I’ve spent most of the day today looking through The Best Light Recipe and finally have a meal plan. In general, I’m only planning dinners, because there are usually leftovers to be had for other meals. There’s also other (relatively healthful) food around the house. Here’s what’s on the menu: Cream of Broccoli Soup and [...]
This is ridiculous. I’ve been hovering at 170 pounds for way too long. I want to get to 140, and I’m tired of not making steady progress in that direction. I know what I need to do, but I haven’t done it. I think my best bet now is a plan, starting with my food. [...]
As part of my current diet, we’re eating a lot more beans and grains (particularly quinoa and barley). One of the happy side effects of cooking with unfamiliar foods is that I end up finding great recipes on Recipezaar that I might have never tried. This is one of those recipes. It’s a slow cooker [...]
I started a new diet about two and a half weeks ago (more on the specifics in an upcoming post), right after I got home from a family visit to Colorado. I’d known for a while that October and early November were going to be nuts, and they were. Besides Colorado, I went to Las [...]
It’s often the little things in life that make me happy. For instance, with all the expensive toys and bikes that I own, one of my very favorite possessions is my heated mattress pad. Along the same lines, one of the things that regularly frustrated me was my kitchen scale. It wasn’t annoying enough to [...]