NO Halloween Candy CHALLENGE

NO Halloween Candy CHALLENGE

My commitment is to not eat Halloween Candy from today until

1 week after Halloween.
I will allow myself to have 3 pieces but none until then.
I did this challenge last year because I was eating the candy and not even thinking about it. I would think it's only once piece and that was not good thinking like that!
I need to challenge myself again this year so i don't eat uncontrollably.

Who's in it with me?
What will your commitment be?

Here is the calorie count for those little candies.
Dove Milk Chocolate Promises or wrapped squares (8 g) - 42 calories and 6 g carb
Hershey Kisses - 26 calories and 8 g carb each kiss
Hershey Kisses with Almonds - 23 calories and 2 g carb each kiss
Hershey Kisses filled with Caramel - 21 calories and 3 g carb each kiss
Hershey Candy Corn Kisses - 27 calories and 3 g carb each kiss
Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars - Fun size (14 g) - 67 calories and 8 g carb
Hershey's Miniature Bars (mixed) - average of 42 calories and 5 g carb each bar
M&Ms, plain, Fun size (18 g) - 88 calories and 12 g carb
M&Ms, peanut Fun size (18 g) - 93 calories and 11 g carb
M&Ms, peanut 1/4 cup candy - 220 calories and 24 g carb
Miniature Bars (Milky Way, Snickers, Twix, 3 Muskateers) -
average 38 calories and 5 g carb each bar
Mr. Goodbar Snack size (17 g) - 90 calories and 9 grams carb
Nestle's Crunch Bars Fun size (10 g) 50 calories and 7 grams carb
Nestle's Crunch Caramel Bars - Fun size - 70 calories and 9 g carb
Palmer Peanut Butter cups, small - 6 g carb
Three Muskateers bar
Fun size (15 g) - 64 calories and 11 g carb
Mint, Fun size (15g) - 64 calories and 11 g carb
Tootsie Rolls
Small bar - 50 calories and 10 g carb
Midgee - 23 calories and 7 g carb
Mini-Midgees - 11 calories and 2 g carb
Peanut and Peanut Butter Candies
Pay Day - Snack size (19 g) - 90 calories and 10 g carb
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Miniature (about 9 grams each) - 44 calories and 5 g carb per cup
Snack size (17 g) - 88 calories and 10 g carb
Snack size (21 g) - 100 calories and 12 g carb
White, Snack size (21 g) - 100 calories and 11 g carb
Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins (34 g) - 180 calories and 17 g carb
Reese's Crispy Crunchy Bar, Snack size (17 g) - 95 calories and 9 g carb
Reese's Nutrageous Bars, Snack size (17 g) - 88 calories and 9 g carb
Reese's Whipps Bar, Snack size (14 g) - 60 calories and 10 g carb
Mixed Candy Bars
100 Grand Bars
Fun size (11 g) - 50 calories and 8 g carb
Fun size (21 g) - 95 calories and 15 g carb
Almond Joy Snack size (15 g) - 80 calories and 10g carb
Baby Ruth Bar, Fun size (18 g each) - 85 calories and 13 g carb
Butterfinger Bar, Fun size (18 g each) - 85 calories 14 g carb
Butterfinger Crisp Bar, Snack size (20 g) - 100 calories and 13 g carb
Heath Bar, Snack size (13 g) - 74 calories and 9 g carb
Kit Kat, Fun size (14 g) - 73 calories and 9 g carb
Milky Way bar, Fun size (17 g) - 75 calories and 12 g carb
Mounds bars, Snack size (17 g) - 83 calories and 9 g carb
Rocky Road, Snack size (10 g) - 45 calories and 6 g carb
Snickers Bars, Fun size (17 g) - 80 calories and 10 g carb
Snickers Almond Bars, Fun size (17 g) - 80 calories and 11 g carb
Snickers Creme Pumpkin (1 oz) - 150 calories and 16 g carb
Take Five bar, Fun size (15 g) - 10 g carb
Twix, Snack size (10 g) - 50 calories and 7 g carb
Taffy and Caramel
AbbaZabba, small (12 g) 50 calories and 11 g carb
Charleston Chew bar, Fun size (10 g) - 45 calories and 8 g carb
Laffy Taffy, Chocolate, small bars (8 g each) - 32 calories and 7 g carb
Milk Duds Snack size (12 g) - 54 calories and 9 g carb
Milk Maid Caramels, Brach's - 40 calories and 10 g carb per piece
Fruity and Gummy Candies
Jujyfruits - 9 pieces - 60 calories and 16 g carb
Lifesavers Gummies (2 rolls per ounce) - 52 calories and 13 g carb per roll
Mini Dots (2 small boxes per ounce) 70 calories and 17 g carb per box
Skittles
Original Fruit, Fun size (20 g) - 80 calories and 18 g carb
Chocolate Assortment, Fun size (20 g) - 80 calories and 18 g carb
Starburst, Fun size (2 pieces per stick) - 40 calories and 10 g carb
Twizzlers
Mini-bars (14 g) - 11 g carb
Strawberry Twists, Short (9 g) - 32 calories and 7 g carb
Cherry Pull-N-Peel (12 g) - 40 calories and 9 g carb
Hard Candies and Pops
Blow Pop, Junior - 50 calories and 14 g carb
Jolly Rancher
Hard Candy (6 g) - 23 calories and 6 g carb
Lollipops (17 g) - 60 calories and 16 g carb
Hard Candy Sticks, Small (11g) - 43 calories and 10 g carb
Double Blasts (4 g) - 13 calories and 3 g carb
Tootsie Pops - 60 calories and 15 g carb
Tootsie Caramel Apple Pops - 60 calories and 15 g carb
Wonka Nerds - small box (13 g) - 50 calories and 12 g carb
Other Candies
Candy Corn, Brach's - 11 pieces - 70 calories and 18 g carb
Hot Tamales - small pkg (14 g) - 50 calories and 12 g carb
Jr. Mints, Fun size (10 g) - 50 calories and 12 g carb
Mike and Ike small box (14 g) - 50 calories and 12 g carb
Pop Rocks - small packet (10 g) - 7 g carb
Raisinettes, Fun size (16 g - about 16 pieces) - 56 calories and 11 g carb
Smarties Candy, Roll - 25 calories and 6 g carb
Whoppers
1 small tube - 30 calories and 5 g carb
1 small pouch (21 g) - 100 calories and 16 g carb
York Peppermint Patties
Regular small patty (14 g) - 53 calories and 11 g carb
Pink Peppermint Patties, small (14 g) - 53 calories and 11 g carb
Peppermint Patty Pumpkins (14 g) - 50 calories and 11 g carb
List from About.com

