weightfighter

Over the last four or so weeks, while I was not bad, I felt as though I fell off of my good progress session. I slowed down on the weight loss significantly, had to stop taking the appetite suppressant, and could not exercise because when I did, I would get dizzy from my blood pressure. But - that seems to to be fixed.  Yay! While I am not taking the appetite suppressant, I have been able to get back into water aerobics (even though, there are slight issues with that that are being taken care of). I am also more in control of my eating then I was before. So, I am excited as I enter what I am now calling my second phase of diet.

In other information, I was looking for a recipe for low calorie squash soup and found an interesting site. The site, http://www.drgourmet.com/index.shtml , allows you to sign up for free and include/exclude different diet styles, methods, foods, etc.. Then the site provides a menu planner. While I do not plan on using each recipe, it is a good resource for different foods, recipes, options over all.

Happy Eating!

Well, tomorrow is my two month check up since starting this program, keep your fingers crossed. At my one month check up I was at 253, last weight check at the gym was 248… so we shall see.

While I have been away handling the family stuff, I have found some fairly decent websites. The website listed below has a wide variety of recipes that are supposed to be low calorie, but heart healthy. It organizes it through prep time. I have not had a chance to try them, but as I do, I will let you all know.

http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/healthieryou/html/recipes.html

I was doing some research and found this on WebMD. They provide some easy methods for watching portions and sizing the portions up. Also, they have a full size and wallet size print out so you can put one on the refridge and one in your wallet.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthtool-portion-size-plate

I posted this in the challenge forum, but I know some of you all do not look at the forums so I thought I would post these two recipes here. I really liked them and they are not hard at all. The chicken recipe is excellent if you are looking for quick meals.

So I have reached one of my goals this week - I tried two recipes. One was a Grilled Orange Glazed chicken and one was a Frozen peach yogurt. The chicken recipe is 174 calories a serving (about 4 ounces) and can be found through this link (I left out the oil):
Grilled Orange Chicken Fingers - Eating Well

The second recipe was for frozen berry yogurt from Healthy Recipes, Healthy Eating, Healthy Cooking - Eating Well, but my husband does not eat raspberries so I substituted with peaches. Also, I substituted regular yogurt with greek yogurt and reduced the sugar from 1/3 cup to 1/4 cup. Because of the changes, I ran the recipe through a recipe analyzer on nutritiondata.com. The link below is for that recipe:
Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Frozen Peach Yogurt

Knowing that I was going to the amusement park, I wanted to know about how far one walks at this park. In my quest for information I found an interesting feature from Google:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

Through this feature, you can map out where you walk. While it is not 100% accurate, it provides a close reference. I was able to pull the satelite image of the park and map out the areas I usually visit with “stright lines” and it calculated the miles.