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By on July 16th, 2011

Low Calorie Fresh Spring Rolls

How would you like a great tasting snack that’s low in calories, almost no fat, and neatly holds a lot of nutrient packed vegetables. Fresh Salad Spring Rolls are the way to go and the modified DietCrushers recipe makes these an all-time favorite. I let myself eat these all day long. One of the kids called them “salad sticks” and the name stuck. With your choice of the right sauce, there’s a lot of flavor and still great nutrition. It’s the easiest way I know to get more than my daily requirement of vegetables by snacking!

Recipe: Fresh Salad Spring Rolls

Summary: “Great low-calorie snackers!”

Ingredients

  • 12 Dried Rice Paper Wrappers (8.5″)
  • 6 oz tofu, firm, drained OR cooked chicken, turkey, shrimp cut into matchsticks
  • 2 c. mung bean sprouts
  • 1/2 c. carrot cut into matchsticks
  • 12 basil leaves, fresh, sliced lengthwise
  • 1/4 c cilantro, fresh, chopped
  • 2 c. lettuce, shredded
  • 2 T peanut butter
  • 3 T fresh lime juice
  • Stevia sweetener, to taste

Instructions

  1. Fill a wide rimmed bowl that is larger than the wrapper with warm water.
  2. Slide a wrapper into the warm water for less than 2 seconds.
  3. Place the softened wrapper on a flat surface.
  4. Starting from about 2 inches on the left side, place an ounce of tofu or other protein down the center to about 1.5 inches on the right side.
  5. Roll to cover. Fold in the sides.
  6. Divide the other ingredients into 12 equal portions and add them one after the other. Each time adding a little and rolling to cover.
  7. At the end fold the uncovered wrapper sides in and over the left and right side edges
  8. Pull tightly. As long as you didn’t use too much water to soften, it won’t break.
  9. Do this 11 more times and you’ll have 12 excellent fresh salad spring rolls.
  10. Let them rest for about 5 minutes while you make your sauce.
  11. A simple sauce of equal parts apple cider vinegar, lime juice, soy sauce, peanut butter, and water with a few drops of stevia sweetener to taste is great. Authentic sauces contain hoisin sauce and fish sauce.

Quick notes

Rice wrappers can get too soft very fast. You can always add water, so don’t drop them in the water bowl and leave them. Just a second or two is enough.

Variations

Other common healthy vegetables to add:
peeled and seeded cucumber strips
green parsley or cilantro
julienned carrots
snow peas
rice vermicelli is most common.

Preparation time: 40 minute(s)

Cooking time:

Diet type: Vegan

Diet tags: Low calorie, Reduced fat, Reduced carbohydrate, Gluten free, Raw

Number of servings (yield): 12

Culinary tradition: Vietnamese

Calories: 78

Fat: 1

Protein: 4

My rating 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(s)

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By on July 10th, 2011

A Compelling WHY!
This #1 Secret Makes You Win With Any Diet

Sailing on automatic without thinking what direction to go is like comfortably flying into a big blue sky!
It’s living a vacation away from the hassles in life. Until you get to weight loss. Sailing on automatic can help you pack on 1000’s of extra calories without remembering how they taste.
Automatic living is necessary just to get through parts of life. I’d go nuts if I needed to figure out why I do what I do all the time, but
that’s why finding your most Compelling WHY! before you start your weight loss program is the #1 reason for success. Your most compelling WHY! becomes a lot more than just the reminder to pay attention. It takes a little thinking, because what we do has deeper reasons than what first might answer the question: “Why did I eat so much?”
Conscious Living
“Here I am at my desk knowing I needed to finish an overdue project.  The impending deadline was eating away at me.
I was motivated to finish that project, so I eagerly began.  Within 10 minutes of delving into that work, I almost mysteriously found myself in the kitchen.
I didn’t remember walking away from my desk as I thought about my project while walking to the kitchen.
I looked back at what I was doing.
The section I worked on was difficult.  So, without thinking about it, I left my desk to avoid what I was doing.  It became so mindless that I justified being hungry or thirsty, when I wasn’t.
Now I saw what I was doing. I could control it more. I would still step away from my desk before I caught myself going out the door, but I stopped myself from piling in a lot of food that I didn’t want.
Eating like that over and over again with no real need to eat, other than to take my mind off something else, helped me put on 1000’s of extra calories. Discovering that helped me control it.
When food is involved as the soft place to land, this mindless activity can be a major cause of weight gain without even trying.
How do you conquer this unknown, controlling force without years of therapy and medication?
Create your biggest and most compelling WHY!
Your compelling WHY! is rarely what you first think it might be.
Weight loss diet programs wouldn’t exist if that weren’t true, because you could control what you really wanted to correct about yourself easily.
  • I want to lose weight to fit into my clothes.
  • I want to lose weight to be healthy.
  • I want to lose weight to be sexy to others.
Of course, people do lose weight and reach those goals, but I have yet to meet anyone who dropped a significant amount of weight and kept it off only for one of those reasons.
People with diabetes, heart problems, digestive and thyroid disorders who had much weight to lose, have wanted and sometimes needed to become healthy, but couldn’t stick to their program long enough to reach even a 10% weight loss goal.
It’s not their fault.  I believe in personal responsibility, but that’s learned.
They didn’t have enough of a compelling WHY! that helped them stay strong to succeed.  The threat of poor health wasn’t real enough to eat right, exercise, stop drinking or quit smoking.
It may not appear so at first, but when you have a big enough WHY! you can do whatever you desire.
You can move mountains, because your compelling WHY! to do something becomes stronger than all the doubts and self-sabotage that limited you before.

