Food, Diet, Exercise…but not from experts, just those who have lost 100lbs combined.
Salad dressings can be very hard to navigate. Dressings are a lot of oil, fats, and sugar generally so finding the right one can be a little difficult. There’s a reason so many restaurant salads are 800-1000 calories, it’s the cheese and the dressing. Here are a few that make it a little easier for less points or calories.
So we’re tracking our food. Focusing on WHOLE foods, simpler and cleaner eating. But what are you missing? Snacks, chips, junk food…. Nothing will beat Oreos for Father Foodie or queso blanco and tortilla chips for me but we’ve found some things that take the edge off and taste good! We all miss something so I hope to give you some substitutes we’ve found that help the cravings over the next few weeks.
Most of these items will be found on the aisle with the organic food and health snacks…for me it wasn’t an aisle I frequented until recently.
Tortilla chips up first, the substitute is plant based and pretty low in points compared to their restaurant or bagged counterparts. These come in three flavor options: sea salt, nacho and lime. Ten chips are 4 points.
Regular “potato” chips are missed from time-to-time. These will fool you easily and satisfy the craving fast! They also have a variation that are straws. We don’t gravitate to these but they do have snack bags for on the go in sea salt and zesty ranch. The snack bags are 3 points per bag. In the large bag you get 38 chips for 4 points!
Another chip variant we like are these cauliflower stalks. They’re crunchy and puffy with a little bit of salt. 13 stalks for 2 points.
Thanks for joining us!
Since April 1, 2018 I’ve been on a journey to get rid of some fat. In 2018 Easter fell on April 1st and in an awful joke there were family pictures, I cried that night. I felt like I looked awful. I was doing my best to cover up and hide what I didn’t like, but reality was I was about to go up a size of jeans. So I cried and then I started research to see what I could do that would last, and not be so restrictive. I’ll talk about programs later.
I did pretty well in 2018 and took of 35 pounds. Then in 2019 I dealt with some health issues and maintained the entire year while working on increasing my fitness later in the year. Now in 2020 my husband, Mike, decided that he was ready to do something with his weight and hope to kick his type 2 diabetes.
As of this post I am down 60lbs and he is down just over 50. He has been taken off of insulin and is still working hard to remove other medications from his daily routine.
April 2018 to August 2020
December 2019 to May 2020
Much of our weekly routine is me getting in the kitchen for a couple of hours and meal prepping on Sunday afternoons. We LOVE soup…so it’s easy to prep a couple of soups and other foods to keep the planning in place and leave easy choices remaining.
We’ve removed most of the “bad” things in the house and try to think with a lifestyle in mind. There’s also a whole lot of substitutions that we’ve found that make it feel like you’re treating yourself while not being so bad to your goals.
So keep visiting often as I post recipes, exercise inspirations and references I use for improving our eating habits.
Father Foodie and Sister Slim 