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Chicken & Greens
2 chicken breast 2 cups bok choy 1 tbsp Sesame oil 2/3 cup low sodium chicken broth 3 cups spinach, lightly packed 2 tsp. cornstarch 2 tsp. bottled garlic 1 tsp. ground ginger Slice bok choy into 1 inch pieces. Cut chicken into bite size strips. In a bowl stir cornstarch into chicken broth until dissolved. Add garlic &…
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Low Fat & Low Sodium Lunches???? HELP!
Hi Everyone I went to my Dr. today for a full checkup and he gave me a big pat on the back for my 30 lb weight loss. But my blood pressure was up and when he went through my reports from MFP he noticed my sodium way too high. He told me to keep my sodium level under 1000 mg a day. :sad: Looking back over my meals I saw…
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Pea & Bacon Salad
If you love garlic, this is absolutely delicious 1 kg package frozen peas, defrosted 1/4 onion finely diced 3 big cloves garlic through a press 1/2 lb bacon cut in small pieces and fried, drained 4tbsp real mayonaise, lite 4tbsp sour cream, lite Don't cook the peas, just defrost. Add onion, minced garlic and bacon Mix the…
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Pineapple Sour Cream Dessert
1 small pkg. vanilla instant pudding mix (fat free, sugar free) 1 cup sour cream (low fat) 1 can crushed pineapple (not drained) 2 tbsp. Cool Whip free for garnish per serving Whip first 3 ingrediants in a bowl till smooth. Divide into 5 dessert dishes. Chill at least 2 hours. Garnish with Cool whip free before serving…
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Low Fat Cheesecake Bites
1 cup 1% light cottage cheese 3 tbsp Splenda baking sweetener 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp lemon zest 1/2 tsp vanilla 6 graham wafers, broken into 4 pieces each whole small berries, or sliced strawberries for garnish (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries) Directions 1. Add all the ingrediants, except for graham wafers or…
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Spaghetti Squash Premavera
Spaghetti Squash Premavera 55 Minutes to Prepare and Cook Ingredients 2 cup spaghetti squash, (one whole squash) 3 spears broccoli, fresh, (about 5" long) cut in bite size pieces 1 slice onion, raw, large (1/4" thick) chopped 3 cloves garlic, chopped 1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in half 3/4 cup snap peas 2 medium…
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Crustless Pumpkin Pie
1 C Fat Free Cottage Cheese, blended smooth 1 can Pumpkin 7 Egg Whites 11 T Splenda Pumpkin Pie Spice Directions Set oven temp to 425 along with spraying a pie pan Blend cottage cheese till it's creamy, take cottage cheese and pumpkin mix and mix it together with about 4 tbs of the splenda. Add all the pumpkin spice to…
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Garlic Shrimp & mushrooms
Garlic Shrimp & Mushrooms 20 Minutes to Prepare and Cook Ingredients 18 med shrimp, peeled 1 garlic clove, minced 7 fresh mushrooms (cut in half) 1/2 tsp. sesame oil Directions Saute garlic & mushrooms in the sesame oil, add the shrimp (about 18 med) and saute till shrimp is done. (1 serving) Number of Servings: 1 I love…
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ALMONDS WILL HELP HIGH CHLORESTERAL
My girlfriend swears she bettered her cholesteral numbers by eating 25 almonds a day. I found some sites on the web that verify this. Has anyone elsed helped their counts by eating almonds? Here are some sites on the web that talk about this: http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng. asp?id=36066-almonds-lower-cholesterol…
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POLE TREKKING OR WALKING increases calorie burn
Last year when I was working on my weight, I discovered pole walking. I just love it! Somehow it makes walking so much easier and lo & behold the twisting action with the poles slimmed down my waist area quickly. Every site I've checked on pole walking states you lose 20% more (some say as high as 44%) by using poles. Plus…
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What do you eat for lunch in a restaurant?
Yesterday we went out for lunch. I really had a hard time trying to figure what there was on my diet. I ended up having a steak sandwich (it had 1 slice of garlic bread), switched the fries for salad and because they had no lo-cal dressing used the juice of 1 lemon wedge on it. I asked the waitress how big the steak was,…
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MFP members Close to My Age & <50 lbs to Lose
Hi... I'm not discriminating. Just think that those my age will have the same age related problems that they may already have solutions to. I would love to read the successes of those that had great amounts to lose.... to motivate me. Though losing weight at any ages is hard, but I believe it's gotten much harder for me…
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Hello from Canada
Hi everyone! I'm newbie also. I decided I needed to make a food journal to prove to my Dr. I am working at losing weight, and found this wonderful site. I spent all day yesterday trying different food journal sites, but either they were too had to use or too expensive. When I discovered this one I was extatic....it's great…
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Looking for MFP members my age group & having <50 lbs to lo
Hi... I'm not discriminating. Just think that those my age will have the same menopausal problems that they may already have solutions to. I would love to read the successes of those that had great amounts to lose.... to motivate me. Though losing weight at any ages is hard, but I believe it's gotten much harder for me…
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"I CAN MAKE YOU THIN" by Paul McKenna
Last week Sunday TLC had the first of 6 weeks of a weight loss program by Paul McKenna called "I can make you thin". I watched this and decided that he made sense. This motivated me to start working on my weight again. Last weeks program said: 1.Eat whenever you are hungry 2.Eat only what you want, never what you think you…
