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Clean-Eating Deviled Eggs

Posted on April 30, 2016 Leave a Comment

I admit it. I have a serious weakness for deviled eggs. I can’t imagine a summer bbq or pool-side picnic without their presence. But considering our family recipe comes with 150-300 calories per egg, depending on the amount of mayo added, I knew that for my new healthy lifestyle, I needed to find a new “lighter” recipe.

After searching high and low, I came across these super yummy “Clean-Eating Deviled Eggs” from SkinnyMs.

clean-eating-deviled-eggsThey have just 90 calories (or 3SP) for one egg (both havles)!

The secret is in in the non-fat Greek yogurt in place of the traditional mayo. A little bit of honey is added to sweeten them up just a bit and instead of the vinegar, I opted for my families favorite, sweet pickle juice. No one could tell that these were lightened up and not our usual picnic-fare.

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Clean-Eating Deviled Eggs
Author: SkinnyMs.
Recipe type: Appetizer
Cuisine: American
Prep time:  5 mins
Cook time:  12 mins
Total time:  17 mins
Serves: 4
 
Lightened-up, clean-eating, deviled eggs - no one will know they are any different!
Ingredients
  • 4 large eggs, hard boiled and shells removed
  • 2 tablespoons Greek yogurt, plain, nonfat
  • 1 teaspoon white or cider vinegar, optional freshly squeezed lemon juice (I opted for sweet pickle juice)
  • 1 teaspoon honey (optional, I did use it)
  • ½ teaspoon yellow or Dijon mustard (I used Kroger Dijon)
  • ¼ teaspoon chili powder
  • ⅛ teaspoon black pepper
  • Dash of cayenne pepper (optional)
  • Kosher or sea salt to taste
  • Paprika for garnish
Instructions
  1. Place eggs in pot of cold water - water level should be 1-2 inches above eggs.
  2. Heat to rolling boil and then turn off heat and cover eggs and let simmer for 12 minutes.
  3. Rinse eggs in cold water and peel.
  4. Slice hardboiled eggs in half lengthwise.
  5. Remove yolks, add to a small mixing bowl and mash with a fork.
  6. Combine in a separate bowl the remaining ingredients, except paprika.
  7. Add yogurt mixture to yolks and stir to combine.
  8. Evenly divide mixture inside the egg whites.
  9. Sprinkle with paprika and refrigerate until ready to eat.
  10. Optional add ins: 1 tablespoon diced green onions; 1 tablespoon diced sun-dried tomatoes (packed in olive oil & drained); 1 tablespoon diced pimientos (drained); 1 teaspoon dried diced onion or dried diced garlic.
Nutrition Information
Yields: 4 servings | Serving Size: 1 egg
Amount per serving: SmartPoints: 3, Calories: 98, Total Fat: 5 g, Saturated Fat: 2 g, Trans Fat: 0 g, Carbohydrates: 2 g, Sugars: 2 g, Sodium: 87 mg, Dietary Fiber: 0 g, Protein: 7 g, Cholesterol: 190
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Filed Under: All Recipes, Appetizers, Sides Tagged With: Appetizers, Clean Eating, Eggs, Side Dishes

No Caffeine, Still Chest Pain

Posted on April 28, 2016 Leave a Comment

It’s been 24 hours without caffeine. I started thinking that perhaps a daily 6-pack of diet coke wasn’t helping my erratic heartbeats and I should probably cut that out until I figure out what all is going on in my body. I also cut out my morning cup of coffee, but that’s no big deal really because it just gave me heartburn.

Luckily for me Coke makes a caffeine-free version of Diet Coke, because I don’t think I can live on unflavored water for the rest of my life. I’ve learned that there are VERY FEW beverages out there that don’t come packed with caffeine. For example, I was going to pick a pack of Diet Sunkist until I googled it and found out that it is the ONLY orange soda that has caffeine. Really??? That’s nuts!

20160427_152153Anyway, I went about my walk as usual, it’s a gorgeous day and there’s no way I’m not getting out there to enjoy it and get some un-bottled, natural Vitamin D. They say that Vitamin D is good for your heart and Lord knows I need some help right about now.

It was at about the 1/2 mile mark that my chest started really hurting. I even got a touch of vertigo and had to sit down. It was scary. I wasn’t even walking that fast and my heart was felt like it wanted to jump out of my chest. I could feel it pumping in my neck. I could even feel the irregular beats while taking my pulse on my wrist. Something is just not right.

These irregularities are becoming more and more noticeable each time I exert any type of energy, and then my heartbeat goes crazy and beats all types of irregular.

After I got back and calmed down, I went ahead and posted a request on Facebook for anyone to recommend a cardiologist – if you read my last post you know I was less than impressed with the treadmill Dr., so far there’s been a couple of recommendations but after calling on each, neither accept self referrals. Hopefully some more people will respond and I can find somewhere else to go.

UPDATE: My friend Angie, a nurse at a cardiology clinic, recommended two different doctors and both accept self-referalls. THANK YOU, JESUS!!! I’m scheduled for early next week.

 

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20 pounds down!

Posted on April 26, 2016 Leave a Comment

Today I celebrated 20 pounds lost!!!Woohoo! It’s nice to be able to say I’ve lost a double digit number – when I weigh myself each day, I don’t really see the change, but I know I’m making progress. Even if slowly.

