Breakfast!

I look forward to eating breakfast every morning! There have been a number of studies linking people who don't eat breakfast to being overweight. Recently I have been making the same things for breakfast and I am not bored of them yet.

My number 1 favorite breakfast food is oatmeal! You can do so much with it! Like this..

Blueberry Almond Oatmeal
1/2 cup oatmeal (dry measurement) = 140 cal cooked
1/2 cup frozen field blueberries = 40 cal
1 tsp brown sugar = 15 cal (most the time I don't even put this in)
1/8 cup slivered almonds = 75 cal


Breakfast total = 270 calories

It is yummy, full of fiber, and antioxidants!

I have started to make a lot of smoothies too. Except my magic bullet has been sucking lately. It takes forever to make a smoothie because I have to keep banging the magic bullet on the counter, or stopping and sticking a spoon in it to break up the chunks. Its dumb. I really want to get one of these.


It's a Ninja blender and its supposed to be amazing. I watched the infomercial for a good 15 minutes. Better start saving my pennies!

My smoothie recipe is super simple, but I think it is so delicious.

Caribbean Treasure Smoothie


1 cup Caribbean treasure (frozen peaches mango strawberries)= 60 cal
1 cup vanilla soy milk = 140 cal
1 small container Activia Vanilla yogurt = 35 cal


Smoothie total = 235 calories

The vanilla soy milk and yogurt are so yummy with the fruit, no added sugar necessary! I like my smoothies really thick. No straw needed just a spoon!

Some other yummy breakfast foods are
Green pepper omelet
Special K Blueberry cereal
Apples and peanut butter
Egg white crepes with fruit filling

Recipe #2 - HCG Lemon Chicken

I love chicken! It is so versatile and easy to make delicious!

HCG Lemon Chicken Sauce

1/2 c water
2 tbsp orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 c vinegar
2 tbsp Bragg's Soy Sauce
1 tbsp grated orange zest
1/2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp garlic powder

1. Mix together all ingredients and bring to a boil over medium heat
2. In casserole dish pour sauce over 100g chicken and let marinade for an hour *optional
3. Pour sauce back into pot leaving chicken in casserole dish, warm sauce over low-medium heat
4. Cook chicken at 350 for 15-20 minutes (or until no pink)
5. Add chicken to warm sauce and let cook for 5-10 minutes
6. Remove and top with Stevia, pepper, salt to taste

Recipe #1 - For all you cottage cheese haters

I used to despise cottage cheese! It reminded me of curdled milk! Yuck! You are allowed 100g of skimmed milk cottage cheese occasionally on the HCG diet. When your eating chicken, and beef everyday any variation is such a relief! This treat is great to cure your sweet craving!

Mock Pudding
100 g skim milk cottage cheese
1/2 tsp artificial vanilla flavoring (check to make sure that there is no sugar or carbs in your vanilla)
1 tsp stevia
dash of cinnamon

1. Mix all ingredients together and enjoy!

* if the clumps bother you puree it in a blender or magic bullet
* this will count as 1 of your protein servings for the day

Post #1 - Challenge Accepted

Here's a some info on myself.

I am a wife, and a mother of one little precious 5 month boy we'll refer to as Big D. When he was born I weighed in at a whopping 190 lbs. Which on my 5'3 frame was a lot! I was always active growing up and in the average weight category. 3 months after Big D was born I was at 170 pounds and I realized how hard it is on your body to be carrying around extra weight. My joints ached, and I had a hard time sleeping ( and it wasn't because of the baby, because he sleeps great!) I just felt all around yucky and I was slightly depressed. I knew that if I was going to be able to be a good mom and wife I had to get myself in order, and back in shape. I have had the worst "luck" with diets. Luck actually has nothing to do with it, but I was never able to stick to a diet before. Every January 1 I would write an extensive plan on how I was going to drop those 10 pounds, and then it was 15 the next year and it just kept going up. So this January I HAD to make it different. I had at least 40 pounds to loose. A number that seemed impossible to reach. But, this year I had Big D to think about.

I had been hearing a lot of hype about the HCG diet, a co-worker of mine had done it and lost over 100 pounds. A few other people I knew were also successful at it. So I decided I was going to give it a try.

Now it's 20 days later and I've lost almost 20 pounds! I have 20 days left and hopefully another 20 pounds gone! How awesome is that?! The HCG diet, hasn't been super easy, but it hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be either. It definitely was an eye opener to how wrong my view of food was, and what my diet had been doing to my body. Before I could eat a flat of doughnuts and I would wonder why I felt bloated!

What keeps me going is the challenge. You are allowed only 500 calories of certain food, along with taking the oral drops. Trying to find a different tasty arrangement of food every day is like a game. Making up, and revising recipes is a lot of fun! (I'll be including my recipes on here too!)
So wish me luck that my willpower is resilient enough to last these few weeks!

If you want more information on the HCG diet www.hcgdietinfo.com is a good site or if you have any questions feel free to ask!