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Hello 2010… With a new year comes new challenges and some of the same old ones… The post today is about changes, more specifically changes in habits.
Recently I found a new website by the author of a blog that I like Zen Habits… this new site is 6 Changes… while the tag line states “It’s the antidote to the failure of New Year’s Resolutions.” I think it is more than that. Continue reading
Update:
Week #1 is over on my new 2 week goals and it went well…
First, I lost 6.2 pounds out of the 16 I am trying to lose in 2 weeks… Continue reading
Tonight we went to my daughter’s dorm room for dinner. It was the first time she has had us over and she cooked for us! I was very touched that she was very concerned with my diet when deciding what to make and adjusted the meal around that… we had chicken tacos and burritos which were very good. Continue reading
Quick Sunday blog question (please comment with your reply) … What do you find the hardest thing to stick with when trying to get fit or lose weight?
Is it eating right, being active, getting enough sleep? Everyone has their difficult habits to break. Continue reading
Today was day 3 of the new goals and so far so good… I have done my cardio each day (going to do my bike right after I post this), have stayed on track with the food and have blogged everyday. The weight is dropping so it is nice to see results… there have been some hard parts… we went out to eat the first night at Outback… I researched the menu before we left and stayed on track… Continue reading
A quick list to adjust and build on…
#10 – Cut Portion sizes:
I can eat huge amounts of food… that doesn’t mean I ‘should’ eat huge amounts of food.
#9 – Track All Food:
Every bite that I take needs to be accounted for on my food chart Continue reading
When it comes to weight loss I have only had one ‘goal’ for the last 14 months.. “Lose weight to my goal weight of 228 pounds”
Great goal right? Wrong. First I neglected one of my favorite sayings.. ‘A goal without a date is just a dream’ (American psychiatrist Milton Hyland Erickson) When do I want to reach this weight? Well tomorrow would be great, but then that would be a fantasy not a dream or a goal… and if I look at what the ‘experts’ say then I am looking at about 16 months (best case scenario of 3 pounds per week, every week) Continue reading
This recipe is for about 2 servings (see note at bottom of recipe)
1 Small Sweet Potato
1 teaspoon Olive Oil
Ground Cayenne Pepper
Garlic Powder
Sea Salt and Pepper to taste
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Preheat oven to 350°. Peel sweet potato and slice in half across the middle (so you now have 2 pieces half a long as the original sweet potato) and then slice each half into 12 wedges. In a bowl place your sweet potato wedges and add olive oil. Mix to coat the wedges. Add Sea Salt, Pepper, Garlic Powder and Cayenne Pepper… mix well to coat all wedges with spices.
Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and spread the wedges into a single layer on the paper.
Bake in oven uncovered for about 20 minutes… turn wedges after 10 minutes and watch that they don’t burn (ovens vary on this) cook until golden brown.
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Our rating from 1 (yuk!) to 10 (I’m really not cheating?): 8
Serving size: 1/2 Sweet Potato
Our estimated exchanges:
3 Starch
1/2 fat
NOTE: The size of Sweet Potatoes varies so much that the exchanges may be way off.. the best way to calculate is 1 starch for 1/3 cup serving. Goes great with a side of Ketchup
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Hi everyone… to those of you that are members of Richard Simmons website, you will understand the title of this post.. if you are not a member, Richard does a Cruise to Lose Cruise every (I think) year.. it is a real cruise and quite a few people go on it.. for those of us that don’t go, there is a cyber cruise on his website… Continue reading
So in looking back at the previous posts I have made I notice a couple of things… first, I tend to post more when I my motivation is high.. and I avoid posting when I fail at a goal…
For example, the April 30 day challenge that I started and was all Gung-Ho on.. for 3 days.. Continue reading