Eat starchy carbs but skip 66% of their calories easily? YES.

"You're making this up aren't you Lollie!? Surely you can't be telling me I can eat carbs but skip 66% of their calories, right? Not seriously. Right?"

"Rhonda, Rhonda, Rhonda, oh you of little faith! I am serious as an obesity induced heart attack. Not many psychics have the Science Daily site in their tool bar. But I'm also a mad diet scientist on the side, so you know I can't live without my science daily. This article made me so happy....

Carb-cutting Enzyme Stopped By Bean Extract,

 Endocrinologists Say

It explains far more clearly and completely than I ever could how and why starch-blocker pills actually work and without any of the 'leakage' associated with fat-blockers.

What are they made from?  Something in kidney beans that interrupts the absorption of calories from bread, pasta, pizza dough, cookies, cake, doughnuts. 

"You're recommending I eat cookies, cake and doughnuts now?"

"No way.  I'm recommending you eat the healthiest breads (nature's own double fiber wheat [5 grams of fiber per slice]) and pastas (ronzoni elbow mac [6 grams of fiber per serving] and no other.  However IF you eat a cookie, a sonic burger or a doughnut, what the heck, take two little capsules containing nothing but kidney bean extract and knock out 66% of the bad calories of the bread (not counting sugar in the sweets and not counting the cheese, meat and mayo on the burger)"

"Uh, Lollie, the article says it costs $25 a bottle!"

"It is Science Daily, not Wise Shopper's Weekly. Here's a link to the starch blocker capsules at Amazon.com and they start at under $8.00 a bottle. Just remember, your best bet is to take two about thirty minutes before each meal. If you take them with a full glass of water like I do, you can't help but be well hydrated when you eat and that insures you're only eating to satisfy hunger, not hunger and thirst. :)

I love my diet. It's sneaky, conniving, satisfying and delicious. I've lost 104 pounds so far. How wonderful to discover that some of my worst youthful romantic flaws turned out to be some of my greatest mad-diet-scientist strengths.  Here's to sneaky and conniving. Cheers! 

:)&-=

It was good news to me so I shared it.

Hope you'll do the same.

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Psychic Tweet about Laura Ling? You decide. (w/pics)

I know we're all happy Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been freed and returned home from North Korea. I have personal reasons I'm even more overjoyed than most. I work at home and I've been watching the View daily since it started.

I got to know, love and respect Lisa Ling while she was a co-host and have made it a point to watch her specials ever since. I watched the June 9th or 10th episode on the View and it just broke my heart to hear the situation was looking worse for her sister Laura Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee in North Korea.

So I read the cards and they were so clear, with such good news that I tweeted it to Sherri Shepherd and Joy Behar.  This is the first psychic reading I ever tweeted.

I fell in love with Twitter the minute those girls stepped foot on American soil. Because right then not only could I share in the joy of the return of two of our bravest journalists, one the mother of a four year old and the other one a sister of someone I love like you love any friend you have enjoyed and learned from for years... but also what a wonderful event to read about, then to see happen and then to realize I have twitter proof that a prediction I made came true!!  See for yourself.  Either I'm one helluva great guesser, or I'm psychic.  You tell me.

11:43 am June 10th, 2009

11:46 am June 10th, 2009

Since this is what I do every day it makes me think I'm psychic. Whether you agree or disagree, good news -  they're home now. Thank God and Bill Clinton, they're home now!!

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Using StumbleUpon™ I stumbled some love today.... (w/pics)

I knew you loved me when you came back inside the restaurant laughing after running across the street through traffic in freezing rain, to check on what I thought was a hurt bird, and turned out to be cardboard flapping over a ventilation shaft.












Now click on this one to get a real man's view of love...




 

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Core Firming, Waist Defining Mini-Game

Thought for the day:

"If  ~YOU~  don't enjoy yourself today,
who in the world is going to do it for you?
And when are they going to get around to it?

I'd heard before that balancing on one foot is good exercise because it works your entire core, it also improves your posture and that alone takes at least 10 pounds off your appearance never mind the calories burned and the muscle toning.... but it took my precious little dachshund, Mr. Black to get through my thick skull - the power - behind mini balance routines. He's always sitting up (by the minute if necessary) to get me to pick him up. One day I noticed how his whole body trembled and I put my hand down low on the outside of his thigh... it was amazing all the movements I could feel that were going into maintaining his perfect balance. Hmmm... looks like the experts were right. Well I'll be!


This isn't a Mr. Black workout though. No, no, it's a bona-fide "Mad Diet Scientist Lollie's at it Again" creation. It's so damn fun, silly, minimal, easy and addictive I refuse to call it a workout, it's more like a mini-game. But it's packed with value. So let's go over the basics quickly one more time. You have to eat right and work out regularly to take weight off and keep it off. Yeah, blah, de, blah, blah, blah.... so boring.

I'll do what it takes to lose weight but I REFUSE to suffer the process. I'll enjoy it every step of the way or die trying.  As many of you already know I eat a lot of lovely food every day and workouts MUST be fun: a day at white water, a bike ride or dancing with real delight through the preparation of my meals - that kind of thing.  If I don't spoil myself today, who in the hell's gonna do it for me and when are they gonna get around to it?? I mean seriously.  If my kids don't see me being good to me - how can I expect them to teach my grandchildren to be good to themselves as well? 

