THE CRANBERRY SAUCE

I have much respect for the sauce "cranberry sauce" that is. Last night I was feeling really sick from some severe back pains that struck me down like lightening. You would have thought I bench-pressed 400 lbs of weights with my backside. I went to webmd.com to see if I could diagnose my problem and low and behold, it gave me too many options. So I was telling my Mom about my pains and she swears by the sauce. She eat it everyday with everything. I personally only thought it was good for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Well, consider that I am out of town visiting my Mom, and I was reluctant to go to E.R. although I maybe one ibuprofen away from that visit to E.R. I ate about three tablespoons of the cranberry sauce and drunk about 20 ounces of water with it. Talk about in a matter of minutes...literally within 30 minutes my back started to feel a little better. I mean I could actually reach up in the air and twist my side a little more without resistence. So I too will be eating more cranberry sauce with more of my meals and not just for holidays. But as they say, Mom's know best...thank you Mommy I love you for that advice! (and I promise I will not make fun of you and cranberry sauce anymore...)

5 Foods That Can Trigger a Stroke

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Few things feel more terrifying and random than a stroke, which can strike without warning. And fear of stroke -- when a blood vessel in or leading to the brain bursts or is blocked by a blood clot, starving brain cells of oxygen and nutrients -- is well founded. After all, stroke is the number-three killer in the U.S., affecting more than 700,000 people each year. Here are five foods that cause the damage that leads to stroke.

THE NAKED TRUTH!

I am so excited to tell you that today I weighed myself and I have went down to 251 pounds as of 09/19/11. I almost cried when I saw the scales tip. As of today I have lost a total of 51 pounds, and a total of 16 pounds from my last entry (262). The great thing about it is that I am only 49 lbs from my goal of 200. I am out of the sixties and into the fifties. The crazy part of it all was that I didn't know that weight had came off. I have been eating dried cranberries last week with everything from cereal to my cornbread dressing. I was eating them like raisins, and truth be told I love them as much as I love raisins.

Also, I have changed the way I weigh myself.  So I weigh myself in the morning right before I get in the shower I strip off all my clothes and I make sure I use the bathroom first (for some reason I think urine weighs about a ton in the morning) and I weigh myself. The naked truth. I want to know what I weigh without clothes or anything else that could distract my actual weight from being read properly. I'm sooooo bananas right now that my insides are jumping just from telling you all this.

Last but not least....I do excercises that make me feel good. I'm not jumping around doing Zumba, but I am doing jumping jacks, I want to master doing 100 of them. That is my goal, I am now up to 25 a day, of course not all at the same time, but I do 25 of them.  Also I do a lot of stretching, I can hear all these 41 year old bones cracking in places I never knew of.  It's like I am exploring my body from different angles and sides.  I will be uploading pictures real soon, I need somebody to take them for me, so they can get my good side lol....

Well ya'll enjoy your day and look forward to updating you with more information about what I am doing. TTYL!!! xoxo smooches xoxo

How Beyonce Knowles Lost 20 Pounds In Under 2 Weeks

Beyonce used a very unusual diet called the Master cleanse diet (also called the maple syrup or Lemon juice diet) to shed 20 pounds quickly.

Beyonce had to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks so she could look more like the slimmer Deena Jones at the age of 16 (Deena Jones is a character Beyonce played in the dreamgirls movie)

"Normally they'd change your make-up or your clothes but I wanted to go the extra mile," Beyonce is quoted as telling China Daily. "Back in the sixties, models like Twiggy were popular and I knew Deena would have been thin then, so even though I really love eating, it was necessary to lose weight really fast because we shot Deena at 16 and Deena at 36 two weeks apart."

(Continue reading below to see what Beyonce ate on the Diet)

The Master Cleanse Diet is basically a fasting diet where you eat no solid foods and... You have to drink 6-12 glasses of water mixed with lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper for 10 - 40 days and...

That's what Beyonce did on the master cleanse diet to lose 20 pounds in 14 days and according to some reports... Beyonce cheated on the diet by eating fish, vegetables, and protein drinks... "I had to lose it really fast, so I fasted and only drank liquids and [had] fish and protein shakes and vegetables" but...

Beyonce quickly gained back all the weight she lost on the Master Cleanse diet and Beyonce admitted she was very cranky while on the diet...

"As soon as it was over, I gained the weight back - I ate everything when it was over...the second I looked at a donut, it came back! I gained back all the weight, even the weight I didn't want to come back!"

