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We went to lunch at a diner type restaurant where they serve breakfast all day long.  It was interesting because their “weight watchin” menu items were: boiled chicken with cottage cheese (yeah, that’s right – boiled!) butt steak with cottage cheese tuna salad with cottage cheese chicken salad with cottage cheese I ended up getting a tossed salad with Greek dressing on the side and...

It still always amazes me the “huge” numbers these people lose in just one week.  Although, I know why.  Let’s take L.T. (Little Tom) for example.  Look at his whole family, parents, sisters and ESPECIALLY his uncles!  That’s the only life he has ever known!  Now let’s say he eats 10,000 calories (or more) per day.  Now he’s on the ranch, is on a 1500...

I have a half day today – meeting my mom for lunch, daughter has half day, and then my quarterly doctor appointment with my endocronologist.  I think he’ll be pleased with my blood sugar numbers! Forgot my camera, so this is taken with my cell phone – not very good! I knew it was bagel day in the office, so I took 1/2 of a...

My daughter doesn’t like meat much at all.  She’ll eat ground beef in tacos, she’ll have a ground beef burger if it is really flat and overcooked.  But I think other than Nana’s chicken (which I have tried to recreate but “it doesn’t taste like Nana’s”), this is probably her favorite chicken dish. I don’t have exact measurements, because I just throw it together.  Mine...

Going through my fridge last night and saw that I had leftover vegetarian refried beans – and what should be right next to that?  Pickled jalapenos,  Mexican cheese and fresh spinach!  And I grabbed a package of frozen taco soup to round it out. 1/2 low carb wrap 1 ounce vegetarian fat free refried beans 1/2 ounce jalapeno 1 ounce Mexican shredded cheese 1/2 ounce...

Tonight marks the season premiere of the next season of Biggest Loser.  I don’t know why I like this show so much, but I do.  I guess it shows that hard work pays off – of course, not everyone can have weight loss as a full time job though! Another chilly morning – 48 degrees!  But beautiful. My daughter made oatmeal again this morning –...

On the menu: Pork chops, garlic mashed potatoes, broccoli au gratin. Broccoli au gratin sauce 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon flour 3/4 cup fat free half and half 2 ounces shredded cheddar cheese Melt butter completely, add flour and stir to combine.  Slowly add half and half until sauce thickens, add cheese and stir until melts.  In three separate ramakins, add cooked chopped broccoli.  This sauce...

I had some leftoever ground sirloin from our tacos last week that I needed to use up, and thought a burger sounded good for lunch.  It was 3 ounces raw, and about 2.5 ounces cooked.  Added 1 ounce sharp cheddar cheese, spinach, pickled jalapenos and lots of mustard (which I LOVE!). My mother-in-law got me this book earlier this summer (and its autographed! – the...

Blue skies and blueberry oatmeal!  Slow drive into work though, with water on parts of the road, but its supposed to be rain free this week! My mom works at her local food pantry and there are some items they get donated that can’t get distributed for whatever reason.  So right now I have about 100 packs of these: It’s nice to add to my...

Since my lunch was huge, I wanted a light dinner.  My grocery store has a $1 rack of food that is really ripe – you never know what will be on there.  This week I got 10 baking potatoes for $1.   After the first try of this potato soup, I had to go back and tweak it – it needed to be thicker and needed...