fat free opinions on a food centric life
If you’ve been reading here for any length of time, I’m sure you’ve come across at least one comment I’ve made about squash in general. It’s something I didn’t learn to like until I was in my early twenties with two babies at home and …
When you live in San Diego, it’s not difficult to find great Mexican food as long as you’re willing to avoid the more obvious chains. Each neighborhood seems to have a local favorite and as much as many can agree that there are special places …
It’s official. My husband and I are two months into our decision to change the way we eat and guess what? It works! Works, as in, we feel pretty darn good and have lost weight. His loss of 18 lbs. has been steady and sure with minor plateaus here and there, and true to my personality, my loss has been a series of ups and downs — most recently dipping to 14.5 lbs. then back up to my goal of 12 lbs. total for the two months. Six pounds a month. That’s all I need. Only six. I can do that for the next six months, right?
Whew.
When I catch myself analyzing it all too much, he patiently reminds me we said we weren’t going to turn any of this into a crazy hair-splitting quest to starve ourselves to thinness in as little time as possible, or to beat ourselves up over numbers on a scale. And no, we weren’t going to count every single calorie we ingest. Instead, it is more to consider that we do have to exercise more consistently and appropriately, and also monitor the types and quantities of food we eat throughout each day to balance everything out. I guess I just need to do all of that while waving my arms about in the air. But, we can already see changes in one another, and that’s fun. Did I say fun? All right, then. Motivating.
If the end of January is approaching then I know I can expect a variety of things: emails from sites I subscribe to sharing the perfect Super Bowl snacks, bloggers swapping their tried and true party dish faves, and people talking about whether they’re planning …
I’ve been working on our patio for a few months now trying to make it more functional and enjoyable. It’s a narrow area that wraps along two sides of our house and much different than the half-acre of hillside we tended at our former house. …