Wanted: Diet Buddies

if you want to loose weight I suggest you to go to weight watchers... one of my nurses did weight watchers since jan 2006 and this day today she lost 45 pounds......

Im needing to go on one too but I find that it wont really help as long as you drink plently of water and workout 3 times a week but i work out 5 days a week and lost quite bit pounds. you could give it a try! and good luck
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Umm weight watchers cost money and I'm suddenly singe w/3 kids.

I'm not eating as well as I was but I'm still walking. The stress has made me restless so exercise is not a problem.

How is everyone else doing?
 
Lost 100 pounds last year, do 5 minutes of exercise a day four
times a day to keep your metabolic rate elevated, limit the amount of
bread and sugar products you consume and go for a walk every time
you get the urge to consume food and just let loose and have fun
dancing to your favorite music, it worked for me.
 
zookeeper4321 said:
Umm weight watchers cost money and I'm suddenly singe w/3 kids.

I'm not eating as well as I was but I'm still walking. The stress has made me restless so exercise is not a problem.

How is everyone else doing?
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i JUST STARTED SO HAVENT SEN RESULTS BUT i THINK IM DOIN OK
 
Just remember, the more you eat the more miserable and depressed you will become with yourself. :dance:
 
I love this stuff and eat it for lunch and dinner. One of favorite vegan dinners is a small bowl of this hummus, freshly prepared and still warm, served with pita bread and celery sticks, with some white basmati on the side.



Low Fat Hummus
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5 ounces of garbanzo beans

1 tablespoon of tahini

¼ cup of lemon juice

¼ cup water

½ teaspoon granulated garlic.

½ teaspoon ground cumin

½ teaspoon sea salt

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper


Place garbanzo beans in a bowl with 1 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate. Cover with boiling water, stir, and let sit for 1 hour. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Boil garbanzo beans for ½ hour.

Puree everything in the food processor, and trickle in additional water if needed for consistency.
 
Vegan Red Beans & Rice

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12 ounces red beans

1 large white onion

1 tablespoon granulated garlic

2 quarts water

2 cups TVP

3 tablespoons chili powder

1 tablespoon cumin seeds

½ teaspoon sea salt

½ teaspoon MSG

1 teaspoon olive oil

1 teaspoon liquid smoke


1 cup white basmati rice

1 teaspoon canola oil

½ teaspoon sea salt

1 teaspoon vinegar

1 teaspoon butter flavor


Chop onion in food processor. Add onion, garlic, and beans to 2 quarts water, bring to a boil, and simmer for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes, add TVP, chili powder, cumin seeds, sea salt, MSG, olive oil, and liquid smoke. Cook until beans are done, about ½ hour. Meanwhile, cook basmati rice in rice cooker with canola oil, sea salt, vinegar, and butter flavor. Add the rice to the beans when the beans have finished cooking.

Mayflower loves this stuff and eats it for lunch and dinner. She swears that the TVP makes it taste like it has meat in it. Yet it has about 1 gram of fat per serving! I'll post a link to a good source for TVP.
 
The Promised Link

Bob’s Red Mill is an outstanding supplier of whole grains and legumes—I’ve been doing business with them for years. They have the best price on TVP that I’ve been able to find anywhere. The red beans & rice recipe that I just posted was taken from the back of one of their products (with minor modifications made by me).
 
Since I started working, I used to drink lots of pop, eating candies, 2 or 3 ice cream (I work at snack shop)... I decided to change to yogurt for lunch, and sandwiches for dinner. With pop, I tend to be thristy because I do lot of lifting work... so I switched to water, it did helped.. I should eat yougurt more often during lunch with water, maybe I should add a fruit (we sell orange)..... Lemme see what happens...

Since I left my ex boyfriend, I have stopped eating greasy food, like McDonald's, and I switched to subway, Jimmy Johns, Ebert and Gerbert's- all healthy places to eat. I ve noticed that I lose weight by eating less greasy food.... I tried it again last month, I ended up being sick and ended up having trips to bathroom- no fun!
 
I haven't been exercising much with everything going on with the divorce and moving and everything but I'm still slowly losing. Keep the faith guys.
 
LOL zoo...I am in need of a weight loss bud too!
LOL ..so far I am keeping my 121. It hasn't gone up too high.
Although lastnight I pigged out. We had seafood buffet. With
snow crabs and everything. I weighed in this morning ...126!
Back to being careful again...
Oh and walking too!
:cheers: Keep the good work up! :angel:
 
Wannabee Fettucini Alfredo

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6 ounces of fettucini

½ cup 1% yogurt

1 teaspoon butter flavor

1 teaspoon granulated garlic

1 tablespoon Parmesan

1 tablespoon olive oil


Boil the noodles for 11 minutes, drain, rinse in hot water. Return to the saucepan they were cooked in. Add garlic, parmesan and butter flavor, toss thoroughly. Warm the yogurt and oil in a small bowl in the microwave (30 - 40 seconds on high). Dump the yogurt over the noodles, toss again, and set aside on a warm burner until ready to serve.
 
Seasoned Linguini​


6 ounces of linguini

1 tablespoon chicken or beef bouillon

1 teaspoon butter flavor

1 teaspoon granulated garlic

½ teaspoon black pepper

1 tablespoon Parmesan

1 tablespoon olive oil


Cook linguini al dente, drain, rinse, and return to pot. Add seasoning ingredients one at a time in the order shown and toss thoroughly after each addition.

