Our question this week is how to flip the switch that will change your couch potato cake-gorging ways. We talk about Fitbits, food plans, and Ellen brings some hard core doctor advice.

What can help you flip your switch? Just hit play on the soundbar at the bottom of the post.

Now you were promised the recipe for stuffed pepper soup, but we’re going to give you even more. Here are THREE recipes you can make at the same time. If you’re browning one pound of ground meat, you might as well brown two and have dinner and lunches done for the whole week.

Skinny Stuffed Pepper Soup

Skinny Ground Beef with Greek Yogurt Sauce

Skinny Mexican Casserole

You can follow the links to the fully printable recipes, but here are Ellen’s tips for assembling the soup, Mexican casserole, and Greek beef at the same time.

When making these recipes all at once, Ellen typically uses one pound of extra lean ground beef and one pound of extra lean ground turkey.

She browns the turkey with the onions and peppers for the soup in her soup pot (because it cooks with very little fat draining off). She cooks the beef with the onion and the pepper for the Mexican casserole in a skillet. She drains both separately and removes her quarter cup of ground beef for the Beef with Greek Yogurt Sauce. but then returns half of the turkey to the skillet and half to the soup pot. She does the same for the beef, trying to get more of the peppers back in the soup pot.

She then proceeds with all three recipes. It’s a lot of cooking, but then you have dinners and lunches for days. So worth it.

Now these recipes weren’t the only resources mentioned. Another tool we talked about was this little guide that is so very useful for planning what you are going to eat when you go out:

The Calorie King Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter 2015: Pocket-Size Edition

Now while you can easily get this awesomeness on Amazon for under $9.00, Ellen mentioned another book that is unfortunately out of print: The Skinny: How to Fit Into Your Little Black Dress Forever by Melissa Clark and Robin Aronson. So since you can’t easily buy this for yourself, we’ll share the two philosophies in it that first helped Ellen “flip her switch.”

1. Eat what you want and banish the guilt. If you really want a food, there is a portion and a way to work it into your day.

2. You can indeed eat a few bites of something decadent, like cake, enjoy each bite, and know that there will be bites of cake in your future. You don’t have to consume it all right now.

Keeping these two philosophies in mind are a great way to supplement a diet plan so that you can kick boredom, bingeing, and guilt to the curb . . . along with your fat pants.

By the way, we were raving about the positive reinforcement our Fitbits give us. We both have Zips. You can look at the details and buy one here:

Fitbit Zip Wireless Activity Tracker

Ooo,oooo! One more thing! We talked about being excited about BlogU. If you are looking for a great conference to take your Blog Beyond, check it out.

Thanks for Listening! And let us know what you think in the comments! How do you keep fit?

Erin and Ellen

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