Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

Motivational quotes are probably one of my favorite things in the world. I’m a total quote-a-holic, I have pages of them in my documents, they’re tacked all over my cork board and scribbled on my dry erase board. So I thought I’d share my little personal “fire starter” with you. Every monday morning I’m going to share another motivational quote to start your week off on the right foot! I hope it get’s you thinking and sets your mind in the right direction for having the best week yet.

This first one is particularly close to my heart, it’s been with me since high school and it’s probably the closet thing to my life motto. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” You are a blank slate and the beauty of that is that you can create whatever you’d like. We live in a world where people are inventing jobs that would have never been thought possible just a decade ago. We’re breaking barriers and reinventing ourselves and you can do this right now in your life. It can be as big as deciding you want to start your own business or as small as deciding you want to be a person who regularly goes to the gym. You decide what defines you, what kind of person you want to be. So what do YOU want to create this week?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

I hope you guys all read my “Morning Mojo” post, it was super quick and if I do say so myself, motivational. In keeping with the theme of that I figured I would share one of my favorite morning go-to DVDs, “Bethenny’s Skinnygirl Workout”. I love workout DVDs in general just because they’re so convenient, great for taking when traveling and perfect for that spur of the moment sweat (or stretch) session at home! This one is particularly close to my heart because it’s Bethenny! So for me it’s a two for one special, it’s a pretty intense yoga practice while getting to watch a woman who I personally find truly inspirational.She’s done leap and bounds to help make eating healthy and staying skinny accessible to woman everywhere and seeing her face during my morning work out reminds me of all that we are capable of and all that I strive to accomplish. Not a bad way to start the day,eh?

Anyways, more on the DVD, it’s divided into three 15 minute segments where you can pause it if you don’t have time for a full on 45 minute work out but it also flows nicely if you don’t pause, which is really quite wonderful. It’s ideal for someone who’s done a bunch of yoga before and is trying to incorporate a morning workout into their lives. You can start just doing the first 15 minutes for a week or two and gradually work your way up to doing the entire workout through. I usually prefer a more spiritual, meditative yoga class but I think this is a really great wake up routine to get those juices going so I’ll save the meditative stuff for later at night. 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

This easy to make South American pesto can add a new flavor to an old stand by (grilled salmon). It’s also great if you want something fresh and homemade for entertaining with out going to too much trouble on your end. Give it a try because it can be a great low carb and low calorie alternative to sneaky sauces that can ruin a perfectly healthy piece of fish!

SALMON CHIMICHURRI

4 salmon filets
1 tbsp finely chopped garlic
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tbsp lemon juice
3/4 cup fresh Italian parsley leaves
1/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves

Grill your salmon with the extra virgin olive oil as usual, I trust this isn’t your first go round with salmon. Now place the remaining ingredients in a blender or food processer. Blend till smooth and all one color. Voila! Simply spoon evenly over your four grilled fillets! How easy was that?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)


There is nothing I love more than a good homemade veggie burger, if you read my article on The Diner you know that I have a penchant for seeking out killer veggie burgers. So when I saw this recipe while flipping through the pages of fitness magazine, I knew I had to try it! Can you believe I had never even attempted to make my own homemade veggie burger before? Blasphemy! I know! Well this burger combines my beloved veggie burger with a splash of Mexican flair for a tastebud knock out. Eat up kiddies!

Black Bean Fiesta Burger
Makes four burgers

1 15 ounce can of black beans drained and rinsed
1/2 cup of finely crushed blue corn tortilla chips
1/3 cup salsa
1/2 cup of reduced fat grated cheddar
1 large egg lightly beaten
1 scallion finely chopped
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
4 large hamburger buns (optional)
2 teaspoon vegetable oil
4 butter lettuce leaves (optional)

First, blend or mash your black beans till they’re a chunky puree. Now stir in your crushed chips, salsa, black pepper, cheddar, egg and scallions. Set the mixture aside for 10 minutes then shape into four patties. Next, place the patties on a plate, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour or overnight. When your ready to eat up your delicious creation simply put a teaspoon of oil in a large non stick skillet on your stove top. Cook each side till golden brown just like a regular burger and then remove from the heat. You can serve them however you like, on a toasted bun or whole wheat pita, I would probably just keep it on the butter lettuce and top with salsa and maybe a little more cheese if I was feeling naughty!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)


I heard a very interesting story the other day about a woman who wanted to start exercising in the morning before work but was having a real hard time putting it into action. That was until someone told her to start taking small steps. “Wake up and put on your gym clothes and have coffee.” they suggested. Sounds a bit silly, eh? Well after a week of waking up, putting on her gym clothes and having coffee she started doing 10 mins of light stretching, the next week 15 mins of yoga and so on till she had a full on morning work out routine! Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither are great rituals!

