TITLE CHANGE

Hi everyone, I decided to change the webblog name to simply Waist Management.

Love, KTB

HI EVERYONE FROM US!

This was us a few months before the weigh-in (Amalfi Coast, December)....we're hoping to both shed some weight in time for Cape Breton summer...whenever that's gonna be!

Love KTB and Jon

Easy Greek Salad, Garlic-mashed potatoes and Marinated steak

Here's a great side salad for a barbecue dinner:
English cucumbers diced
Grape tomatoes whole
Green Red, Orange or Yellow peppers diced
Feta cheese cubed
Sliced jalapeno pepper (if you like it spicy)
Pitted black olives (the no name brand ones are great)
And we recently tried the Kraft Olive Oil Salad dressing (Tuscan-style Italian or something like that) which was a really nice dressing to mix with this

This is best made up a few hours before your dinner so that the dressing gets fully mixed in with the salad

For an easy, tasty marinade, we like the PC Mola sauce (it's chili and chocolate sauce which is great to flavour your steaks)

As another side dish, we boiled up some of those lovely PC small red potatoes, mashed them with some garlic and a little bit of chili sauce...mmmmm mmmmm

Not much of a diet meal, eh?

But just watch your portion size :)

HEALTHY TIPS TO SHARE

It's gonna be hard to do, but:

• Avoid foods that have any of these as their first five ingredients: saturated fat, trans fat, simple sugar or syrup like high-fructose corn syrup.
• Choose 100% whole grains whenever possible.
• Exercise 45 minutes/day x 6 days/week or 30 mins/day as many days/week (2 of the days should be strength training)
• Eat more spinach! (e.g. spinach, mandarin and almond salad has a lot of vitamin E and C)
• Floss everyday! It prevents gum disease that has been linked to heart attack and stroke.
• Take more walks (if you can't meet the exercise requirements suggested above)
• Breathe more deeply. Try the 4-7-8 rule (count to 4 when you inhale, count to 7 as you hold, and count to 8 as you exhale)
• Eat plenty of rainbow-hued fruits and vegetables.

That's a start!