The "Waist Whittling Game" is as addictive as your favorite video game.  You find a song you like that's hard to sing along with or lipsink with because it has so many words in it.... then standing in front of a mirror, you balance on one foot while you rock out to the beat.

Core Firming, Waist Whittling Mini-Game

 Instructions

by
Lollie Mad Diet Scientist Dot Com

1. Play "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas (or any song you like better that makes you feel great).
2. Standing in front of a big mirror balance on one foot.
3. Lip-sink or sing along with the lyrics.
4. rock out to the song, wiggle your hips, tap the top of the trashcan with your other foot to the beat, do leg lifts, side leg lifts, whatever... just keep moving.
5. When you lose your balance (don't fall you idiot! That's not necessary, soon as you start to go, your other foot is right there anyways, put it down.) switch to balancing on the other side, same as the first.

One song equals one round. Each time you see if you can hold your balance longer, get more of the words right and on time. It is just the right degree of challenging to keep you coming back for more.

You would think doing them all together
 would make them more challenging.
You would be wrong.

Oddly enough, it's the doing them altogether that makes it easier, rather than harder to maintain your balance. And every time you touch the floor with your other foot you switch sides, stand on the other foot till you touch again.  At first for me this was quite often.  I couldn't hold my balance for a four second count, let alone five minutes.  Now I'm up to more like 30 to 60 seconds. You've mastered it when you last the full song. Then find another song. Your choices are endless. :) I like playing it every time I go to the bathroom. It's not work. It's a fun game that tones my core.

Do I have a perfect waist? No. I've been fat all my life and only created this game!  Will I get a perfect waist from doing it? It's certain I'll get closer to it. I'm going to have a lot of fun finding out.

How many calories does it burn? I don't know, it's like a single grape, I don't count it.

Any other balancing suggestions? I read this on the net somewhere, that you can also raise one foot a candy bar's thickness (I call them grease bars [truth in advertising]) off the floor while waiting in line.  No one will notice. Don't wave it around like you just don't care. But you're stuck in line not doing anything anyways... for crying out loud DON'T JUST STAND THERE!! :D&-=

NOTE: Do be gentle with your body.  Do not strain it to be good in a hurry. Be gentle and be a little better, a little stronger, a little tighter every day. I am not responsible for you being so impatient you're mean to yourself.

Ready to try it? Come on, give it a shot, then leave me feedback.

Now, play

 "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas
and enjoy your first round of
my newest mad diet scientist creation:
"The Core Firming, Waist Whittling Mini-Game"

© Lollie Dot Com

 

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~ Sharing makes you Sexier! ~

Always starts out clear and fresh, matter of fact and to the moment. Lots of details picked up, time frames too. 

She's to the point and keeps me in line very quickly! I love this reader. If you want exact answers be sure to call her. 

Really on target! Knew everything IN DETAIL! Fabulous!!! 

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Think You're Terrible @ Relationships?? Consider this....

I hear it said many ways,

• "I'm not good at relationships."
• "I ruin relationships."
• "Some how I screw up every relationship I get into!"
• "I'm terrible with men!"
• "I have terrible luck with men!"

Have you ever made any of those statements? Even believed them? If so, you are far from alone in your beliefs. And you're wrong. Oh sure if you're never doing your share of what's right and always doing more than your share of what's wrong.... maybe you're right... but most people who believe they're bad at relationships are just plain wrong.

1. We aren't supposed to work out with every person we get involved with.
2. 95% of the people saying those things are not good at something alright, they're not good at choosing who to have relationships with in the first place.

I made number 1 bold and if you've been believing you were bad at relationships, go a step or two further with it.  Print it out and put it next to your bathroom mirror.... or have it tattooed backwards on your forehead so you'll see it in every mirror.  But seriously, quit feeling and believing you're a failure at relationships just because most of them don't work out.

Most of them don't work out because most of them aren't supposed to.  It's a bad fit.  Seemed like a good idea at first, but as more details are revealed, the relationship becomes impossible.

• a nosy person and a private person
• an Obama Democrat and a Limbaugh Republican,
• one loves loud heavy metal and the other one would rather hear something soft and classical in the background....

These can be real deal breakers, let alone he thinks he requires two women and you require a man that only wants one.

I don't care how good looking he is, how much money he makes or how great he is in bed, every rule, value and belief you don't share or at least sincerely respect is a rough spot that wears away at the threads that hold your relationship together. 

So, good news. Relationships, you're probably pretty good at!   It's just picking your partners you've been less than your best at. When you change that, you'll be surprised at how much more you can enjoy bad boys without expecting them to turn into your Mr. Right.

It also makes it much easier to sift the chaff from the grain and actually find a man that fits with you. Your goal should NEVER be just to get married. If your goal is marriage at all it should be a marriage that you and your husband can truly enjoy for as long as it lasts. The difference in those two goals is only a few words and they make a monumental difference in the quality of your marriage and the foundation you raise your kids on.

