Healthy and Delicious Family Dinners
By Melissa Pheterson
Specialty of the House
What better way to bring everyone together than a stick-to-your-ribs family meal? Luckily, your weight-loss efforts don’t have to put a damper on your dinners. In fact, a healthy-but-hearty spin on the classics can save you prep-time and calories. Read on for easy ways to lighten up family favorites without taking them off the table... because scrambled egg-whites and weak broth do not a special meal make.
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Comments
Date: 01/14/2009 - 02:47 am
when you eat something bad, just do a little more exercise!!! Good luck!
Date: 01/13/2009 - 10:19 pm
i am always going from a low, sort of okay weight, to a high not happy at all weight....i was at 155 and i was so happy, only 15 more pounds to go to my ideal weight!
Then christmas came along.....and oh my gosh, the food and sweets that entered my stomach....i went way up to 175....the horror number, before christmas i was exercising and doing everything perfect....and ofcourse when the holidays roll around you get lazy and want to eat everything you want! So about a week and a half ago, i was at 172 and i've been on my "diet" again....eating very little, apples for snacks and eating breakfast, dinner and a special k bar for dessert.....and in that week and a half i have lost 10 pounds, so now im back down to 162....i really want to get to 140 and stay there!!!!
But it is so hard to lose the weight and maintain that weight for a long time, im like a yo-yo...keep going from good to bad, good to bad and its stressing me out!! I need major help, i just want to stick to my diet and keep losing weight and looking good, and hopefully feel happy about the way i look.
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Date: 01/13/2009 - 09:29 pm
i am trying to redirect my eating habit but sometime Discussed and want to quit but I know I have to keep trying and i hope that you do too! we just have to kkep on trying for oursselves.
Date: 01/12/2009 - 06:55 am
Don't put yourself down! We all have our moments. Just next time, find another alternative to a candy bar. Like a great recipe I found. Peanut butter cups- use reduced fat or sugar free peanut butter mixed with fat free or sugar free cool whip in a bowl. Then take 12 muffin tin lined with muffin liners fill with peanutbutter mixture and then drizzle chocolate syrup either fat free or sugar free on each muffin cup then freeze for about and 1 or 2 hours. While thats freezing get back to work and exercise!! Then enjoy a peanut butter cup without the guilt! (They taste like peanutbutter pie without the crust) Hang in there!!
Date: 01/10/2009 - 12:07 pm
Thanks for the encouragement. I have been on a diet yoyo with no results. it just felt like I was falling again. I certainly hope not,