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By popular demand, I am going to post my salmon burger recipe. I have to give credit to Fitness Ridge Head Chef  Cameron Payne because I am just following his recipe! But, they are sooo good and only 359 calories!

Servings:4

1lb salmon, 1/4 cup roasted red peppers (diced small), 1/8 cup chopped parsley, 1/8 cup diced red onions, 1 tabelspoon mustard, 2 tabelspoons mayo, 3 tabelspoons lemon juice, 1 tsp salt, 1tsp pepper, 1/4 cup oats, 1/4 egg beaters (or egg whites), 4 Orowheat sandwich thins

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake salmon and let cool (when totally cooked of course), Place salmon in mixing bowl and shred with fork. Fold in all the other ingredients and mix well. Make 1/2 cup sized patties with the mixture. Bake for 15 min or until hot in the middle. Serve on bun with tomato and lettuce. I also like to add sprouts and a dash of bbq sauce to the bun!

359 calories, 8 grams fat, 33 grams protien, 38 grams carbs, 5 grams dietary fiber

Enjoy!!!

We always hear that the scale never lies right?!? Well, I am here to tell you it does! Now now, I am not saying that the number on the scale is not our actual weight, but everything else the scale says is usually a lie. How often do we get on, waiting not for the number, but for it to tell us our self worth, our mood, and basically how our day will be. I know we have all done it. You step on the scale, proud of what you have done, only to see a certain number and lose it! Just because the number wasn’t what you wanted, you let it send you into a complete and utter melt down, ruin your day and let it defeat all your hard work you have been doing. I have let the scale rule my life for way to long! You see, the truth is, the number on the scale should not and can not determine our happiness and self esteem.
Well, guess what! I will not let a little digital thing on the ground run my life anymore! Before I step on, I will determine my mood, self worth, and how my day is going to go. I will tell myself how proud I am and how I have been working so hard. Only then will I step on and no matter the number I will strive to believe what I just told myself!!! You should too. Try it with me !

I have come to find out that my beliefs about food are not positive or healthy for my brain. Beliefs are things we were either taught, trained, or just have come up with them on our own that end up determining our outcome. My beliefs controlled my thoughts and emotions and they control my actions. This is pretty accurate for all areas of our life, but I look at it related to food. Growing up chubby, I have had many a years to establish these and walk them out. You would think that going on the Biggest Loser would have helped me, but unfortunately it made it worse. You see, what a lot of people don’t understand is that The Biggest Loser is a game show with a cash prize at the end. It has a start and end date and ultimately your goal on the show is to get skinny! Carbs are your enemy, and fruit is just as bad. As a matter affect, food in general was looked as the bad guy. How many of us have this thinking? I know I do. I have always thought that if I’m not 100% on my restrictive “diet”, I’m cheating therefore failing so I might as well forget the whole thing and binge. This all or nothing/black and white mentality has gotten me nowhere! In fact it has given me messed up thinking, left me feeling guilty and unsuccessful. This way of thinking will not lead me to be fit and healthy at all! So, why do we continue to think this way????? If the thought is not producing good, guess what, we can change it.  The first step is to recognize the wrong or negative thought. Think of how that makes you feel. Positive, or negative? Happy or sad? Confident or defeated? If it does not spark excitement, positiveness, joy, peace or confidence, replace it!. Choose a better thought to replace it with. Cancel out that negative thought with an empowering one. You see for me and my “food is the devil” thought, was not positive or empowering. I have since changed it to “food is fuel”. If I know its fuel, what I need to make it through my day strong and successful, I definitely don’t see it as the enemy. I can be free to eat to fuel my body. Make sense??? We all have our own negative thoughts and beliefs. Take a minute to evaluate it and change it! You will feel so much better

I have been back for 6 days now and my goal was to have a bunch of video and blogs to go up on Matt’s site to tell you about my journey at Fittness Ridge and after, but that is not happening. The videos are saved and my brain is full of words, but getting them out and to you has been the challenge. You see neither of us are big computer gurus and we seem to have a problem with our new blogs posting! I am sorry, and will continue to write and post and hopefully we will find a computer guru to help us!!!

Well, its Monday! The beginning of the unknown. Surprisingly I woke up feeling pretty good. You see Sunday night after I arrived I at first was greeted with my entire suitcase soaked in a perfume I guess you can call it from my cat. She was not happy that I was leaving and told me all about it. I went straight away and washed ALL my clothes. With fresh smelling clothes, I then waited in the lobby for dinner. A hand full of people gathered and we were all chatting about. I noticed myself getting quieter and quieter and at the same time my head began to pound harder and harder. I wasn’t quite sure if it was travel, lack of caffeine (the resort is caffeine free), or hunger. I tried to blow it off and act as normal as I could considering I wasn’t really non discreet! . Dinner began and I scarfed it down but it didn’t help. They then started orientation all the while my head pounding and pounding. I finally excused myself and ran to my room. Within minutes I was in the bathroom expelling everything from my body! (sorry so graphic) Surprisingly after that i felt great! Unfortunately I broke all the blood vessels under my eyes so thank goodness this wasn’t a beauty contest! I quickly went to bed and was hoping for a better Monday.
Monday started at 6am where we had our first class. It was more of a tutorial than class. We learned how to do a class they call “circuit” which turned out to be one of my favorite classes. We then had breakfast followed by our first hike. You see, every Monday and Saturday our hike is called “stop sign” hike. Its called this because you start at one stop sign and 4.3 miles uphill 11% you stop at another stop sign. I have to admit, I was nervous about this. Everyone had talked about this hike like it is torture. Turns out yes, this hike is a touhy, but definitely doable! I did my first stop sign hike in 1 hour 11 min. After my first finish, I decided that every morning, I would face the beast called stop sign.
Stop sign done, and onto our first class. This class I had next was called “mountain”. I was thinking to myself, didn’t I just climb one mountain and now I’m taking a class called mountain?!?!? Any who, I still did it! This I have to say, was one of the hardest classes of all week. I learned that if I don’t pace myself, I was not going to make it to tomorrow. To a lot of people that is not a problem, but to me it is! I am usually an all or nothing type of gal. The positive is if I’m on track or striving for something, I fight and push till I get there, but on the other hand, if I’m in the “nothing” mood, that’s what you get…NOTHING! This was only the first of many times this week where I will have my all or nothing mentality challenged. Balance is what I learned Monday or at least tried to start learning it! Balance in my life, not living black and white, but realizing there is color out there!
Lunch, 1 educational class, 3 more exercise classes, dinner, and a nutritional class and the day was finally done. I went back to my room, called my boys, and hit the hay!
Until tomorrow…