Ranch Dressing

With set point weight loss – calories DON'T count. Remember, it's eating lots of healthy food that counts. What is healthy food? Foods with no fat or very low in fat AND foods without a lot of processed ingredients or refined carbohydrates. For example, fat free salad dressing that you buy in the store. Good idea? Allows you to use a lot more salad dressing because it's fat free? Wrong! It may be fat free but it also has a lot of high fructose corn syrup, which happens to be a very highly refined carbohydrate. Another example, diet soft drinks. No fat, and no calories. Great for dieting, right? Again wrong! The artificial sweetener in diet soft drinks, or in anything for that matter, is still a refined carbohydrate. According to set point weight-loss, the person drinking a diet anything might as well have just enjoyed the real taste of a non diet drink or what ever.

Here's a recipe for a fat free (and refined carbohydrate free) ranch dressing that Bill invented last Saturday:

1 cup fat free cottage cheese.

¾ cup skim milk

1 Ranch dressing flavor packet

These items can be purchased nowadays in any grocery store. Combine cottage cheese and skim milk in blender. Blend for about a minute or until completely creamy. Then blend in the contents of the flavor packet. You now have delicious ranch dressing that is better for you and tastes better than any fat free dressing you can buy!

Rhonda stayed the same weight this week and Bill only lost one pound. They've been biting a lot of nails this week at their son's concerts. He's done very well, it was just nerve racking for the parents.

Here are their scores for this week:

Rhonda: (S) 100 (S) 100 (M) 100 (T) 97 (W) 100 (T) 100 (F) on track for 100

Bill: (S) 100 (S) 100 (M) 100 (T) 100 (W) 100 (T) 100 (F) on track for 100