Weekly Focus

The challenge for this week is to really think about what you're eating and instead of going straight to the junk food, go for something healthy. See if you can "re-train" your brain so that you won't crave foods that aren't so great for you.

Thanksgiving is a free day!!!!!! HAHAHAHA

Jeff's idea for a goal is for everyone to try different laxatives and then we'll compare notes and see what is the best one. Or we could go somewhere that we could all pick up a parasite! J/K

We are excited to see how everyone does!

Recipe

Honey Mustard Baked Chicken

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Original recipe makes 6 servingsChange Servings

• 6 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/2 cup prepared mustard

• 1 teaspoon dried basil
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley

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Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper to taste, and place in a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking dish. In a small bowl, combine the honey, mustard, basil, paprika, and parsley. Mix well. Pour 1/2 of this mixture over the chicken, and brush to cover.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Turn chicken pieces over and brush with the remaining 1/2 of the honey mustard mixture. Bake for an additional 10 to 15 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink and juices run clear. Let cool 10 minutes before serving.

Why We Crave Junk Food

I found this in an article and thought it was interesting. It helps us understand we want and crave junk food over eating something healthy.

Junk foods are designed to convince your brain that it is getting nutrition, but to not fill you up. Receptors in your mouth and stomach tell your brain about the mixture of proteins, fats, carbohydrates in a particular food, and how filling that food is for your body. Junk food provides just enough calories that your brain says, "Yes, this will give you some energy" but not so many calories that you think "That's enough, I'm full." The result is that you crave the food to begin with, but it takes quite some time to feel full from it. 

When you eat something tasty (say, a bag of potato chips), your brain registers that feeling. The next time you see that food, smell that food, or even read about that food, your brain starts to trigger the memories and responses that came when you ate it. These memories can actually cause physical responses like salivation and create the "mouth-watering" craving that you get when thinking about your favorite foods.P

The good news is that the research shows that the less junk food you eat, the less you crave it.

Weekly Focus

OK last post for me! The challenge for next week is #1 on the Skinny Rules that I posted about earlier...

Lets all try to drink a large glass of water before each meal this week. I think it makes you feel fuller and then you eat less. Plus water is super good for you too!

Good luck!

Recipe - Chicken Fajitas

A few weeks ago I had Eli and Kurt over for dinner and made Chicken Fajitas. I just made up the recipe and cooked them in my crock pot. They turned out really really good. Here is what I did:

4 Chicken Breasts
1 Green Pepper
1 Red Pepper
1/2 Onion
1 Packet of Fajita Seasoning
1 tsp Cumin
1 cup Salsa
1 Garlic clove
The juice from 1 Lime
Salt
Pepper

I put all ingredients in the crock pot except the Lime juice. Cooked on low for about 7 hours (I think you could do it on High for about 4). Once cooked I shredded the Chicken and added the Lime Juice. We ate it with Tortillas and chips and salsa, but the next day I ate it on top of a salad and that was really good too.

Enjoy!

The Skinny Rules

OK so here is my motivational/tip post for the week.

There is a book called The Skinny Rules by Bob Harper (from The Biggest Loser). The book talks about some rules for being healthy and fit. I thought it would be good to post the rules here and we can use them for weekly focus ideas or just some food for thought...

Hopefully you can read them OK. I think these are great tips that can definitely help us all in our quest to be more healthy!

The Schedule

Hey Everyone!

Thanks for all coming out to the walk this morning! It's so much easier to get out and do something when you've got people to do it with. Hopefully you all had a good time and thought it was worthwhile. It will be nice to get out and do that each week for anyone who can make it.

In talking about how we would like this blog to work and what we think will be most effective, we thought it would be fun to give each family an assigned week to post. During those weeks, we would like your family to try and post 3 things:


1 - A motivational post, a success story, something that is working well for you, something you have been thinking about, a goal you have set for yourself, something you read...etc

2 - A recipe or snack idea

3 - A focus or challenge for the following week


These posts do not need to be long so don't worry about them taking too much time.

Here is the schedule:

Week of

November 18: Krishelle

November 25: Jeff and Krisanda

December 2: Eli

December 9: Andy and Micalyne

December 16: Kaylee

December 23: Mom and Dad


At the end of your week when you are posting the focus for the next week, please also remind the next person on the schedule that they have the next week.


After we get through these 6 weeks we will start over with me.

Please let us know if you have any suggestions or ideas or think something should be changed.

Thanks! Love you all!!

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