Claire soup!
Before going to the grocery store this weekend, I thought I would make a batch of soup for my lunches this week. I just put in whatever veggies I had leftover from the week so I wouldn’t have to throw them out. My daughter Claire, …
Month: January 2011
Tortellini Soup
The first time I made this soup was May of 2009! I sometimes forget to go back to recipes I’ve made that are worth making again. This is one of those recipes. I printed out a recipe from Spark People for what I thought was …
Stylish Blogger Award
Two people recently nominated me for the Stylish Blogger Award! I would like to thank my friends Kristi and Christina for nominating me for the Stylish Blogger Award. I am supposed to tell you 7 things you may not know about me, and pass it …
Amazing Chocolate/Banana Oat Jumbo Muffins
Sometimes I surprise myself by making something by just throwing things into a bowl and it coming out not only good, but one of the best muffins I’ve ever made. I think I’ve made about 25 varieties of muffins on here too over the last …
Quinoa feta spinach salad with chicken
I’ve never made this dish before, but I will be making it again. I was thinking about what to make for dinner over the weekend when I knew I wanted to make some type of side dish with quinoa in it. I make a cold …
Spicy Savory Oats
I dressed up my daughter like Randy from a Christmas Story today. The actual temperature is 0 with expected wind chills @ -25 below. Snow pants, snow boots, sweatshirt over shirt, heavy gloves, hat, scarf around her face. We only live a few blocks from …
Red quinoa salad
Happy Thursday! This week is flying by so far! I made the most of yesterday by power walking at lunch for 30 minutes, and then walking home as fast as I could for 30 minutes, so I felt really good about that! AND, another day …
100 days/Salad Club
Have you seen the new MTV series, “I used to be fat”? On the show, they profile kids who have a summer before college, or a summer before starting a new job to get into shape. The trainers they work with, give them a HUGE …
Week 2 weigh in/Thai Chicken Salad
99% of the time I bring my own lunch to work, but yesterday I wasn’t really digging what I brought and I remembered I had a gift card to Panera Bread in my wallet, so I decided on getting that for lunch. It’s about a …
Meet Kelly – 65 pounds lost/Weight Loss Superstar!
I thought it would be nice to start out the New Year with some inspiring stories of people who have done an awesome job losing weight. I’d like you to meet Kelly. She is a Mom of 4, her husband is in the military, and …
Weight Loss – Take it one day at a time
One thing that’s hard when you are trying to lose weight, is wishing time would go by faster. On January 3rd, I started Day One and I’m already on 12! This time around I’m just taking it day to day. Since January 3rd, I’ve entered …
Crock pot pasta sauce
I attempted to make this sauce in the fall. I thought how nice would it be to make pasta sauce in the crock pot, simmering all day, how wonderful it would taste. All I would have to do is just make the pasta when I …
Egg Souffle for one
I’ve actually never made any kind of souffle before, but over the weekend when I went to a luncheon with my Mom, the buffet had one and even though I didn’t put some on my plate, I tasted some off my Moms plate. I loved …
Biggest Loser recap/chocolate/marshmallow dessert
Biggest Loser Recap! I thought it was a really good show tonight, at some point I thought I would need a tissue! I think the highlight of the show was Arthur (the biggest contestant ever on BL) dancing on the scale after losing 13 pounds …
Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Another successful day on my healthy weight loss journey. It’s day 8 already and I did really great eating wise. One thing that I am totally avoiding is food at work. On any given day there are donuts, muffins, candy, etc… and I’ve been able …
Baked Potato Soup/Homemade Salsa
So, my first week of getting back on track and I did way better than I thought I would. I used www.myfitnesspal.com to track all my foods and exercise in. So are you ready? -5.6 pounds! What did I do? *Planned my foods in advance …
Denny’s All American Breakfast re-make – way less calories less than the original!
My HEALTHIER version of Denny’s All American breakfast slam. Just as good, but way less calories and fat!
Creamy Mac & Cheese/Exercise TV
Before I share my creamy macaroni and cheese recipe (which I believe will become a regular in your dinner rotations), I wanted to answer some questions about the exercises I am doing. I can’t believe the weekend is almost here! The week went by so …
Chicken tortilla soup
Sometimes when I go to the store, I don’t actually have a plan of what to make, I just get stuff and will figure it out later. I bought 3 packages of boneless chicken breasts, and I was thinking about what to make, when I …
Breakfast quesadilla
Did anyone watch the new Biggest Loser last night? I thought it was a good one. I didn’t start watching it until late, so I fast forwarded through the workouts, but I like these contestants. There are a few of them who are my favorite …
Billy Blanks/Taebo/Day One Success!
I had a great day yesterday food wise! I planned what I was eating for breakfast and lunch and snacks. I wasn’t hungry at all and….are you ready? I actually broke out a work out CD – Billy Blanks Taebo! I had to start with …
Back to basics….
I, like millions of Americans will be getting back to basics when it comes to weight loss! The Holidays are over, and even though I wanted to do better, I didn’t always make the best choices. Kudos go to my sister Biz who lost weight …