My Lunch is better than your lunch!!

I'm not a huge shrimp fan, but dress it up a bit, and I can make my way through it, with less WW points!

This recipe is a Dr. Oz favorite: I call it the great alfredo fake out!

Here's how you do it:

ingredients:

2 garlic cloves

olive oil spray

low cal butter stuff

laughing cow lite swiss wedge (1)

2 tbsp parmesan

broccoli

shrimp

4 tbs greek yogurt

1/4 cup almond milk

spray your pan liberally with olive oil. Add about a tbls of I can't believe it's not butter to the pan, along with two chopped cloves of garlic. *YUM*

brown the garlic, then add (precooked) shrimp. After the shrimp has warmed up turn your heat to low and add in about 4 tbsp of greek yogurt that has been mixed with about 1/4 cup of non-sweetened almond milk. mix this all around really good. You may see it separate a little, thats ok. Next Toss in a wedge of laughing cow lite swiss cheese. Let it get bubbly and melty. (very technical term). Then-- add in some pre steamed broccoli. *Double yum* Get it all warmed up, and at the end-- toss in about 2 tbsp of parmesan. Plate it up, eat it up.

Me and the Big C.

On my Facebook group, Healthy Habits, I talked a little bit about my struggle this year with some colon issues. The short of it: At 39 years old, I had to get a colonoscopy. At 39, they found 15 polyps, three of which were sent to the lab. Two polyps were found to be benign. The other polyp- pre-cancer, and according to the medical assistant, the aggressive kind. Not good.

So, I have been doing a ton of research, both by watching medical advice shows like Dr Oz, and doing my own internet research. The consensus is that we can avoid some cancers with a healthier diet. Good news.

My love affair with food isn't likely to stop, right? So, I am replacing healthy, cancer fighting foods with the luscious and decadent fatty foods that I have loved for so long. Sometimes this is a real struggle: not because I don't love my super yummy healthy substitutes, but because I am trying to replace SUGAR with a less caloric sweetener. Here is a hint: ARTIFICIAL = CANCER. Bleh.

I love sugar. I love e. How do I get those foods in that are low in fat, low in sugar, and aren't going to kill me? I am researching this little problem now.

Who am I to be giving advice?

I've started and stopped so many times.  I have failed one less time that I have tried.  What makes me think I can succeed now? Who am I to be going any advice?  How did I get here?

I am going to attempt to answer that question every day for the rest of my life.

I want to start out by saying that I am not a writer, not a chef, not a food critic, nor am I a nutritionist.  I am just someone who has a love affair with food.  Now, I am learning to have a love affair with nutritious  food.  GO ME!

My blog is going to be about my journey, through thick and thinner.  The ins and outs of not dieting, but truly making a lifestyle change.   I am going to be brutally honest about this journey.  I hope that just one person will read it, find a little inspiration, and take it forward into their world.

Over the coming weeks, I will be posting recipes, pics, and a journal style approach to blogging.  I'm not writing this for the masses, for rather for one.  Me.  I welcome comments, recipes, links, and informative feedback.  I discourage negativity.

So... here goes something.  :)