I'll ice this cake with: 'never decide a man is THE ONE for you when you're drunk on alcohol and / or infatuation' and you'll probably be alright now.  No rush though.  Do it any way you like for as long as you like. That's what I did.  But really, you're no worse at relationships than anyone else. We aren't supposed to work out with every person we get involved with. So lighten up on you.

Thank you Lollie,for keeping me in line when I need it, supporting me when I need it, being blunt and honest in a loving sort of way. JUST AS YOU SAW there was good reason, I was relieved, was definately a different busy than the normal busy, and they made a specific call at 10:30 at night to explain it all, apologize and find out how I was doing. Hmm, eating crow doesn't taste good, but I am glad it is your recipe! Thanks darlin'!

She's so FAST! 

Thank you very much. I am looking forward to this summer. Lollie is so amazing. Quick and so accurate.  

You really aren't bad at relationships.

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Five Rules that helped me take off 100 Pounds....

Whooie! One Hundred POUNDS, gone.... without suffering a diet.  Did you mean to say that? That "without suffering a diet" part? Yes. There must have been some rules or parameters that got you here though... right?  Oh absolutely right!  :)

Rule number one:
The greatest diet killer in the world is HFCS. High fructose corn syrup is in most food products, most drinks and even some cigarettes. Until you're ready to all but eliminate it - keep those catalogs from Lane Bryant coming, cause the only place your weight is going  consistently - is UP. I allow myself one product containing hfcs per week. I realize once I eat it, I'm not going to feel satisfied for the rest of the day no matter how healthy I eat. That's why even though I allow it once a week, I don't eat it that often.

Rule number two:
Every day you don't track your calories, you can bet you either ate too many calories or too LITTLE healthy fat to lose weight.  One or the other. Kiss your elbow on mainstreet if I'm wrong. You know what a plateau is?  It's when you're accidentally either eating too many calories or too little fat. Same thing. Just say no to plateaus - with or without a diet, tracking your calories reduces caloric intake and keeps your fat grams up to par.  Say hello to my good friend, Lance Armstrong's Livestrong.com The Daily Plate.

Rule number three:
Every bite of barely nutritious food you take on your diet will leave you hungry for the bite of nutritious food it replaced. We only love color because we love life. Nutrient rich food satisfies, food products do not. When in doubt, eat ultra nutrient rich foods: deep green broccoli, rich red tomatoes, bright yellow squash, - the whole reason we love color so much is because on a subconscious level we connect it and rightly so - to our quality of life. Now  you know why they add dye to food products.

Rule number four:
Taking a drink between bites cleanses your palate which increases the flavor in your meal and it effectively gets you to put the fork down between bites, which slows your eating enough for you to recognize you're satisfied before you get into overeating territory.  Putting your fork down between bites is a damn hard habit too change....  but when you focus on cleansing your palate between bites to get greater flavor in the next bite, it's more like a luxurious eating experience.

 
Rule number five:
You cannot sustain that which you do not enjoy. Seasonings (not counting salt) are your friends. Season to taste, who's taste? Your taste, then be extravagant, season it just a little bit stronger. Hate pilates? Ride a bike. Hate bicycles, walk aerobically. Can't walk in this heat, dance under the a/c. What do you LOVE doing? Do it.

But Lollie, I'm too fat to do any of those things! Not a problem. I was once too. I bought a glider rocker, only watched exciting and funny stuff on tv and rocked to express my responses. I took six inches off my waist the first year.

Then I got up and started seriously taking my whole body out and playing with it like you'd play with a doll. I put her on bicycles, I had her dance, take wonderful aerobic nature walks... me an this body have had a blast. We've eaten plenty of delicious, healthy food every day. We've enjoyed playing 80% of full out, all along the way. Seriously, you cannot sustain that which you do not enjoy and you can definitely sustain that which you do....

I've been on every diet in the world and now I feel like holding my hands up saying to everyone, wait, stop, don't be that mean to yourself another day. If you're not enjoying your diet, I guarantee you, you're on the wrong diet. 

I am still fat. I still have 50 to 60 pounds to go. I have been here before. It was pretty devastating on the other diets. I'd be all biting my nails like "I made it this far, but can I hold out another 50 to 60 pounds?" And looking back, I can tell  you, no, I couldn't and I didn't. This diet I'm on (YOU on a Diet + The Daily Plate)is so different it's crazy to call it a diet. I had peach cobbler for breakfast. I'll have a whole pound of strawberries today for a snack, and a thick turkey burger for lunch. I'll have a big huge serving of my favorite goulash for supper tonight and I'm not worried a bit about can I hold out. I LOVE my diet. I can do this for the rest of my life. Best of all, you can too.

IMPORTANT Note:  I have to be honest. I didn't lose this last ten the best way. I had read that a supplement called 5-htp helps you lose weight. So as usual instead of starting with the lowest possible dosage (that will forever more be known as the wise way to take new supplements),  I started with the highest (also known as the dumb ass way to take new supplements). For five days my insides turned to water.  OF course I lost weight in a hurry. Was it healthy? No.  Was it the supplement's fault? No. It was all mine. So to be perfectly honest I have lost 90 pounds with reasonable amounts of healthy nutrition and exercise and ten pounds by overdosing on a supplement.  A promise here.... I won't do that again.

