October 24th Menu

Breakfast-7am:
It's called a Breakfast Brulee and it's to die for! Here's the recipe:
Ingredients:
2 eggs
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/8 tsp nutmeg
2 (6oz.) containers 99% Fat-free Yoplait French Vanilla Yogurt
1/3 cup sugar
1 can reduced fat Flaky Layers biscuits
3 T. Smart Balance Light Omega butter, melted

Heat oven to 375*. Spray 8 ramekins or custard cups with cooking spray. Place them on a lipped cookie sheet. In a mixing bowl beat the eggs, cream, nutmeg and yogurt until well blended. Pour sugar into a shallow dish. Divide biscuits into 2 layers, making 16 dough rounds. Brush one side of biscuit with melted butter and lay in the sugar. Brush other side of dough round with butter. Flip to coat with more sugar. Brush off excess back into dish. Place one dough round in the bottom of each custard cup. Spoon the custard mixture evenly into each ramekin on top of the dough round. Top with remaining 8 dough rounds. Bake for 20-26 minutes or until golden and bubbly. Let stand for 15 minutes to cool and set. Enjoy!

Nutritional value: 218 calories, 64 fat calories, 8g fat, 3g sat. fat, 56mg Chl., 31g Carbs, 8g sugar, 6g protein.


Morning Snack-9:30am:
Newton's Mixed Berry Fruit Crisps

Lunch-11:30am:
Homemade Curried Chicken Salad. I just threw together some green leaf lettuce and spinach with 3 lean chicken tenders I cooked in light Evoo with 1/2 tsp. of curry powder. For the dressing, I added 15 sprays of Caesar Delight spray dressing.

"Dessert"-12pm:
I have found something that is soooo yummy I have to share! Sugar-free vanilla wafers with fat-free strawberry cream cheese.
Dessert is in quotations because it doesn't seem like a dessert at all as far as technicality goes. Taste-wise it's a dream melting in my mouth! I try to keep all my sugar intake at one time below 8 g. As one fitness model said, "Sugar is the devil's elixir." It completely counter balances all you've worked for. One delectable dessert choice could ruin your hard work for an entire day! So, tame that sugar tooth.
This is perfect with no icky after taste.
I get one full serving of each item...9 cookies and 2 T cream cheese.
Nutritional Value: 170 calories, 40 fat calories, 5g fat, 1.5g sat. fat, 270mg. sodium, <5mg 

Dinner- 6pm:
We went to Dallas tonight with a few close friends of ours for our annual Haunted House Hunting. We stopped and ate at Olive Garden. I ordered the Zuppa Toscana soup.
It's not the absolute best choice on the menu but it's not the worst either. I like it because it sits light on the tummy and is filling. After we left the restaurant, I wasn't hungry for anything else for the rest of the night.

Workout
Courtesy of Oxygen Magazine
1. Standing Arnold Press
Targets: anterior deltoids
How-to: Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and hold a dumbbell in each hand. Position the weights at shoulder height with your palms toward your shoulders. Press the weights over head rotating your wrists 180 degrees so that at the top your palms are facing away from you. Do 10 reps.
2. Side plank
Targets: Obliques, glutes, back, shoulders
How-to: Lie on the floor on one side with your feet stacked and your body in a straight line. With your forearm as support, lift your hip the floor so that your weight is distributed between your forearm and the side of one foot and your body makes a solid diagonal. Keep your abs contracted as you breathe and hold this position for 5-8 seconds or until your hips begin to sag. Do 10 reps.
3. Yoga 100
Targets: Abs
How-to: Lie flat on the floor and bring your knees to your chin. Straighten your legs up above you and let them decline out in front of you to a 45* angle. Lift your chin, shoulders and arms off the ground and begin pulsing your arms. Inhale and exhale every 5 pulses. Pulse for 100 times. When finished pull your knees back to your chin and hold for 10 seconds. Release.

Repeat this set of exercises 2 more times.