So Much In My Head Today...

I forgot to mention in my January 22nd post, if you are counting your calories for your body weight, don't forget to subtract the calories you burn from a workout or run.  If you are maintaining your weight, you can eat that many more calories, if you are trying to lose weight, you have just burned that many more...so wonderful how that works!

Two super easy ways to lose a bit of body fat (up to 10 pounds!):
     1.  Stop Drinking Soda, including diet soda (that is worse for you than regular!)
          *  If you are drinking soda you are drinking a carbohydrate-filled drink filled with cancer-causing
               ingredients!
     2.  Eliminate cheese from your diet!
           * This is toughest for me to do(!), but it really leans your body out.
               Charleze Theron (sp?) adds cheese to her diet when she needs to gain weight for movies.
               We really don't need cheese, an enzyme in our brain just makes us think we do!

My lunch today:
Chopped Salad
*Heart of Romaine lettuce
* Shredded carrots
*Cucumber
*Red Onion
*Tomato
*Avocado
*Roast turkey
I chopped everything into little cubes and tossed it.  I topped it with a little of Trader's Joe's ranch dressing and a lot of salt and pepper.  Yum, Yum!

Here is a wonderful recipe from a wonderful person.....my dear sister-in-law Tricia:
White Chicken Chili (she brought this to super bowl and shared the recipe with me!)
*White beans
*Shredded chicken
*Canned or fresh green chilies
*Salt and pepper
*Seasonings to taste
Soak your beans for a day and a night,  rinse and put in your crock pot.  Add chicken, these can be raw chicken breasts that you shred after they have cooked, then add the green chilies.  Cover all ingredients with water.  Add seasonings.  Put crock on to cook for the day.  
This is really delicious and low in calories!

I have to go to class now.  Have a beautiful evening!