Hey-ya, cool cats and kittens (shout out to my friends who've seen "Tiger King"). So yeah, I haven't posted on here in quite awhile, but I figure this is perhaps the BEST time to get back into the swing of it. So I'm a little older. I'm a little wiser. I'm going to try to …
Continue reading Aye! What a better time to pick this back up!
So, I've been doing WW Freestyle (previously Weight Watchers, but apparently WW is much cooler a title) since mid-December. I've lost about 25 lbs. since then, most of which came off within the first few months. Over the past couple months, however, my weight loss has been non-existent. I've tried the Wendie Plan to create …
So my last day of the Whole30 was yesterday. I weighed myself this morning - 215.8lbs. All in all I only managed to lose about 6 pounds over the month. The weight dropped off within the first two weeks which tells me that I probably just lost that in water, as carbs hold on to …
This past week I was at my local Publix in the produce section and thinking about what new recipes/snacky stuff I could make while on the tail end of my Whole30. Being in South Florida where there is a large Latin and Cuban influence, there are always plantains around. I knew how much my husband …
Being married to an Indian guy, I've grown to love Indian food (used to hate it). For awhile now I've been wanting to cook more Indian food at home. We made sambar, which is a spicy Indian vegetable soup/daal, but it took almost 4 hours for us to prep and cook it! Nobody has time …
Continue reading Oh My God, Becky, Look at Her Butt-er Chicken!
Here's something I had never cooked before but have wanted to try for awhile. It's pretty easy and suuuuper flavorful! I was a little weary of topping steak with something so vinegar-y, but yowza it matches perfectly! I cooked this up this week and served it with some roasted baby potatoes shaken with garlic and …
I've been cooking these bad boys for a few years now. They are my husband's favorite dish I cook and he asks for them weekly (channeling my inner Ina Garten again). We originally had these at an Afghani restaurant and I thought, "Hey, I can make those!" After a bit of research and trial and …
Week Two is done and in the books. Recipes to check out: -Leggo My Egg Roll...bowl -Color Me Kafta -Look at the Flanks on Her Chimichurri
I found this recipe while researching stuff to eat on Whole 30. I've made this a couple times now and it adds a bit more heartiness to a salad than just EVOO and vinegar. I've also used this in place of mayo for tuna salad. Lots of fun stuff to add ranch to! I'd strongly …
This has to be one of my favorite go-to recipes for when I need to make a quick and crazy healthy dinner for my husband and I. Geez, I'm hoping I don't sound like Ina Garten in some of these posts... "Jeffrey just loves these lavender coconut macaroons in the afternoon luncheon." Anyways, this middle …
These balls are addictive! I've made these balls using a bunch of different ingredients before. I've made these ones Whole 30 compliant, but you can always change it up with different nut butters, adding in raisins or other dried fruit, sweetening it up with some dark chocolate chips, dropping in some vanilla extract - so …
Here we go! I've created a short video with daily recaps. I'm going to try to keep these going each week. Thanks for ya'll's support!
The room is dimmed. My thicker-than-others-yoga-mats-that-makes-me-feel-like-I-bought-the-wrong-type is laid out on the hardwood floor. Four knit throw blankets are folded into a pile at one end of my mat, with a large purple bolster pillow on top. The instructor, Shari, instructs the class of 15 (all ages, from late teens, to pregnant women, to retired men …
So my last posting was in August of last year. A LOT has happened. My family and I moved back to Denver from Ft. Lauderdale. Sidenote: don't ever move to South Florida; it's just gross, bad driving, unpleasant people, ridiculously sweaty weather. So before I got pregnant, my weight was down to 175 lbs. My …
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I made this during my second week of Whole30. It's super tasty, and while it would taste even better over some brown rice, it tasted super yummy on its own and is just full of veggies! Ingredients 1lb ground beef 1 16oz. bag fresh Cole slaw mix (shredded cabbage and carrots - no dressing) 1 …
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