Food Finds

Lower fat lower calorie peanut butter. Very good taste compared to others I have tried. It's of course higher in carbohydrate as most reduced fat food items are, but all in all, a pretty good alternative if you are trying to reduce calories.

Breakfast

I recently had a friend tell me that he eats six eggs for breakfast. Every morning.  Six eggs.  Every morning.  To me, that seems like too much cholesterol!  

Anyway, in an effort to gain weight and increase his protein intake, he has resorted to this six eggs per day routine.  With great success he is nearing his hoped for goal weight.  I thought I would give him a few ways to sub some of those morning yolks, but still get "roughly" the same amount of protein and calories.

1 large egg (the white and the yolk) has about:

78 calories, 212 mg cholesterol, and 6.3 g protein

Some swaps:

• 1 tablespoon peanut butter (94 calories, 0 mg cholesterol, 4 g protein)
• 23 almonds (164 calories, 0 mg cholesterol, 6 g protein)
• 1/2 cup Greek Yogurt (88 calories, 8 mg cholesterol, 11.2 g protein)
• 1/2 cup cottage cheese (80 calories, 10 mg cholesterol, 12 g protein)
• 2 egg whites (34 calories, 0 mg cholesterol, 7 g protein)

Nutrition Fact of the Day.

The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) was started in 1994 and is tracking over 5,000 individuals who have lost significant amounts of weight and kept it off for long periods of time. (almost anyone can lose weight, but it is very hard to maintain that weight loss over time)

Successful losers report the following:
78% eat breakfast every day.
75% weigh themselves at least once a week.
62% watch less than 10 hours of TV per week.
90% exercise, on average, about 1 hour per day.