I hope this inspires you to wake up just a little bit earlier and rally yourself to take those baby steps to a rewarding commitment.  I know for me getting my body going in the morning starts my whole day off on the right foot! I tend to switch it up, depending on the day I’ll either do 30 mins on the elliptical and some free weights or a yoga dvd. Even on those days you hit snooze a little bit longer than you planned, there are some great 15 minute stretches and morning yoga sessions on youtube right at your fingertip! Here’s one below from yoga today that I did the other morning to get the juices flowing when I didn’t have the time for a full on workout.  I’ll keep posting different ones as I stumble upon them because it’s a great way to spice up your morning and turn a potential breakdown into a breakthrough. You have no idea how amazing you’ll feel even doing ten minutes of yoga on a morning you normally would have just hoped in the shower and made an excuse. When you move in the morning it sets a great tone for the rest of the day to be happier, healthier and a more take charge you! Try it for a week and I promise you’ll start looking forward to it. 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

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Not that you have to wait till fall to enjoy this scrumptous soup but nothing makes me happier than a warm bowl of homemade soup on a brisk October day. However, when it comes to soups you can never be too careful, the canned stuff can come with an extra helping of sodium and preservatives, yuck! So here’s an awesome and quick recipe for a soul warming carrot ginger squash soup I found in Health magazine! It’s veggie and vegan friendly but mainly just a great healthy choice. You can also make a large batch and keep it in the fridge for a quick healthy afternoon snack .

Carrot Ginger Squash Soup

Saute 1/2 cup chopped onions, 1 tbsp fresh ginger and 1 clove minced garlic in 1 tsp olive oil for 3 minutes in medium pot. Add 1 1/2 cup low sodium vegetable broth, 1 cup frozen butternut squash cubes and 1 cup of carrot slices. Bring to a boil, and simmer for 5 minutes. With a hand blender, puree until smooth; if desired add broth for thinner texture. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

Sorry all my vegan loves, this recipe is pretty fantastic but has way too many animal products to substitute them all. However, it is a great way to get all the health benefits of quinoa in a surprisingly decadent treat! These pancakes are definitely sweet and surely made for the skinny. Please enjoy and let me know if you can find a comparable vegan breakfast!

BOOM BOOM BANANA PANCAKES

1/2 cup cooked quinoa
2 egg whites
1/4 cup of 1 percent milk ( or vanilla soy/coconut /almond milk)
1 tsp of brown sugar
1/4 tsp of vanilla
1/4 of a sliced banana

Whisk all of the above ingredients together in to one delicious batter. Place a sprayed skillet on your stove top and pour out the batter to make three pancakes. Flip em like you normally would till golden brown. Top it off with some more sliced bananas, a sprinkle of chopped walnuts and a drizzle of maple syrup! Mmmmm 🙂

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Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

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Just the other day I had a lunch break while I was filming a movie down in TriBeCa and I stumbled upon this adorable little Cosmopolitan Cafe. It was the perfect quiet spot to enjoy a low key relaxing lunch. I was feeling a bit naughty and decided to indulge in some banana pancakes and scrambled eggs but their menu had some wonderful healthy options. Everything you could ask for with a bit of a home cooked spin. I’d highly recommend checking it out if your in the area for brunch with a friend or just a nice rejuvenating lunch alone! With my warm cup of green tea and my Diane Keaton autobiography that I’m reading – I couldn’t have asked for a more heavenly lunch hour!

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Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

You know those mornings when you wake up just ravenous for some sweet carby treat?! It usually happens to me on the weekends or during that lovely time of the month. Well this is perhaps an unusual but totally satisfying breakfast idea for you to give a spin!

Sweet Potato with Almond Butter and Maple Syrup

Poke a medium sweet potato with a fork 3 times; microwave on high until cooked, 3 to 5 minutes. Cut the potato in half lengthwise and mash up the insides a bit. In a seperate bowl, mix 2 tbsp of almond butter and tsp maple syrup and drizzle it over the potato! There you have it, quick and easy and loaded with good for you foods!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

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I was on location this weekend for a film shoot and it just reminded me of the importance of B.Y.O.S. or bring your own snacks! Now I’m lucky enough to be able to make specific requests most of the time like vegetarian, lots of fresh fruits and veggies, etc., however, I still always try to remember to bring a “just incase” snack. You never know when they’ll have donuts and bagels for breakfast and your ravenous after a long night of sleep and will be tempted eat anything. Bringing snacks helps you stay on track without starving!

