These pancakes were effin’ great! I ate them as soon as we were done filming! I think I might have let her have one bite!

Ok so here is the nutritional breakdown for both pancakes together:

280 calories
27g carbs
39g protein
2g fat

Recipe

3 egg whites
1/3 cup oatbran
1 tbsp low fat sour cream
1/4 cup pumpkin puree
28g vanilla protein powder
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp (each) nutmeg and clove

These were damn good and the nutritional profile is so much different than your standard pancake.

Thanks again to Becky for another kick ass recipe.

John

In this video Becky shows you how to make a low calorie chicken pizza.

The pizza only has approx 180 calories and the chicken itself is the base of the pizza. There is no dough or flour or any of that.

This pizza is made entirely of chicken, tomato sauce, cheese and veggies for toppings.

Check it out.

John

If this is your idea of cooking...you've got no hope

If weight loss is your goal, then the food you choose to eat is probably going to have to change to some degree. Although I believe you can lose weight eating whatever you like, there will be an easy and harder path to weight loss.

The base of it will always be a caloric deficit. After that it’s a matter of feeling satisfied with the food you eat while still maintaining this deficit.

Some people like simplicity and don’t want to even bother experimenting with new foods. These type of people stick with a simple rotation of the same 10-12 foods each week. They get used to the portion sizes and calorie counts of each food/meal and once they have a system that works they don’t deviate from it.

This is how most traditional bodybuilding diets are structured. It’s usually a matter of simplicity rather than variety or choice.

If this sounds like a sentence to hard labor then there is another way, BUT it requires you to be somewhat creative in the kitchen and know your way around the grocery store.

There is an endless amount of great meals that you could cook that will allow for weight loss and maintaining a caloric deficit AND taste awesome and leave you feeling satisfied…IF you know how to make them!

I personally have experimented with a few things but I am by no means a wizard in the kitchen…

Luckily a friend of mine who is also one of the models in the upcoming Venus Index workout system just happens to be such a wizard in the kitchen and she is always making me kick ass cookies and muffins, and all kinds of other items that are much lower calorie than the commercial counterpart but taste just as good.

I’ve manage to talk her into teaching me a few things and she’s also agreed to teach you a few things. In the coming weeks I’ll be posting some videos and recipies she has agreed to share.

John