low carb biscuits

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes

Total Time: 27 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 C almond meal/flour
• 3 T coconut oil
• 1 1/2 t baking powder
• 1/2 C powdered egg whites
• 1/4 t salt
• 1 T "sweetening power" from artificial sweetener
• 1/2 C heavy cream
• 1/2 C other milky liquid - can be unsweetened soy milk, milk, cream, or half and half

Preparation:

It is very important that you use a fat that is solid at room temperature. Coconut oil (the refined kind that doesn't taste like coconut)...  Preheat oven to 400 F

1. Mix oil and almond meal together with a mixer or pastry blender until it's like coarse meal.
2. Add the rest of the dry ingredients.
3. If you're using liquid artifcial sweetener, put it in with the cream.
4. Mix wet and dry together, and let the mixture sit for 3 to 4 minutes.
5. Drop by tablespoons on foil-covered baking sheet. 

Bake for about 10 minutes, depending upon size, until golden brown.

Nutritional Analysis:Makes 12 biscuits, each with 2 grams of carbohydrate plus 2 grams of fiber and 7 grams of protein.

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Low-Carb blueberry muffins

Ingredients:

• 2 cups almond flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
• 4 eggs
• 1/3 cup water
• Sweetener to taste -- about 1/3 cup usually works well -- liquid preferred

Preparation:

1) Preheat oven to 350 F.

2) Butter a muffin tin. You can really do it with any size, but I'm basing the recipe on a 12-muffin tin.

3) Mix dry ingredients together well.

4) Add wet ingredients and mix thoroughly (You don't want strings of egg white in there and you don't have to worry about "tunnels" when you are using almond meal).

5) Put in muffin tins (about 1/2 to 2/3 full) and bake for about 15 minutes.

Nutritional Information: Each of 12 muffins has 1.5 grams carbs plus 2 grams fiber, 6 grams protein, and 185 calories.

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Focaccia -Style Flax Bread

 

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flax seed meal
• 1 Tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1-2 Tablespoons sugar equivalent from artificial sweetener
• 5 beaten eggs
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/3 cup oil

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350 F.use a bread pan

1) Mix dry ingredients well

2) Add wet to dry, and combine well. Make sure there aren't obvious strings of egg white hanging out in the batter.

3) Let batter set for 2 to 3 minutes to thicken up some (leave it too long and it gets past the point where it's easy to spread.)

4) Pour batter onto pan. Because it's going to tend to mound in the middle, you'll get a more even thickness if you spread it

5) Bake for about 20 minutes, until it springs back when you touch the top and/or is visibly browning even more than flax already is.

6) Cool and cut into whatever size slices you want. 

Nutritional Information: Each of 12 servings has less than a gram of  effective carbs (.7 grams to be exact) plus 5 grams fiber, 6 grams protein, and 185 calories.

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Mommy workout solutions.

If you have small children and can't seem to find the time to hit the gym, while entertaining the kids... I have one solution that may work for you.

We have several small parks around where we live. And they are all pretty abandoned. Rarely do we run into a family there.

So I feed my kids breakfast, let them watch some cartoons while I do some weight training in the living-room...

By the time I am done they are pretty hyper. So my husband and I take them to one of the local parks. We let the kids loose while we get to work.

Our park has a small wood fence around it shaped into a giant rectangle. I use this as my track.

There are stairs about 10 of them. I use them as a stair climber.

Also there is a big gap between the levels of stairs and my husband uses it as a vertical jump or "box jumps"

The monkey bars he uses as a pull up bar. Or hooks his legs around and does crunches that way.

We make a circuit out of it.

We also have a dock that we race on. And we let the kids race.

By the time we are done. The kids are tired and ready for lunch, and a nap. Everyone got they're energy out and mommy and daddy got a workout in while watching the kids.

There are many other things I am sure you can think of and make your own circuit!!

Swamp juice smoothie

It's packed full of good stuff :)

1/8 cup of frozen strawberries
1/8 cup of frozen mangos
1/8 cup of frozen pineapple
8oz of lemonade crystal light (made)

Note: you can switch out crystal light for orange juice if you want more flavor and higher sugar intake.

1/4 of a cucumber (cut in 4 pieces)
1/2 cup of fresh spinach

Blend together.

Enjoy! Super healthy morning smoothie for on the go or just to have. Any time of the day.

Note: you don't taste the spinach. There's a hint of cucumber, and mango is the more dominate flavor... But delicious. It just looks like yummy swamp water without all the extras they put in the bottles at the store.

A daily eating meal plan

Breakfast- 3 pieces of turkey bacon, and 3 egg whites w/ salsa.

Snack- smoothie,1/4 cup strawberries, 1/4 of a cucumber, some crushed mint, 1/2 cup of yogurt, 1/2 cup pineapple, and fill with lemon crystal light. Blend. And the fruit is frozen so no ice needed. (I also share this with my family) so you can lower the portions.

Lunch- veggie salad- spinach, cucumber, sweet mini peppers, and tomatoes... With 2tsp of Ranch dressing. And 2 grilled beef, chicken, or turkey burger patties. With a slice of cheese. No bread. Or condiments... You can have ranch in moderation it only had 1g of carbs.

Snack- string cheese low fat.

Dinner- left over salad from lunch, and chicken drum sticks.

Desert- 100 cal fudge covered pretzels.

Drinks- lots of crystal light, coffee, water and tea. With zero cal sweeteners.

Note: drink at least 1 gallon of water a day I put crystal light in mine. :) and have a giant jug I fill up 2-3 times a day.

My wieght loss update

So I started my weight loss at 238 lbs I am currently at 229lbs. I have started a different workout and eating routine the other one just wasnt doing it for me.