A tough diet tips question this week. Let’s dive straight in
Question: I’m on a diet just to lose about 10-15 pounds within the next few months. I’ve been working out a little but I’m a stay-at-home mother so it’s hard to really get out of the house and go jogging frequently. Any foods/recipes or dieting tricks and tips that will help me lose some weight?
Thank you! 
Answer: It’s tough when you have to juggle free time and the kids. Kudos to you for doing a job that many don’t realize is not easy.
Depending if you have decent financial freedom, you could invest in a stationary bike, or a treadmill. The only dieting trick I know of is to control the amount of calories you intake, and stay away from deep fried foods. Eating organic foods is always helpful. If you read food labels, you’ll notice the majority of foods on our store shelves have artificial ingredients, monosodium glutamate…all that stuff won’t help with anything that has to do with a healthy diet. I struggled with weight up until about 4 years ago. I’m 5′8, and I was 207 lbs. Within a year and a half, I was able to drop down to 160 lbs. However, I was fortunate to have the luxury of enough time to run a swim a lot. I included grapefruit in my diet, which is claimed to help a lot with weight loss. But i’m not sure if it helped, since I was exercising a lot. I was always informed that if I took any medication, I needed to check with my physician before adding grapefruit into my daily diet because it could have a negative reaction. So if you decide to try grapefruit, and you take medication, check with your doc to see if it’s okay! Good luck!
I just love answering these diet tips questions. Here’s another:
Question: I’ve been a vegetarian for almost 4 years now, and a few days ago I recorded everything I ate for a week to see what I was eating too much of and what I’m not getting enough of. Oddly, I noticed it wasn’t protein I was lacking it was actually vegetables. Haha.(: I like vegetables (with the exception of mushrooms and eggplant!) and I’m open to trying new ones. I really would like to start eating more veggies so I guess what I’m asking is for recipes, or suggestions of good veggies that would be for 14 year old girls to eat!(: Thanks!:)
Answer: Hi Shelby
I don’t think V-8 fusion is a good substitute for actual vegetables although it may contain vegetables. V-8 fusion taste good but the downside to it is that is has sugar in it. The only way to get more vegetables in your diet is to buy it and eat it. I have been vegetarian for about 20 years now and I get more than my share. And who says you can’t drink your vegetables. Kim G is also wrong about that. I juice all the time. I drink juice by day and raw by night. My favorite vegetables to buy when I go shopping are: califlower, carrots, broccoli blend. You can buy frozen or you can buy fresh and mix the three. I used to buy the frozen bag of mixed vegetables which contain corn, peas and carrots and sometimes green lima but for some reason my body wasn’t digesting it well. I buy fresh or frozen spinach. I discovered that I like asparagus which is very nutritious. You will notice that your urine will have a strong scent, though. That should not stop you from eating asparagus. I love collard, mustard, kale greens. You can buy separate or get a blend of it in the frozen foods. When you get older, your taste buds for egg plant will change. I didn’t like it either but I love it now. You can eat any of the butternut squash -baked, delicious. I don’t particularly care for okra which is highly nutritious but I learned how to make a soup with it and I am a fan now. If you eat salads, you need to buy green leafy lettuces. My goodness, there is such a wide selection of vegetables to choose from that have nutritional value that you can buy. It isn’t about eating vegetables for a 14 year old. It is about getting what your body need in order to be healthy. Good luck in your vegetarian diet.
Keep the diet tips questions coming! I liked this one:
Question: Does anyone know a good way to transition into this? I also am a bit worried about serving him raw chicken due to salmonella. Can dogs get it? Any recipes that you suggest would be great too. Thank you in advance.
Answer: The recipe (*not to be followed daily though it can be, the goal is to balance over 1 - 2 weeks) is really just 80% meat (half red meat is nutritionally a good goal), 10% bone (covered by meat), 5% liver, and 5% other organs (any mix)
Salmonella probably has a better chance being found in your cereal, tomatoes or kibble than causing harm in your dog from eating raw chicken!
Definately join yahoo groups "rawfeeding" and "RawChat" for much more help and discussion.
Here is a site with a simple menu plan if you’d like an example:
http://www.rawessentials.co.nz/content/page61/Large+Dog.html
And here’s a kind of fun recipe site;)
http://www.rawfeddogs.net/Recipe/List
