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From the monthly archives:
If you’re looking for a healthy Super Bowl party dish that uses ground beef, you may be interested in making this dish since it feeds 16 and is only four Weight Watchers POINTS per serving. It’s based on a recipe from Taste of Home: The Ultimate Ground Beef Cookbook, which is now out of print. [...]
Now that we have smart phones at our disposal, there’s not excuse that you left your calorie counter or Weight Watchers POINTS booklet at home. With these mobile apps for iPhones and Blackberries, you now have the tools to eat healthier when you’re away from home, stay on your diet plan, and even exercise. Healthy [...]
With the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl games coming up, preparing a healthy slow cooker dish ahead of time is a great way to keep your family and party guests fed while you watch the game. This dish is based on Pork and Butternut Squash Stew found in the February 2010 issue of Ladies Home [...]
As part of my Mayo Clinic Diet book and journal giveaway, I’m offering another excerpt from the book on learning how to identify potential roadblocks and develop strategies to help you with your weight-loss program. The giveaway ends TONIGHT! Go here to enter. Behavior obstacle – I’m a late-night snacker. Avoid eating late at night [...]
As part of my Mayo Clinic Diet book and journal giveaway, I’m offering another excerpt from the book: Learning to identify potential roadblocks and confront personal temptations is an important part of being successful in losing weight. If you find a strategy that helps you, include it with your weight-loss program. Behaviors obstacle – I [...]
The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well, Enjoy Life, Lose Weight by the weight-loss experts at the Mayo Clinic and Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H. is a no nonsense approach to healthy eating and weight loss. It’s the only diet developed at the Mayo Clinic and uses a common sense approach to losing weight and keeping it [...]
When we returned home from vacation (see my post Damn, my back hurts: a bulging disc, sciatica and more challenges in 2010) I went to Costco and bought a memory foam mattress topper to relieve my back pain. It’s something you MUST get even if you don’t have a bulging disc or sciatica problems. My [...]
My inbox has been deluged with tips on how to make healthy New Year’s resolutions or showing me how to pick three words for 2010. It just makes me want to cry. Those plans to possibly pursue Couch to 5K (what me run?) or to try out Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010 for the Wii [...]
One of my readers, sent in a question I thought I’d share with you. Maggie T. is a 33-year-old nursing student with a 14-year-old who is very active in sports, a six-year-old who goes with the flow, and a husband with Type I Diabetes who works up to 65 hours some weeks. She’s entering her [...]
I’ve been making Taco Soup for years since 1 cup equals 4 Weight Watchers POINTS. It’s so delicious my family loves it, too. Over time, I’ve tried to “health it up” by eliminating the dry ranch dressing (too fake in my opinion) and using store brand organic canned beans and corn. Since my kids thought [...]
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