Kick Start Your Diet with a Low Calorie Recipe

A low calorie recipe is just what you need to get a jump start on your diet.

A low calorie diet is just what you need to begin overcoming obesity!

Throughout this site we have discussed the calorie equation, and how it pertains to weight loss.

To lose weight, you need to consume fewer calories than your body burns.

Your body burns in the neighborhood of 1,800 – 2,300 calories a day just to exist, depending on your gender and size.

Increased activity will enable you to burn more calories each day.

In order to lose weight, and thus overcome obesity, you need to make sure that the number of calories you eat does not exceed the number of calories your body is burning through merely existing, or through activity.

Following a low calorie diet and using a low calorie recipe when cooking will:

• Help you monitor how many calories you are consuming and
• Ensure that you are not eating more than you need.

When you burn more calories than you eat your body will begin to use its fat stores and you will lose weight.

A low calorie recipe, such as the one below, can be quite tasty.

Typically, seasonings and spices contain few or no calories, so you are free to flavor your meals how you like without making them unhealthy.

Having a low calorie recipe for each night of the week will provide you with a week of healthy eating.

Try it for a couple of weeks and before you know it unhealthy foods won’t even taste that good anymore.

We hope that this low calorie recipe for Tropical Glazed Chicken will help you overcome obesity by showing you just how good healthy can be.

Ingredients:

1 Cup chicken broth
3 Tbsp. pineapple juice concentrate, thawed
1 Tbsp. coarse-grain Dijon mustard
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp. finely chopped fresh sage
½ tsp. mustard powder
Dash of ground red pepper
1 Tbsp. honey
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Bring the chicken broth to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat until it is reduced to ¼ cup.

Add the:

• Juice
• Mustard
• Garlic
• Sage
• Mustard powder
• Red pepper and
• Honey.

Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer for five minutes stirring occasionally.

Remove from heat. Use immediately or refrigerate until ready to use.

Coat a grill rack with cooking spray. Preheat the grill for 10 minutes on medium-high.

Grill the chicken for four minutes. Turn and grill for one minute longer.

Brush with the pineapple-mustard glaze.

Grill for four minutes longer, brushing with the glaze, until a thermometer inserted in the thickest portion registers 170 degrees Fahrenheit and the juices run clear.

Makes four servings.

Nutritional analysis per serving:

161 calories, 2 grams fat, 1 gram saturated fat, 27 grams protein, 7 grams carbohydrates, 0 grams dietary fiber, 66 milligrams cholesterol, 419 milligrams sodium.

Here are some more tips to help you lose weight.

• Incorporate a proven, complete nutritional program into your daily life.
• Enhance your nutritional program with a complete mutivitamin supplement because no nutritional program is perfect.
• Use a behavior modification and motivational program that will help you stay on track with your nutritional plan.
• Exercise at home with your own:
  Treadmill

  Stairstepper

  Exercise bike

  Elliptical trainer

  Hand weights or

  An aerobic video.

• See what kinds of weight loss aids your health insurance covers such as:
  Hypnotism

  Gym membership discounts

  Nutritional counseling.

Use a low calorie recipe along with the tips above to start losing weight right now.

I highly recommend it!