Introduction

In the past year I have lost over 50 pounds, through a combination of following the Weight Watchers' plan, and getting an overall better sense of food portions and how to make healthier choices. It wasn't easy at first. Sure, following the plan was easy enough, but I found myself eating the same things over and over again simply because I only had a handful of Weight Watchers recipes that I liked, and quite frankly, I was lazy.

You can only eat the same foods for so long before getting bored and wanting to quit. I had never really been a big cook, but I started looking through websites like allrecipes.com and eatbetteramerica.com for recipes that sounded good. Most of the recipes from Eat Better America were point-friendly (for those of you who aren't familiar with Weight Watchers, all foods are given a points value, and you are given a daily and weekly balance of points to use when selecting foods to eat), but All Recipes were usually calorie and fat-laden. However, as I started looking at the ingredients for each recipe, I started making mental notes of ingredients that I could swap to make the dish more point-friendly, or in a sense, healthier.

Next I started cooking these recipes using the swapped ingredients instead of the ingredients that had been called for. Surprisingly enough, most of them came out pretty good! I started looking for more recipes, and came across sites like Pioneer Woman and Tasty Kitchen. I continued making the recipes with my healthy swaps, and now I have a whole binder full of recipes with my notes on how to make them healthier.

I know from personal experience that weight loss can be a struggle, especially when you feel like you can't eat what you want, but you can (in moderation). On this blog, I am going to share some of the recipes that I have found, along with the swaps I have made, so that other people can enjoy great food in a healthier way. I am also going to share a few of my own recipes that I have created through experimenting.
Hope you enjoy them!