (green and white parts), sliced

Dressing
1/4 teaspoon grated lime zest
1/3 cup fresh lime juice
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon plain rice vinegar
2 teaspoons sesame seeds, dry-roasted
Dash of cayenne
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12 ounces grilled flank steak, thinly sliced on the diagonal, warmed if desired
1/4 cup slivered almonds, dry-roasted

In a large bowl, toss together the salad ingredients.
In a small bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients. Pour over the salad. Toss gently. To assemble, put the salad on plates. Arrange the steak slices over the salad. Sprinkle with the almonds.

Nutrition Analysis (per serving)
Calories 271
Total Fat 9.5 g
Saturated 2.5 g
Polyunsaturated 1.5 g
Monounsaturated 4.5 g
Cholesterol 33 mg
Sodium 170 mg
Carbohydrates 26 g
Fiber 6 g
Sugar 16 g
Protein 22 g
Dietary Exchanges
3 vegetable
1/2 other carbohydrate
2 1/2 lean meat
1/2 fat

This recipe is reprinted with permission from the American Heart Association No-Fad Diet: A Personal Plan for Healthy Weight Loss, Copyright © 2005 by the American Heart Association. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc. Available from booksellers everywhere.

Here is a great low-fat salad recipe from the American Heart Association … enjoy! If you can only find the marinated artichoke hearts, use them but be sure to rince off all the oil!

Tomato-Artichoke Toss

Serves 6; 1/2 cup per serving
A sprinkling of crumbled feta tops this mix of fresh spinach, sweet grape tomatoes, artichokes,
and basil.
7 ounces grape tomatoes, halved (about 1 1/2 cups)
1 ounce fresh spinach leaves, coarsely chopped (about 1 cup)
1/2 14-ounce can quartered artichoke hearts, rinsed, drained, and coarsely chopped
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves (about 1/3 ounce)
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
1 ounce fat-free or reduced-fat feta cheese, rinsed and drained, crumbled.

In a large bowl, toss together all the ingredients except the feta. Sprinkle with the feta.

Nutrition Analysis (per serving)
Calories 30
Total Fat 0.0 g
Saturated 0.0 g
Polyunsaturated 0.0 g
Monounsaturated 0.0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 233 mg
Carbohydrates 6 g
Fiber 1 g
Sugars 3 g
Protein 2 g
Calcium 12 mg
Potassium 122 mg
Dietary Exchanges
1 vegetable

This recipe is reprinted with permission from the American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook, Third
Edition, Copyright © 2006 by the American Heart Association. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a
division of Random House, Inc. Available from booksellers everywhere.

The Thin Book : Hypnotherapy Trance Scripts for Weight Management (Book and Cassette)

This is an excellent book for those wanting to use self-hypnosis to lose weight.

Each chapter focuses on a separate weight loss issue which may have prevented you from achieving successful weight loss in the past.

The author provices some useful tools and suggestions for behavior changes and provide comprehensive hypnotic trance scripts.

If you are a “do it yourselfer” you should get this book. It is filled with hypnotherapy scripts you can use as is, or modify for yourself. All you need is a way to record either tapes, or cd’s or sound files.

Melanie

Here is a great stomach warming, comfort food that is totally satisfying inspite of it low fatness!

I was going to save it until the raspberry and peach season, but then realized that frozen raspberries and peaches are available year round!

Peach-Raspberry Cobbler

Serves 8
Cobblers get their names from the cobbled or bumpy appearance of the biscuitlike topping that bakes on a bubbly fruit filling. Serve this one warm on its own or with a scoop of fat-free or lowfat vanilla frozen yogurt or ice milk.

Topping
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup whole-wheat flour
2 tablespoons light brown sugar
1 tablespoon wheat germ
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons light stick margarine

Filling
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
3 cups fresh or frozen unsweetened sliced peaches or nectarines
3 cups fresh or frozen raspberries
3 tablespoons water
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Egg substitute equivalent to 1 egg, or 1 egg
2 tablespoons fat-free milk
Preheat the oven to 400°F.

In a medium bowl, stir together all the topping ingredients except the margarine. Using a pastry blender, cut in the margarine until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the center. Set aside. For the filling, in a small bowl, stir together the sugar, 2 tablespoons allpurpose flour, and ginger.

In a large saucepan, bring the peaches, raspberries, and water to a boil over high heat (it’s not necessary to thaw frozen fruit). Reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for 5 minutes, or until soft, stirring often.

