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It’s funny because I usually don’t have a sweet tooth at all – breakfast included.  But since I’ve made Martha Stewarts buttermilk pancakes, I can’t get enough of them!  I mean come on, two giant pancakes for 181 calories – I am in! So yesterday I decided to enter the recipe again just for the batter.  I decided to ditch the 4 tablespoons of butter...

Over the weekend I found a new to me low carb wrap.  Each one is only 60 calories and 7 grams of fiber. I decided to make an egg beater breakfast wrap:  1/3 cup scrambled egg beaters, half a cup of fresh baby spinacy, 1 slice of buffalo flavored cheese, and strawberries on the side.  Lori, I thought of you when I bought this!’ I...

Chicagoland has had record breaking cold this past weekend, setting records that were more than 30 years old.  Right now, at 7:00 a.m. on Monday morning – it’s only 57 degrees. I actually don’t mind the cool weather at all.  The mosquitos are at bay, the humidity is gone.  Of course, I feel bad for anyone who had an outdoor party this weekend – who...

I am exactly the same weight as I was last week. And while I am a tad disappointed, I have to stop and check myself: I’ve eaten under 1600 calories all week I’ve worked out a minimum of 60 minutes every day except for the rest day I’ve had 80-100 ounces of water a day The big one – no alcohol But, I know I...

My breakfast boss usually isn’t in on Wednesday mornings, but she was coming in early so I made her one of her favorites – breakfast wontons.  She came in, got her coffee, and started to reach into her desk drawer for Kashi Go Lean when I said “I made breakfast wontons!”  She immediately put her cereal back – she didn’t think I would make her...

You can find inspiration at any point in your life.  It could be something you read, or something someone said.  For me it was over the weekend when I watched a documentary on HBO called Little Miss You Can Do It. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1evnLWjTWxI&w=448&h=252&hd=1]   Abbey Curran, from a tiny town in Illinois has cerebral palsy participated and won Miss Iowa and was the first woman with...

Why do weekends have to go by so fast?  Saturday morning I slept in until 9:30, even though we went to bed at 11 Friday night – must have needed my sleep!  I looked on my Insanity schedule and saw that I had the Fit Test again AND Max Interval Circuit – basically an hour and twenty minutes of working out! I actually worked out...

I woke up yesterday with low blood sugar – it was 49.  I immediately grabbed a Nature Valley protein bar and inhaled it – if you’ve ever had low blood sugar before you know you want that feeling to go away as quickly as possible. I was kicking myself afterwards though – I could have had a cup of grapes and it would have done...

I had to laugh at all the comments yesterday about my voice having an accent AND that I sound young – I’ll take the young comment anytime, but I don’t think I have an accent at all – just everyone else in the country.   I promise to have a real VLOG of me up soon! It was a taco kind of day for me. ...

I’ve found out that I really, really have to be in the mood for a breakfast parfait.  I was putting my stuff together yesterday and it was easy to toss in a Chobani, some fruit and granola and call that breakfast. Even though I had plain Chobani, this ended up being really sweet to me – maybe the bananas were too much?   I ended up...