Simple salad

Grilled veggies and chicken

Two great diet meals

We are still in the second month of the diet, part two.  Part one was very successfull, and we lost lots of weight, but gained some of it back due to nothing but laziness.  We will need to work on that.  We tried playing tennis, and started the pliometrics of P90x, but it was a little too late I think.  So, here we are, back on HCG and doing pretty well.  Here are a couple of great ideas.  A simple salad and grilled veggies and chicken.  NO oil used in the grilling of the vegies, and they were AWESOME!

Snack Time

Here's a new snack idea I found today while shopping in one of my favorite stores, Aldi's!  I believe they were $1.99 and come in a package of 4-7 ounce bottles.  Aldi's Fit &Active brand has a lot of great diet items.  The best part, these smoothies are fat free and have only 70 calories. That and a couple of rice cakes is all I've had today, I better go fix dinner.  Have a great night!

Breakfast idea!

If you're like me,  you wake up HUNGRY!  Even on this diet when I am not eating much, I still feel hunger pangs before I can jump out of bed.  One of my favorite foods to indulge in is Publix brand, FATFREELIGHT yogurts.  There is NO fat, NO sugar, and somewhere between 90 and 110 calories, what a deal :)

And the flavors, wow!  I especially love the Black Forest Cake and Carrot Cake flavors, I see a theme here...yes, I love cake.  This little cup of joy keeps be tided over for a good couple of hours, until my mid morning snack of apple slices sprinkled with splenda and pumpkin pie spice, another yummy treat.  Enjoy!

Sunscreen.  One major problem this time of year is how to go out in the sun and enjoy the days of summer without getting burned, or having to cover up and bake in the hot sun! As far as I knew, all of them had oils in them, that is how they work!  I was surprised to find several options at the local Walgreens with NO OIL.  I was shocked.  Look for those made for faces, they often don't have fat in them.  I purchased Coppertone for Faces for a recent trip to the beach, and was very happy with the results.  There were several other brands as well, even the store brand.  I was able to choose one with a medium spf that made me happy.  Now, get out there and have fun!

Okay, maybe I think this diet is easy because I have someone to diet with, my husband!  I think having someone else taking the same journey makes it that much easier to stick to it.  If everyone in the house is eating whatever they want except you, how can you expect yourself to have the will power  to keep going?  It would definitely be a struggle for me!

It may also be easy because my husband is the cook around here.  He is extremely talented in coming up with recipes that only use hcg diet approved ingredients.  He even lets me suggest an idea...occasionally!  I am not a cook, my difficulty lies in trying to come with ideas for what to make.   I can stand in front of the refrigerator for quite a while wondering what to eat sometimes.  Sure, if I have something good at a restaurant, I can duplicate it at home, but usually, I only have to ask for that chicken dish from Outback, and he will make it for me.  :)

Look here to find menu ideas and recipes as well as items you can have on the diet that you may not have thought of.  I read a lot of labels while I am shopping, and sometimes I wish I could just find a list of brands names that someone else has already verified as being fat free, low calorie, and diet friendly.  Enjoy!