Exciting News One Moms World Opens Their Own Store
I am so excited to tell you about a new feature here at One Moms World. As you all know by now, I am on a more healthy journey with my family. I often get emails on what products I use in my healthy journey. You can now shop live right here at One Moms World. All the products that I use in our healthy journey is going to be available right here in my new store. Guess what? The prices are very reasonable too!
Getting your family on a healthy journey does not have to be hard, and that is what led me to open up this store. I want to be there for you and help you launch your own journey. As we are raising our kids, we have to remember their little eyes are looking up to us. We truly are their role models, so we need to make sure the steps we are taking in life are the steps we would want our kids to take when they are adults.
I will continue to add to my store new products so keep checking back very often. We can be on this healthy journey together and help each other. If you ever have any questions, please let me know by commenting here or emailing me at jenhouck @ gmail.com.
Here’s to a more healthy journey :::cheers:::
No tags for this post.Weight Watchers Chicken Pot Pie
Ingredients:
1 cup reduced fat Bisquick
1/2 cup skim milk
1/4 cup egg substitute
2 boxes green giant frozen boxed mixed veggies
2 cups boneless chicken (cut in small bites)
2 cans Healthy Request Cream of Chicken
Cooking spray
Steps:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
Spray an 13 x 8 inch baking dish with Pam
Put the vegetables, chicken and soup into a mixing bowl
Mix Well
Pour into baking dish
In another bowl, mix Bisquick, milk and egg
Pour the dough mix over the top of chicken mixture in the baking dish
Bake for about 30 minutes or until crust is golden and then Enjoy. Only 4 points per serving. Remember your fist equals a serving.
Weight Watchers Meal Baked Chicken Tenders
I am so trying to find new ideas for meals so I took a leap and used a couple ingredients I had here in the pantry. The ingredients included:
1. Tiger Sauce (I found this at our local grocery store)
2. McCormick Salt Free Garlic & Herb
I took a pack of fresh chicken tenders made from chicken breast. Poured the tiger sauce all over the chicken tenders, then topped that with the Salt Free Garlic & Herb all over.
4 chicken tenders = 3 points
I added the following sides:
Fresh cut cucumbers = 0 points
Bush Baked Beans = 2 points
Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce = 2 points
Total Points for Dinner Meal = 7 Points
Easy and fast meal that is so delicious!
No tags for this post.Snacking Can Be Healthy Too
I get lots of questions and emails on how I create healthy snacks for my family. Most of you all know, that I started a healthy weightloss journey this time last year. It’s still going strong and I thought I would share with you some of my ideas that I do for my family.
At the beginning of each week, I go to the grocery store or farmers market. It depends on our schedule of the weekend to which location that I go to pick up our weekly produce. I select the veggies and fruits that I know we all will eat. I come home then and begin the big divide. I pack the girls lunch everyday so I use several small containers. Each container will get a serving size of either fruits or veggies. All these containers reside on our bottom shelf all week. I then will fix up four big containers of the fruits and veggies. The big containers are used for snacks here at home and the small serving size containers are used for packed lunches every day.
It does take time on Sunday’s to do this every week, but it is worth it during the week when the girls and I can just go to the fridge open and take out a quick and easy snack. Now, we also have a wooden cabinet that sits in our dining room. This is our dry food cabinet. I will fill that cabinet up with wheat thins, veggie crackers, baked lays, fruit snacks, peanuts, graham crackers and granola bars. The girls are allowed to pick one of these snacks when they get home from school and one before they go to bed. Now notice, they can go into the fridge unlimited to get the fruits and veggies, but we do limit them on the dry snacks. For the dry snacks, they are allowed to fill a bowl half way.
That is the big thing, it is all about portion control and teaching the kids early on. Now, listen up! Do you notice what types of snacks I have? I do not have little debbie cakes, cookies, and etc sitting around. All that carb, and high fat stuff will do is cause your family to be unhealthy, so why even buy it? Do not bring it in the house and you will not be tempted to eat it! It is simple as that. Make sure you have the healthy snacks and just keep doing this process each week. You will feel better about yourself (not sluggish) and you will lose weight in the process.
No tags for this post.5 Day Dinner Menu Week 1
I have received several requests through email on what meals I eat throughout the week. So, each weekend I always sit down and make out my grocery list/meal plan for the week. I thought what better way to tell everyone than to share it with you all; my readers each week. I hope this will help in some ways to you all 
. I will be adding the total weight watcher points for each meal as well!
