When I first heard about the book, The Biggest Loser Simple Swaps: 100 Easy Changes to Start Living a Healthier Lifestyle, I assumed from the title, that it was mainly about food swaps. Use olive oil instead of butter, or instead of eating a fatty donut, try whole wheat toast. Similar to the “Eat This, [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Ken’s Healthy Options Dressing Contain Omega 3s
Okay, I’ve seen everything now! Salad dressing with Omega 3s!! Come on! Ken’s “Healthy Options” line of dressings contain fish oil so they could market it as containing Omega 3s! How crazy! The dressing contains less than 2% fish oil. It’s just my opinion, but if the fish oil doesn’t affect the taste of the [...]
Egg Whites
I am loving egg whites! I bought a carton of Organic Valley Egg Whites the other day at Whole Foods. Can you believe a 1/4 cup of whites only has 25 calories! Scrambled with a whole egg, it’s under 100 calories with 12 grams of protein. I top with a little bit of shredded cheese; [...]
161.6 – You’re Kidding, Right?
Well, I guess my obsession with the scale is back, or maybe it never left. LOL. I weighed myself yesterday AM and I was 163.4, up a little from Saturday (162.8). This morning I weighed in, and was shocked to see 161.6 on the scale! I don’t know if it’ll be short lived, but it [...]
100% Whole Grain No Knead Bread
Whoo hoo. Made my very first no-knead whole grain bread today. Started it yesterday afternoon around 1pm. Decided to follow the recipe over at GinaDepalma.net – I liked that it wasn’t just whole wheat flour, but also included rye, white, ground flax, & wheat bran (I used wheat germ). I didn’t have any vital wheat [...]
Weigh In – 162.8 – Hurray!
Well I did it. I didn’t weigh myself all week! It was a little difficult initially, but as the week progressed, it wasn’t such a big temptation. Some things to mention. I finally got my period yesterday, after a month and a half (pretty sure I am going through some sort of hormonal pre-menopausal thing) [...]
White Bread is the Devil
So, last night I baked that delicious loaf of white flour bread, and I had 3oz for breakfast topped with a touch of Olivio spread. I scrambled a couple of eggs for protein. By 10:30am (at work), I had a huge empty pit in my stomach; I was starving! I ate some yogurt, and soon [...]
No Knead Bread – My First Loaf
Whoo hoo. My first try at the NY Times (Mark Bittman) No Knead Bread. My Facebook friends were encouraging me to try this simple recipe, so I did a little bit of research online and I found a blog tutorial from Kaitlyn In the Kitchen, which gave me the inspiration and confidence to try it [...]
Cottage Cheese
I have bought just about every brand / type of natural cottage cheese at Whole Foods. First, I was excited to try the Nancy’s brand and I ended up returning it for a refund. It had a terribly sour taste, and I didn’t know if it was spoiled or the way they produced their cottage [...]
I Want to Start Baking My Own Bread
Yeah, I have made a few loaves of bread in the bread machine, but my recipes are boring and the bread machine doesn’t seem to be the best way to bake. I have been talking to other bread baking Facebook friends, and I really would love to bake my own bread, even if I use [...]
