April’s last blog post..Don’t make the size choice, make the healthy choice

Oh, and the part about certain activities being far from the fridge? Kinda depends on how frisky you feel, how much privacy you have, and whether or not food is a part of more diet than one.
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I’m not passing that one on to my husband, though. He walked in on today’s mini-trampoline workout and, even though he swears otherwise, I’m certain he saw more things bouncing than he expected.

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I’ll give the lime juice on chicken a try. Tonight it’s baked catfish. As for the lowfat yogurt, tofu and even quinoa, I actually do those already.

(My favorite quinoa recipe.)

Drizzling a bit of lime juice and adding some black pepper to that broiled chicken breast might change their minds about it. Steaming the broccoli with lemon juice and a diced-up garlic clove or two might change your son’s mind about broccoli, at least if you can feed it to him without his dad being around.

There are substitutes you can use, too, that will lower the amount of bad stuff in what you’re eating. Using non-fat yogurt instead of sour cream, tofu in various things where it can be disguised (pretty easy, really), and soy drinks instead of milk can really help. Have you tried quinoa? Use it instead of rice - with a little minced garlic it’s wonderful.

My brother-in-law’s eating habits have had an absolutely atrocious effect on both his health and the development of both of my nephews. He is grossly morbidly obese, and I can easily see both of the boys going the same way. When we all sat down for a Thanksgiving dinner about three years ago, and my girls asked for second helpings of everything green on the table, they looked at the girls like they were from another planet.

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With that in mind, giving food as a reward to a dieter is a lot like giving “one little gram” of blow to a recovering cokehead.

“The reward for being good can never be permission to be bad.”