Play the Food VS Food

It can be difficult when you go out for lunch or a snack to a fast restaurant. Let play a game and see if you can choose the right choice.

Sesame Bagel with 2 Tbsp. Cream Cheese VS 2 Egg McMuffins.

Glazed Doughnut VS Old-fashioned Cake Doughnut.

McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese VS Burger King Whopper with Cheese
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Results:
1. Two Egg McMuffins has more protein and less fat and calories than the bagel.
2. Glazed Doughnut is 3X less fat and 2X less calories than the old-fashioned doughnut.
3. McDonald's Quarker Pounder with cheese wins with the half the fat and 300 fewer calories.

Broccoli Cheese Soup

1 cup skim or lowfat milk, steaming
1/3 cup lowfat cheddar cheese
1 cup broccoli, steamed
1/4 cup onions
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon chicken or vegetable bouillon, soup base

Place all ingredients in a high speed blender or food processor. (Have your milk steaming and your broccoli cooked. Cut up your cheese and onion and put in your cornstarch and soup base of your choice.) Have some crackers with it. This is a perfect meal when its cold and you want something healthy and tasty.

(High speed blenders - go to speed 1 (15 seconds) and slowly increase speed to 10 and run it for 1-2 minutes.)

Women Health Website

Women's Health is a great website on step by step exercises. They have wonderful articles on weight loss, health, sex relationship, beauty, life and nutrition. Check it out for your self. Also, they have a free newsletter you can sign up for weekly articles and fitness.

Temptation in the Work place

Today, at work, someone brought in Wedding cookies, from pastry with icing to finger sugar lady-locks to brownie bars to chocolate candy. I don't know about you, but cookies/bars are my best nibbling snack friends. I love to have cookies with my hot tea in the morning, it's so gooood. But I have to be proud of myself, I didn't have one cookie or bar. Yeah! I mostly, just stayed out of the kitchen.

Temptation in the work place is are to over come the snacking. Try to fill yourself with tea or water. Have your green tea or black tea to kill your appetite. Have a piece of sugar-free gum, something to chew in your mouth. Or even have those 100 calories bars (Hershey's or Kraft).

Most of all, stay out of the kitchen. If you have to go in there like get water or you lunch from the ice box, just focus on one thing by getting you item. DO NOT browse around and start looking what in the venting machine or on the table for the donuts. FOCUS and GET OUT.

Cool Ad

This ad is a creative advertising of fitness company that I want to share with you, all. Makes you think. It has a saying at the bottom of the ad, "Everytime you want to put something in your mouth—think twice."

Break

I have been very tried, lately with work and life, itself. Last week, I worked a 10 hour shift and there was no lunch break or time to breath. I was lucky to get a chance to go to the bathroom. Everyone get those days at work when it comes to deadlines or even life with go shopping and getting chores done. Your head want to explode with all the pressure. Your body get so exhausted and leak that you just want to take a break of all duties. And that what I did. I put the scale, workout dvds, calories book and even the sports bra away for one week (well, maybe a week and half).

I felt awful later because I went on the scale and saw that I gained 5 lbs. I don't feel good about it but I do feel a little better with less stress. I believe, it's OK to take a break to release the stress of pressure. Like doctors says, stress does gain weight.

So, beside relaxing and doing nothing, I got a canvas and painted my stress and went wild and crazy on it. I have not painted for more over 10 years and it was a mess but fun to do. I call it 'Night Eclips'. It look better when its in the dark with candles are lit.

So, what I am saying, it is good to take a break from dieting to release your anger and stress from your body. Do something fun, something you always want to do, will be a good start to go back and face your problems and aggression.

WomenHeart's Cookbook

It's hard to find a book that explain about food that are health and then have recipes to make. Well, no more looking. The title of this book, explain it all. Heart healthy cooking recipes that it explains a healthy way of eating. First, it explains about 40 heart-y foods to keep your heart healthy. Then, it has wonderful recipes of these foods to make into tasty meals. You will feel guilt-free in giving and making these recipe to your family and yourself. It is a better way to learn to stay healthy. Read the reviews by other people who tried these recipes on amazon.com.

Carrots

What's up, doc? Not all vegetable are for the rabbit. Carrots are the top of the list of vegetables. They are a great source of Vitamin A for our eyes, arteries to our liver. Eating carrots increases the levels of red blood cells and protect against radiation. And one more thing about carrot, they are the source of protection against CANCER.

Cooking carrots is a great side dish for your vegetable and a wonder snack. You can make puree of carrot to juice them and making pancakes. Also, you can eat the leaves on the carrots. It might be bitter tasting but the nutrition out of it, is better than the carrot itself. So, put some in you salad or your juice making.

Cancer, Circulatory, Digestive, Respiratory

Jennie-O Turkey

Oh me, Oh my, Turkey. I love turkey. Turkey sausage, sweet and hot. Ground turkey patties, making meat loaf, and taco. You can even put in your chilly and lasagna. If you don't know how to make these wonderful dishes, go to Jennie-O. They have there great recipes in the making of healthy delicious meals for you and your family. They do have a download (pdf ) of their recipes. Check it out for yourself and your health.

If you don't have acrobat reader program, please go to adobe. It is free.

Happy V-day

Though it is Valentine's day, today, still think out your heart. Have a fruit dessert rather than the creamy cheese cake. Have small amount of chocolate, it's better to drag your chocolate rather than eating half the box (less calories). Workout with your soul mate by walking in the city street and window shop. Also, you can enjoy a drink to two to celebrate your love by sipping wine during your meal, so your stomach will be fill faster.

You can still enjoy V-day by thinking of your soul mate health.