Diet ~ Exercise ~ Diet ~ Exercise !!!

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by DianaB

1 c. no fat sour cream
1 c. Campbells Healthy Request Chicken soup
Low fat or skim Milk
4-6 boneless Chicken breasts
Herb seasoned bread crumbs

In a 9X13 baking dish, sprayed with non-stick spray, mix the sour cream and the soup, then fill the soup can with milk and add this too. Stir well. Add 4-6 chicken breasts and bake for 50 minutes at 350*. Sprinkle herb seasoned bread crumbs (like you use to make stuffing) on top and bake another 10 minutes. This is really good served with rice.

Diana, you had it going there until you said "served with rice". Rice especially white rice is a No No for people trying to lose weight. It turns to pure sugar in your blood stream.

I'd suggest eating this dish as it is, or with a whole grain pasta.

To make recipes low fat/lower cal, the key is to use low fat/lower cal ingredients like this recipe does. Also eliminate as much as possible any white flour (can use some white whole wheat), white rice, minimize the fruits.

The white refined carbohydrates become sugar very quickly in your blood stream. Complex carbs from whole grains are much better. Fruits and carrots are high in sugars so should be minimized. Drinking a large glass of orange juice is like eating several oranges. Think about it. That's a lot of sugar.

I've been dieting off and on since having children. I'm about 11 lbs overweight right now and working to get that off. I'm 52 and workout at least 4 to 5 times a week. Indoor cycling (spinning) is the best workout that I've found. More calories burned and cardio exercise for the time invested than treadmill or elypticals. When I can't spin, I do elypticals.