Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

INGREDIENTS:
1 canned diced tomato (I used Hunt’s)
1 cup fresh basil leaves,chopped
2 cloved of garlic,minced
1 onion, chopped
2 cups Chicken stock/chicken cubes & water
grated Parmesan cheese for garnish
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Saute garlic and onion in olive oil until onions are transparent.Add basil leaves and canned tomato.
Stir gently. Add chicken stock and bring to [...]

I want to lose my post pregnancy weight.I tried to cut down on my food intake but each time i do it i end getting hungrier than ever.
I am desperate.I want to shed excess pounds before my son reachers his second birthday, that only ten months from now.
In my desperation, I decided to go with [...]

I was desperate, so I searched goggle and look for easy and most effective diet. So I found this one. But of course I checked if its healthy or not. Some says its effective some says its unhealthy so check this for yourself.
“3 day diet”
Instructions:
Drink 4 glasses of water or diet soda per day.
You can [...]

Alvin loves porkchops..That’s why this was what we had for dinner…

I just seasoned the porkchops with salt,pepper and calamansi juice,then fried it in Canola Oil.
STUFFED BAKED TOMATO
INGREDIENTS:
4 plum tomatoes,halved lengthwise
3 ounces shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese (1/2 cup)
1/4 roughly chopped fresh basil leaves
2 tbsp freshly grated parmesan cheese
1 garlic clove, minced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Heat [...]

I saw this today on Uppercase Woman… she calls it the final nail in the mommy blog coffin, posting a recipe, but since it contains spinach and gorgonzola (two things I love) she’s totally forgiven!
Utterly and completely stolen from September’s issue of Cooking Light Magazine, page 148. With my substitutions.
Ziti with Spinach, Cherry Tomatoes, [...]

This is what I cooked for dinner the other night…South Beach Diet recipe

INGREDIENTS:
1 lb snow peas,strings removed
1 tbsp plus 2 tbsp canola oil, divided
1 tbsp plus 1 tbsp low sodium soy sauce, divided
1 tbsp minced fresh ginger
1 1/2 lbs boneless,skinless chicken breast
2 scallions,sliced
2 tsp dark sesame oil
* Bring medium saucepan of [...]

Phase I: Authorized foods
PROTEIN CHOICES BEEF Lean cuts, such as:
* Eye of Round
* Ground beef:
* Extra Lean (96/4)
* Lean (92/8)
* Sirloin (90/10)
* Tenderloin
* Top Loin
[...]

In order to lose a few more “XTRA” pounds (that would be 20 lbs more for me),Ate and I started The South Beach Diet again.This diet helped me in losing my post-pregnancy weight before.
Well,let me start by telling you what The South Beach Diet is all about.
The South Beach diet is a diet plan started [...]

Last August 15,my sister and I planned to do the 3 Day Diet.According to that diet,you will lose 10 lbs in just 3 days.Imagine,10 lbs in 3 days.That diet was effective when we first tried it but we failed the diet.
We were starving because the diet has very very low calorie count.And the diet is [...]

Poor arugula has been getting a bad rap recently as elitist food. I didn’t know that rocket was up with, say, caviar and foie gras, but I have been feeling pretty classy putting in it salads and sandwiches!
Anyway, here’s a not-political discussion from Slate’s arugula lovers.

It’s tasty. Let me rephrase that: It has a [...]