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Thanks for your EXCELLENT reading! I love your advice... You have helped navigate me through the storms I created to grow the seeds of my manifestations!

she was fast and professional. i am glad she could laugh WITH me and not at me. i appreciate her listening to my concerns and answering my questions as quickly as possible. thanks Lollie!

Thank you so much, you are a real bright star in the Keen universe. I will certainly keep in touch. 


 

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Want to save money on your calls at Keen?

Want to save money on your calls at Keen? I'm going to share with you three different psychic business model's and which one saves you the most money.

First of all, the scary one is the criminal psychic business model. You want to BEWARE of this kind.  They read for you. They see everything you want in the future happening in spades, the reading is going along beautifully. The man of your dreams... that lying, cheating, alcoholic without a job that you're so in love with will straighten up, stop lying, stop cheating, get a job and be the greatest soul mate you could ever imagine. Things are going GREAT in the reading. Then... OMG! There is an obstacle!! It can prevent all of that beautiful future from happening!!! And for a mere $800 or so they can work a spell that removes that obstacle.  If you fall for that first chunk of money they can bleed you dry in three months no matter how rich you are.  Run from this kind of fake. They're not just fakes, they're criminal scam artists and you should turn them into the police.   

The next kind is the short term thinker.  They may be arm chair psychologists. They may be real psychics.  But in either case the short term thinker is focused on making as much money from each call as possible and that means KEEP THEM ON THE LINE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.  That also means their primary focus isn't on helping you, it's all about helping them.  If they're real and you have a good connection with them, that's no reason not to call them, but it's a good reason to pay very close attention to the time.

I like to be the kind of psychic I want to call.... someone who cuts to the chase, and doesn't try to stretch out the call.

I know my limitations.

• I have a great connection with around 25% of clients  (tons of details, very accurate, even using the same specific phrases the person I'm reading about used).

• I have a really good connection with around 70% of clients (still accurate, but not as many clear details).

• And either poor or no connection with about 5% of people.

I don't want anyone to pay for a bad reading with me and we can't refund money. So I will email you a coupon code for the first three minutes free. Because my business model is simple. Once you see for yourself I give accurate answers in a timely fashion, I can expect you to call me again when you have more questions.  That business model has seen me through every kind of economy. I will never change it. It saves you money. It makes me money. And I sleep well at night.  You don't have to call me, and I still strongly recommend you call psychics with a similar business model. But if you'd like to call me, here's a coupon code. :) Click on it and let's find out how well we connect. 

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Fall off your diet without gaining weight? YES!!

Wouldn't it be great if you could fall off of your diet without gaining weight?  I know you can because I do.  I've lost 90 pounds now. :) And I fell off my diet anytime I wanted to or needed to every step of the way. Hard to believe?  This is one of the sweetest things at The Daily Plate. You can set up not only your daily calorie intake to lose a certain number of pounds per week, but also find your best numbers for falling off your diet as well. 

Hitting that 90 pounds lost mark is something of an emotional explosion.... there's joy, but also, I've been here before on HARD diets, (i.e. unhealthy diets, think slim fast, jenny craig, weight watchers frozen dinners - food products are not food, not truly nutritious and will not satisfy you) and of course, with any hard diet, I'd fall off it completely eventually.  It was usually between 80 and 100 pounds lost. So I'm in scary territory.  I'm protected this time. I love the food I eat. But I still feel this strong urge, to pause... cause logic be damned this is still a scary place! 

It makes me want to stress eat. That used to be handled with lots of ice cream.  Calories weren't counted but I guesstimate I'd be hitting 4 to 5 thousand a day. It's much easier to gain weight in a hurry these days, all you have to do is eat out twice a day. But this time, I know what I'm eating. I know exactly how many calories I'm going over my diet. I have the little swing and the big swing.... I'll show you illustrations and you'll see what I mean....



My Diet

This is my diet based on my current weight. When I started with the daily plate it was almost 1700 calories.  Good news, it's much easier to figure out how to enjoy and be satisfied with 1377 calories by starting much higher and slowly whittling away calories, it's easy to make small adjustments. Kinda like the healthy version of the boiling frog analogy. :)

The Little Swing

I require 1,811 calories daily to maintain my goal weight of 140 while I'm sitting on my butt reading cards and blogging.  Which means if I just set that as my daily calorie intake, eventually, I'd get to 140.  If I go to a party or shower it is 100% a-ok fine for me to take a little swing off track as long as I continue to track my calories. 
 

The Big Swing

To maintain my current weight of 210 I have to eat OMG 2,377 calories!  In the regular food products I used to eat that was real easy. With the food I eat now that would be an all day job. But there are days...... like the one where I thought I'd made an embarrassing faux paux.... whew.... even if it wasn't real, it felt real. I felt like Dane Cook on the floor "I did my best!!! I did my best!!!"  Well maybe not that bad, but  you get my drift.  I said to myself  "fine, today we can eat up to 2,377 calories."  I ate a lot and it came to 1977 calories, purely by accident, exactly 400 calories less than required to maintain my current weight. What's to feel guilt for when you do it like that?  See?

 

Who are you to give advice?

