Flaxmeal Cinnamon Muffins

My new years resolution this year is to eat healthier so I'm trying out some new recipes.  Here's a great muffin recipe I found on Linda's Low Carb website.  They definitely need some butter (I used light butter) to spead on top but over all not bad for my first attempt at using flaxmeal.  

Per Serving: 130 Calories; 12g Fat; 3g Protein; 4g Carbohydrate; 3g Dietary Fiber; 1g Net Carb
Here's the recipe

Intuitive Eating...

I guess I'm what you would call a "chronic dieter".  I've been on all the big diets (atkins, weight watchers, south beach, nutrisystem, etc.) at one time or another and some more than once!  Thinking back on all of these diets, all I've really gained from them is mostly useless knowledge of calorie counts, fat grams, and "points" information............oh and also about 50 extra pounds!

I saw a show a year of two ago called "I can make you thin" with this british guy Paul McKenna.  I really liked the show but it only had a few episodes and then you really didn't hear much about it.  His plan was basically you follow the four "golden" rules and you'll lose weight naturally.  You can still find these shows if you do a search on youtube.  Here's his rules

1. When you're hungry, eat!

2. Eat what you want (not what you think you should)

3. Eat consciously (ie slowly)

4. When you think you're full, Stop!

Easy right? Not!  It's actually pretty difficult. 

To help I bought his book and "mind programming" CD but there's not a lot of scientific data or rather the "why" of this program so I started looking into intuitive eating which is really what this whole plan is based off of.

Recently I found the best intuitive eating book so far, "Intuitive Eating" by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch.  This is a fantastic read that gives you the whole low down on how diets hurt your self esteem and why dieting make you fat.  Yes that's right I said DIETING MAKES YOU FAT!  Very eye opening and for all of my chronic dieting sisters a MUST READ!

Granted this is not a "get skinny quick" type of program but unlike every other diet plan I've ever tried, once you lose the weight the authors promise it's gone FOREVER! 

I can't wait to get skinny forever!  But for now I'm slowing my roll and just practicing the program one day at a time.  

It must be working because yesterday instead of punishing myself by continuing to squeeze into my too tight clothes I went out and bought some stylish clothes for my upcoming cruise that actually fit me!  This may not seem like a big deal to "normal" people but for a chronic dieter this is a huge step towards "honoring the body I have". 

Time to move it AND lose it!

I know people always say NOT to do this but being the stubborn Taurus girl that I am I ordered my wedding gown a size smaller than what I actually wear! I've been trying to follow intuitive eating and lose the natural way but it's just not working for me and I'm starting to get a little nervous!

I've always had good luck whenever I do any type of low carb diet but I really do want to be able to do the intuitive eating thing so that I can eat whatever and still be healthy.....

I also realize that sitting on my butt in front of the computer all day and night is probably not helping me get any slimmer either! whoops! So today I did Turbo Jam for the first time. Totally fun but totally KICKED MY BUTT! My fiance is wanting to start Power 90x but I watched it and it looks kinda hard core for me so I may just watch him do that one. hee hee

Anyways wish me luck and whoosh fairies! (that's the fairy that comes while you're sleeping and whooshes the fat away in case you didn't know!)

I know there's positives to both eating styles I just need to pick one and buckle down pronto!

Biggest Loser

Did anyone watch tonight??? Absolutely amazing! Who would have thought at the beginning of this season that any of those people could run a marathon??

Who ever does the casting for this show does an awesome job. There's four people left and each one has a truly inspiring story.

There's Tara (the former model) who has lost the most amount of weight of any woman in the history of the show and the highest weight loss percentage of anyone man or woman!

Helen is the oldest female to ever make it to the final 3 and has lost 103lbs!

Finally, there is Mike and Ron who are father and son. One of them won't make it to the final round, which one is decided by going to NBC's website and voting. Mike is the son and he's lost the most weight of anyone in the history of the biggest loser and is half of the only couple still together at the ranch. Ron is Mike's dad and will do just about anything to see his son win. They both had to make a video supposed to be saying why America should vote for them to stay and Ron's video was all about how everyone should vote for Mike. Absolutely amazing...

Season finale is next Tuesday and I know that I'll be tuning in!