Are Your Kids Sabotaging Your Weight Loss?

Written by Kim Beardsmore


If you are a mom at home on a diet, you will probably related to a frequent situation I encounter as a weight loss consultant. Many of my clients with children are able to keep to a healthy eating plan through most circumstances except two. It all starts to go astray whenrepparttar kids come home from school, or when they are preparing school lunches.

It's no surprise really. Kids love snacks we buy fromrepparttar 114599 supermarket, and parents love them because they are quick and easy to throw intorepparttar 114600 lunchbox or for kids to grab fromrepparttar 114601 shelves inrepparttar 114602 pantry. Small bags of chips, tasty bite size crackers, sodas andrepparttar 114603 like. No problem. Except when it comes to mom's weight loss program. Mom loves them too!

These products are high in fat, high in energy and high in refined sugars. And after one, two or three nibbles it is possible to wrack up an unwanted 500 calories. This single act will probably stall your weight loss or even worse!

To stop your kids from sabotaging your weight loss efforts, here are 20 snack ideas for kids that will do far less damage to your weight loss program if mom nibbles (just a little).

1.Chop up ½ tinned pear or other fruit in natural juice and set in 200mls of low calorie jelly. Make up into individual disposable plastic containers with lids.

2.Cut up crisp vegetable sticks with dipping sauce - ranch, peanut (satay), sweet chili or tomato.

3.Cut celery sticks 6-8 cm, fill with cottage cheese and top with sultanas or chopped nuts.

4.Combine a mixture of low fat hard cheese cubes, nuts and dried fruits in plastic wrap or a lunch bag.

5.Roll up thin slices of carrot and celery with grated cheese in a slice of cold meat. Secure with toothpick. Slicerepparttar 114604 carrot and celery with a vegetable peeler for really thin slices.

6.Cut oranges into quarters and freeze on trays. Put into plastic bags for a fruity ice block.

7.Meatball surprise. Next time you are making meatloaf, doublerepparttar 114605 quantity and make a batch of meatballs. These are great in lunchboxes cold. Add a slice of pineapple with a toothpick to each meatball. Add dipping tomato sauce if required.

How I lost A million Dollars In A Bank Robbery

Written by Gerald Armstrong


You have my permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long asrepparttar bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated. How I Lost A Million Dollars In A Bank Robbery

The Million dollars was my life-savings earmarked for primerepparttar 114598 pump money for my biotech start-up. I amrepparttar 114599 Gerald Armstrongrepparttar 114600 owner of Gen Cells Cures…Gen Cells Cures is focused on private medical research forrepparttar 114601 individual. Searching forrepparttar 114602 cure for incurable diseases and aging. Of course, withrepparttar 114603 best scientific technologies onrepparttar 114604 planet! With President Bush trying to riderepparttar 114605 middle ofrepparttar 114606 road on stem cell research and his rejection of therapeutic cloning. I packed my bags and went offshore. A great place to go, but leave your money at home. I transferredrepparttar 114607 money to a carribean island andrepparttar 114608 local banker stole every last penny. The local government gave me backrepparttar 114609 money, but in their currency then devaluedrepparttar 114610 currency almost 100% and I walked away flat broke. The banker also robbed 2.2 billion dollars ofrepparttar 114611 local folks money. He bought himself out ofrepparttar 114612 scandel and is enjoying my million along withrepparttar 114613 other billions he robbed and his new helocopters and yahts in his home-country! I am pretty sure he will show up onrepparttar 114614 Forbes billionaire list next year. Not a bad business…Robbing banks , if you haverepparttar 114615 conscience for it! Don’t worry aboutrepparttar 114616 country,repparttar 114617 International Monetary Fund stepped in to replacerepparttar 114618 stolen money, no questions asked. The American Embassy screamed for justice inrepparttar 114619 scandel but to no avail. Afterrepparttar 114620 electric company cut my lights for non-payment I lost all of my cell lines and had to shut downrepparttar 114621 lab. Chris Reeve had expressed an

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