Through out this post you've probably been wondering what a woman who weighs 210 pounds is doing sharing weight loss tips. It's a fair question and deserves a real answer. I'm qualified because I've lost 80 to 100 pounds numerous times, on numerous diets.... but this is one that I enjoy and feel satisfied on. The  others were just exercises in will power.  I speak from a lifetime of experience when I say, this is a comfortable, enjoyable diet I can really live with, and the others were not.


See the Golden results at the Daily Plate too....

The top weight on this chart is 272 March 11th, 08,  the current weight is 210, July 09.  

A diet you can fall off of anytime you need to sounds crazy, but the numbers show it sure is working for me.

This charts the last 62 pounds (of 90) I've lost, just since I've started seeing my current doctor.  No, she's not a weight loss doctor. She doesn't give me any meds to help me lose weight.  She just watches and says "Tell me again what you're doing?"
 

I had an additional thought.... embarrassing... what if this isn't original? What if someone else had this idea before me and I read it and forgot I'd read it.  So with fear, trepidation and redundancy I googled "how to fall off your diet" and there are articles about building in cheats, but mine is different and  here are links to them so you pick your favorite.

It's okay to cheat on your diet - Psychology Today

The cheat is on: falling off your diet is the best way to stay on it

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~[Original Giggle Soup w/pic]~ Beware the Little Elephant Spell...

You shoulda seen how I laughed!  I told her right to her face, right there in front of everyone,

"You idiot, you can not turn me into a small brass elephant just because I don't take the time to leave a comment on your stupid blog and your stupid pictures!"

And I've been standing here ever since. I'd say for about three summers now. "So, uh, how'd you get here?"

 

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It is HOTT outside!! I want a delicious sandwich with half the calories...

People admire my willpower and determination to stick with this diet.  It makes me feel silly.  What's to admire? I have dessert for breakfast. I can eat goulash or sandwiches or both every day if I want. The foods I missed on a diet are right here warming my insides and they keep me losing weight. Willpower? Hardly!
 

THE BREAD

The typical American woman gets about seven grams of fiber a day.  For good health, she should be getting 25 to 35.  Fiber isn't just for old people. It's for anyone who wants to feel satisfied on a diet.  It helps flush poisons out of your system so your skin glows. It keeps your blood sugar from spiking and in case you didn't know that's what makes you feel ravenous. Yeah. It stops that.

'Nature's Own Double Fiber Wheat' sandwich bread has only 50 calories and 5 grams of fiber per slice.  On the other hand any bread that isn't high fiber is practically as bad for you as a twinkie."  Look for the Nature's Own brand, make sure it's the one with the purple swath. Don't forget to double check, because if you don't it's easy to accidentally get one of their other breads with 1 gram of fiber per slice. Big difference.

• 

No artificial preservatives, colors, or flavors
5 grams of fiber per slice
High fiber
50 calories per slice
0 grams of trans fat
Low fat
No cholesterol
No high fructose corn syrup

THE CONDIMENTS





Almost all mustard is 0 to 6 calories a serving.  But what you might not have known is that Heinz one carb Ketchup is only FIVE calories a tablespoon and yes, it's thick and delicious.











Prefer Mayo? The calories go up some, but the healthy ingredients make it a top choice. "Smart Balance Omega Plus Light Mayonnaise."  50 calories per Tablespoon only healthy fats.. 

Oh but darn it, what's a sandwich without BACON!?! Or you might put it another way and say what's a diet WITH bacon?!?  Uh, ummm, mine.  You're kidding now, right? Nope. Real BACON?  Nope. But it has the aroma of real bacon, tastes like real bacon and unlike real bacon won't give you a heart attack. :)  Please give a big round of applause to my friend and soon to be yours, delicious, healthy, low calorie Baconnaise!!  30 calories per tablespoon.

THE FILLING

Here are a few of the many choices for the main filling,

• a portabello mushroom sliced burger thick is 42 calories,
• a buffalo burger is 100, (unless they added fat)
• a grilled chicken breast is around 120,
• or....
  
• beef can range from 140 to 280 calories.

And we're not even going to discuss fried foods yet.You know the veggies you like to add. Add them in abundance.

A one egg sandwich - 237 calories, or have a TWO egg sandwich for 288 calories, (eggs are the only thing I fry and I only fry them like this)  in a half Tablespoon of smart balance cooking oil, with a tablespoon of smart balance mayo on the sandwich is still under 300 calories and between the fiber and the protein will satisfy any level of hunger and stick to your ribs.

"But  I came here for a 150 calorie sandwich. Where's that sandwich?"  You are probably saying. 

Gentlewomen and gentlemen, my apologies for saving it till last.

I give you (imagine a drum roll just like I invented it myself) .............................................  The fake BLT sandwich (Baconnaise, lettuce, and tomato) is 150 calories.
 

	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs		Fiber	Protein
	1	150	6g	8mg	428mg	29g		10g	6g

CALORIE BREAKDOWN courtesty livestrong.com/thedailyplate

People admire my willpower and determination to stick with this diet.  It makes me feel silly.  What's to admire?  I can eat goulash or sandwiches or both every day if I want. The foods I missed on a diet are right here warming my insides and they keep me losing weight. It's pretty easy to say no to a 240 calorie candy bar (unhealthy grease bar)  when you had a dessert for breakfast and a fake BLT is only 150 calories back at the house.  Willpower? Hardly.
 


