Healthy Food Chart

Chicken salad is usually full of high fat mayonnaise which makes it not such a good choice for something to eat when you are working on weight loss. Chicken Salad with Couscous though, is a chicken salad that you can…

In yesterday’s article I spoke about how you can incorporate low impact exercises into your program to either give your body a rest from pounding the pavement, hitting the weights, or just give your mind a break from your typical…

Today was a long day but it’s winding down now and I am looking forward to getting some rest. I am hoping that Will sleeps well tonight since he didn’t seem to rest well during the day today. I suppose going on walks in the rain and having to take a trip to the grocery store (I ended up forgetting parsley for the scampi) didn’t help! Since today was busier than I expected it to be, tomorrow I am staying put…especially given the weather forecast of a “wintry mix”. This afternoon I made myself a hot cocoa with steamed milk, but I only drank a small part of it because I had to attend to my little guy and it went cold. I snacked on some whole grain goldfish later in the day because Mike had a basketball game and dinner was going to be late. For supper I made shrimp scampi – a quick & easy dish thanks to the limited number of ingredients. I should have made a salad along with it but there just wasn’t time to. I guess today I got a taste of what some days will be like – I have been spoiled so far because Will has been such an easy baby. I am just going to try to rest up tonight and I’ll wake up tomorrow hoping for a good day like we have been having all along!

This Meal Provides Approximately: Grains = 3 ounces (-whole), Meat & Beans = 3 ounces, Oils = 4 teaspoons, Discretionary Calories = 90 kcals (some butter in the scampi)

My afternoon snack (Goldfish & Cocoa) provided approximately: Grains = 1 ounce (+whole), Milk = 0.5 cup, Discretionary Calories = 15-20 kcals (ovaltine)

Recently a struggling dieter came in. She had been “dieting” off and on for a year on her own and was still struggling with the same 40 pounds she had when she first started. She had some small successes of…