Get serious about weight loss!  Take charge today and make 2009 your best year ever! Use the following tips and strategies for meeting your most important resolutions - whether that means losing weight, living healthy, quit smoking, or kicking stress to the curb.
 
Stronger and Fitter: Schedule your appointment today for personal training sessions with Big Time Results by calling 849-4333. 
Make a Health Habit: We all have habits that keep us from achieving our goals. Replacing bad habits with good ones does not have to be hard.  For your New Year make a list of three things you want to change in order to better life for your enjoyment and health boost.  Remember that having a healthy life is about lifestyle change that you enjoy. 
De-Stress Your Life: When resolutions falter, you can usually blame it on stress.  Discover what is in your life that takes a stressful toll and make your 2009 choice to say goodbye to it or change it for the better.  Stress free is the way to be!
Eat To Your Health: Good food isn’t just about losing weight or doing without. The right food choices offer your body health benefits.
 
Cranberry-Sauced Meatballs:
Makes: 60 meatballs        Prep: 30 minutes           
 
Ingredients:
1 egg
½ cup seasoned dry bread crumbs
½ cup dried cranberries
¼ cup finely chopped onion
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground cloves or allspice
2 pounds uncooked ground chicken or turkey
1 16-oz can jellied cranberry sauce
1 cup bottled barbecue sauce
Nonstick cooking spray
 
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350°F.  In a very large bowl, beat egg with a fork. Stir in bread crumbs, dried cranberries, onion, salt, and cloves or allspice. Add ground chicken or turkey; mix well. Shape into 60 meatballs.
 
2. Lightly coat a 15×10x1-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Place meatballs in pan.
Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until done (165°F).*
 
3. Meanwhile, in a 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker, stir together cranberry sauce and barbecue sauce. Add cooked meatballs, stirring gently to coat. Cover and cook on low-heat setting for 2 to 3 hours or on high-heat setting for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. (Meatballs may be kept warm on low-heat setting for up to 1 hour more.) Serve with toothpicks. 
(Make-Ahead Directions: Prepare meatballs as directed through step 2. Cover and chill for up to 24 hours. Continue as directed in steps 3 and 4, using the maximum timings to bake and to heat in slow cooker.)
 
2009 is Your New Year!  Get on board with the Weight Loss Extravaganza competition today! Call Big Time Results at 849-4333 for competition information and to take your spot in the competition.
 
Sincerely,
 
Maggie