Create your biggest and most compelling

WHY!

If you never had that experience, then you had your biggest and most compelling WHY! to carry you through.
Your biggest and most compelling WHY! is that issue in your life that is so personal to you that it’s the reason you will reach the goal you start.  You will not only start faster, but the hurdles will seem lower than ever before.
A most compelling WHY! doesn’t always stop you from cheating on your food program, but it does get you back on track.  And it will give you a sense of control that you haven’t experienced in any way before, because this is

ALL ABOUT YOU.

Your compelling WHY! is that thought, feeling, experience or desire that you want so much that the pain of change needed to lose weight doesn’t even matter.
When you can say that you would rather lose the weight more than lose what you get after the weight loss, THEN you have found your biggest and most compelling WHY!
When I wrote down my biggest and most compelling WHY!, I could see my weight loss success that moment.  And in just the first few weeks of having that compelling WHY!, I stayed on track with little effort and lost more weight than I had in a long time.  I cheated in the second week, but I still lost weight that week.
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By on June 23rd, 2011

Crush The Myth! – Weightloss In A Bottle

The search for those Easy Magic Weight Loss Pills Just Skyrocketed! Each year a new product hits the market that promises quick, fast and painless weight loss without surgery!
Who do you know who would buy a Makeover In A Bottle that does all this:

  • Causes You To Become A Fat Burning Furnace Watching TV All Day Long!
  • Builds 25 lbs Of Muscle WHILE YOU SLEEP Without Taking A Single Steroid!
  • Turns Your body Into The Chiseled Sex Machine Desired By Everyone Everywhere!

Trusting & Hopeful

Weight loss pills that make your dreams come true are the constant hype of the diet and exercise industries. Those are two of the largest industries on earth, because people are trusting and hopeful. Products in every form have been sold with borderline truths for a long time. And today you can buy them in any form as long as the money is right.

Where’s Bob At The Pool?

Bob impressed the ladies at the pool. He needed to look down just a little to help anyone understand why Bob had that special edge. The company said it sold billions of little capsules.

Most people didn’t have any question of what Bob’s problem was or what those little pills were supposed to do.
That’s marketing!
And it’s done in varying degrees like that in the diet and exercise industry every day.

Just because a product sells, doesn’t mean it’s any good. That only means the marketing department did its job well.
Smiling Bob
None of the ingredients in Bob’s special product are anything special themselves. Those advertisements now have no real promises that relate to any specific product. That’s how marketers without integrity make money.

I’m no Boy Scout. It’s tempting to have my wildest financial dreams satisfied, but selling over-hyped products with unrelated illusions isn’t how I could do it. There’s just too much at stake that I value.

A person who isn’t selling products like that is then on the receiving end of that marketing hype.
Have you heard someone say, “It was too good to be true, but I did it anyway.”

Save Your Money For 30 Days

Dieting and exercise are already backed up by mountains of scientific and anecdotal studies. More studies are in the works. More is on the way. Get the basics down so well during the next 30 days that you know you will stay the course long enough to get your remarkable body.

Mike

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