Snack Attack! Guide to Healthy Snacks

good habits for healthLooking for low carb & low calorie snacks? Well, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve gathered a nice list of ideas for you. Many people who are on the 17 Day Diet talk to me daily through our support chat (available when you buy the app for iPhone or Android phones), and a common question is: “In the evening I get the urge to snack and I need snack ideas, can you help me?” So, here it is! Healthy snack ideas. If you’re not on the 17 Day Diet, don’t worry, this list is for anyone looking to make healthy choices.

1. Asian Lettuce Wraps by Eat Yourself Skinny

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2. Healthy Tuna Salad by Lift. Laugh. Love. Lauren - this can also [...]

Flat Belly Diet

Find out how the Flat Belly Diet can help you lose 15 pounds in 32 days and learn lifetime healthy habits.
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BASICS
The basics of the diet are eating three meals and one snack a day each totaling 400 calories. You will eat 1600 calories daily with a Mediterranean-style eating plan and places an emphasis on eating real foods and avoiding processed ones. The key to the diet is eating a MUFA every meal. MUFA’s are monounsaturated fats found in nuts, seeds, dark chocolate, flax, avocado, and oils. In the Flat Belly Diet! book Coauthor and Registered Dietician Cynthia Sass explains, “research shows that MUFAs have health benefits and target belly fat. They also help control satiety, so by adding in one MUFA at [...]

Mandarin Orange and Dark Chocolate Treat!

Oh wow! How tasty is this?! Mandarin oranges dipped in dark chocolate! Pure heaven!

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For a single serving, you will need:

1 mandarin orange
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips or Semi Sweet Baking Squares

First melt some semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips in a Double Boiler. If you don’t have a double boiler, you could use the microwave or even just a regular pan – but try not to burn the chocolate! Take a Mandarin Orange, peel it, split it into sections. Dip the sections in the chocolate. Place on a plate or piece of wax paper to harden. Sprinkle with a little sea salt if you’d like – with or without sea salt they’re going to be delicious!
Try more healthy snack ideas with this cookbook, [...]

Eat Clean Tortilla Chicken Soup

This recipe is the perfect companion to any diet. It is a giant pot of protein and filling vegetables. The best part of this dish: it is made in the slow cooker.

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Recipe:

5 Chicken Breasts, boneless and skinless 
2 Jars of Salsa
1 Packet Reduced-Sodium Taco Seasoning (or 2 TBSP)
1 Onion
2 Peppers (Red, yellow, or green)
1 Bag Sliced Mushrooms
Juice from 1 Lime
1 Can (6oz) of Green Chillies
Chicken Broth (optional)

Directions:

Line your slow cooker with a Slow Cooker Liner to make clean up a breeze
Put the chicken in the slow cooker and squeeze the lime over the chicken
Add the packet of taco seasoning
Chop the onions, peppers, and mushrooms, throw on top of chicken
Empty the chillies and salsa on top
Cook on low for 6 hours
Remove Chicken and shred, return to slow cooker

Notes:

Add the chicken broth to thin the soup.
Top with whatever you please or what your diet allows. [...]

Satisfy my Sweet Tooth

I love desserts, snacks, and anything sweet. I love chocolate, candy, hot fudge, and everything else that doesn’t fit into a swimsuit. I have gone cold-turkey, spent days and months sans sweets. Horrible. To me, sweets are a must and with a little creativity they too can fit into a swimsuit. Try these Pomegranate-Strawberry Gummies next time your sweet tooth is calling.

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Ingredients:

1 cup Pomegranate Juice
2 cups Strawberries
5 Envelopes Gelatine
1-2 packets Stevia

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Instructions:

Slice strawberries and place into a pot over medium heat, add the juice 
Cook until the strawberries become tender, about 5-7 minutes
Pour fruit mixture into a blender, blend
Add the stevia (i used two packets since pomegranate juice is very tart), blend
Allow the mixture to cool for 5 minutes
Add gelatine, blend
Pour mixture onto a baking sheet and let it set in the fridge for one hour
Cut into shapes with [...]

Egg Muffins – Healthy Breakfast or Snack

This is the perfect breakfast recipe to accompany the 17 Day Diet or Paleo – or any healthful eating plan. If you are on cycle one, these muffins provide cleansing vegetables and lean protein and go great with salsa.

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Ingredients:

 

16 Egg Whites
6 Eggs
1 Bell Pepper, sliced
2 cup Mushrooms, sliced
4 cups Spinach

 

1) Whisk egg whites and eggs together, 2) sauté pepper and mushrooms for three minutes, 3) add the spinach until it wilts, 4) place even amounts of vegetables in a muffin tin sprayed with cooking spray, 5) evenly spoon egg mix over the vegetables, 6) bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees, 7) after 30 minutes remove from oven and let the muffins cool for five minutes before placing them on a cooling rack, 8) EAT.

This recipe makes 24 muffins with around 45 calories each and packed with protein. I recommend [...]

The Clean 15

Want to save your wallet at the grocery store? Then dont worry about buying these 15 produce items organic. “The Clean 15″ is conventional produce with limited pesticides. Lets get shopping!

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The Dirty Dozen

The 12 fruits and veggies you should be buying organic.IMG_0213With over-whelming research and publications about organic foods, it is difficult to ignore the benefits. Among other benefits, buying and eating organic reduces the amount of chemicals you place in your body and it’s better for the environment from the lack of pesticides. However, there are two main things that hinder my organic eating. 1.) Organic produce isn’t always in large supply. 2.) Lets just face it, eating organic is expensive.
Thankfully, I found the “Dirty Dozen.” The Dirty Dozen has become important in my grocery lists and has helped my wallet on weekly shopping trips. The D.D. is a list of 12 items to help you buy organic, healthy foods. It was compiled by the USDA after washing produce with the mother of all washing systems. The produce that made the list still [...]

Valentines Day Sweets

With the little self control I have, I do my best to avoid sweets. That pint of Ben and Jerry’s containing four servings and over 1000 calories is easily consumed in a night when no matter how many times I say “I’ll just have a bite.”  But in honor of Valentines Days, I have decided to make some of my favorite cookies: cake-mix cookies. But, with a little twist. Instead of the oil and eggs the recipe calls for, I will be substituting  yogurt and egg whites to cut back on fat and calories.

The traditional recipe is as follows:
1 box cake mix
1/2 c oil
2 eggs

 

 

 

 

 

Twisted Recipe:
1 box cake mix (Valentines funfetti)
1/2 cup non fat yogurt, plain or vanilla
1/2 cup egg whites

1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl until it forms a dough
2. [...]

11 Quick + Healthy Packable Lunch Choices

Most people have a job they go to on a daily basis. And they have such busy lives they don’t have time to think about what to take to work the next day for lunch. So, they end up going to the nearest drive through and snacking on foods that will satisfy their hunger but they are pretty toxic. It’s hard to plan ahead and make food for lunch the next day ahead of time. You can even purchase handy lunch containers like these ones.

I am going to share with you a list of super easy to make lunches that are healthy and they will satisfy your hunger. No cooking necessary.

1. Adult Lunchable – Cheese slices or cubes, salami slices, whole wheat crackers and apple slices. If you have one of those tupperware pieces that have divided cubbies that [...]

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