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Food Labels are deceptive. We need to know what we are reading. Let's start with 8 ingredients you should run from if you see them in anything you buy, especially if they are in the top 5 listed. 1. Sugar 2. High Fructose Corn Syrup 3. Enriched Flours (make sure it is 100% whole grain wheat flour, even when baking) 4. Saturated Fat 5. Hydrogenated Oil 6. whole-fat dairy products 7. Mayonnaise 8. Butter and we all know that fried foods are a no no, I know it's yummy, yet not heart healthy. Any of these ingredients will sabotage your Healthy eating habits.

• Quit drinking Soda Pops(yes, diet too) and alcohol.  Start drinking water or tea.  You can flavor the water if you like. This benefits mens health and womens health and will aid in weight loss because carbonation causes blotting and sodas are full of sugars, more than 30 grams of sugar a day weakens our immune system.
• Cut down on your serving sizes. Eat more lean,  don't upsize you meal.  Eat baked potatoes instead of fries, this will help our bodies to trim down and a baked potato will not make you feel like you are eating diet foods, but it does fall under health food, (use low fat cheese and smart balance butter, or the fat free butter spray, along with lite sour cream, to make a tasty potato).
• Try to balance your diet and ease up on the sweets, which will aid in weight loss.  If you know you are lacking in a area you may want to consider supplements and more health foods. We have some easy recipes on here that will not taste like you are eating diet foods.
• Exercise.  Even if you just walk, try to get your heart rate up, some fitness is better than no fitness.
• Turn off the TV and do something active with your kids and/or spouse, this will help us to trim down as well and this did not include diet foods or health foods, just a little activity, which is needed for mens health and womens health.

"If you have a dream, go for it.  No one is stopping you, except yourself!" - Anon

These colorful fruits and vegetables are more than just pretty. They are also full of disease fighting antioxidants, which will help keep your arteries supple and strong. So eat up to improve mens health and womens health! These are tasty health foods! That can be used in several recipes.

             Fruits                     Vegetables

• Blueberries                  Corn
• Blackberries               Spinach
• Strawberries         Red Bell Peppers
• Prunes                        Kale
• Plums                   Brussels sprouts
• Raisins                  Alfalfa sprouts
• Raspberries            Broccoli Florets
• Plums                        Beets
• Oranges                    Onions
• Cherries                    Eggplant
• Red Grapes

There are a lot of diets out there, but we are most concerned with nutritional health when loosing weight.  We believe diet, nutritional support and exercise are all required to lose weight safely.  We have found the Body for Life diet as the most effective and safe way to loose weight.  It is sometimes tough to stay on but it does work.  You get a weekly free day to eat whatever you want.  You will find by the end of the week your stomach has shrunk and you can't eat as much as you normally could.  Check out our Body for Life friendly recipes:

Breakfast:

   •  Egg Beaters or Egg Whites with low fat cheese,Canadian Bacon, salsa, and whole wheat tortillas.  Add Tony's Creole Seasoning for added spice.

   •  Whole wheat english muffins with Egg Beaters/Eggs Whites with canadian bacon or turkey bacon, low fat cheese.  Season with salt, pepper, and/or Tony's Creole Seasoning.

   • Whole Oats Oatmeal(non packaged).  Sweeten with honey and brown sugar.  Add fat free butter, a few almonds or walnuts with whole wheat  toast-not enriched wheat flour.

  • Whole wheat shredded wheat, Grape nut Trial MIx Crunch and Kashi cereals.

Lunch:

 • Whole Wheat Pita Pocket with lean turkey or ham. Fill it up with your favorite veggies, I love alfalfa sprouts on these. Then top off with your favorite low fat salad dressing or mustard, sorry no mayo.

 •Tuna packs, that already have the wheat crackers and mustard in it with relish. Great for those on the go that need convenience.

•Whole wheat pasta of your choice with low sugar or organic spaghetti sauce, topped with lean grilled chicken or the 92/8 lean ground beef. Then to add some pizzazz you can melt low fat cheese of your choice on top.

•Whole wheat sandwich bread with lean lunch meat. Add one, two, three, or four of these great veggies, avocados, pickles, baby spinach leaves ( not ice burg lettuce, no nutrients), &/or bell peppers. These all are great ways to add a punch to your nutrients and antioxidants. Then put mustard, low fat cheese and you have a meal!

