Linda posted this Great 'taco dip' recipe in a comment. I copied it to it's own page to make it easier to find and so I can link to it from the recipe page:
  1. Brown 1 pound of hamburger.
  2. Drain and rinse with hot water.
  3. Put back in frying pan.
  4. Add 1 package of taco seasoning mix* with the amount of water the package suggests and then cook for a few more minute. (Yes, taco seasoning mix is on program)
  5. Put in a 8x8 square pan.
  6. Put a thin layer of sour cream* on top.
  7. Then add a thin layer of salsa.
  8. Then a small amount of taco cheese mix on top.
  9. Bake in oven until hot.
Yummy...this is what I'm having for dinner tomorrow night! I'm going to pick up a few ingredients that I don't have at home and I'll spoon the dip on top of mixed greens, tomatoes, onions, and black olives. I'll add a photo to this page after I make it.

Thanks Linda!

03/04/12 Update
Here's a photo my variation of this recipe, which I topped with chopped olives.
Taco Dip. Photo by Theresa
01/05/14 update
*Always go by what you heard directly from Julie when in doubt about an ingredient, or call the office. Here are two comments about ingredients in this recipe:

Taco seasoning mix - Linda called Julie's office and asked about the taco seasoning mix and was told yes we can have it.

Sour cream - It is my understanding that we can use sour cream.
February 15, 2012
Sometimes I feel like I'm on a merry-go-round; I'm so bored of eating the same foods again and again. This feeling comes and goes, but when it's here, I feel like I can't get off the carousel.
Photo by Theresa
Anonymous recently posted that they have trouble coming up with what to eat. There are times that I have this problem too. I think it happens, for me, when I'm bored with my food and I'm not having enough variety. This boredom was the case for me before I was on the program, so imagine it will be something I'll encounter many times again.
I'm working on a post about what I eat, by looking at what's inside my refrigerator. I hope to have that piece up by the end of this week. Meanwhile, here's a quick list of some of the things I eat:

Protein
  • meatloaf
  • chicken (hot, cold, with sauce, made into chicken salad)
  • hamburgers with grilled onions
  • Filet Mignon Roast
  • pork chops
  • sausage patties and links
  • ham by the slice
  • ham and pickle salad (from the deli, still working on perfecting my home made version)
  • spare ribs (generally I eat them out, but have Trader Joe's ribs in the freezer)
  • Teriyaki (beef or chicken)
Veggies eaten with protein
  • roasted butternut squash
  • corn
  • cauliflower
  • coleslaw
  • cucumber and dill with onion (from the deli)
  • peas
  • celery
What about the rest of you - what does your list of favorites look like? What do you do when you're bored with your foods?

BTW, do any of you remember if yogurt and cottage cheese are considered protein or if we need to eat them with protein?

Also, see my What's for Breakfast? post from Nov. 14, 2011 and the list of links to a handful of recipes.

Beans

Anonymous also asked if we are allowed beans. No beans while we're in the weight loss phase. I sometimes get three bean salad at the deli and I pick out the kidney beans before I start eating. I never would have thought I'd miss eating kidney beans! When we reach our goal weight, we can eat anything we want by keeping things balanced; i.e., maintaining our weight.

February 15, 2012
I created this blog as a way to interact with others who are following the Key Hypnosis weight loss program and the contributions have been greatly rewarding. Without the rest of you participating, this would be a lonely blog.

A few months after I started this program, I was visiting my friends in California and they asked me what diet I was on. My reply was this: "If I look different the next time you see me, ask me what I did." Trying to explain to others what I was doing felt too personal and it sounded like hocus-pocus. I couldn't find the words to explain the changes that were happening.

Truthfully, after my first session, I wasn't sure what I'd gotten myself into. Within a week I realized that, for the first time in my life, it was easy for me to follow a weight loss program. I felt incredible. I was energized. A year after later, I dropped from a size 30/32 to a size 22. Today I'm a size 14/16, which this is not my goal size, but I'm determined to reach my goal.

When you start the program, take a lot of photos. Sometimes we can't see the changes ourselves, so those photos will serve as a great reminder of how far you've come on your journey. This is especially true if you hit a plateau, and one day you may want to share your story on this blog and it would be wonderful to see your progress from the start to the end of your journey.

When I began this blog in September 2011, I wrote What's this Blog All About, but that post doesn't answer specific questions about the program. I don't work for Julie and I'm not qualified to explain the program, so if you have questions about this program, please call the office. 

The content on this blog is the opinions of the contributors and followers of this blog and are not official statements from the Key Hypnosis Program, Julie Kibe, or her staff. 
February 14, 2012
Ok, I have to say this, I am Totally amazed at how this plan works. I mean totally amazed!!

I started on October 24th in a size 24 skirt, as of this weekend, I am fitting into size
18's! I am flabbergasted to be honest. That is just 15 weeks!! This doesn't even make sense. When I lost alot of weight with weigh watchers, it took me a year to go from a 24 to an 18, literally 1 year! and I suffered and was miserable the whole time. plus I was HUNGRY!!! AND it sure didn't take me 1 year to gain it all back!!!!!

I am also a bit overwhelmed. I feel like a celebrity. I have lost weight before and have gotten compliments and people noticing, but not like this. I can not explain, but I have never in my life received SO MANY comments and some from people who would never notice anything. I have not told anyone that I was starting another program as I failed at so many before. But now I have people calling me and emailing me and asking me all about it. This is overwhelming for someone who likes to blend into the woodwork and not be noticed.

To be able to say to someone that I am loosing weight "so effortlessly" is amazing! I have never followed anything so easy in my life!

