Friends......SWAPS!!!!!

Please don't just glance over this one.  IT HAS GREAT IDEAS!!!!!!  Yesterday I shared about Danielle and Adam.  This is from Danielle and she has some GREAT ideas on swaps. 
Check these out!!!!!!

So, I feel like I have become a MASTER at cutting calories and maximizing on my food intake....this girl likes to eat! :-p
I wanted to share with you all some of my food swaps that I have picked up along the way so you can maximize on
your meal plan as well, so here it goes:

ice cream --> Artic Zero ice cream. I have only found this at Whole Foods. The entire pint is only 150 cal and 12g carb!
... HELLO!!!! Where has this stuff been and why haven't I found it sooner? The flavors are amazing too!

Peanut Butter --> PB2. Although regular peanut butter isn't all that bad for you it is packed with lots of calories. For the same
serving size (2TBSP) PB2 is only 45 calories, 1.5g fat, and 5g carbs. It comes in chocolate and regular. It's powdered and
requires reconstituting but amazing all the same. I use it in the overnight oatmeal soaks a lot.

Fruit flavors----> Capella drops. I order these online. If you want to make a smoothie but don't want all the carbs and sugars
from the fruit that's mixed in, you can sub it out with these drops. It's 0 calories and the flavors are spot on! You just use 1 drop per
ounce of food or fluid that you want to flavor. I make my son strawberry smoothies with these (since frozen fruit is so expense) and
I use them in the overnight oatmeal soaks as well

Fruit flavor ---> sugar free fruit preserves. I do this to flavor plain greek yogurt. If you buy the yogurt with fruit mixed in your getting a
load of carbs and sugars. If you don't want/have Capella drops this is another alternative. The fruit preserves are 10 calories and serving
and about 5g carb

Pasta ---> spaghetti squash. You all may be familiar with this one already. Spaghetti squash is a wonderful veggie that when baked,
the pulp falls apart just like spaghetti noodles. I have made spaghetti dishes, casseroles, and lasanga with spaghetti squash. I have
even served it as a side dish on it's on. There are tons of recipes for spaghetti squash. It does tend to release water when leftover though.
1 cup will run you 42 calories and 10g carb versus 210 calories and 44g carb for 1 oz of traditional spaghetti pasta!

I use lightly salted rice cakes in place of most bread. I'll make an open faced sandwich with them....lol. Otherwise I use Ole Mexican Xtreme
Wellness wraps or Flat Out wraps and make quesadillas or wraps. These are very low cal and low net carb as well.

AWESOME!!!!!!  LOVE THESE!!!!!!!  Thank you Danielle!!!!!!!!  Do you have SWAPS?  Please share them!!!!!!!!

Game On,
Pam

 

Friends......

There is absolutely no way that we could maintain Healthy LifeStyles if we didn't have the support of friends and family.  The accountability factor for me personally is GIGANTIC!!!!!  I have a super friend named Danielle that I met when I was working at the hospital.  She is an incredible RN and so much fun to be around.  She and her husband Adam have a company called Team Genetics.  Her husband is a body builder preparing for the Arnold Classic.  They both have so much knowledge and just want to share it. 

As most of you know, I have an accountability group on Facebook and the women are incredible.  We laugh, encourage, challenge, keep each other on our toes, ask questions and all the time learning how to create this Healthy LifeStyle.  Adam posted something on his page the other day that I thought was wonderful.  It was encouraging and challenging at the same time.  I asked if I could share and they said SURE!  So here is what Adam had to say.....

Npc Competitor Adam Hively

I know that I have been basically just posting up progress pictures and whatnot lately, and most of you out there assume that the transformation I am going through is all about the work I put in at the gym. True, that is a substantial portion of it. However, none of that gym-time would yield the results I so eagerly pursue to achieve without something more crucial, something more important, and something more meaningful molding who I am today. I am talking about the foundation that keeps the motivation alive, and the thought of failure at bay. The foundation is YOU, ME, ...and the belief that I (as in yourself) can achieve ANYTHING you want to achieve. It all starts from within.
Anyone can go to the gym and bang out a workout. Anyone can eat the right foods and take the right supplements. It’s having the mental preparation and constant need to not only NOT FAIL YOURSELF, but to NOT FAIL THOSE AROUND YOU which will give you the outcome you so desire. I often hear excuses. “I’m too tired to____,” or “I just don’t have the time to____.” That’s CRAP! No one said that gaining success, whether in life or with a short-term goal was going to be easy! HECK, if it is easy, then you obviously didn’t set your goals high enough and maybe need to rethink your mindset.
Now, how can YOU keep that mental fortitude and drive alive, you may be asking?? Simple. Not only set that goal, today, not tomorrow or next week or next month….no, TODAY! And then tell someone close to you what that goal may be. For instance, if you are wanting to achieve a better physique, tell some people around you that in 4 months you are going to do a competition, be it bodybuilding, figure, strongman, etc. THIS will hold you accountable. This will give you the drive to, now, not only prove to yourself that YES you can indeed sculpt a new outer you, but that now others are expecting you to!!
Do this with every goal you set, especially if it is one that may need some outside motivation to keep alive!
How about this….state, right here, right now, ONE goal you would like to achieve this calendar year, and I will hold you accountable to it. Let’s see those goals come rolling in people!
THE FIRST DAY OF ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL STARTS…….NOW!!

You can't help but be pumped after reading that!!!!!!  I just loved it!!!!!  THANK YOU ADAM!!!!!!

Post your goals.....Let's get this done!!!!

Game On,
Pam