Posts by treywolf

Woke up way too early.

Breakfast: Lite English Muffin, 1 Tbsp Peanut Butter, 1/2 Banana, 8 oz Skim Milk

Snack: 4 small cheddar rice cakes and 1/2 carrot

Lunch: soup made with 1 cup broth made from bouillon, 1/4 carrot, 1/2 celery, 1/4 leek, fresh parsley, 1/8 cup chinese chow mein noodles AND 1 cup boiled cauliflower with 1 Tbsp lite garden veggie cream cheese mixed onto it.  Sounds weird, but it was really great.

Very Important Info about Diet Sodas:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/13/hea lth/webmd/main701408.shtml

(WebMD) People who drink diet soft drinks don't lose weight. In fact, they gain weight, a new study shows.

The findings come from eight years of data collected by Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Fowler reported the data at this week's annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego.

"What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity," Fowler tells WebMD. "What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher."

In fact, when the researchers took a closer look at their data, they found that nearly all the obesity risk from soft drinks came from diet sodas.

"There was a 41 percent increase in risk of being overweight for every can or bottle of diet soft drink a person consumes each day," Fowler says

Try squeezing a piece of lemon into regular water...but come off caffeine a little at a time so you don't get such severe headaches.  They won't last forever!  Good Luck!