Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Blast

1 tablespoon Hershey's unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tablespoon Smart Balance peanut butter 1 cup low-sugar vanilla soymilk 2 packets of Splenda or any other artificial sweetener Put everything in a blender. Blend on a low setting for about a minute. Enjoy! There's a breakfast drink in one of the South Beach cookbooks I have called 'Almond Energy Blast'. I was sooo excited to make it last week, since we finally have a blender again. Of course, Peapod didn't deliver either the tofu or almonds (because nothing ever goes my way). After pouting for a couple of minutes, I decided to put peanut butter in instead (Smart Balance supposedly has Omega-3s in there, but you can use any low-sugar variety of peanut butter). I put in some unsweetened cocoa powder as well, just coz it seems right to have...

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Low-Carb Italian Meatloaf

2 lbs ground turkey1/2 cup pesto (I used the bottled kind)1/2 cup of crushed almonds1/2 cup of parmesan cheese2/3 cup oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes1 eggsaltPreheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Have ready a shallow 11-by-7-inch baking dish (if you don't have this, use whatever you have and just form the meatloaf so that it fits). In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients. Mix gently and thoroughly with your hands. Form the mixture into a rough loaf in the baking dish.Bake until the loaf is firm, the top is richly brown and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center registers 160 degrees F (it was about an hour when I did it, but you'd have to keep checking the first time). Let the loaf stand in the pan for 5-10 minutes before slicing.I recently had a very bad craving for meatloaf,...

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Why I'm Not 400 Pounds

I love food. There is rarely an hour that passes in my life when I'm not craving food or thinking about food. If I didn't care about what society thinks, or about living a full, happy and healthy life, I would probably weigh about 400 pounds. Fortunately (or unfortunately, however way you see it), I do care about these things. So I turn to diet and exercise whenever I realize I've gone overboard with my food addiction.I've been on several diets in my lifetime. Some of these include: The 6 o' clock diet - Eating whatever you want before 6:00 pm and not eating anything after 6:00 pm.South Beach - Too complex for me to summarize hereNo-carb diet - This is basically the version of South Beach Phase 1 in which I delude myself that I can eat all the bacon and butter that I want.Nutrisystem - Pre-packaged,...

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