The Master Cleanse Diet was originally made just for cleansing and detoxification of your body - the rapid weight loss is just a positive side effect.

1200 Calorie Diet Day 7

Breakfast
1 slice French toast
1 cup fresh blueberries
1 cup skim milk

Morning Snack
1 orange

Lunch
1/4 cup cottage cheese
1 mixed green salad
1 T. fat free dressing
1 whole wheat roll
1 cup skim milk
1/2 cup sliced carrots

Dinner
3 oz. baked or broiled cod
1 cup noodles
2 tsp. butter or margarine
1/2 cup applesauce
1 cup mixed vegetables

Evening Snack
1/2 cup fat free pudding

1200 Calorie Diet Day 6

Breakfast
1 bagel
1 T. light cream cheese
1 cup orange juice

Morning Snack
6 oz. fat free, flavored yogurt

Lunch
2 oz. lean hamburger, grilled or broiled
1 T. ketchup
1 hamburger bun
1/2 tomato, sliced
1/4 green pepper, sliced
1 cup skim milk

Dinner
1 cup angel hair pasta
2 oz. boiled shrimp
1 tsp. olive oil with garlic on pasta
1 mixed green salad
1 T. fat free dressing
1/2 cup cooked green beans

1200 Calorie Diet Day 5

Breakfast
1/2 English muffin
1 egg poached
1/2 grapefruit
1 cup skim milk

Morning Snack
1 pear

Lunch
2 oz. turkey breast or lean ham
1/2 large whole grain pita
2 sliced carrots
1 cup skim milk

Afternoon Snack
1 peach

Dinner
2 slices cheese pizza
1 large mixed green salad
1 T. fat free salad dressing

1200 Calorie Diet Day 4

Breakfast
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup cereal
1 cup skim milk
1 cup strawberries

Morning Snack
2 tsp. reduced fat peanut butter
2 rice cakes

Lunch
1 cup vegetable soup
1 mixed green salad
2 T. fat free salad dressing
1 cup skim milk
6 saltine crackers

Afternoon Snack
1 apple
1 piece (5 oz.) flounder or other white fish, baked, broiled or grilled
1 medium baked potato
1 mixed green salad
1 T. fat free salad dressing

Evening Snack
3cups light popcorn

1200 Calorie Diet Day 3

Breakfast
2 pancakes, 4" rounds
1 T. fruit spread or maple syrup

Morning Snack
1 cup skim milk
1 sliced peach

Lunch
1 salad with mixed greens
1 T. fat free dressing
6 saltine crackers
3 oz. tuna fish, albacore, water packed
1 apple

Afternoon Snack
1/2 oz. chocolate (about 4 chocolate kisses)

Dinner
1 cup cooked pasta
1/2 cup spaghetti sauce, meatless
1 mixed green salad
1 T. fat free dressing

Evening Snack
1 cup skim milk
1 whole graham cracker

1200 Calorie Diet Day 2

Breakfast
1/2 cup oatmeal, cooked
2 tsp. brown sugar
1/2 cup skim milk
1 cup orange juice

Lunch
1 oz. turkey breast mustard or fat free mayonnaise
2 slices whole wheat bread
1 apple

Afternoon Snack
1/2 cup skim milk
1 cup strawberries

Dinner
2 oz. chicken breast, no skin, baked, broiled or grilled
1 small baked potato
2 tsp. butter or margarine
1 cup green beans
1 mixed green salad
2 T. fat free dressing

Evening Snack
Low fat milkshake made with:
1 cup skim milk
1 cup fat free ice cream

1200 Calorie Diet Day 1

Breakfast
1 plain waffle
1 T. maple syrup
1 tsp. butter or margarine
8 oz. water or caffeine free, non-caloric beverage

Lunch
1 plain waffle
1 T. maple syrup
1 tsp. butter or margarine
8 oz. water or caffeine free, non-caloric beverage
1 cup skim milk
1 salad with romaine lettuce
1/4 cup each carrots, green peppers, cabbage, celery
1 T. light salad dressing
1 whole grain roll

Afternoon Snack
1/2 cup sliced strawberries
6 oz. fat free, flavored yogurt

Dinner
3 oz. sirloin steak, lean only, broiled or grilled without added fat
1 cup rice
1 tsp. butter or margarine
1/2 cup cooked carrots
1 mixed green salad
2 T. fat free dressing
Evening Snack
1 orange