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20 Small (But Significant) Steps, Quiz and Tip Sheet

This quiz, to help you determine your willingness level, will  give you access to 20 small steps that you can take to get you moving on the weight loss road.

It will help you determine future steps to take to keep you moving on your transformational weight loss journey.

 

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Soup Chapter from Reasonable Diet -- Recipes for Every Taste.

All 12 recipes are Sandra tested and guarenteed to be delicious and super diet friendly.

Includes Lentil Soup, White Chicken Chili, Quick Creamy Potato Soup, Turkey Split Pea Soup, Crock of Chicken and Bean Soup, Easy Cheesy Soup, Ham and Cabbage Soup, Hot-As-You Like it Three Can Soup, Butternut Sqash, and Classic Borscht.  Instant downloadable pfd file.

 

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Sandra recommends...

Mindless Eating

I can't recommend this book highly enough. You'll learn so much about why we eat. It's not because we're hungry, it's not because the food is so good -- it is simply because "it is there." Wansink takes a scientific look at the phenomena with creative and interesting experiments, (like an endless bowl of soup that fills from underneath the table) many of which were performed in my backyard at the University of Illinois. Well written and entertaining too.

 

Deceptively Delicious

The premise of the book is to “hide” veggies and fruit in the meals that you fix for your kids. But seriously, many of my clients could use this method to “sneak” veggies into their own meals.

 

To begin with, the author, Jessica Seinfield (yes, Mrs. Jerry S.), suggests and guides you through cooking and pureeing the veggies and then storing them in your freezer.

 

Starting here, I like her directions. For instance, she suggests roasting butternut squash and beets before peeling them – which is totally logical, because of how difficult they are to peel before cooking them…and how delicious they are roasted. Yet some cookbooks seem to ignore this common sense approach.

 

The second thing I like is that she is all about nutrition, not just getting veggies in … but including brown rice and only whole-wheat pastas and flours and eliminating trans fat.

 

Third, the recipes are diet friendly … ground turkey in meatloaf, low-fat cheeses, fat-free broth, etc. – so you’ll not end up making one thing for your family and one thing for the “dieters.”

 

The recipes range from the simple (puréed cauliflower in mashed potatoes) … to very kid friendly (chicken nuggets with pureed broccoli snuck into the breading) … to the surprising (deviled eggs with carrot puree )… to the less usual (couscous with yellow squash and carrot).

 

There are also desserts, practical advice for parents (meal-time tips, how to train kids to help, etc.) and insightful nutrition information (from nutritionist Joy Bauer).

 

The only disappointment is in that the actual nutritional information isn’t given. Normally this would dissuade me from buying a cookbook – but I think this one is an exception to that rule.

 

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OTHER BOOKS SANDRA LOVES AND RECOMMENDS

Eat Pray Love

Besides the amazing spiritual content of this book, it is also funny and finely written. Liz Gilbert is smart and can crafts her writing well. I was laughing out loud and reading passages to anyone who would listen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Traveling Mercies

If only, (I think... as I'm reading her...) if only I could write like Anne Lammott. But I also think... if only I could be like Anne Lammott.

Tthen I realize... well I kinda of am.

She's an everyday person who --

--wants to strangle her kid and loves him so much it hurts at the same time

-- has learned to love herself in spite of her recognized imperfections (including fat thighs and a judegmental attitude).

-- and is torn up about the state of the world while still finding a way to engage with hope.. I love Anne Lammott.

If you haven't read any of her work start  at the beginning... but skip the fiction. Her true gift is in her essays.