Tips for Eating Healthy: Be A Kitchen Pro

Did you ever think about getting a professional to help you reach your goals? I've often wished I could afford to hire a chef to cook my meals, a personal trainer to manage my exercise program, a housekeeper to maintain my residence, and even a personal shopper to guide my shopping selections. That would make my world much easier, but my economic situation doesn't provide for any of that. So, I decided to tackle the situation and become my own "Pro".

Determined to eat healthy and to achieve my goal, I changed my attitudes and habits. Here are some of my strategies:

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Waging War on Belly Fat

If you're carrying extra pounds, you're not alone. In this case, following the crowd could be risky. While an expanding waistline is sometimes considered the price of getting older, carrying weight around the waist is a greater risk of serious health problems, even death, than accumulating fat in other areas. Belly fat is nothing to joke about.

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Health: Best Snacks 100 Calories or Less

It’s March. The New Year is still fresh, and I’m sure we are all still implementing our “New Year, New You” way of thinking. In my continuous quest to maintain my recent weight loss, I came across this list of snack foods which contain 100 calories or less.

Sweet Treats:

• 5 Nabisco Nilla Wafers
• 1 Whole Foods Market Two-Bite Brownie
• 1 Healthy Choice Mocha Fudge Swirl Bar
• 9 Tootsie Roll Midgees
• 1 pouch Keebler Sandies Right Bites Shortbread Cookies
• ½ cup Sharon's Lemon Sorbet with 1/4 cup blueberries
• 1 Skinny Cow Fat Free Fudge Bar
• 1 Nestlé Butterfinger Stixx
• 12 vanilla Miss Meringue Minis
• 4 Country Choice Certified Organic Ginger Snaps
• 1 Vitamuffin Vitatop

Savory Bites:

• 29 pistachios
• 60 Pepperidge Farm Baby Goldfish Crackers
• 1 Jolly Time Healthy Pop 100 Calorie Mini Bag popcorn
• 25 EatSmart Café Fries
• 12 Back to Nature Sesame Ginger Rice Thins
• 12 Quaker Quakes Cheddar Cheese Rice Snacks
• 40 Rold Gold Classic Style Pretzel Sticks

Dairy Delights:

• 1 Laughing Cow Light Creamy Garlic & Herb cheese wedge and 3 Triscuits
• 1 Kraft Polly-O Superlong Twist-Ums string cheese stick
• 1 Yoplait Light Smoothie
• ½ cup low-fat cottage cheese with 5 strawberries

Hearty Helpings

• Campbell's Soup at Hand Blended Vegetable Medley
• 1 hard-boiled egg with 1 slice Melba toast
• 4 slices Sara Lee Honey Ham with 2 teaspoons honey mustard, rolled in lettuce leaf
• ½ mini bagel with 1 ounce smoked salmon

Fruits & Veggies

• 2 cups raspberries
• 28 grapes
• 1 cup blueberries
• 1 cup mango chunks
• ½ medium cantaloupe
• 15 strawberries dipped in 1⁄4 cup Cool Whip Lite
• 45 steamed edamame (green soybeans)
• 2 tablespoons each of mashed avocado and chopped tomatoes stuffed in 1⁄2 mini pita
• ½ red bell pepper dipped in 3 tablespoons hummus

Source: goodhousekeeping.com

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