caitbeans: I love Chilis honey chipotle crispers but their nutritional stats are incredible! I just read a thing on yahoo today about the highest sodium items and one of them was Chilis guiltless grill chicken platter (which I love). It's still better than a lot of things out there probably. You work, exercise, AND have a baby? You are incredible! If anyone can't find time to exercise, I am going to point them in your direction!!! ;)

orthodiva: can you share your recipe for buffalo chicken burgers? That sounds wonderful and I am wanting some buffalo chicken strips right now!

Bette k: I looked at that website and they have a little video showing the ceiling and that is incredible! How cool. Enjoy your dinner.


Well, things are going good today. I've managed to stay on plan so far and I have done my exercising (35 min bike, 30 min walking). People keep asking for veggie lasagna, I have a recipe for veggie lasagna that uses no noodles, it's fabulous and healthy. Here it is:

Summer Lasagna
1 pound lean ground turkey
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/4 cup carrots, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
15 ounces tomato sauce
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
salt and pepper to taste
5 medium zucchini, sliced lengthwise into 1/4-inch thick strips.
1 cup cottage cheese
1 egg, beaten
3/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 8x12" baking dish.

In a skillet over medium heat, cook the ground beef until evenly brown. Drain juices. Mix the onion, green bell pepper, carrots, garlic, and tomato sauce into the skillet. Season with oregano, basil, salt, and pepper. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer 10 minutes, until vegetables are tender.

In the bottom of the prepared baking dish, layer 1/2 the zucchini strips. In a bowl, beat together the cottage cheese and egg, and spread over the zucchini. Scoop 1/2 the beef mixture over the cottage cheese and egg mixture, and sprinkle with 1/2 the mozzarella cheese. Layer with remaining zucchini, beef mixture, and mozzarella. Top with Parmesan cheese.

Bake 45 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow to sit 10 minutes before slicing to serve.

makes 6 servings.
nutritional info: 216 cals, 10g fat, 9g carbs, 2g fiber, 22g protein

smurf...
 

smurf: you asked about my workout, my hubby just made it for me, it's a beginner's to get me used to working out:

Warm up for five minutes:
Invisible jump rope for 30 seconds (slow pace)
Step ups for 45 seconds (slow pace)
Side bends for 45 seconds (slow pace)
Knee up/should press for 30 seconds (slow pace)
Repeat increase the pace for each exercise to medium intensity

Workout (take 20 second breaks between each exercise)
Follow the order
Knee assisted push-ups 5-7
Invisible jump rope for 30 seconds (fast pace)
Weightless Squats 7-10
Knee ups /shoulder press 30 seconds
Hammer curls (5 or 8 lb weights) 6-8 reps
Step ups holding 2lb weights 30 seconds
Good mornings (weightless) 10 reps

Repeat workout a total of 2 times, 3 if up to it. :D

That is 5 WW points per serving for those who are interested.

Wow and YUM! I have printed this off, maybe the farmers market will have zucchini this week.

Thanks for this!

THANK YOU SO MUCH :cb:!! I think I will give that a try tonight after my walk.

Juat a quick post to say hi.

London- thanks for the post about posting. I was feeling a bit overwhelmed trying to catch up/keep up and then gave up for a bit. I will, however, try to contribute something when I can!

OK this might be TMI but I have a question for you all. I have had a fairly regular period for as long as I can remember usually 28-32 days long. I have been so irritable/moody/down on myself and others and TIRED the past couple of days that I wondered if it was TOM but TOM was 1 week ago so I knew that wasn't the case...well surprise I am bleeding today...what the heck!?

Has anyone ever experienced fluctuations in their cycle as they uped their exercise? It is not like I went from sendentary to working out 60 min. a day, but I did up the workouts and their intensity this past week. I hate TOM and to have to go through it twice SUCKS even more. My poor family (ok mostly dh) :(

I went out for my walk today and only made it 20 min. but with the wind gusting up to 40 MPH I had added resistence one way and had a hard time keeping my footing the other direction. I will have to get a good weight/resistance workout later tonight. Thank you again trooworld for posting yours.