 

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Lose weight eating goulash daily if you want?? Yeah, RIIIIGHT!!

Subtitle:

You might love this... I do.

Rhonda rolled her eyes at me. "You cannot lose weight eating goulash every day if you want to!! You're crazy Lollie! You're freaking crazy!  Ha! Ha!  And you'll probably tell me it's going to be delicious, high fiber, tone my body, and make my skin more beautiful too, aren't you?" 

"Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. Oh yeah and it's a really big meal. This is for the days when you're seriously hungry, and crave comfort food. If you eat half of your serving now and the other half tomorrow cold, who can blame you. It's that big and only 279 golden calories."

My name is Lollie Multi-tasking DotCom. All my recipes have four things in common:

• I never add salt, but you can.
• They are one serving.
  
• I'm lazy, so they're ridiculously easy.
• If I cook it at all, It's high nutrition and low calorie.
• Reasons for choices mean it takes longer to read this post than to make.

(: Guaranteed. :)

There may  be veggies in the recipe you don't like. Switch em for your own favorites. Or make it with no veggies at all. You can adjust the recipe and resulting calorie count any way you like. Just don't use canned veggies, they have added salt and usually corn syrup, and have fewer nutrients.  Fresh or frozen only to get these golden numbers.

Lollie's Guilt-free Pasta Dream

 
YOU'LL NEED:
1 big freezer bag
6 zip lock sandwich bags

YOU MIGHT LIKE:
The Fasta Pasta Maker (if you're only making 1 or 2 servings)
I do. :)


INGREDIENTS TO PUT IN EACH BAGGIE (& 1 for Today)
Ronzoni Elbow Macaroni - 1/2 cup = 2 oz
PictSweet brand Seasoning Blend - 1/2 (chopped mostly onion w/bell pepper)
Pictsweet brand Cut Okra  - 1/2 cup
Birds Eye brand Steamfresh Cut Green Beans - 1/2 cup
or squash or whatever veggies you like
 

SAUCE
Smart Balance 37% Light Spread -  1 Tablespoon
Great Value (Wal-Mart) Crushed Tomatoes In Puree - 1 cup
Lindsay Sliced Black Olives - 2 T
Season it the way you always season goulash. It's important YOU love it.

DIRECTIONS
First put the measured amounts of macaroni and veggies into the baggies and the fasta pasta, you'll have a little extra macaroni, throw it into the fasta pasta, it's still gonna even out. There are seven servings in the box. Toss the baggies in the freezer. Might take five minutes total.


Put the tablespoon of buttery spread in the sauce pan on low heat, add crushed tomatoes, black olives, Mrs dash and stir then put a lid on it.

Add cold water from the tap to the second line of the Fasta Pasta, remember to leave the lid off (it's only to make straining a snap after it's done) put in the microwave for (depending on your make and model) 14 minutes at a power level of 9.

Turn up the music, get in front of a mirror and taebo-weightlift-dance-run in place till the timer goes off. Now the only difference I can tell between high fiber and regular pasta is  high fiber seems to cook faster than regular pasta while it's just sitting there in hot water. So don't walk. Trot or run to that microwave, carefully remove it, put the lid on firmly, and drain. Pour the contents into a large bowl, add the sauce and wonder how you can eat all that delicous food for so few calories!!.  here are the numbers.... based on my ingredients, (my height and current weight to figure the calories burned):

Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs		Fiber	Protein
1	394	9g	0mg	626mg	72g		14g	12g

MINUS the 115 calories burned = 279 net calories. 

Sit down, look at each bite before you put it in your mouth. Take a sip of wine or big gulp of 0 calorie tea between each bite. Think about what you're doing. O! M! G!  Are you actually eating a really BIG serving of truly delicious goulash that is low calorie, heart healthy, toned your body and even improved your skin?  Wait a minute,.... that's right.... 

How does it improve your skin?

"Tomatos as Sunscreen
Volunteers ate four tablespoons of tomato paste a day for three months to see if the food protected the skin from sun. After three months the an antioxidant found in tomatoes, replenishes the skin cells. lycopene also prevents skin wrinkles by keeping elastic skin tissues from losing tenseness." (reference link)

You're not going to eat this every day. But on those days when your hunger pangs are radiating so far up your throat it makes your mouth water it's wonderful to prepare this in under 2 minutes, rock out for 14, and then kick back, and without an iota of guilt - enjoy a big steaming bowl of pasta.

Me? I'm a 56 year old, female mad diet scientist and I am my only guinea pig. I have four servings of broccoli almost every day and I have this goulash almost every day. It's not a face lift. But all kinds of people tell me what a lovely complexion I have, they're always saying I glow and don't look near my age.  Well here's the thing, I always had a good complexion and it seemed to start aging faster when I hit 50, but that has come to a screeching slow down.  My, "attractive for a woman my age" face has gotten more compliments in the last year than all the previous years of my life. And this damn sure isn't my first diet. But it sure is my favorite.