For this particular shoot the other actress and I brought fiber one bars, special K meal bars and mixed nuts. Not exactly a buffet but enough to tie us over if need be. Now normally I would recommend staying away from over processed bars but in this instance it’s much easier to have a few bars and a bag of nuts in your purse instead of dealing with perishables. So maybe you don’t have a film shoot coming up but it also comes in handy for road trips, camping trips or your office retreat, pretty much anywhere your at someone else’s mercy for food!

Nuts are a great go-to, just watch out for the salted or cinnamon sugared ones. Get plain nuts and don’t eat much more than a handful at a time. Nuts have lots of great fat in them and we really don’t need as many of them as we think to feel full. Just give your body a little time to digest and then go back for seconds if you still want. This particular nut mix is pistachios, almonds and cashews. Pistachios are a really top choice nut health wise and cashews have ‘happy’ nutrients in them that can be a sort of natural Prozac. They’re two of my favorites!

Fiber/protein bars can be a little trickier. Some are loaded with sugars and carbs so you’ll have to do a bit of label reading for these. I love the Special K meal bars because they have a lot of fiber and protein, plus they taste pretty good. They can fill you up and leave you satisfied for around 170 cals. Some of my other favorites include LARABARs which are vegan and made from fruits and nuts. My two go to flavors are lemon pie and cherry pie- they’re soo yummy! KIND bars are also great but I think of them as more of a snack or maybe a quick breakfast/lunch when there’s not too much time till the next meal. They have a great blueberry cashew and a naughty dark chocolate sea salt that can hit the spot. Don’t be afraid to spend a little time in the store aisle reading all the nutrition labels, it’ll help you find a great bar that’s good for you and can become your diet’s safety net!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)

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In this lovely installment of “don’t make me write a blog post about you”, I would like to discuss the subject of integrity. For those of you who question how relevant this is to my blog, I say to you,” I have a blog and I’ll rant if I want to!”. Kidding! Gosweetandskinny is about the SWEET and skinny life and this can certainly help you out with the first part of that! Integrity is a really easy way to make your life work for you and strengthen your relationships in all areas of your life and I think it’s something in our text crazed, facebooking iPad world that has gone to the waste side!

I have noticed more and more that my lady friends and business contacts can become huge black holes for communication at times! Not to be sexist, but for men when it comes to business I usually get a speedy response but that hasn’t been the case with some female contacts lately. I’ve felt like a crazed girl after the third date waiting for a text back about a business lunch! It’s absolutely ridiculous! Now, I know I’m no saint and can be completely guilty at times of falling off the planet for a day or two when I’m super busy BUT I would never make plans with someone and then just not get back to them or completely ignore a text MSG/email/etc. Ladies, we need to look out for each other, help each other fulfill our personal and business goals and I am telling you the foundation for everything is your integrity!

What does that mean? Answer every call, respond to every txt right away? Not necessarily, it’s probably easier than calling someone back or remembering to text later but I know how annoying an electronic leash can be so you can get back to people in an appropriate time frame. However, it is important to get back to people! Relationships are so crucial to our livelihood and you want to have a reputation of reliableness and communication in both the your personal and professional world. You know how annoying it is when a guy your dating is posting in Facebook while not answering your texts? Guess what? It’s just as annoying when it’s a different scenario with a business contact. You can’t hide in our social media crazed world. You don’t have to say yes to every meeting or tackle every project, just say something and stick to it. If you say your going to do something make it happen and if you physically can’t do something then let them know that. Under promise and over perform but never the opposite.

After some recent incidents inspiring this blog entry, I’m definitely going to give myself a big integrity check up and make sure I’m keeping up with my word. I’m going to clear and file my inbox tonight so that I can easily see which messages need my attention and I’m going to schedule a time each evening to check my txts and vmails to make sure I respond to everyone even when I’ve had a crazy day. What will you do? We can all improve our integrity and we’re not always going to be perfect but if we make an honest effort we’ll be well on our way!

Thoughts, feedback? Email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com, you know I’ll get back to you! 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading! I love that Go Sweet and Skinny is your go-to website for healthy living tips, vegan and vegetarian recipes (from everything from appetizers to cupcakes!) and diet advice. I”m committed to helping you get skinny and live the sweet life! Please follow @gosweetnskinny on twitter, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/gosweetandskinny) to keep yourself sweet and skinny 24/7. And as always, feel free to email me at gosweetandskinny@gmail.com and let me know what low fat, healthy recipes you want to see on the site, what diet books your trying and ask any diet questions your little heart desires! I’m here to help you!:)