Stir in the flour-ginger mixture. Cook until thickened and bubbly, stirring constantly. Reduce the heat; keep the filling hot. In a small bowl, stir together the egg substitute and milk. Using a fork, stir into the topping mixture just until moistened. Pour the hot filling into an ungreased 1 1/2-quart baking pan. Immediately spoon the topping in small mounds onto the hot filling. Bake, uncovered, for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into one of the biscuit mounds comes out clean. Serve warm.

Nutrition Analysis (per serving)
Calories 172
Total Fat 2.0 g
Saturated Fat 0.5 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.5 g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.5 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 99 mg
Carbohydrates 38 g
Fiber 5 g
Protein 3 g

This recipe is reprinted with permission from the American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook, Third Edition, Copyright © 2005 by the American Heart Association. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc. Available from booksellers everywhere.

I get asked this question a lot.

First, I need to talk about WHERE to listen to your tapes, CD’s or downloads … sitting in a comfortable chair, lying down on a bed or any place else it is safe to go from a trance state into sleep. I listen to my hypnosis CD’s while walking on a treadmill. It is true I don’t go very far into a trance state because I am not fully relaxed, but I do go in far enough to make a difference. I would NEVER do this outside where I would have to pay attention to my surroundings.

NEVER, EVER listen to a hypnosis tape while driving a car, operating machinery, sitting in water or while cooking.

How Often Should I listen to the hypnosis programs.

Hypnosis creates change in several ways:

You will see IMMEDIATE effects … first of all in your level of relaxation and the feeling of freshness and well-being.

The second way way hypnosis creates change is in the background or “generative effect.” The generative effect is the changes in your feelings and attitudes, your capabilities, habitual behaviors and motivation. These changes take place over time as a result of the sessions. The generative effects are the ones that last. They take time for the mind to accept the, to take effect and to integrate within the mind-body environment.

Listen to a new recording for two or three days (or sessions) in a row … then reinforce the information on the recording once or twice a week. If a program becomes annoying, ineffective or for some other reason isn’t a positive experience, stop using it for a short time period before trying again. Your mind is very wise, and when you don’t need the reinforcement any longer, you will either see the results happening or your mind will let you know you need a break!

If you are creating a hypnosis program for weight loss you might want to listen to six different programs a week (give yourself one day of rest). For example, you could do a generalized “motivation” program as well as specific programs for various habits such as chocolate cravings, binge eating, fast food, and one or two “I want to exercise” programs. Listen to your programs for a month and then give yourself a few weeks off and then listen to them again for two weeks and give yourself another break.

You have accumulated bad eating and resistance to exercising habits over a life-time so be patient and give yourself the gift of creating new habits that will lead to the slim, trim and maybe even downright skinny and healthy body you’ve always wanted.

Melanie

Hypnosis tapes can be a dramatic and powerful way for us to trance-form our lives in new and better directions.

Your unconscious mind can NOT process negatives. (Yes, I AM using negatives … because your conscious mind can process what I am saying.)

Have you ever told a child “don’t slam the door” and … they slam it?

Have you ever told yourself “don’t forget to do xxx” and … you forget to do it?

In the 1950’s and 60’s industrial plants concerned with worker safety used to hang up posters declaring things like “don’t slip.” They’d show a guy slipping on some grease and put a big red X through it. It took years for someone to figure out that wherever they hung the posters, the incidents of the EXACT accident shown on the poster increased significantly.

Why? Because your unconscious mind only processes “slam the door” “forget to xxx” and “slip”!

In hypnosis, you need to be very careful what you tell your unconscrious mind. Giving yourself instructions to “don’t eat chocolate” will only increase your need to have chocolate, right now! You are basically hypnotizing yourself to want chocolate!

You MUST focus on the positive aspect of whatever it is you want to do. “I choose to eat fruit whenever I feel a craving for chocolate.” When working on my own chocolate craving I would constantly say to myself … “just ONE piece of chocolate is perfect, I love the way it feels in my mouth, I love the way it tastes, and just ONE piece totally satisfies me.”

If you want to exercise more create feelings that you want to have in regards to exercise. Get specific. For example.
“I LOVE to get out and walk for 30 minutes first thing in the morning” is much more effective than “I exercise daily.”

Here are examples of positive statements you can use:

Feel free to add some of your own positive statements into the comments section. I’ll help you out if you are having problems!

Melanie