You just THOUGHT you couldn't eat lotsa pasta on a healthy diet! :)&-=

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Five Physics Games that Calm Mind, Body and Spirit

These five physics games are challenging and calming all at the same time. They shift your focus, providing an excellent and full break from whatever you're working on or suffering through. After playing one of these games, it's amazing how often you'll come back to the matter and easily see the perfect perspective, plan or solution. Try them on if you like.  :)

easy one first, hardest one last:

• Redstar Fall
• 
  
• Totem Destroyer
• 
  
• Totem Destroyer II
• 
  
• Redstar Fall Pro
• 
  
• D.U.I.

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Can Dessert For Breakfast Help Your Diet? That's a BIG YES!

I've finally settled down so I've had the same doctor for over a year now. Every time she sees me she's surprised I'm still losing weight. No real plateaus, no great speed, just a steady 5 to 7 pounds lost every month. Every time she'll say again, "All your numbers are perfect, calcium, cholesterol, heart rate. blood sugar.... Now tell me again what you're eating?" 

As I've mentioned here before, I'm a big fan of 'YOU on a Diet', 'Volumetrics' and 'The Daily Plate website' .  I'm not a cook. I don't use an oven more than once a year. So I used those two books to come up with what is for me, the ultimate, delicious, satisfying, nutritious dessert breakfast.

I don't think it's possible or healthy to stick to a low fat diet. I stick to a balanced diet with only healthy fats. I'm on 1442 calories a day.  This is a stick-to-your-ribs breakfast that will make your mouth water as soon as you open that microwave and the scent hits your nose.  The average woman needs 25 to 30 grams of fiber a day. In America, women tend to get under seven grams of fiber a day.  As you can see, I jump start my fiber intake with this breakfast.

If you'd like to start your day with a delicious dessert that you don't ever have to feel guilty about, you might want to try this on.

Peach Cobblery Steel Cut Oats

Peach

 1 peach (170g)

Bob's Red Mill Steel Cut Oats Cereal

1/4 Cup dry (40g)

Skippy Natural Creamy Peanut Butter

1 Tbsp (16 grams)

Splenda With Fiber

3 packets

Cinnamon

1 Teaspoon

Water
1.3 Cup

 

Dump the dry ingredients into a high sideded seven cup Rubbermaid bowl. Add the water. Then the MEASURED peanut butter and a peach chopped up. Set the power to 8, the time to 14 minutes, hit start, turn up the music and dance till your breakfast is done.

At my weight, that means I burn 115 calories fixing breakfast, gets my heart rate and metabolism up, I dance in front of mirrors so it gets me smiling, But nothing makes me smile like the numbers.... Look at these, from my page at The Daily Plate.

	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs		Fiber	Protein
	1	338	11g	0mg	75mg	51g		12g	12g

OMFG did you just have a net 223 calorie, big, delicious dessert for breakfast that made you more beautiful: skin, face, body weight and tone, inside and out????   That's a great big delicious YES!  :)

But wait... while we're here, two more things. Of course you'll wash that peach before you cut it, and then you'll cut it and then you'll think you need to wash your hands... nooooo.  Do not wash peach juice off your hands.  Work that barely acidic juice into your face and neck (It will NOT be sticky once dry) or if you've already applied your makeup, rub in on your arms.  You'll love the way it makes your skin feel.

And while you're dancing, if you're half as into yourself as I am, you're looking in a mirror, what a perfect time to do your  Vowels Face Exercises. Say your vowels as extremely as you can Ayyyyyyyy Ayyyyyyyy Ayyyyyyy, tightening your face muscles as you go  then finish your breakfast and think about it....

I've faced many days in my life that started out with unhealthy foods in unhealthy amounts.  Now for over a year I've started out every day looking my best, happy as a lark and proud of myself too.  Try it on if you like. McDonald's is crazy - I'm loving THIS. :)

How's YOUR Sweetie Feeling Towards You Today?

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How I Made Someone Happy they'd gotten an STD.....

Nancy was my best friend. She was blonde, big busted, lean, and resembled a young, very pretty version of Barbara Streisand.  She was of course very popular. She had three children under the age of five and she was not a disciplinarian. So her kids were more than a handful. I was reading her cards and saw that she was going to get pregnant in three months.

"NOOooooo!!!  I can't be! I mustn't!  Lollie, another one? Are you sure??"

"Pretty sure. The symbols are unhealthy, sex, happy.... that's pregnant.  But remember, the future isn't set in stone. Take precautions.  Don't put out. If you do put out, use protection."

"Oh God. Lollie you know me. I go out with good intentions, have a few drinks and wake up with another really cute bum. I can't take the pill. All I can do is 'try' to be careful."

This was back in the seventies.  No one had heard of HIV or AIDS. It was one really long summer of free love.  And this was also before I had learned what a weakening word "try" is.  Try means as long as you exert effort, it's okay if you fail. Cause hey, you 'tried."

She takes off to visit friends in another city for a few months... I forget all about the reading.... Then late one night, around two a.m., there was Nancy banging on my door, singing, laughing, hollering for me to get up and let her in. I stumble to the door, open it and Nancy bounces in. As I wiped the sleep out of my eyes she continued to hop around me, clapping her hands, grinning from ear to ear. I said "Nancy, what is going on? What are you so happy about?"

She slows her bouncing and beams at me, "I've got the CLAP!!"

