When I started the South Beach diet about a month ago, finding things to eat for lunch became very hard.
In the first two weeks of the South Beach diet, you are not supposed to eat bread, rice, pasta, croutons, crackers...you get the point.
Salads get boring, and sometimes you just want a little more than a piece of meat for dinner.
So, I started thinking about some healthy alternatives to get me through it. One thing I tried was cutting up chicken, cooking it in some soy sauce and wrapping it in lettuce, to create a kind of Thai lettuce wrap. They are delicious and have easily become one of my favorite things to eat!
Health.com offers several more tips for some healthy swap-outs to some of your everyday fattening challenges, including:
*sprinkling walnuts over your salad instead of croutons
*drinking red wine instead of cocktails
*snacking on edamame and nuts instead of cheese and crackers
*having margerine spread instead of butter and more.
Check them out, you might find some of them to be quite useful!
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/cholesterol/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100252284>1=31007
Do any of YOU have some healthy swap-outs to suggest?
Friends play a very important role in our lives. We turn to them for advice, they coach us through hard times, they celebrate good times with us. It's only natural we want them there with us every step of the way as we embark on our weight loss journeys.
But friends can also encourage you to indulge in naughty foods when they want to, skip the gym when they want to go shopping with you and more.
Or friends can go with you to the gym and for mid-morning runs.
We all have friends, and we all (I'm pretty sure) are trying to lose weight on here. So I want to know, to what degree do you think YOUR friends aid or demolish your weight loss efforts?
I know that in my experience, having you buddies to talk to about what I'm eating and what I'm losing helps me because you all really understand where I'm coming from and how exciting these things are!
So what do YOU think?