http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/carbcounts/a/candycalories.htm

WHO'S IN? What will your commitment be?

LET's GET HEALTHY!
TIA

Two Ways to Incorporate Treat Meals

Two Ways to Incorporate Treat Meals

1. Planned Treat Meals

If you are just starting on a new healthy lifestyle and beginning to Eat Clean your treat meals should always be planned. A planned treat meal is just that planned! These planned treat meals give you something to look forward to. It’s easier to eat healthy and avoid unhealthy foods if you know that you can have whatever you’re craving on your treat meal. Most of the time a treat meals falls on the weekend. That is usually the best choice to help you eat healthy and clean eating through out the week

In the beginning starting out on a healthy lifestyle and eating clean sometimes people tend to think of what they can't have rather that what they can. During this time cravings and desires are at the highest point and are hard to resist. Treat meals will help people stay on course if they know they are going to be able to have a small indulgence.

For some people they can eventually move away from a strict eating schedule and begin to be more flexible. Eating clean and healthy 90% of the time and still enjoying some of the other not so healthy foods.

2. Flexible Eating

Flexible eating has no schedule on treat meals. It is eating as clean as possible and then on occasion enjoying what you are craving. Typically I know that I’m going to go out to eat once or twice a week and that is what I save my treat meals for. When I have hit my 2 treat meals for the week I indulge NO MORE!

Vacation is one time when I know I’m not going to be able to eat very healthy. It is hard to find restaurants that have truly healthy food! Believe or not I pack food. I only eat breakfast out once, I bring food for lunches and just eat out for dinner. So many people gain weight (5-10 lbs) on vacation the same weight they worked so hard to lose to go on vacation. It really isn't worth it! You can save a tremendous amount of money bringing your own food and eating at the hotel, park, or on the go and save some body fat to boot!

After you have a treat meal your next 2 meals should be healthy in order to help you live a healthy lifestyle.

