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Healthy Yogurt Chicken Stroganoff

This easy dinner recipe has both healthy chicken breast and low-fat yogurt. Eat it on top of pasta, rice, or other grains, and with lots of vegetables.

Yogurt Chicken Stroganoff

Add 1 tablespoon oil, 1/2 cup chopped onion, 1 cup chopped skinless chicken breast or ground turkey, 1/4 cup chopped mushrooms, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and a little pepper to a skillet. Add a pinch of dill weed, parsley, or garlic. Stirover medium heat until the meat is cooked. Stir 1 tablespoon cornstarch into 1/2 cup cold...

Healthy Living eBook Free on Amazon

This new health and weight loss book is free (kindle ebook) on Amazon May 14-16.

This book isn’t about the latest celebrity diet, wonder food, or miracle supplement. It’s about creating a personalized weight loss plan—your own easiest path to naturally thin. While you can lose weight with almost any diet, keeping the weight off is much more difficult, requiring permanent changes in eating and exercise habits. This book provides a science-based approach for making those changes in a way that w...

Weight Loss Books on Amazon

This new health and weight loss book is only 99 cents (kindle ebook) on Amazon May 7-9.

“Every now and then I actually find [a book] I am wildly enthusiastic about. This is one…The 10 short chapters cover everything you need to know about taking and keeping weight off.”

—Genene Coté, nutrition consultant, Down to Earth Fare

“If you are looking for a very practical, user friendly, fact based guide to weight control, this is the book for you.”

—Jennifer Miyagawa, Registered Dietitian, JenmiJenmi

“…...

Quick Mango Lassi (Mango Yogurt Drink)

Mango lassi is a delicious way to take advantage of the weight loss benefits of yogurt. Here’s a very simple recipe.

Quick Mango Lassi (Mango Yogurt Drink)

In a blender, combine 2½ cups plain low-fat yogurt, ¾ cup frozen peeled mango, and ¼ cup sugar. Blend until smooth.

Makes 3 servings.

Relevance to Natural Weight Loss:

Weight Loss Tip: To take full advantage of mango lassi’s weight loss potential, take small sips and savor each one. Whether you drink it as a snack or in a meal, taking several...

Twitter Chat on #ChildObesity Feb 4

Childhood obesity is everyone’s challenge. Please join me, The Healthy Moms Magazine, and Motherhood Moment for an hour-long Twitter chat on childhood obesity, Monday February 4, at 9:00 pm EST. You’ll find prizes and lots of good information. Register free here.

The Diet Dropout’s Guide on the TODAY Show

The Diet Dropout’s Guide to Natural Weight Loss was featured with a few other new weight loss books on the TODAY show this morning. Here’s how Madelyn Fernstrom, diet and nutrition editor, described it:

“A slim volume that has the basics of behavior change, and includes all the ones people really struggle with.”

“It’s really [about] changing your relationship with food.”

“Dropout is a good word.”

The ebook is currently free at Amazon and ranked #29 in Kindle books.

New Healthy Living Book

This new health and weight loss book is available on Amazon in paperback and ebook (only $2.99) formats.

This book isn’t about the latest celebrity diet, wonder food, or miracle supplement. It’s about creating a personalized weight loss plan—your own easiest path to naturally thin. While you can lose weight with almost any diet, keeping the weight off is much more difficult, requiring permanent changes in eating and exercise habits. This book provides a science-based approach for making those...

New Healthy Living Book (FREE at Amazon 1/17-1/19)

This new health and weight loss book is FREE at Amazon in ebook format January 17 – January 19.

This book isn’t about the latest celebrity diet, wonder food, or miracle supplement. It’s about creating a personalized weight loss plan—your own easiest path to naturally thin. While you can lose weight with almost any diet, keeping the weight off is much more difficult, requiring permanent changes in eating and exercise habits. This book provides a science-based approach for making those changes...

This New Year Make a Weight Loss Resolution You Can Keep

Most of us have dieted to lose weight, only to gain it back again within a few weeks or months. It isn’t that diets don’t work. It’s that they don’t last. Most diets are so unpleasant, inconvenient, boring, complex, or expensive that they are difficult to stick with for very long. When you quite the diet, the weight returns.

Think of excess fat as a collection of bad habits. Lose the habits and you will lose the fat. Each time you give up one of these bad habits (all other things being equal),...

Greek Dip (Tzatziki) for Weight Loss

Tzatziki is a delicious and versatile low-calorie dip that will leave you satisfied and provide a counter-temptation to junk food. Here’s a very simple recipe.

Tzatziki (Cucumber Yogurt Dip or Sauce)

Peel a cucumber and cut it in half lengthwise. Remove the seeds by scraping out the center portion of the cucumber with a spoon. Grate the cucumber and press it with a paper towel to remove the extra liquid. Mix the grated cucumber with 2 cups plain Greek yogurt, 1 tablespoon fresh dill or mint (or...