Yummy spinach!

Try this, I loved it!

6 cups fresh spinach

In a pan add: 2 t. sesame oil, 1 t. low sodium soy sauce, 1 T sesame seeds, 1 t. fresh ginger and 1 t. garlic , 2 t. rice vinegar

Add the spinach and let steam.

Now, I love going to chinese restaurants and tasting the sweet sauce on their dishes, so what I did to the above receipe was ass 1 T. splenda to the mixture. It made the sauce fantastic!

Check it out!

IMPORTANT!

1 lb of fat is equivalent to 3500 calories (Information from JillianMichaels site)

So, if you wantto lose 2 lbs a week you would have to cut 1000 calories per day.
7 days x 1000 calories = 7000 calories which converts to 2 lbs


So, when you are on a diet and you chose to go off your diet and not exercise then you can see why you don't lose any weight. Even if it is just one day a week. Don't sabatoge yourself, stay on course.

Plus, if you are going to diet and exercise why not just get it done so then you can maintain?

Eating well

Check out a new site I located called eatingwell.com After reviewing several of Jillian Michaels receipes, I noticed that a lot of them were from this site. Check it out to spice up your healthy eating!

Love Dr. Oz

People ask me a lot well how many calories should I eat, I never could give them an exact number without doing a long drawn out formula. Today on Dr. Oz he made it simple:

200 + weight x 8 + exercise

you burn 200 calories each day for your heart to work turn on light throughout the house etc. You go through out your daily doing regular chores that is your weight x 8
Then you add however many calories you exercised in that day

That are the calories to maintain. If you want to lose weight you need to drop it from there. Now, as he said, people plateau because as they lose weight they need less calories because your daily chore calorie number goes down as you lose weight. People need to adjust their calories to their weight as they are losing. Picture it this way: If you are 40 lbs overweight: it is the same as a person who is ideal weight carrying around 2 - 20lb weight as they go about doing their chores. So, with that being said, as you lose weight make sure to cut your calories to reflect the correct number to take into your body daily. Please be careful, if you figure this amount and decide to go crazy and drop your calorie count too low your body will go into starvation mode and you will not lose. It will hold every once of fat that you have.

What it take sot burn off macaroni and cheese
A bowl, not heaping just a normal bowl - takes approx 2 hours and 27 min to burn off
Are you sure that pasta is worth it? I surely don't want to sweat for that long for a simply bowl of mac n chees. Really think about what you put in your body!!

Congrats!!!

Everyone is doing really well. Yesterday someone told me about losing 7 lbs this month. I received an email today that another person lost 22 lbs in 2 months. I just want to say keep going, you can reach your goal one day at a time. Don't make the mistake of slipping one day and then quitting. Like everything else in life we don't just quit, we do better the next time.

I have been watching Dr. Oz. Please take a look at his website on today's show if you want a shock. Today they reviewed the lining on top of the stomach, they showed the correct size it should be and then the size of an overweight person. It is enough to turn your stomach, but realize that being overweight isn't about the way you look. It is about what harm it does to your body, how organs are just crammed together so their is no room for them to function properly. Eating right is about feeling your best and living life to its fullest.

Everyone keep up the good work!

Little Phrases to keep you going, plus give you something to think about.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. Marcia Wieder

I love this phrase. At yoga some of the instructors give us this motivational words of wisdom after class. I think that it is important to be able to keep going.

Our bodies have such a memory it is crazy. For instance, all of us have gone on a diet and then quit. We lose for awhile and then we come to a hault and don't lose for a couple of weeks, so we stop dieting. WRONG THING TO DO!!! My theory is this: our body loses weight and then stops and says, no reason to keep giving up weight she will quit she always does. If you stick with your diet program you body will realize that you are serious this time and start losing again. It is basically a battle of the wills. Your mind (that knows the right thing to do) vs. your body (simply acting like a spoiled child wanting whatever it wants when it wants).

Stick with your program. If it stops working for three weeks call me. I guarantee that you have changed something or need to just tweak your diet a little bit and then you will be on track again.

I watched Dr. Oz yesterday and in his parting words he said this: If you give up 100 calories of junk food everyday for a year you will lose 10 lbs. This is a great motivator for some people. I look at it the opposite if I eat an extra 100 calories a day then I am going to gain 10 lbs this year. For me, that is 2 dress sizes. Seriously scary!!!

Please think of what you are eating. Ask the question: Is it good for me or am I just filling up on empty calories to satisfy a craving (the spoiled child).

Good Luck everyone!!!

Sorry!

I have been out of touch with everyone due to sick children. I have found myself unable to workout and the last two days eating horrible. I, like so many of you, have to find it in myself to get motivated to workout and eat right again. I find that when I have interruptions in my schedule it plays havic with workout schedule. Tomorrow is another day and I will regain my focus and start again.

My yoga instructor gave me this message: You may chose to be miserable. Or you may
motivate yourself to workout. The choice is yours.


I thought that fitting. Sort of strange that I received that the day before my children ended up sick.

So, I hope that everyone keeps going or starts again with a renewed since of focus and direction towards their goals.