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Breakfast cookie for those on the go!
My daughter has trouble eating breakfast. So I set out to make a healthy filling breakfast cookie that a 5 yr old would love and could eat on the way to school. Here's my recipe, feel free to sub in other dried fruit, nuts or chocolate chips, it's to her/our tastes :-) It's adapted from a skinnytaste.com recipe. It's 234…
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Blender cleaning
So I've been making smoothies for breakfast some mornings and each day I take it apart and run it through the dishwasher. Do I need to do this everytime? Or can I just blend some soap and water and call it good? It seems wasteful to take up that extra space in the dishwasher if I don't have to.
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Eating at Disney World
So in a week the kids finally get their Christmas present and we take them to Disney! But now I'm worried about food. I've lost 16lbs so far and I don't want to go backward. We have a room with a full kitchen so we plan on doing breakfast there and preparing lots of snacks. And trying to do one meal a day there but we'll…
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Extra weight loss challenges?
How does autism make losing weight difficult for you? My main struggle is when he is home I can't go to the gym. So weekends and no school days, I'm on the wii or videos after bedtime and I lose motivation. And the he loves car rides so we go for a couple hr drive every weekend which leads to snacking. I'm trying to bring…
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Breaking bad habits...
So working on losing weight has had a wonderful side effect...I stopped biting my nails!! I don't know when or how or even why but I realized I really need to trim my nails! Has anyone else broken a bad habit to help with weightloss or as a side effect of it?
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Chili's
It's my uncle's birthday today and we're going out to Chilis. Any ideas what I can order there without salt? I looked at their nutrition info and everything is crazy high for sodium.
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So here is our calorie disconnect....
Okay so here is our disconnect and hopefully those of you that have experienced this can help. Those of us struggling to eat our calories from those that find it easy. If (before) I took my kids to McDonalds and I got a Big Mac, fries and a chocolate shake, I got 1500 calories in one sitting. Nice easy, I could make…
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DVD for bad knees
Any video I try is heavy on lunges and squats :-( Any ideas for one that's not too hard on those knees? THANKS!!
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My Protein intake is high?
I guess the diet foods I like are all high in protein. Do I need to worry? Calories, Carbs, Fat are always under the goals.