Keep warm until ready to serve.
 
I confess my diet has gone to heck the last couple of weeks. I have been walking but I have been eating to ease the pain. I'm trying to work things out with hubby. I will start eating better today.
 
This weekend my diet went out the window too, I had 3 parties to go to. Eating out 3 days in a row was so bad for me. My daughter is almost 4 months old and I still need to get rid of baby weight. I want fast results, and unfortunetly nothing works fast. I get so upset with myself, but then my friends remind me the baby is only 4 months old. I have to lose 16 lbs to get back to pre-pregnancy weight. I hate dieting though!!! I like pasta, chocolate and bread way too much. I am trying the slimfast shakes for breakfast and lunch. Exercising is hard with 2 kids, work, and this week I start the therapy for my daughters hearing. Free time is going to be limited!!

Good luck with the diet and also with your husband!! If you need to vent, pm me.

zookeeper4321 said:
I confess my diet has gone to heck the last couple of weeks. I have been walking but I have been eating to ease the pain. I'm trying to work things out with hubby. I will start eating better today.
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My aunt is on a chicken diet, it helps a lot but you will get sick off of chicken QUICK! But there is a lot of things you can make with chicken as long as it's baked!
 
I just made a batch of this for lunch today—yummy!

Falafel
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6 ounces of fava beans

6 ounces of garbanzo beans

1 small white onion, or half of a large one, finely chopped

2 tablespoons dried parsley, lightly packed

1 teaspoon dried cilantro

1 teaspoon granulated garlic

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon sea salt

1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin

½ teaspoon cayenne pepper

¼ cup water


1 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate


48 ounces canola oil


Place fava and garbanzo beans in a bowl with 1 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate. Cover with boiling water, stir, and let sit for 1 hour. Cover and refrigerate 3-4 hours or overnight. Grind the beans finely with a meat grinder. Mix ground beans in a bowl with onion, parsley, cilantro, garlic, baking powder, salt, cumin, cayenne, and water. Form the mix into meatball-sized pieces (about 16-18). Heat canola oil in an 8-inch diameter saucepan for ½ hour on ¾ temperature. Fry 8 balls at a time for 5 minutes. Drain on a paper towel-covered rack. Make sandwiches with pita bread, lettuce, chopped tomatoes, and desired dressing. Freeze unused portion.
 
I made a batch of this last night to go with the falafel. This stuff can be eaten straight as a side dish, or it can used as a dip or dressing for falafel, falafel sandwiches, fish tacos, or any other food on which you would normally use ranch dressing.

Tzatziki
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5 cups plain 1% yogurt

1 large cucumber, grated

2 tablespoons vinegar

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 teaspoon dill

2 teaspoons granulated garlic


Mix all ingredients thoroughly and chill overnight.


BTW: It’s pronounced ZAH-ZEE-KEE (I knew somebody would ask). :D
 
Crab Cakes
1/3 c reduced fat mayo, 1/4 c red onion minced, 1/4 c red bell pepper minced, 2 T celery minced, 1.5 t lemon juice, 1 egg white lightly beaten, 1lb crab meat, 1 1/4 c panko (Japanese breadcrubms) 2 T butter, 10 c watercress, 6 lemon wedges.

Red Pepper Mayonnaise- 1 red bell pepper, 1/3 c reduced fat mayo, 1 garlic clove, dash of tabasco sauce

preheat broiler, to prepare mayo sauce cut peppers in half lengthwise, place skin side up on foil lined baking sheet, broil 12 min, peel peppers, place peppers and the rest of sauce ingredients in food processor until smooth this put in a bowl and chill

for cakes combine 1st 7 ingredients with 3/4 c of the panko in large bowl, mix well and form into six patties, dredge patties in remaining panko, heat 1 T butter in skillet on med-high, cook 3 of the patties for 10 mins turning once, repeat with remaining butter and patties, serve cakes with watercress, lemon wedges and mayo sauce.

234 Cal. 8.8 g fat 22 protein 15.2 carbs

Nice substitute for a sinful pleasure. Great with shrimp cocktail.
 
Walnut Coffee Cake:
3/4 dk brown sugar packed, 1/3 c walnuts, 1 t cinnamon, 3 1/4 c flour, 2 t baking soda, 1 t baking powder, 1/4 t salt, 1 1/2 c sugar, 10 T butter softened, 3/4 c egg substitute, 1 t vanilla, 1 1/2 c nonfat buttermilk

Preheat oven to 350, combine brown sugar, walnuts, and cinnamon is bowl and set aside. combine flour, soda, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl and stirl well with whisk. Combine butter and sugar in mixing bowl and beat on med-high about 3 min, add egg substitute, beat 3 more min, beat in vanilla. Add the flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture beginning and ending with flour, spoon 1/2 of mixture into 10" bundt pan coated with spray, sprinkle 1/2 of brown sugar mixture over batter, spoon in remaining batter and sprinkle with remaining sugar. Bake 55 mins

298 Cal 9g fat 5.1 protein 50.3 carbs

Live a little this is a great pared down desert
 
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