GET IN SHAPE FOR THE SUMMER

Tired of letting the overweight blues infringe on your summer fun? Want to give your body a complete makeover and be the envy of all your friends and family this summer? The TransitionsTM Lifestyle System can be the solution you’ve been searching for!The Transitions system specifically targets your body composition to help build a profile conducive to losing body fat without sacrificing muscle mass.

The Transitions Lifestyle System is extremely easy to follow and offers support tools designed to help you reach your weight-loss goals.  Read more... (425 words, 7 images, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

The super-sized society we’ve become has hit epidemic proportions. Almost 65 percent of Americans are considered overweight, and 31 percent of that group is considered obese. You may know someone who is struggling to lose weight and get healthy, or maybe you are trying to shed a few pounds yourself.

Does this sound familiar: You go on a diet and experience some success, but then the weight comes back. You try again with the same result, and now you’re frustrated, wondering if there is anything that really works. Don’t get down on yourself. According to the Florida Department of Education, most people who diet gain the weight back (and sometimes more) within a year. So, you haven’t failed the diet; the diet has failed you.  Read more... (368 words, 3 images, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Hot Boneless Chicken Wings

Ingredients:
33 grams Bread Crumbs
8 ounces Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast cut into nugget sized pieces
6 tsp Tabasco Sauce
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp Cayenne Pepper
1 tsp Black Pepper

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Put bread crumbs in dish. Add a dash of each of the seasonings and mix well. Place chicken pieces in a separate dish, and cover and toss with hot sauce. Spray a baking pan with nonstick spray. Give each chicken piece a shake (so it’s not dripping with hot sauce), and then coat it evenly with the crumbs. Lay the nuggets on the baking pan. Place in the oven, and bake for 10 minutes. Then flip the wings over, and return them to the oven for 10 more minutes, or until outsides are crispy and chicken is cooked throughout.

Number of Servings: 3  Read more... (166 words, 1 image, estimated 40 secs reading time)

Steak Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes

The sweet potato cooked like this make a great alternative to wedges served with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce.  It’s worth buying a really good steak from the butcher, which might seem expensive but is well worth it if it’s only every week or two you have it.

1 large sirloin steak
2 sweet potatoes, skin on, cut into wedges
1 small punnet of cherry tomatoes
50g rocket, washed
sumac, to serve (optional)  Read more... (194 words, 1 image, estimated 47 secs reading time)

Ingredients (Serves 4):
8 – boneless skinless chicken thighs
2 – tbsp. olive oil
2 – tbsp. lemon juice
3 – cloves garlic, crushed
2 – tbsp. white wine

Directions:
Mix chicken with all ingredients in a bowl. Once chicken is thoroughly coated, chill for 20 minutes. Then grill under high heat for about 10 minutes per side, or until cooked. Serve with steamed broccoli and baby carrots, plus basmati rice.

Serving guide:
Fill one quarter of a regular dinner plate with rice (or other starchy carbs), one half with vegetables, and the remaining quarter with your cooked chicken recipe.

You just can’t imagine how light and moist and tasty these cupcakes are unless you try them! Any nutritionist would agree that eating one of these as an occasional treat is 186 calories well spent. Makes 12 large or 48 mini cupcakes.

½ cup tub margarine or light butter
¾ cup sugar
1 egg plus 1 egg white or ¼ egg substitute
½ cup cocoa powder, unsweetened
1½ cups natural applesauce
1¾ cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt

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• Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF. Grease and flour the cupcake tin.

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Curry Chicken Salad  Read more... (227 words, 1 image, estimated 54 secs reading time)

Ingredients:

• Salt and White Pepper
• Skinless, boneless Chicken Breast 1.5 lb
• Mayonnaise 0.5 cup (I used Light Hellman’s)
• Nonfat Plain Yogurt 0.5 cup
• Curry Powder 2 tsp
• White Wine Vinegar 1 Tbsp
• Celery 4 stalks chopped
• Apples (Fuji, Gala, or Granny Smith) 3 cored and cut into cubes
• Pecan halves, 0.5 cup toasted
• Butter (Boston) Lettuce 1 head, pale inner leaves only