Not gonna lie: I celebrated yesterday’s loss with a food reward. I know I wanted to find better ways to pay homage to the hard work that is dieting. But honestly, after weigh in yesterday I was starving, and I needed to run an errand for work, so my husband and I ended up in [...]
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Better choices
September 11th, 2011
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Posted in booze, dinner menus, fun at the gym | Tags: berries, booze, diet, exercise, food, fruit, margarita, Skinny Girl, veggies, water aerobics, weight loss
Now I’m cooking with gas
April 2nd, 2011
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I have wanted a gas stove for years. Gas allows for so much more control of heat and makes everything taste better. Yesterday, we got one. Two ovens, the bigger one convection, five burners including a bridge burner perfect for grill pans. Isn’t it gorgeous? In kind of an ironic turn of events, the stove [...]
Easy dinner
February 20th, 2011
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It’s been a rough weekend here at our homestead, so I took the easy way out tonight and made one if those frozen meal kits for dinner. Buitoni chicken and mushroom ravioli with marsala wine sauce was really good. Is it worthy of a fine Italian restaurant? No. Is it a tasty 10-minutes to the [...]
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Hell, Caesar, this is a fine salad
February 21st, 2010
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I spent the entire afternoon in the kitchen and it seemed like old times. FrankenThumb is healed; no more bandage and the tender new skin is getting tougher every day. And every day I get a little more bold and a little less chicken shit. Body and soul are indeed connected. It helped that it [...]
Cats, dogs and Chinese food
January 9th, 2010
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Don’t read anything more into this title than three separate subjects in this post. I am certainly NOT implying there are cats and dogs in Chinese food. At least, there isn’t in any of the places I’ve ever patronized. Any old hoo, I had to take my cat to work on Friday. It’s a long [...]
Posted in apropos of nothing, dinner menus, fine dining, food, Rambling crap that I am too tired to spell check | Tags: cat, Chinese food, dog, Hoylier, husband, office, pets
It’s a new day
January 4th, 2010
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I tried to be good today. I really did. I took my lunch to work, a Healthy Choice chicken & rice dish vaguely disguised to taste like something with some kind of pseudo-Asian sauce. I had two of these Jello mousse-pudding cups – awesome, fat-free and 60 calories, score! Then I had to deal with [...]
Posted in coffee bliss, dinner menus, fail, happy rationalizations | Tags: fail, grilled cheese sandwich, skinny vanilla latte, Starbucks, weight loss
Perfect pasta
November 10th, 2009
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After spending the afternoon looking over the DASH diet, I find that it’s pretty common-sensical: Lots of whole grains, veggies and fruits, lean meats and seafood, low-fat or no-fat dairy, heart-healthy oils and limited amounts of sweets. Keeping the sodium to less than a teaspoon a day is a challenge. That pretty much means giving [...]
Tonight’s dinner? Yum
September 14th, 2009
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OK, our nightly meal was a total fail as far as dropping pounds, but my wonderful hubby grilled up some fan-fucking-tastic cheeseburgers, with grilled portobello mushrooms and grilled red onions for topping. Out of this world. And to help my nasty head cold, I am sipping pineapple-banana-orange juice with a full day’s supply of Vitamin [...]
