Tuna Melt Toasties

My roomie and I basically make delish food. All the time. Tonight I made these tuna melts and they are so good. They didn't take very long and came to 254 calories for 4 toasties. 

You'll need:

• 1/2 a bagette
• 1/2 a tomato
• 1 can of tuna in water
• 1 tablespoon of light mayo
• 2 cups spinach
• 1/4 diced celery
• 1/4 cup diced carrots
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 cup cheddar

Drain the can of tuna. Mix in bowl with celery, carrots, and mayonnaise. Slice up your tomato and grate your cheese. I sauteed my spinach in garlic again, because its my favorite and I love garlic. I cut the toast into diagonal slices about 1 inch thick. Then I layered the spinach, tuna, and tomato. Then top with a little cheese in the toaster oven. I also love my toaster oven.

Avocado Sammich

This is delicious. Seriously.
You'll need:

• 1/4 an Avocado
• 2 slices of turkey meat
• 1/3 tomato
• 1 buns or 2 slices whole wheat break
• 1/8 of an onion, sliced and sautéed with 1/4 tblspoon olive oil
• 1 large white mushrooms
•  1/2 cup raw Spinach
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 slices pepper jack cheese

Again more vegetables could be added, but this is what is in my fridge. Some bell peppers or an egg for more protein instead of the turkey. I also used the turkey instead of bacon to cut back fat but it still has a ton of sodium. I slice everything up and layer it on a grilled pan to get it nice and toasted when using sliced bread, otherwise I toast it in the toaster oven to melt the cheese. If I had a panini maker I'd use that. I'm a huge fan of paninis! It comes to 342 calories and is really filling.

Water Weight

Water weight really confused me at first, maybe I'm just dumb and missed something in health class. But if not here is a little info for you.

I was really confused why you would be holding water weight if you are supposed to drink 64 oz a day.  So all these 'how to lose water weight' posts were really confusing to me. You do need to keep your body that hydrated however not to hold onto that water. That amount of water flushes through you (which is why I pee 100 times a day) and helps digestion and removes toxins. When you don't get enough water and you become dehydrated, you body holds on to all the water it possibly can, which stays on as weight instead of flushing through your system. Sodium also helps store water in your body. So keeping hydrated allows your body to lose extra water weight it doesn't need and keep your system clear. Here are a few tips I've found to help keep losing that water weight!

1. Drink enough water! at least 64oz a day
2. Add lemon to your water. It helps you drink more when there is a bit of flavor and lemon is a natural diuretic and remove salt from from the body.
3. Eat foods with more potassium-bananas, avocados, raisins, peaches-they're low in sodium and help keep it from your body
4. Less sugar- too much sugar can make it difficult for you body to excrete sodium
5. Keep moving-Exercise to help keep your body systems working correctly

Along with these tips I'm going to attempt a flush from Jillian Michaels. Although most of the time I just find her terrifying and insane, this looks pretty good.

• 60oz of filtered/distilled water
• 1 tblspoon of sugar free cranberry juice
• 2 tblespoons of lemon juice
• 1 dandelion root teabag

Drink this concoction every day for 7 days and rid yourself of 5lbs of excess water weight, maybe even more depending on how much your body is holding. This along with less sodium, more potassium, and working out can really help lessen the water weight your body is holding.

Egg Cups!

These have been all over pinterest and I love to make them. Here is my own personal recipe, they are each 105 calories and easy to heat up in the toaster oven for breakfast!

My Recipe inclues:

• Eggs, 10
• Fat Free/Skim Milk 1/4 cup
• Cheddar Cheese 1 cup graded
• Bacon 3 strips
• White Onion, 1/4
• Mushrooms 2 cups chopped (about 5 mushrooms)

Also have

• Cupcake pan
• Metal cupcake liners
• Saute pan
• Optional-mixer

Other options to add in could be green onions, spinach, turkey bacon, ham-really whatever you like. More veggies would be great but this is what I had in my fridge today.

Set your oven to 350*! I always forget then have to sit and wait while my oven heats up. Then start by cracking your eggs into a container and add the milk. I give this a good whip with a fork then screw the lid on my mason jar to really shake it up. I'd suggest using a mixer, it really helps get the air into the eggs and makes them super fluffy-but I was tired of dishes today. 

*I did mine a little backwards and put the eggs into my liners first and I'd suggest doing it last. 

Cut up your mushrooms very finely and set aside. Set aside. Same with your cheese, set aside. I then sliced up my onion, again very fine you don't want huge chunks in these cups, and saute them. Set aside.  

I actually had about 5 bacon slices, but they were so fatty and not enough meat that I cut off a ton of the fat-almost half of what I had. Yuck, that is why I suggest either Really good bacon or turkey bacon. 

So once you have all the ingredients, fill your cupcake liners! Just distribute each of the ingredients into all 12 so they have about equal amounts. Then take your egg/milk mixture and pour it over the top of the ingredients. They should be about 3/4 full when you're finished.

Bake these babies for about 20 minutes, or until the egg is set. Then they pop out in the liners (really helps with cleanup) and you can wrap the top with tinfoil and store in your fridge. If I make a lot of these, I usually put some in the freezer and then pull them out at least a day before I want one and let it defrost in the fridge. You could probably use the microwave but we don't have one. 

These are delicious, and I love that they're already made in the morning because I'm lazy. And 105 calories isn't too shabby!