5 Inspirational Weight-Loss Quotes

Here are a few diet quotes that may give you some inspiration while trying to lose weight:

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live. - Socrates

"Never trade what you want the most for what you want at the moment"

In this age, we believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest! --Henry Miller

"Its not about how good you are but how bad you want it."

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb

Extremely Low-Calorie Vegetable Chicken

Ingredients

1 skinless, boneless chicken breast half
1 lemon
1 pinch garlic powder
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

Preparation

Squeeze juice from 1/2 lemon onto chicken. Season with salt to taste. Let sit while you heat the oil in a skillet over low heat.

When oil is hot, put the chicken on it. Turn over about 5 to 10 minutes and sprinkle the rest of the lemon juices on it. Add pepper and oregano to taste. Sautee for another 5 to 10 minutes or until juices run clear.

Actual Cooking Time: 10-20 minutes
Number of Servings: 1

Calories Per Serving: 105

Low-Fat Alternative to Pasta

If you're at all like me, one of the hardest things about maintaining a diet is cutting down on Italian food, especially pasta. What makes pasta fattening is the calories in the noodles, which come from the carbs. Although spaghetti sauce can be fattening, there are alternative ways to cook it. There's only one low-calorie alternative to the noodles, though, and that's spaghetti squash.

Sphagetti squash is a type of squash (obviously) that if you cut in half and carve the insides out gently, they will come out similar to noodles, about the size of angel hair. You get about 5 cups of noodles from one squash. A cup of spaghetti squash is only 42 calories, whereas a cup of regular noodles is over 450 calories. 1 cup of spaghetti squash also only has 10 carbohydrates, whereas a cup of regular noodles is around 106, which is 35% of your daily recommended intake.

The difference in the taste between the two is that spaghetti squash tends to be sweeter, while the textures of both are relatively close. If you have the right sauce, the sweet taste of the squash might add to the taste. I think that sauce with less salt works best when eaten with spaghetti squash.

Preparation

Place spaghetti squash in boiling water and cook 15 minutes. Prick in four places with a fork and continue cooking another 30 minutes.

Remove squash. Let cool for 5 minutes, then cut in half lengthwise and scoop out seeds. Using a fork, pull out the strands of "spaghetti". Add sauce and enjoy!


Serving size: 1 cup
Number of Servings: 5

Calories per serving: 49

Calories per 1 cup of regular spaghetti: 250

Thats a 200 calorie difference!

Weight Loss Tip: Eat at Home to Lose Weight

You would be amazed if you really knew how high in fat most dishes are at your favorite resturants and fast-food stores. For instance, even the "low fat" items in Mcdonalds are packed with calories. The Premium Grilled Crispy Chicken Club Sandwich is 530 calories, 17 grams of fat, and 52 carbs. You can make your own chicken sandwich at home on wheat bread for half the calories!

Plus, most of the dishes not only at Mcdonalds, but in most chain stores, are loaded with trans-fat, which is the worst of all fat, contributing to heart disease, obesity, and high cholesterol, according to the FDA.

If you must eat out, like it's an extremely important occasion (your wedding, perhaps) go to calorieking.com to find out the the nutrition facts for the meals at the resturant. Just keep in mind that calorie king doesn't post trans-fat facts, so don't over-do it.

Low- Fat Baked Salmon

Salmon is one of the best foods you can eat if you are trying to lose weight. Salmon is low in fat and high in protein, which helps you build lean muscle. Here is a low-fat and delicious salmon dish

Ingredients

1 1/2 lbs Fresh Salmon Fillet
1/2 Tsp Dill
1 lemon

Preperation

Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Put fish on foil-lined baking sheet. Spray sheet with non-fat cooking spray.

Bake 10 minutes for each inch of thickness. Salmon should be opaque but not dry.

Serve salmon with lemon wedges


Actual Cooking Time: less than 15 minutes
Serving Size: 4 oz.
Number of Servings: 6

Calories per serving: 133

Find Your Ideal Weight

You can use this BMI calculator to find your ideal weight.

A BMI under 18.5 is considered underweight 18.5 - 25.9 is normal, 25 - 29.9 is overweight. Anything over 30 is considered obese.

Low-Calorie Vegetable Soup Recipe

This is a low-calorie vegetable soup recipe thats only 119 calories per bowl. Eating soup is a great way to lose weight because the warm liquid makes you get full quicker than hard foods.


Ingredients

1 14oz. can chicken broth
1 11 oz. can tomato-vegetable juice cocktail
1 cup water
3 stalks celery, diced
1 carrot, diced
1 large potato, diced
1 14. oz. can diced tomatoes
1 bunch endive, cleaned and sliced
1 cup fresh corn kernels
creole seasoning to taste

Preperation

In a large stock pot, combine all the ingredients. Season with pepper and creole seasoning. Bring to a boil and season for 30 minutes or until all vegetables are tender.


Actual Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Number of servings: 6

Calories Per Serving: 119

Easy Weight Loss: Don't Drink Soda

Well, maybe you can drink soda, but only if its diet. A 20oz. bottle of regular soda (the size sold in most vending machines) is a whopping 250 calories. For someone whose not on a diet (takes in 2,000 calories a day) that's one-tenth of their entire calorie intake for the day, on something that isn't even filling! The calories in soda are called empty calories because they have no nutritional benefits.

Soda is also packed with sugar. Most soft drinks have around 39grams of sugar in a 12oz. cup, which is 4 tablespoons of sugar. This isn't only bad for your figure, it's bad for your health.

Although replacing all soda with water would be the healthiest alternative, you can drink diet soda instead. It has less carbs, less sugars, and above all, zero calories. There's absolutely no reason not to switch, but a hundred reasons you should.

Just think about it: If you cut one regular soda a day out of your diet, you would be cutting out 1,750 calories a week (250x7=1,750). Thats about a pound every 3 weeks, or 13 pounds a year.