I get my OP $ today too WAHOO!!

smurf - I experienced something simliar to that just last month! I was about 2 weeks out from TOM and i had some spotting. It threw me off that I would be starting my period so soon. Then it stopped. Then, TOM ended up being 10 days LATE that month (I was really freaked out that I was preggers). My trainer said that it's definitely not uncommon for your cycle to get thrown off when you make big changes like that. I wouldn't worry about it.

Well I would also like to say Thanks Julz for the posting, sometimes it is very overwhelming to get caught up.

I just want to drop in and say today has been great stayed OP and walked on treadmil for 15 minutes before I got interrupted. However I do have to help one of my managers strip and wax the floors tonight(11pm to 5am) at the store so I will for sure get a workout tonight. With that I should try to get a nap in before I have to get on the road.
Have a great night everyone.

Glad to see I'm not the only one overwhelmed....I guess!

I've been good and OP for a week now. Today I was a very bad girl....Mexican, need I say more.

Someone mentioned the Yahoo article about high sodium, I saw that too and was shocked at some of them.

Hope everyone is having a great night.

BTW, I signed up for the "badges", I have no idea what it is though, anyone else know?

Alicia

reda355: waxing the floors sounds like a great workout!

Good night, everyone. I leave you on time and on plan! :D

THE BADGES: check out the "Just Beachy" exercise challenge (different than the black team exercise challenge)...I am not quite sure what the badge is, I know it has something to do with that challenge, but read the info about the challenge...it would be good if as many of us as possible joined it.

hey team!

long day....work, made an awesome healthy dinner, got the little guys bathed and to bed, just finished dishes, and now am contemplating whether or not to run, or if it will keep me up all night.......maybe I should do it in the morning....DH is asleep on the couch already....why is it never ME doing that?! lol

we are definitely going to kick butt with the overall beach hopping challenge since we have our own special one! If you start to feel overwhelmed posting in several threads, don't worry about posting everyday, just do one post for the week or something :)

Hello laides, just stopping by to say hi.
I was so tired in the morning that I didn't get up enough to go to gym before picking up my daughter. However, I did do the cardio/strength DVD for 55 minutes altogether in the afternoon, so hopefully that will make up for it.=)

Well, I need to get back to work... just wanted to say hi and wish you all a great night.. (day for those who work at night like me)

Does anyone have a good recipe for red beans and rice? I love the lean cuisine version, but it is very high sodium and I want to try and make my own version in the crockpot...using whole grain rice instead, red beans, and the packaged version has a sour cream and cheese sauce that is SO YUMMY so I want to try and do that with low fat sour cream and 2% cheese. Anyone have an idea how I would throw this together? I don't think I can just put it all in there, can I :dizzy: recipes or ideas anyone?

Trooworld, that is a great recipe! I just came home with cottage cheese tonight to experiment in a lasagna this weekend and I come online to see your recipe! I don't know that I can make a lasagna without the noodles, but I will try it when I find zucchini on sale this summer. ;)

Here is my Buffalo Chicken Burger recipe:

1 tray 99% lean ground chicken (the tray size that has 4 servings/tray)
1/2 lemon
1/2 onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1 carrot, finely chopped
garlic salt (Lawry's brand is my favorite)
salt
red pepper flakes
1/3 cup blue cheese crumbles
1/4 to 1/3 cup Buffalo style hot sauce (I didn't measure this one exactly)

Squeeze the lemon juice into the chicken.
Mix together all ingredients.
Shape into patties - with 1 tray of lean ground chicken, I get about 7 - 8 medium patties (not quite large enough for a bun).
Cook on stove in a non-stick frying pan, 4 - 5 minutes for each side. I found that I didn't need to add oil or cooking spray to cook them because the blue cheese provided the "sizzle" while they were cooking in the pan.

Ordinarily I would have baked these, but that day I was so hungry I didn't have the patience to wait for the oven so I made them on the stove and yum! The chopped carrots added a nice crunch to the patty. I don't know what the lemon juice did, but I had 1/2 a lemon to use up so I threw it in there. I hope you like it!

YUM! That sounds good! I will have to make that soon. Sorry, no sauce recipe. I'll just have to wing it. Do you just use kidney beans? If so, I actually have all the stuff!