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This recipe is for about 2 servings (see note at bottom of recipe)

1 Small Sweet Potato
1 teaspoon Olive Oil
Ground Cayenne Pepper
Garlic Powder
Sea Salt and Pepper to taste
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Preheat oven to 350°. Peel sweet potato and slice in half across the middle (so you now have 2 pieces half a long as the original sweet potato) and then slice each half into 12 wedges. In a bowl place your sweet potato wedges and add olive oil.  Mix to coat the wedges. Add Sea Salt, Pepper, Garlic Powder and Cayenne Pepper… mix well to coat all wedges with spices.

Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper and spread the wedges into a single layer on the paper.

Bake in oven uncovered for about 20 minutes… turn wedges after 10 minutes and watch that they don’t burn (ovens vary on this) cook until golden brown.
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Our rating from 1 (yuk!) to 10 (I’m really not cheating?): 8

Serving size: 1/2 Sweet Potato
Our estimated exchanges:
3 Starch
1/2 fat

NOTE: The size of Sweet Potatoes varies so much that the exchanges may be way off.. the best way to calculate is 1 starch for 1/3 cup serving.  Goes great with a side of Ketchup

So in looking back at the previous posts I have made I notice a couple of things… first, I tend to post more when I my motivation is high.. and I avoid posting when I fail at a goal…

For example, the April 30 day challenge that I started and was all Gung-Ho on.. for 3 days.. …read full article…

Yesterday was day #2 of my 30 day challenge and here are the results:

Goal #1 – Stay on the LightenUp eating program every day.
Stayed on and monitored all day.  Was one dairy exchange over and two vegetable and one fruit exchange under. Score: A-

Goal #2 – Exercise at least 5 days a week (home workouts and gym)
Again I sat and thought about it, and never did.  Score: F

Goal #3 – Sleep 7+ hours every day
In bed at 10:30 pm and asleep by 11:30… up at 6:40 am.. 7 hours and 10 minutes of sleep Score: A

Goal #4 – Water intake of 8+ servings every day and Limit myself to 1 can of diet soda (or diet flavored water) a day
Drank the 8 servings at my desk and then had about 3 more at home.  Drank only 1 diet soda all day. Score: A

Overall score for day #2 is a B- (2.875) Much better.. the no exercise really brought down the overall score.  Today I have the gym scheduled.

I haven’t been here in a while and much has changed.  I did diet for a month or so with my husband, and I think I lost like 17 pounds total, and, as usual, got discouraged.  During this whole time, I was going through the process of all the classes and all the testing to have weight loss surgery…namely laproscopic gastric banding.  I chose that surgery because it’s the least invasive, safest procedure…plus the bands are now adjustable, which will help keep me in control. 

So in early December 2008, I decided to go forward with the procedure.  …read full article…

Current Mood: Cool

Today I found a site that is called This Is Why You Are Fat… it is basically a colection of food that people have submitted that are ‘CRAZY’ fattening.. and look oh so good   I suggest you look at the archive to get the full effect. 

So this got me thinking… Exactly ‘why’ am I fat?.. I mean I understand the intaking more calories than what I burn.. and that my diet needs to be balanced and I need to be active… blah blah blah… that’s not what I am talking about… what I am saying is ‘why have I allowed myself to be fat?’ …read full article…