Wanted to share...

I wanted to share a blog that I use for recipes on occasion.  Has everybody seen:  http://blog.yourlighterside.com/


Its a very good blog and has lots of recipes.  The most famous recipe is the Oopsie rolls.   Just thought I would share.  They even have gluten free as well as I know some of you fellow ladies in the BFC sisterhood are following.  Good luck with everyone's healthy food choice today.  So far I am proud to report I have not cheated on the BFC meal plan today.  And my Shiritaki noodles just arrived so I will be making a hopefully yummy stir fry as another blogger suggested.  I am excited for my dinner creation tonight!! yippie!

On to Day 2

Well I am happy to report day one was halfway a success.  I ate two eggs for breakfast and a healthy salad with super carbs and O/V dressing, but I couldn't finish it because there was to much olive oil and it turned me off the salad.  But then by dinner time, I was ready to eat my own arm, lol!!  I think its because I didn't eat hardly any carbs trying to follow the fast track BFC due to the wedding im in this weekend.  Well I don't think that was the greatest idea on my part.  I had to run errands with my hubby to Home Depot & Lowes to do some pricing for a house my hubby is remodeling for his job and while we were out, we went to Steak N Shake that was in the same parking lot.  Let me tell you how guilty I feel because I had the frisco melt which is a BIG no no!!!  So my plan for tomorrow is to eat more then a salad for lunch and stick with a lighter dinner so I don't feel so starved through the day.  So I went ahead and cooked two lunches and put them in my little sectional tupperware and into the fridge so there easy to grab in the morning.  I think this will help me big time.  Check my meal out. :)  One and half hamburger patty cooked on my George Foremen, Brocolli in cheese sauce, mushrooms, one piece of bacon and sharp cheese, and tomorrow I will use a little mustard and I am all set for a yummy and more filling lunch yet low sugars, and very low carbs.

Another day in my healthy lifestyle

Well today hasn't started that great for a number of reasons.  First its Monday and I really didn't want to come to work.  Second its raining like cats and dogs out here which makes the traffic awful.  Total bummer for a dreary Monday.  But on one positive note, I did make two eggs with cheese for breakfast and then prepared my romaine lettuce salad for lunch topped with broccoli, mushrooms, bacon bits, cheese, cucumbers, O/V dressing.  Mmmm!!  And I'm planning on doing a meat and veggie for dinner tonight.  I am still waiting on my Shiritaki noodles from the www.asianfoodgrocery.com but they should be here tomorrow or Wednesday per Fed Ex so I am excited to be trying these.  So far its been a good day food wise, but otherwise its pretty crappy.  These rainy days just make me wanna stay home and stay in bed with a good movie being lazy all day.  I don't wanna have to come here to work and actually have to think, lol!!  But hey I gotta pay my bills. ; )  

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  As Sherri posted, I hope we start sharing more recipes in our blogs.  I have a separate tab, but haven't posted to many there yet.  I will start trying to be better.  Anyways the more recipes we share, I think it will be better.  I know we all get bored with our own food ideas.  Routine is nice because you can remember what your allowed to have without having to measure all the new carbs/sugars, but routine gets boring too. 

Well day one of my strict BFC diet has begun!  I did start somewhat last week, but I had lots of stress and cheated on the plan here and there.  I have been feeling sick to my stomach lately to, so I don't know if the flu is going around, but I really hope that isn't the case.  Anyways, this week has been my true start, because this weekend I have to wear a bridesmaid dress for a wedding I am in and I wanna see if I can lose those starter BFC lbs before Saturday since the dress I am wearing is comfy standing up, but not so much sitting.  I am doing this diet on top of purchasing some spanx control top panty hose. LOL!!!  I am just ready for this weekend to be over.  I love my best friend, but I am not looking forward to being and looking fat in this bridesmaid dress on top of feeling nausea.   : (  Wish me luck to some lbs. down! : )

My Do OVER! : )

Well its been a while, but I had fallen off the wagon and didn't blog about my bad eating moments so now I am back to say I am going to do a "Do Over" with this BFC.  This time I am going to try my hardest to fight and have will power to keep on top of things.  I am starting at 216 lbs this time around.  My ultimate goal is to get down to 140 lbs.  My more short term goal is to try to lose about 10 lbs. per month.  

I have been following lots of peoples blogs like Rosalie and her great accomplishment of losing 70 lbs.  Amazing!!, Mini chick and her gluten free BFC lifestyle, Me and Jorge, and many other great blogs.  All these blogs have helped me be motivated to want to accomplish my goal.  I know I can do it, its just things have been stressful in my life and in those times I wanna make excuses of why I can't follow through with this diet or why I need that candy bar or french fries to make myself feel better.  Only to find out when I am done eating these things, I feel like total crap and also guilty that I have given into my emotions and ate something I knew I didn't need.  

I hope you will all follow my blog and help me with encouragement as I will helps others as well.

So far I had a big bottle of water and a Jalepeno Sausage Wrap from Quick trip 34g carb/3 g sugar

I am planning on running to the grocery store on my lunch break to grab some snacks for here at work.  Things like wraps, lunch meat, water, maybe some celery with peanut butter.  

Good luck to all of us!!

New cooking ideas, im running out

Well I know its been a long time since I posted a blog, but I have been really busy and just really didn't know what to blog about in recent times.  But Friday I ordered a new cookbook to help me with some more low calorie healthy recipes.  (still staying on the low sugar side or subbing a BFC sugar approved sub in place of real sugar)  I ordered the Betty Crocker 300 Calorie Cookbook that I saw in a Women's Day magazine last month.  Its has some really yummy ideas that I wanted to try.

I wanted to share this idea with everyone.  And I thought it might be fun if everyone else shared some ideas for coming up with new things to eat so this diet doesn't get to boring.  

What is everyone's most common three meals they eat?  I heard its good to eat basically the same sorta of things for breakfast and lunch everyday and then toss up a difference with dinner.  Anyone else heard this?  Like for example if you eat eggs each day that should be your breakfast, and if you like tuna salad each day that should be your basic lunch....I mean I know you can toss it up a bit, but it just helps your body stay stable or something I guess.  I am no expert that is why I ask this question.

Please share your food ideas.  We can all help one another by sharing. :)

Thank you and everyone keep up the good work!! 

Hungry Girl Recipes

http://www.hungry-girl.com/chew/index.php

Anyone heard of Hungry Girl?  She has some great recipes listed on her site.  Like swap this for something you like and she shows you exactly what to substitute.  I know most of my fellow bloggers are following the BFC, but you can use several of her recipes on this particular diet as well because we know what ingredients we can have and not have.  But I thought it was pretty interesting when I came across this site looking for new recipes to try and thought I would share with everyone.  

Tried the Dukan Diet but back to BFC

Okay everyone, its been a while since I blogged but I didn't have much to write about because I wasn't following my diet to well so I didn't want to share my downfalls and cheats with everyone to make them feel down.  But anyways I tried again to go back on a diet and did the Dukan Diet for a day or two and I just have to say even though it claims that you will lose weight fast in the attack phase....its quite hard to keep on because it took away all of my energy.  I thought I could just do the attack phase for 10 days like it stated to jump start my weight lose and lose the 10lbs. but after a day or two I was so weak, tired, and had a major headache from just eating fat free diary and high amounts of protein.  So my mind has been made up, that BFC is by far the best diet overall because its healthy and its learning a healthy way of eating for life not all these different phases.  I am going to stop trying all these diets and just put my foot down and know that this is beneficial for my over all health.