I have started weighing myself in the mornings because I find that to be the most consistent time for my body. But I’ve started thinking that most of the weight loss blogs that I follow were started AFTER they lost the weight. I’m still a bit nervous to start posting my scale pics. Maybe in a month or so. It’s still just so embarrassing that I let myself get so heavy.

Anyway, also today we were forecast to have some severe weather, so I got out for a bit to do some shopping and stock up on bottled water and flash lights. Of course the nearby Dillon’s and Walmart were both sold out of flashlights, so I was FORCED to go to Target

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Monday Morning Motivation 4-25

Posted on April 25, 2016 Leave a Comment

keep-going

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Lightened-Up Sour Cream Chicken Enchilada’s

Posted on April 25, 2016 Leave a Comment

My family loves Mexican food. And by loves, I mean LOVES, LOVES, LOVES Mexican food. We eat it at least twice a week, if not more. So when I started our family on this new healthy journey, they were very concerned about what would happen to their favorite enchilada dish.

mama-lupes-low-carb-torilla Along the way I’ve discovered Mama Lupe Low Carb Tortillas and they have truly been a God-send. Even though these are low carb (only 3g net carbs per tortilla!) they taste just like regular tortilla’s, no one will ever know they are eating something healthy! Also, they are just 60 calories each! What???!!! Yep. Eat away! I can think of so many uses for these little pieces of heaven… wraps, mini-pizza’s, quesadilla’s, maybe even oven baked chips! Hum, I need to try that!

I originally calculated this for one serving to equal one enchilada, which makes this recipe for Lightened Up Sour Cream Chicken Enchilada’s just 188 calories for 1 enchilada, or 5 Weight Watcher Smart Points. The original recipe, http://allrecipes.com/recipe/16701/sour-cream-chicken-enchiladas/, comes in at 265 calories for 1 enchilada.

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Lightened-Up Sour Cream Chicken Enchilada's
Author: Just Get Walking
Recipe type: Main Dish
Cuisine: Mexican
Prep time:  20 mins
Cook time:  30 mins
Total time:  50 mins
Serves: 12
 
This recipe originally comes from Brenda at All Recipes, she says "Shredded chicken, fresh cilantro, green chile salsa and jalapeno salsa flavor these sour cream enchiladas. They are very easy to make, and are for lunch the next day. They are somewhat spicy-hot and full of cilantro".
Ingredients
  • 1 bunch cilantro
  • 1 cup Daisy Light sour cream
  • 2 (7 ounce) cans jalapeno salsa
  • 2 (7 ounce) cans diced green chiles
  • 2 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cooked and shredded
  • 1 onion
  • 12 Mama Lupe Low Carb tortillas
  • 2 cups Sargento reduced fat 4 cheese mexican
Instructions
  1. To Make Sour Cream Mixture: In a blender or food processor, puree cilantro, sour cream, jalapeno salsa and 1½ can of the diced green chiles. Set aside.
  2. To Make Chicken Mixture: In a large bowl, combine shredded chicken, onion and the remaining ½ cans of diced green chiles. Mix well.
  3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  4. Heat tortillas in conventional or microwave oven until soft. Pour enough of the sour cream mixture into a 9x13 inch baking dish to coat the bottom. Place 2 heaping tablespoonfuls of the chicken mixture in each tortilla, roll up and place seam side down in the baking dish.
  5. Pour remaining sour cream mixture over all and top with shredded cheese.
  6. Cover dish tightly with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 30 minutes, or until dish is heated through and bubbling.
Nutrition Information
Yield: 12 servings, Serving Size: 1 enchilada
Amount Per Serving: Smart Points: 5, Calories: 188, Total Fat: 10.0g, Saturated fat: 4.0g, Carbohydrates: 10.3g, Sugar: 2.1g, Sodium: 635.8mg, Fiber: 4.2g, Protein: 18.4g, Cholesterol: 35mg
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Today I Joined Weight Watchers

Posted on April 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

SO, today I decided to join Weight Watchers OnlinePlus program. They were offering a free sign-up and had a promotion of “get paid to get healthy” where they will pay me $50 if I lose 10 pounds in 3 months, so I figured I had nothing to lose but more weight.

Greg’s first response was “What, so now you’re done with MyFitnessPal?” NOOOOO, actually just the opposite. I’m going to continue tracking my food intake with BOTH apps.

My reasoning is, so many of the low-calorie, healthy, recipes that I come across are calculated using the SmartPoints or PointsPlus system and it got me wondering… how is that different than the calorie amount that I’m allowed on MFP? So, I purchased a one-month membership and am now building all my recipes in both apps.

So far, I am finding that they are pretty much the same. In MFP, I’m allowed 1360 calories per day and on WW, I get 38 PP+ and on the first day I used up exactly all of both – all 1360 calories on MFP and all 38 PP+ on WW – with the exact same recipes and amounts consumed. Pretty cool.

The main difference I notice is that on MFP, EVERYTHING gets counted and on WW – fruits are NOT subtracted from your points. FRUITS ARE FREE! This is a big deal to me beacause I eat a TON of fruit. But, having it be “free” might also might be a bad thing, because I do eat so much of it. But, since I’m still tracking in MFP, I know that I’ll never go over because that app will always keep me accountable by counting every single thing.

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