Secrets of a Skinny Chef

Secrets Of A Skinny Chef

There are 100 delicious recipes without fattening ingredients that will add inches to your hips. Secrets of a Skinny Chef shows you how to indulge your comfort-food cravings without the guilt.

What I'll Be Doing Tomorrow At the Gym!

These get my thighs-a-burnin!

My cheap trick is to watch trainers with people and steal their moves.

This is one of 'em!

Does Anyone Hate Crunches as Much as I do?

Check out FitSugar's ways to get your abs in shape without any traditional crunches!

Healthy Movie Theater Snacks Popping Up in a Theater Near You?

A recent MSNBC article says that a survey of people would rather get healthy snacks in movie theaters if they had the option. I totaly agree! If there were veggies and lowfat dip I'd totally get them over popcorn. Assuming they were decent quality. I mean, all the bad press popcorn has received I can hardly enjoy it anyway! Think air popped popcorn, fruit cups etc.

Could you give up the delicious buttery goodness of movie theater butter popcorn? I've actually started sneaking in organic popcorn into the movies so I get the popcorn idea without the butterball I have to roll out of the theater 2 hours later.

What are your thoughts?

One More Reason to Eat Better: Pringles Recall! Eww!

Even if you've popped, you'll be able to stop! Especially after the recent recall because of Salmonella! Ick!!!!!!!!!!! How nasty!

Proctor & Gamble recalled has recalled Restaurant Cravers Cheeseburger and Family Faves Taco Night. I mean don't they sound delicious? I mean, seriously though--could anything be more unnatural? Both chips included hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), an obscure but widely-used flavor-enhancing ingredient made by Basic Food Flavors, Inc.

Grosssssss.

Safe and Healthy Water Bottles with No BPA!

These water bottles are aaaaaaaamazing! It's like lately the only thing safe is glass these days--but how do you just tote around a glass bottle? Enter Lifefactory's glass bottle encased in a silicone casing (both are dishwasher safe btw!). It's bisphenol-A (BPA), phthalate, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) free! What could be better?

Oh yeah, they're only $22 bucks here! Cheers to healthy water!

Exercise is the Only True Fountain of Youth

According to a recent study that the NYT discussed in a recent article:

“Physical inactivity,” they wrote, “is one of the strongest predictors of unsuccessful aging for older adults and is perhaps the root cause of many unnecessary and premature admissions to long-term care.”

Just one more reason to keep things moving! Get some hand weights and get your rump in shape!

Is Your Salad Making You a Chunk Muffin?

We just found out a la Fit Sugar we found a calorie breakdown of just how many calories are in your favorite salad toppings. Basically girls, just use common sense. If you're getting a salad to be healthy--think veggies. Don't add bacon, egg and cheese, all right? Or all of the above. Also a no-no? Drenching your greens in creamy dressings. If you need something substantial for lunch get a sandwich on whole grain bread--you'll be much better off.

Topping	Calories	Total Fat (g)	Sat. Fat (g)	Sodium (mg)	Carbs (g)	Fiber (g)	Protein (g)
1 tbsp. sliced almonds	52	5	0	3	2	1	2
1/2 avocado	144	13.3	1.8	7	7.4	5.9	1.7
2 tbsp. bacon bits	50	2	0	220	4	2	6
1 oz. blue cheese	97	8	5.3	381	1.8	.4	6.2
3 oz. grilled chicken strips	100	1.5	.5	390	3	0	19

To see the rest of this breakdown, read more.

Topping	Calories	Total Fat (g)	Sat. Fat (g)	Sodium (mg)	Carbs (g)	Fiber (g)	Protein (g)
1/4 cup chickpeas	65	.5	0	15	11.5	2.5	3.5
1/4 cup lowfat cottage cheese	45	1	.5	240	2.5	.5	6
1/8 cup craisins	51	.4	0	.4	12	.8	0
10 garlic croutons	100	8	0	350	1	0	6
1 hard boiled egg	78	5.3	1.6	62	.6	0	6.3
1/4 cup crumbled feta	90	7	4	390	2	.5	7
1 oz. goat cheese	80	6	4	45	1	0	5
4 olives	25	2.5	0	0	0	0	0
1/8 cup raisins	56	.1	0	2	14.9	.7	.6
1 tbsp. salted sunflower seeds	47	4	.4	33	1.9	.7	1.5
3 oz. marinated tofu	120	6	1	480	4	1	13
1 tbsp. walnuts	50	.4	.5	0	1	.5	1.3

***I am not a doctor, these are just my personal suggestions. But I am skinny so I gotta be doing something right!***

Best Sweet Potato Recipe!

Rachel Ray's Sweet Potato Recipe is amazing. But you can seriously get rid of half of the fat and sugar! If I were you (and if you were me) I made these last night and used about a tablespoon of butter instead of a half of a stick! She's crazy! And I used a 1/4 cup of brown sugar (which I still thought was way too much). The banana and the orange really made this recipe great. Yum!!

Ingredients

• 3 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
• 1/2 stick butter
• 1 banana, sliced
• 1 orange, zested and juiced
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
• Salt and pepper

Directions

Boil potatoes until tender, drain and reserve. Return the pot to the stove top over medium heat. Add butter and bananas to the pot. Cook bananas 5 minutes and add the juice of 1 orange to the pot, reserve the zest. Allow the juice to cook out, 1 minute. Add potatoes to the pot and the stock and sugar. Mash potatoes, banana, stock and sugar together until well combined. Season with nutmeg, salt, pepper and orange zest, to your taste. Mash to combine spices and serve.

Blueprint Cleanse!! I did it!!

Has anyone else done this? I just finished it last week and though I'm proud of myself (and a tad skinnier) I am not so sure that I feel so cleansed.

Thoughts??

Read Smartypanties.com for a complete drink by drink account of the starvation!

Get In Shape Girl!!

We can't wait to share all the tricks that we use to keep in shape! And we'd love to hear from you too! Hit us with your fave tricks and shortcuts to stay fit and healthy!

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