Your Obesity Guide For Weight Loss

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Philadelphia Medical Weight Loss helps you lose weight safely and you do not have to stop eating food. Just follow are simple weight loss plan and recipes for low calorie recipes and you should be surprised at how much food you can eat and still lose weight.

In our weight loss program you will be eating so much food you may think you are on a cruise vacation,

Here are some of the favorite recipes of our Philadelphia weight loss patients.


ChinaTown Teriyaki Steak Appetizers
Ingredients: 
  • 1 – 1.5 pounds of sirloin steak
  • ¼ cup of olive oil
  • ¼ cup of low-sodium soy sauce
  • ¼ cup of honey
  • ¼ cup of finely chopped onion
  • 1 crushed clove of garlic
  • ½ teaspoon of ginger
Begin by cutting your steaks into 1/16 inch strips across the grain. Combine the remaining ingredients in a large flat pan and add the steak strips. Marinate the strips for several hours then lift the strips of steak out of the marinade and shake off the excess marinade. Then place your strips on metal skewers and place on a grill and broil them over medium – high heat, just until they are browned nicely. Make sure that you are turning them periodically and brushing them with the marinade sauce. This recipe is always best when you eat it nice and hot.

Philadelphia Center City’s Frosted Grapes
Ingredients:
  • 2 bunches of white or green or even red grapes.
  • One egg white slightly beaten
  • 2 cup of Stevia
This is a really juicy treat and super super sweet. Separate your grapes into small clusters and brush them with the egg white. After that just roll them in the Stevia. Place them on a wire rack to dry for about one hour. This recipe is very sweet recipe and I would only eat a few grapes at a time. This recipe is definitely not diabetic friendly LOL. Unless you counted as a cheat snack.

Cranberry Apricot  Reli
  • Ingredients:
  • 1 pound of fresh or even frozen cranberries.
  • 2 cups of chopped dried apricots.
  • 1 cup of chopped seedless grapes
  • 1 tablespoon of grated orange rind
  • ¼ teaspoon of ground ginger
  • 2.5 cups of water
  • 1 cup of Stevia
This is a super desert type of recipe and we are going to start by combining your cranberries, apricots, grapes, orange rind, and ginger and bring them to a boil over a medium – high heat. Then reduce the heat and let it simmer for approximately 10 minutes or until the cranberries are nice and tender. Stir in the Stevia and let this cool down. Cover this and then store it in the refrigerator.

South Philly Sal’s Antipasto
Ingredients:
  • Cauliflower – 4 pounds.
  • Peeled silver skin onions – 3 pounds.
  • Chopped celery – 4 pounds.
  • Chopped green beans – 2 course.
  • Dill pickles – 2 course.
  • Catsup – 6 bottles
  • Vinegar – 1 cup.
  • Olive oil – 1 cup.
  • Olives – 3 cups.
  • Pimento stuffed olives – 3 jars.
  • Mushrooms – 2 cups.
  • Tunafish – 2 cans.
  • 8 – 9 individual anchovies.
This is a wonderful recipe in we begin by boiling or cauliflower for three minutes and then during this well. Separate the cauliflower into flour rents and combined with the onion, pickles, beans and celery. Then mix the catsup, oil and vinegar and a large kettle and add the vegetable mixture. Let the simmer for approximately 10 minutes. Add the olives and mushrooms and submit this for approximately 10 minutes. Then stir in the tuna and anchovies and let it simmer for another 10 minutes. After that put this into an airtight container and refrigerate for about for about 30 minutes. This is a really great recipe and feeds large number of people.

Bella Vista Gino’s Antipasto
  • Ingredients:
  • Two onions diced.
  • 1 tablespoon of olive oil
  • Three stalks of diced celery.
  • 2 pounds of salmon cut into 1 inch squares
  • ¾ bottle with chili sauce.
  • ½ cup of ketchup.
  • 1 cup of diced mixed sweet pickles
  • 2 – 3 tablespoons of Stevia.
  • ¼ teaspoon of celery seed.
  • ½ teaspoon of mustard seed.
  • Salt and pepper to taste.
  • One large  carrot diced.
  • Chopped mushrooms.
Start by salting your onion slightly in oil and then remove it from the heat. Add the remaining onion, chili sauce, celery, salmon, catch up. Stevia and pickles. Tie the celery seed and the mustard seed and a small cheesecloth bag and add this to the mixture. After that add the remaining ingredients and bring this to a boil and reduce the heat. You should cook this for about 45 minutes of course stirring it occasionally. After that you can refrigerated and it’s always best to serve this cold.Old City Style Pickled Okra
Ingredients:
  • Four clove of garlic.
  • Four pods of hot pepper.
  • 4 teaspoon of dillseed.
  • 1 quart of vinegar.
  • Pinch of alum.
  • 1 cup of water.
Start by placing your garlic and hot pepper in 4 hot 1 pint jars. Pack the okra firmly into the jar and add the dillseed. Combine the vinegar, alum, water and salt and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and let this simmer for approximately five minutes pour over the okra and then seal the jars.

Philadelphia Block Party Hawaiian Punch
  • Ingredients:
  • 5 packages of any unsweetened powder drink mix.
  • 1.5 quarts of pineapple juice.
  • 1.5 quart orange juice.
  • 1.5 quart of Hawaiian punch.
  • 3 large bottles of ginger ale.
  • ½ gallon of orange sherbet.
Dissolve your sugar-free powder drinks into ½ gallon of water and add the juices and the Hawaiian punch.  When you are ready to serve all you have to do was add the ginger ale in your sherbet and you are good to go. This is a very sweet treat and you could probably serve about 30 people with this recipe alone.

Fruit Cups
Ingredients:
  • 3 orange cut into sections.
  • 2 apples with the skin peeled and cut them into bite-size pieces.
  • 1 cup of sliced grapes.
  • ½ cup of grapefruit sections.
  • 1 cup of pineapple chunks.
  • 1 cup of cherries, of course with the pits removed.
  • ½ cup of sugar free - diet  blackberry soda.
  • 1 large banana sliced.
  • ½ cup of toasted coconut.
Let’s start this by first mixing all of your fruits together and then let this chill for at least 3 – 4 hours. After it has chilled, take your fruit and place it into 8 cups and pour over top of that your diet soda and you can garnish them with the banana slices and the coconut. This is a really great recipe and I usually have this for one of my mega cheat desserts but only about once a month.

Rittenhouse Square Stuffed Grapefruits
Ingredients:
  • 2 eggs.
  • 1 tablespoon of dry mustard.
  • 1 tablespoon of salt.
  • A dash of pepper.
  • A dash of paprika.
  • ¾ cup of Stevia.
  • 1 cup of vinegar.
  • 1 tablespoon of grass fed butter.
  • 1 tablespoon of flour.
  • 1 cup of milk.
  • One grapefruit sliced in half.
  • 1 can of crabmeat finely shredded.
Now let’s admit that this is a really great recipe and we start by beating the eggs in a small bowl and then add the mustard, salt, pepper, paprika and Stevia. Stir in the vinegar and mix this well. Melt the butter in the top of a double boiler over low heat. And then stir in flour. Add the milk gradually and bring this to a boil. Remove from the heat and mix in the egg mixture. Reheat this to boiling stirring constantly and cook until it’s thickened. Let everything cool down in the mixture will start to think it thickened even more. Remove the membrane from the grapefruit and make large holes in the center for the crab meat. Moisten your crabmeat with the boiled dressing and spoon your crab meat mixture into the grapefruit. You can garnish this with a dash of paprika or even sliced olives or pimentos. You can even sweeten in grapefruit with some Stevia if you like before serving it. 

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