With that make sure you stay away from to many trigger foods.

Treat meals

Are you wondering why I changed the name from Cheat Meals to Treat Meals?

It is because we really need to look at healthy eating as a lifestyle. If we think we are "cheating" on our healthy lifestyle then we aren't really living a healthy lifestyle. We know rewards are a good thing and cheating is not good, we feel guilt, regret and in turn possibly revert back to an unhealthy lifestyle.

What is Eating Clean? Eating Clean is treating your body how God intended. I will talk more about Eating Clean on my next blog.

Have a Healthy eating day!

TIA

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Wheat Bread It's Healthy...Right?

I get this question a lot.

"Wheat bread is healthy. Right? "

Wrong.

"Well I thought if it says wheat on the label it is has to be healthy. Right?"

Wrong! Most wheat breads are nothing more than slightly improved versions of white bread, have high fructose corn syrup them.

To live a healthy lifestyle we must get rid of the white breads and replace it with only 100% whole grain breads. Don’t be discouraged by this fact because they have some very yummy 100% whole grain breads out there.

"What kind of bread should I be eating?"

REAL 100% whole wheat bread or 100% whole grain bread.

"I don't know how to pick it out in the store. What should I look for?"

Yes it is hard to pick it out bread.

You need to look for bread that says on it 100% whole wheat or 100% Whole grain on it.

When buying bread don't just go looking for the words on the label that say healthy, wheat bread, multigrain, or stone ground on the label. Those are just descriptive labeling, aka, advertising.

Again, look for bread that says 100% whole wheat or 100%whole grain on the label. Then look next at the ingredients.

The first thing on the ingredients label must have the word "whole" “stone ground” on it, for example, "whole wheat flour, whole grain flour, stone ground grains". If it says enriched or unbleached flour it is not good for your body. That is bread stripped of healthy grains. Put it back. Second make sure the bread doesn’t have High Fructose Corn Syrup in it.

Buying 100% whole grain is the best choice for your body because of the extra fiber in whole grains makes you feel fuller longer, which means you eat less. It also helps level out the peaks and valleys of insulin after eating. The other benefits form eating a diet in whole grains is that will lower your type II Diabetes, high blood pressure and risk of heart disease.

Here are some breads that are good choices.

Ezekiel 4:9, Sprouted Grain Bread (found in the freezer sessions)

Healthy Life 100% Whole Grain

Natures Own. 100% Whole Grain

Natures Pride, 100% Whole Wheat

Pepperidge Farm, 100% Whole Wheat

Arnold, 100% Whole Wheat

Here are some good Thins, Flats, and Bagel Thins.

They are breads that are lower in calorie and less dense.

Arnold Sandwich Thins 100% Whole Wheat

Pepperidge Farm Flats 100% Whole Wheat

Bagel Thins 100% Whole Wheat

Have a healthy day

Things to avoid - AT ALL COST

Things to avoid - AT ALL COST.

1. Soda..... Yes even diet!

2. Fast Food (except Subway and Bread Co.)

3. Anything Fried

(unless it is flash fried in a pan with 1-2 TBS of EVOO)

4. Nothing with High Fructose Corn Syrup

5. Try to stay away from "WHITES" (white flour, sugar, salt, white rice)

6. Don't eat past 7:30 pm

The only time I do make exceptions and eat the above foods is when it falls with in my "treat meal"

If your wondering what a "Treat Meal" is I will discuss what is is in my next blog.

Healthy Alternatives

1. Water or Green Tea (If you drink a lot of soda then cut back to 1/2 of what you drink now.)

2. Pack your Lunch

3. Baked, Broiled, Grilled, Poached, or Steamed

4. All natural products and sugars

5. Stick with 100% whole grains (not whole wheat or whites)

6. If I am hungry I drink a lot of water.

Lets face it, we all have our weaknesses when it comes to food and the cravings for these can be strong, especially in the first 10 - 15 minutes. If you resist these cravings early you will learn to avoid these weak moments all together and keep yourself on track to healthy living.

Sticking with these small tips has proven to be very successful for my clients.

For the Saturday Boot Camp challenge for the next 2 months it to avoid the above 6 things and alcohol. A wonderful alternative to alcohol is a moctail. (Check my previous blog from moctail recipes.)

YOU CAN DO IT!

Let's Get Healthy!

TIA