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“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. I you can do that, and live that way, your are really a wise man.” — Euripides at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/balance.html#rFAPteUPr2TfUSwD.99
It is possible to eat too much, even eating healthy food. These are two tips for controlling portions I use.
Plate size can help control how much you eat. If your dinner plates are very large, try using a salad plate. You can still have a full plate, while consuming less. Remember meals still need to be balanced and at least half of your plate should be vegetables.
Have two instead of one. When I prepare certain foods I know we will always want two. When I make muffins, I make minis so we can still have two and eat the same amount as if we ate one. I also make my salmon patties smaller so Bob can have two. He never notices they are smaller.
How do these work? These little tricks fool the brain into thinking you are eating more than you actually are. When you are finished the brain can tell the body “that’s good, we’re done.” Of course there is a scientific explanation, but it’s not as much fun.
“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.” — Stephen R. Covey http://thinkexist.com/quotations/freedom
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.quotes-inspirational.com/quotes/freedom/
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” —– Ernest Holmes
“Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.” —Eileen Caddy [Source: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/fun/]
This smoothie with a mild flavor of cantaloupe and strawberries makes a good breakfast. So, how healthy is this smoothie? As an orange fruit, cantaloupe is high in beta carotene. [Source: The World’s Healthiest Foods www.whfoods.com] Strawberries are high in antioxidants and there is current research looking into possible anti-inflammatory properties. [Source: healthfood-guide.com]
Ingredients;
Directions:
1. Combine cantaloupe and juice/water mixture in blender.
2. Pulse a few times then blend on high until cantaloupe is liquefied.
3. Add strawberries a few at a time. Continue to blend until strawberries are chopped very finely.
4. Add ice cubes as needed, pulsing then blending on high until your smoothie is the desired thickness.
Serves: 3
This recipe is part of a summer series on smoothies. Enter “smoothies” in the search box at the top of the right column to find the others.
Rogene Robbins is the author of Frozen Fun: 25 Dairy and Dairy Free Ice Cream Recipes available in the Amazon.com Kindle Store
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.— – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi [Source: http://www.joyprogram.com/]
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