Monday:
Spaghetti noodles with Ragu Spaghetti Sauce and 93/7 Ground Turkey Meat
Salad (Lettuce, Tomatoes, Green Peppers and Cucumbers) & Fat Free Dressing
Total Points: 10
Tuesday:
BBQ Pork Loin
Green Beans
Yellow Rice
Applesauce
Total Points: 8
Wednesday:
Turkey (Fat Free) Hotdog with White Wheat Bun, Mustard, Chili
French Fries
Fresh Blueberries
Total Points: 7 – Each additional Hotdog is 2 points
Thursday:
Pork Roast with basil, oregano, minced onion, worcestershire sauce and 12 oz of diet coke. (I pour all these ingredients on the roast and cook in crockpot for 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low)
Baked Potato
Fresh Cucumbers
Total Points: 7
Friday:
Chicken Breast Boneless with Lemon Juice
Corn on Cob
Baked Beans
Fresh Strawberries
Total Points: 8
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Jen Saying Good Bye to 50 Pounds
Farewell goodbye… never come back again. You hear that 
. HA! No, I’m not saying that to any specific person. I am saying that to the fat that has loved visiting me for the last almost 5 years!!
Listen in to an update on my weight loss journey.
Befores:
After:
Thanks to you all for riding along this journey with me. I have 18 more pounds to my ultimate goal. I know I can do it before our big family vacation to Disney World in October with my BFF. I love how we have did this journey together and its going to be great to be hot mamas together at Disney .
Weight Watchers Milestone 40 Pounds Gone
First off… I am so happy to be back to blogging. I believe we finally have removed that pesky stomach bug once and for all (don’t we hope!). I achieved a HUGE milestone while I was away battening down the hatches from that pesky stomach bug.
I am finally 40+ pounds GONE! I try to take pictures along the way so I can look back, because since I see myself everyday, it is hard to see the progress I have made. Looking back over these three pictures, I can so tell the hard work that I have accomplished. I have been trying to loose this weight for such a long time, and you just don’t understand the joy it has brought me to finally say good by forever to that spare tire I was carrying around my waist. I am having so much fun with all the new healthy recipes I am cooking for my family. I catch myself smiling more when I look at myself in the mirror. It’s just an overall good feeling. I still have a bit more to go till my final goal, but just take a moment and look at my journey below of pictures of the last few months. Can you see my progress?
Here’s to reaching my next goal of 50 pounds by my birthday on May 11th! I know I can do IT
Weight Watchers Easy Lasagna
This is an incredible easy recipe and it tastes really well. All my family even the girls really enjoyed it
1 Serving = 8 points. Add a salad with fat free dressing and you have a complete dinner meal for 9 points.
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I Met My First Weightloss Goal See Pictures
As most of you know, I have been on a weight loss journey for a few months. Being on this journey has given me so much more self confidence and has brought out a whole new me. It is so wonderful to have support from family and friends too. Just hearing encouraging words and congratulation words brings a big smile to my face.
Last night at Weight Watchers, I was recognized for meeting my first goal that was set for me when I first started. I of course was grinning ear to ear when I was gave my gold keychain. This journey has been a wild one, but nothing I wouldn’t do over again. I got to publicly thank in the meeting last night the person that has helped me through all the good times and bad times on this weight loss. She was rewarded with a bravo star for this . Love ya girl! Just like the leader said last night, it helps so much for having someone stick with you and let you know they are there for you. It helps make the weight loss so much easier.
I am very happy to also announce that I am partnering with NewBaby.com and Vlogging my weight loss success with them to help other moms with this great lifestyle change. I will also be doing reviews with them as well. So stay tuned to that.
I will post my first video with them at the bottom of the post. Now, I want to show you right now two pictures that will portray my weight loss of 31 pounds so far! The first is a picture of me at my highest weight last summer, right when I moved to NC from Florida. The second picture was taken today to show off my progress.
It’s such a great feeling to share this! I do have to share and say, the way we eat has changed so much. I do way more cooking now and love to change up the recipes to make them my own. Each week brings something new and I haven’t had a meal yet the family does not like. The best part… they are all healthy but still ohhhhh soooo delicious. I’ll be sharing some of the recipes with you so you can try them out. Also, they are very easy recipes because YES, I do know we are all busy and don’t have time to spend two hours in the kitchen .
I’ll leave you now with my first Vlogging video with NewBaby.com
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Year Full of Changes Number One
Over the next few days, I am going to be writing blog posts of the changes we are making as a family in the New Year. I am very excited to make 2009 a GREAT Year!
Number One:
I actually made this change in 2008, but stepping it up even more to make my goal by my birthday in May. I am very excited to share with you my weight loss over the past few months. I treated myself to a new hair do last night since I have done so well with my weight loss. I told hubbs back in November that I wanted to go shorter with my hair but wanted to lose some weight in my face first. TADA my new hair (I just love it):
Drumroll now…. Here is a picture of me back last August, 2008. We were at our local theme park. I honestly couldn’t believe this picture but glad I had it to show off my weight loss.
Here is the before of me 25 pounds heavier:
Here is me now 25 pounds lighter:
I can tell my legs, my stomach and my face are definitely smaller. I am very super excited to continue my weight loss and be to my ultimate goal in May .
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