Fun With Food

To whoever is reading this I want to show you something.. To my left, in all of its magnificence, I give you.. the perfectly peeled egg. Notice the shine and the flawlessness of the egg white, the perfect peel, only to be eaten in less than 5 seconds. The wonderful thing about egg whites is that they can take on any flavor that you put on them. If you like hot sauce, its tastes great with hot sauce. If you like to keep things simple, maybe a little salt and pepper, they taste great too. Right now for me, I like to just add a little bit of sea salt. Sea salt is great because it tastes a little saltier than your average kitchen table salt so you don't have to use as much to get the same salty flavor. The main thing you should try to avoid are sauces that are high in calories. You would be surprised how much even something as simple as ketchup can quickly add up to unwanted calories. I find having a few hard boiled eggs ready to go in the fridge make for a good clean quick snack in between meals as they are very low in calories and very little fat. Just boil up a few extra and you have a nice snack to get you through your day.


Up next, you will see my low calorie dinner. Homer is hanging out next to the chicken salad sandwich. I got my glass of water and five freshly peeled hard boiled eggs. Some people have sweet tooth's. I love salty. I don't know about the rest of you but I love having chips with my sandwiches. I know eggs are hardly the same thing as having a nice bag of chips with you but for me since I like to salt my eggs, they serve to fix my salty cravings. That meal all together was 455 calories. The eggs actually take up quite a bit of space in my stomach so it left a nice full feeling even though the calories were on the low side.

Today's Tip of the Day I wanted to share one of my girlfriend's secret weapons for getting rid of sweet food cravings.

TIP OF THE DAY:

For those who love sweets, its hard to cut them completely out of your life when you're going on a diet. Here is a great alternative for those out there who have a sweet tooth and love chocolate. Its called "No Pudge Brownie Mix."

The worst part about diets are you always feel like you don't get to eat the foods you like. Granted these aren't miracle brownies that have special vitamins or supplements that will help you lose weight but they are just about have the calories per serving size of the standard brownie. It comes pre-mixed and all you have to do is add a little bit of non-fat greek yogurt. You still have to account for the calories that you eat when you have these, but it sure makes it a lot easier to get within your target calorie goal with these bad boys.




On your left you see an average nutrition label for your standard brownie. Hopefully, somebody will find this useful.

Today was another rainy day so I didn't hop in the pool. I did however get in an hour's worth of cardio on the elliptical in my apartment complex gym. Its been a while since I've used the elliptical. I wasn't out of breath but it did get challenging at the end when I reached the top of the hill of the workout program. It felt good to use my leg muscles in a different way as well as get the heart pumping in this cold weather. I maybe try my luck at jumping in the pool again tomorrow, I might even go in while its raining but we'll see. In the words of one of my clients, "Wet is wet" so I guess there's no excuse for wimping out on not going for my morning swim. I'll see what happens tomorrow. No promises though.

Well hope everyone liked the post today. Time to sign off. Get your sweat on and happy dieting.

- Joel

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