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Young child made the meal plan this week. He chose ratatouille and wrote the entire schedule. I told him how to spell it. We made it with a lovely salmon. Such a smart kid. Mama and dad are just trying to keep up. #parents #parenting #ratatouille #cooking #cookingwithlove #cookingwithkids #kids #kidsofinstagram #kidscooking #elliekrieger #monday #mealplan

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Succotash Scallops with and Parsley Drizzle Food Network

Chef Ellie Krieger

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(via Pesto spinach stuffed spaghetti squash) This dish turns spaghetti squash into an edible bowl filled with a sumptuous, spinach-ricotta mixture seasoned with basil pesto and mozzarella cheese. 

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Perspective | The most helpful healthy-eating tool: Accurately evaluating how hungry you are

Using a 1-to-10 hunger scale helps you check in with your satiety cues, which can stop overeating.

Sometimes it’s just easier to have a few simple rules to follow. The hunger scale is about as simple - and reliable - as it gets.  Regardless of how you choose to eat (Paleo, counting macros, counting calories, keto, intuitive, eat what you want when you want) you actually DO have a plan for how you eat.  Even the absence of a formalized “plan” is still a structure that guides how you decide what and when to eat each day, and when to stop. 

After years and years of testing different plans, lately I’ve been feeling that I want something really SIMPLE.  I’m sick of worrying about ratios of carbs to fat, or does what I’m about to eat have grains in it, or is it the right thing to eat before or after my workout, etc. 

PUTTING HUNGER ON THE SCALE

Maybe it’s everything else that’s going on in my super busy life right now but I just need my eating plan to be EASY.  

So it’s a nice coincidence that Ellie Krieger wrote up this column about the hunger scale.  This is exactly what I’m working on in Girls Gone Strong’s Strongest You Coaching: Waiting to eat until I’m truly hungry, eating slowly, and stopping when I’m satisfied, not full. 

The thing I love about this list is Ellie’s definitions of the various stages on the hunger scale, what she calls The Hunger Continuum.  Of course this scale isn’t new, you’ve probably seen versions of it a ton of times too. But I’ve never seen the times to eat and stop eating described quite this way: 

EAT when you are: Feeling strong feelings of hunger (vs. starting to get hungry or uncomfortably full) STOP EATING when you are: Comfortably full (vs. nearly full or very full)

I know when my stomach is rumbling consistently, when I’ve gone ahead of that “Hmmm, I could eat” feeling.  I also know when I’m aware that I’ve had enough, especially if I’ve taken my time to eat.  

GUIDE YOUR EATING WITH TWO SIMPLE QUESTIONS

I’m not saying these steps are effortless and will put you on weight loss easy street.  For me at least, it’s still work.  The nice thing is that they’re straightforward, and not a lot to remember.  

I just ask myself one question before I eat something: “Are you really hungry?” Or as my Strongest You coach Jen Comas likes to say, If you’re truly hungry, a piece of lean protein and steamed vegetables will sound good to you.

During a meal, I ask myself “Are you starting to feel like you’ve had enough?” If the answer is yes (more on how to tell in the next post), I take maybe one or two more bites -- sometimes I call these “goodbye bites” -- and put my fork down. Then I move on to the next thing as quickly as possible.  The next meal will come soon enough. 

Does this resonate with you? Have you ever tried eating this way? I would love to hear your stories of what’s working for you, or where you’d like help! 

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Hay House author Elizabeth Hamilton Guarino and CEO of The Best Ever You Network interviewed Ellie Krieger at the Massachusetts Conference for Women. Ellie is the host of The Food Network's & Cooking Channel's popular 'Healthy Appetite" and author of the New York Times best-selling book The Food You Crave.

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Week #1: "Eating Clean"

So, having hit a bit of a plateau in my weight loss challenge, I decided this past Sunday night to try and go a week without eating packaged foods. This is not to say that I eat a lot of packaged/processed foods to begin with, but I feel like it is so easy to default to a granola bar or bowl of cereal as a snack before the gym, etc. I feel like I put so much time into the gym and making sure I eat healthy, but all of that can be counter-productive with one or two wrong food choices each day.

That said, Sunday afternoon I took some time to go thru two of my favorite websites, Clean Eating Magazine and Eating Well. They both have easy, healthy recipes that can be prepared ahead of the time for the week. I opted to make, among other things, a Lemon Chicken Stir Fry for dinner as well as a Waldorf Chicken Salad for my lunches at work. I also found an amazing recipe online for Energy Bars from The Food Networks Ellie Krieger. I was skeptical at first that so many raw ingredients could produce such a yummy result, but after 20 minutes in the oven I was left with the perfect “before gym” snack.

I’m not sure how the rest of the week with pan out, but tomorrow is Wednesday and I have made it two days so far and I feel good about that. I’m hoping that this will help me to start spending some more time in the kitchen, as well as help me to increase my fruit and vegetable consumption. I’m hoping that this little “self-challenge” will help me to make some more positive changes, so I’m excited to see how my body adapts. Updates to come …

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Modified Peach Pie Smoothie

I've decided to start this blog in hopes of keeping track of my culinary experiences and sharing them with others. I'm trying to eat more healthy but not sacrifice taste. Yesterday as I was walking down the aisles at Target, I found this single serve blender which doubles as a portable travel cup. Blend and go!

When I got home, I decided to give it a whirl. I found Ellie Krieger's recipe on Peach Pie smoothie and it sounded delicious. I modified it, and here is mine below. 

Modified Peach Pie Smoothie

Recipe for 1 cup of Peach Pie Smoothie (you can double it as you need it)-- 1/4 cup of Greek Plain yogurt

1/4 cup of 1% milk organic milk

1 Tablespoon of honey

1/8 of vanilla extract 

1/8 of cinnamon

Pinch of nutmeg

1 Tablespoon of Wheat Germ

1/2 cup of frozen organic peaches (you want to use frozen ones, not fresh ones because they will cool your drink and not need to add Ice, Ice will make it too watery)

Important: Put all the ingredients into the blender EXCEPT for the peaches. Blend it up. Then, add the peaches, and blend it until smooth. (If you put the peaches with everything else, it will freeze the honey). There you go. Taste just like Peach Pie!

This recipe is a modification from Ellie Krieger's found here.