I knew I must have heard her wrong.  "What?"

She grabbed my arms and looked me in the eyes and said "Lollie, I've got the CLAP!!

"Oooohkay.... not exactly something I'd expect you to be thrilled about..."

"You don't remember? You told me in three months, unhealthy, sex, happy. I've been scared to death I was going to get knocked up. I thought I might be. I went to the health department and your cards were right, unhealthy, sex, happy, and you were wrong I'm not pregnant. All I've got is the clap. I can get rid of this with two shots and no recriminations. It is unhealthy sex and I am THRILLED!"

And that's how I made a girl happy she had the clap.  True story. May God take my two dogs, Mr. Minnihan and Mr. Black, if I'm lying.

As far as I can tell, my cards don't make mistakes. But every once in a while I'll see something as obvious as unhealthy, sex and happy... and misinterpret them.  Take notes. Every time you get a reading, take notes. 

 

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Oprah Shoulda Followed Dr. Oz instead of Bob Greene

New study shows calories ingested vs calories burned is still the gold standard of what works to take off pounds and inches.....  but there's more to that story they didn't look into.

I have been on every kind of diet imaginable. Boiled eggs, grapefruit, weight watchers, atkins, the macro diet, Bob Green, south beach, and the good news is, the statistics are correct, they all work. 

However, the important question is not whether or not you can lose weight any and all of the above ways.

The important question is: "Which ones can  you comfortably," dare I say it, "even enjoyably live with for the long haul?" 

My nick name could have been Yoyo most of my life because that's all I did, climb on one diet, fall off, climb on another one, fall off, get discouraged, just keep getting fatter for a year or two, climb on another diet.... Rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat....

Is it any wonder I got discouraged?  That was before 
"You on a Diet"   I have lost sixty one pounds slowly, but surely and most importantly, comfortably and I'll be damned, and go to hell if I'm lyin'...   ENJOYABLY by living the Dr. Oz way. I still have sixty one pounds to go. I get impatient, but not stressed. No fear. I can stick with anything I enjoy. I felt guilty about every bite I put into my mouth until I started following Dr. Oz.  That's over. I love eating now!

You will never be able to feel satisfied on a low fat diet.  You can tough it out for months and maybe even a few years.  But you can't feel satisfied that way. You'll never feel satisfied that way.

On the other hand, bacon will kill you. :)  

After a life time of dieting I have learned that there are certain key ingredients to being able to enjoy a diet.....

• Pretty much every bite better be nutritious because your body is hungry for nutrition. 

• Balanced amounts of whole foods and healthy fats are essential.

• Eliminating high fructose corn syrup is utterly essential. It has sabotaged more diets, healthy and otherwise, than any other product known to mankind.

• You must eat slowly. The smartest and hardest new habit I ever made has been learning to put the fork down between bites. I learned to take a sip between each bite, drinking with the same hand I eat with.... and finally, I've got a healthy new habit that cuts calories without leaving me feeling hungry.

• Keeping a food journal is free, easier than it's ever been and keeps you on track. How many calories did you have yesterday? If you don't know, there's a real good chance you ate too many.

Right around the election Oprah and I both gained weight, but I gained ten pounds and she gained forty.  What was the difference? Well for one thing, her diet coach is Bob Greene, mine is Dr. Oz. And who introduced me to Dr. Oz? Oprah.  So why does she follow Bob Greene instead of Dr. Oz? I don't know.

So when she had those binging urges she'd eat a bag of oh so healthy (NOT!) blue corn chips.  That's either 1260 calories for the 9 oz bag, or 2240 calories for the 16 oz bag.

When I had binging urges I'd fix another bag (yes a whole bag / four servings) of frozen broccoli nuked and served with one serving of classico alfredo sauce (60 calories)   That's right, it's a huge meal with eight grams of filling fiber and 8 grams of hunger killing protein for only 180 calories.   I cannot say I will never ever emotionally over eat again.  But I can say that if I do, it will be 180 calories of delicious, nutritious, high fiber and high protein, Broccoli Alfredo!

Bottom line, calories in and calories out tell the statistical story of what works to take the pounds off.  But if you don't just want to lose weight for as long as you can stand the diet....  If you want to find a healthy way of life that you can enjoy and keep losing weight on day after day, month after month.... Dr. Oz is still the author of the best diet, You on a Diet. 

Nothing tastes better or satisfies more than the food I eat on my 'diet.'  Nothing.  If you give your body a chance to fall in love with real food for one month, it will - because your body craves nutrition.  Every cell in my body cheers at the aroma of steel cut oats, a sweet potato, high fiber pasta, double fiber bread....  We, me and my body, we never knew how much we craved nutrition until we gave nutrition a real shot.  Wow, what a life changing event! 

Calories ingested vs calories burned sounds good on paper, but if every calorie isn't jam packed with nutrition, if you're not eating slowly enough, if you're not keeping track, if you don't find an aerobic physical activity you can enjoy - you cannot sustain the weight loss.

If I woke up tomorrow at my perfect weight, I would still prefer the food I eat on this so called diet to any of the fake foods that fill our grocery stores.  And if you ever get tired of Yoyo-ing, I recommend truly nutrient rich food very highly.  :)&-=
 

 

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