•Salads are fine, yet use a baby spinach and romaine lettuce, because ice burg does not have nutrients in it, like those do. Also do not use regular or fat free dressing, instead use low fat and do not use whole fat cheeses or fat free cheeses, use low fat. Also for condiments on your salad no bacos, or croutons. Lean chicken for the meat, tomatoes, avocados, alfalfa sprouts, blueberries, cranberries, bell peppers and a few sunflower seeds all make a very healthy lunch salad!

Stay away from frozen dinners if possible. They are loaded with sodium, carbohydrates, preservatives, sugars and hardly no nutrients. The only one I have found half way good, is the organic Kashi brand, it is full of fiber and whole grains.

Supper:

  • Teresa's Cheesy Chicken & Rice:   

 2 or 3 Lbs of boneless skinless chicken breast cooked and seasoned, 2 bags of whole wheat rice, 1 can cream of mushroom, 1 can of cream of chicken soup, 1 jar of spaghetti sauce and 1 bag of low fat mozzarella cheese.  Pour rice into casserole dish.  Pour cans of soup on top of the rice and mix.  Place chicken on top of rice with desired seasoning.  Pour marinara over chicken then cover with cheese and cook at 350° until casserole starts to bubble.

Sides:

   •  Sweet potato with honey and cinnamon.  Can also add walnuts or almonds.

   • Add Original Rotel diced tomatoes and green chilies to 1 can of whole kernel corn.

   • Whole kernel corn with low fat sour cream, low fat cheese with Tony's Creole Seasoning.

Snacks:

   • Yogurt with cottage cheese.  Try adding Trail Mix Crunch, Almonds, or rice cakes.  Make sure all are low sugar and low fat.

   • Myoplex shakes and Myoplex snack bars.

   • Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches.

   • Fat Free Fig newton cookies.    

Desserts:

   • Angel food cake with pureed whole fresh fruit

On the Body for Life eating plan, you want to watch out for fat free and sugar free items, because our bodies can not digest properly the processed, preservatives that are not natural, and therefore our bodies retain this, which in turns slows down our metabolism and fat burning machine. Making us feel blotted, or fatigued, YUCK! That is why after lunch a lot of times at work, if you are like I was, you just wanted to sleep. Because we were not eating the right foods and right combinations. You need to get a protein, 2 carbs and a fat. No white bread, make sure foods with sugar are low sugar items, make sure your wheat products are whole wheat and not enriched wheat flour. No soda pop, not even diet, you are suppose to drink 10 - 12 8oz. glasses of water a day on this plan, to keep the toxins flushed out, and make you feel full longer.So really not a lot of room left to drink anything else.1 cup of coffee with skim milk and little sweetener like honey. Tea, sugar free. No juices because they are full of sugar, instead eat the real fruit. Green tea is a great beverage, milk needs to be 1% or skim. If eating cereal or granola bars, make sure it has at least 5 grams of fiber, no more than 2 grams of fat and at least 6 grams of protein. Kashi offers a great line of granola bars, cereal, oatmeal, cookies and frozen dinners that fit this eating plan.

For your day off, whatever your heart desires. Within reason of course. Here's a yummy recipe for that day:

Teresa's Yummy Caramel Cake

 • Buy or make your favorite cake. My favorite is Duncan Hines Butter Recipe cake mix, or Pillsbury pudding in the mix cake mix. After your cake is baked, poke holes in the top with the end of your wooden mixing spoon. Then you will take a saucepan and melt a bag of caramels with 1/2 cup of butter and 1 can of sweet and condensed milk, cook on low and stir continuously till it makes a nice creamy mix, like syrup, but a little thicker. Next, you take your caramel sauce and pour all over the top of the cake and this mixture will flow into the holes, enveloping the cake. Now let your cake cool completely. Take a can of spray Redi Whip extra creamy Cool Whip Topping and blanket the top of your caramel sauce. Last, but not least pour your favorite crumbled candy bar over the top. I love Butterfingers, Scores, Snickers or Hershey's bars, they seem to work the best! Enjoy!!

Notes:

Be sure to use whole wheat products, low fat ingredients, sweeten with honey or applesauce. No fat free, sugar fee items or whole cream soups or products.

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- Japanese proverb

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