For me, the key to staying healthy, is a combination of not eating too much and daily exercise. If you struggle with healthy eating or weight loss I would suggest reading Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food. That book completely changed the way I see food and eating. He says you should eat real food, not processed food-like substances (I always think of Veleveeta) and not too much of it. Nothing is really off limits and he neither condones nor condemns being a vegetarian or vegan. He says you should eat chocolate cake if you want it, but don't eat Little Debbies. Get up off the couch and make a cake from flour, sugar, cocoa, and eggs. Having to make from scratch chocolate chip cookies will make you think about how badly you want cookies! And for exercise, I say do the best you can. I don't always exercise every day. I do what I can when I can; some weeks I do great, and sometimes I don't...It's about moderation in everything...
Enough of my soapbox, right? We had tenderloin steaks for dinner (the same recipe from a few weeks ago minus the butter). The Baby and Beta split a steak and I spit one with Alpha (John had his own). When you cut any meat and fan it out like this, it tricks your eye into thinking you're eating more than you are. So really, I only ate a couple of ounces of steak and most of my plate was spinach and sweet potatoes.
Spicy Garlic Spinach
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 big bag of baby spinach, more or less is fine
1 tablespoon olive oil
big pinch of red pepper flakes (I knew my kids wouldn't touch it, so I went heavy on the pepper)
salt
Heat olive oil in a skillet until hot. Add the garlic and saute for about a minute, but don't let it brown. Add the red pepper flakes and then the spinach. Toss spinach until it wilts and then add salt.