Diet Tips
Weekend update 9-15-08
I am soooooo glad to be eating food again. 2 days is a long time to eat a few veggies and water. I fixed the Chick Pea recipe posted here on the blog and ate that several times. It makes 4 servings and I ate it all over the weekend. Besides that, it was all [...]
Food fast 2 days: Really I’m not kidding
I know this is going to sound insane, but I am going to fast from food for 2 days over the weekend. I told you I’m crazy. But there is a method to the madness. You can watch a video here on the benefits of cleansing, what I want to talk about is just my [...]
Supplement Review #1: Isagenix Shakes
first off, let me say that I am not a doctor. So take this with a grain of salt. I do not want to talk nutritional specifics. I think they are boring for most people and hence do not make very interesting blogging topics. What I do what to do is talk about my real [...]
A little bit of organization will go a long way
Well, since the beginning of the blog I have been posting about several different topics (recipes, weigh loss, supplements, etc), but there has been little rhyme or reason to when I would post any particular topic. In an effort to make this site more useful to those faithful visitors and poster I am going to [...]
Overcome: Family on a different diet
This is one of the hardest obstacles to weight loss that I can think of. I love my family, and I love to do things together with them. But I am the only one in my immediate family that needs to lose weight. So no matter what diet I pick I have to deal with [...]
The ice-water diet
Anything that goes into your body is going to have to be heated up to the core body temperature. If it didn’t we’d be peeing icicles after drinking a nice glass of ice water. Not a pleasant thought. Anyway I digress from the point. If weight loss is the goal, ice-water will be part of [...]
Capsaicin? Wasn’t that a Narnian prince?
Not exactly. You’re thinking Caspian. And although that was a great book, this may be even better – at least from a weight loss perspective. Here’s the deal capsaicin is the chemical found in all hot peppers. Researcher have found that adding spice to food may increase your metabolism. In controlled clinical studies (ie not [...]
Recipies #1: Squimish about squash
I’ll admit it. I’m just plain weird. I like squash. Now for those who do not, but think that it is important to at least try to acquire a taste because you think that it will be good to help you lose weight (and your right) here is a recipe that you can try. This [...]
And this bowl was juuuust right.
One of the main reasons I think that we gain weight and then struggle with weight loss are the out of control portion sizes. I’m not the only one that think that for sure. Body for Life preaches it all of the time. Half of enjoying life is learning to control our portions. Then we [...]