If you are waiting for an appointment, dont give up!!! It will be so worth the wait!!!

Someone commented that I was literally melting before their eyes, you know something, I almost feel like I am! LOL
February 09, 2012
In the group sessions with Julie, she asks each of us "what size do you want to be?" The answer to that question helps us to visualize how we want to look when we reach our ideal size. The Key Hypnosis program isn't about numbers on the scale, it's about reaching our ideal size.
In the Garden, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1892-94
Photo by Theresa, at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
In a recent comment, Anonymous wrote that she was not able to visualize the size she wants to be. You are not alone in feeling this way. I've heard this from others and I too had a hard time with a definitive number.

In my first Key Hypnosis session, sitting in my size 32's in the chair next to Julie, she turned to me and said "Tell me how you heard about us, what size you want to be, and how much weight do you want to lose."

Since it was my first session and I was the first in the circle to speak, both questions came as a surprise to me. I took a deep breathe, and replied "I want to be a size 9/10 and I want to lose a 150 pounds".

The first part was easy to answer. I visualized my younger self in a sleeveless summer dress that I loved and it was a size 9/10. That answer came quickly. The second part was not so easy. It was painful to say in a room full of strangers. My first thought was to say "I want to lose 80 or 100 pounds", because I was embarrassed to admit how much weight I had to lose. Hello - have you looked in the mirror lately? My second thought was that if there was a place to be completely honest, this was the place. I wanted to be brutally honest because I wanted to be successful. It's still painful to say how much weight I want to lose, but not knowing how much I've lost comes in  handy when people ask how much weight I've lost. Since we don't weigh ourselves, I tell them how many sizes I've gone down.

I recently discovered 9/10 is a junior size and not a size I'll likely be wearing as an adult. What's important here is that I can visualize myself much smaller. When I realized I needed a new number, I started to say "I want to be a size 8 or 10". Today, a year later, sitting in my size 22's at my home computer, I am clear that I want to be a size 8.

Sometimes I get caught up in the numbers. There are times when I'm frustrated that by now I'm not in size 14's and by the fact that I have a long ways to go to size 8 or to lose 150 pounds. These kind of thoughts are obstacles between what I've done and what I want to achieve. Obstacles I can't afford to carry.

Then there are moments that help keep me on program. Such as the realization I had yesterday. I was in a crowd and I realized I no longer feel like a freak because of my body size; I blend in with the crowd. There are other moments too: like fitting into clothes I haven't worn in 15 years, feeling comfortable in my skin, having energy and flexibility I haven't had in decades, and being a runner once again.  It's great to have my doctor happy with my weight, this hasn't happened ever. Just to name a few.

One thing I know for sure, and Linda wrote about this in her recent  FYI post, the I last time wore size 22, I was not as curvaceous as I am today. Today I have a waist! When I'm a size 8, I may weigh more than the 142 pounds I was in my size 9/10 sleeveless summer dress. Hey, if I'm a size 8, who cares how much I weigh?

As far as visualizing what size we want to be, perhaps we can look for others who physically reflect our ideal size. I haven't done this, but when I read the comment from Anonymous, this was the first thought I had.

What do the rest of you do to help you visualize what size you want to be? What obstacles have you overcome to keep on program or what obstacles haven't you been able to overcome?


 


February 05, 2012
Just want to tell you something. I know some have struggled with not loosing how much weight they think they should have lost or wanted to loose at this point. Whether you have weighed yourself or your doctor gave you a hint, there is some dissapointment in a few of you.

My friend who is following this just by what I have told her, weighs herself each week. An interesting fact has come up. She has gone from a 20 to a 14. But she weighs more now than when she wore a 14, 10 years ago. She lost that weight on WW 10 years ago and naturally put it all back on plus some. Now to be back at a 14 and weighing more, but not starving, well, she is one happy camper!!

I remember Julie talking about this at one class where she had lost weight and had gotten to a size that just didn't match how little she weighed. Now she weighs more than that time but wears a smaller size. I don't remember all the details, maybe someone else does, but it goes to show you that eating this way, our bodies must do so much better than the low cal, low fat, hunger, diet foods, way to eat. If we weigh more eating this way, but our clothes sizes show something all together different, well, BRING ON MORE MEAT I say!!!!!!!!!!
February 04, 2012
Rienzi Breadcrumbs; I also user Progresso.

A great question was posted recently in reply to my meatloaf recipe: are breadcrumbs allowed? 

Yes, breadcrumbs are allowed in foods like meatloaf and meatballs on this program. Foods coated with breadcrumbs are not allowed.

I asked about breadcrumbs in one of my first group sessions after hearing Julie mention then during her talk.  I make meatloaf and meatballs on a regular basis, as they are easy to take to work for lunch.

When I made meatloaf a few days ago, I didn't have ketchup, so before I baked it, I put tomato sauce (Newmans sockarooni) under and on top. It was delicious - even cold.

Another question that I asked in one my first groups was if we can have coleslaw. That answer is yes too. A tall container of coleslaw can run almost $8.00 at the deli, so recently I started making coleslaw. I sometimes buy package coleslaw,  instead of chopping cabbage and carrots, and then add in Marie's coleslaw dressing. My next step is to make it completely from scratch, as it will be fresher, healthier, and cheaper. Anyone have a good recipe for coleslaw dressing?

BTW, I'll run the recipes on this blog by Julie.  I've been sick all month with a wicked cold, so I haven't done this yet. I'll add add a notation to the recipes to indicate they are "Julie approved". If you have recipes you want to share, create a new post and I'll add the approval notation and link to them from the recipes page, after Julie signs off on them.



February 03, 2012
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