Weight Loss for Some Becomes Health Gain for All

I will start our next Real Foodies (Living Lighter and Healthier) series on Thursday, February 7.

We will meet four times: Feb. 7, 14, 21 and 28 from 6:00 - 7:30 PM. The fee for each session is $25, which includes the content of the session, resources and recipes distributed in class or via email, dinner, new friendships and hopefully fun.

Please plan to sign on for the entire series, although you may pay on a per session basis ($25) or for the entire series ($100). If you are required to miss a session, just let me know in advance so I won't set a place for you at the table. You need not pay for that session. If you would like to bring a guest to one or more sessions, please give me a heads-up and add $25 to your payment for that session. I will set another place.

The name Real Foodies indicates a broadening of our purpose: We are focused on how to eat for vibrant health. Weight loss follows for most people fairly naturally.

Eating joyfully is part of great health. It's hard to eat joyfully if you feel as though you are struggling to control yourself or are feeling deprived. We will focus on how to eat to eliminate cravings and feel satisfied based on body chemistry not will power.

Our four sessions are structured as follows:

Week I: BYOP - Build Your Own Palace: Prep for Week II
Week II: The Clean Plate Club - Detox
Week III: What's In, What's Out - Going Forward
Week IV: Your Life on a Plate - How to Eat What You Eat

At each of our four sessions, we will enjoy a delicious (and exemplary) meal together.  Recipes will be provided.

In order to reserve a place for you at our first session, I will need your payment, $25 for that session or $100 for the entire series. Please make your check payable to Expressly Leslie LLC, and drop off or mail to Expressly Leslie, 110 S. Johnson St., Woodstock, IL 60098.

During the series, I will refer to information from two recent books, and we will use some parts of the programs presented in those books: The UltraSimple Diet by Dr. Mark Hyman and Fat Chance by Dr. Robert Lustig. If you would like to have your own copy of either or both of these books, they will be available at Read Between the Lynes. Identify yourself as a participant in the Expressly Leslie Real Foodies Group, and you will receive a 20% discount.

Thank you for your interest, and please let me know of your commitment to the full four weeks via return email.

I hope to hear from all of you and see you at our first session, February 7.