skinny
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The Fat-Burning Hot Chocolate Bar/How I Lost Four Inches: Weight Loss Tip 2!
The boys think I’m such a cool mom to create this hot chocolate bar, available 24×7, easily accessible in the kitchen. Little do they know, it’s for me. It’s for my cravings. I needed a safe, low-carb, low-calorie way to curb the cravings that come every afternoon. This is my second tip on how I actually did loose four inches in four weeks — even though hormones were determined NOT to let this happen. I studied the research, and learned how herbs can work together with your metabolism to help you loose weight. But the most important factor, was to have everything out, and easily accessible. If the ginger powder…
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How I Lost Four Inches in Four Weeks: Part I
If you are under the age of 45, please stop reading and go away. Not to be rude, but once you reach a certain age, everything you thought you knew about your body is gone forever. Before the age of 45, you think — no, you are sure, that the middle age spread will not come to you — because you are proactive, not lazy, and perfect. You think you are immortal. At least, that’s what I thought until this strange phenomenon called pre-menopause, or whatever it is I’m going through, came on full force. Each week, one to two pounds extra suddenly appeared on the scale… out of NO…
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Tomato: Roasted
The best way to harvest that bounty of meaty, bursting tomatoes your neighbor has given you — along with the handful that you have grown yourself — is to simply roast them in your oven, and then freeze them. This method of preservation works with cherry, Roma, Beefsteak, and plumb tomatoes — any and all tomatoes are welcome to jump on the parchment paper and enter the sauna. Must haves: Tomatoes Basil Salt – or Sea Salt Olive Oil Parchment Paper Oven pre-heated to 350 degrees F. Cover parchment paper in olive oil. Slice tomatoes and place on parchment paper. Place in oven for an hour or two — then…
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Healthier Pie Crust With Sourdough
I love pie… and its an indulgence for me. All of that flour, extra carbs, wrapped up in layers of butter — and we haven’t even got to the sugar in the filling. Sourdough is the answer. I figured out a way to make pie crust with sourdough. Why is that such a breakthrough? Sourdough is “fermented,” and contains Lactobacillus culture, which increases lactic acid, which breaks down phytates. (Read more about why you want that to happen in your bread here). The soudough pre-digests the starches in the grain, and the longer rising times breaks the protein gluten down to make it more digestible. More importantly, a study showed that after…
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Flaxseed Crackers: You Can Do This At Home
Have you had them yet? Those crunchy, nutty flaxseed crackers in those fancy packages with the high price tag? They are savory, and taste, OH, SO GOOD with goat cheese. I have been rationing my box of crackers — the boys don’t even know I have them. These crackers not only taste good, but they have absolutely no white or wheat flour in them…meaning, they do not impact my waistline. Making them at home, I soon learned, was easier than the effort of trying to hide them. So easy. All you do is mix ground flaxseed meal with a bit of salt, and just enough water to make them stick together…
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My Favorite No-Time To Workout Workout
Pinterest is flooded with quick workouts you can do inside — all claiming to burn hundreds of calories in just a few minutes. I’ve tried most of them. There is one from Prevention that claims you will shrink a size in 14 days, and I don’t see how that is possible. Maybe it’s because I do lots of yoga… but I thought that workout routine was merely the warm-up — where was the elevated heart rate? There is one routine that I simply love… (or hate, in the moment)… however you want to put it. It’s fast, and it’s customizable for any level, time constraint, or energy level you have…
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Good Morning Grapefruit, Carrot and Ginger
The Key to Skinny, II There is a survey out there somewhere that explains that people who are not overweight do three things: Eat Breakfast Weigh themselves every morning And I can’t remember the third. Honestly. When I remember what book I read it in, I will figure it out and post — I’m sorry. I believe in breakfast — you are “breaking the fast” you had all night, and this food jump starts your metabolism — so choose carefully! This shake is pretty — so I tried it (found the recipe on Pinterest, of course). SPOILER ALERT!!! (The combination of grapefruit, carrot and ginger tastes as pretty as it…
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The Key To Skinny
If you want to be skinny, and stay skinny, there’s one thing you need to do: Love Your Vegetables. I mean, really LOVE them. You have to find a way to cook them, without fancy high-fat creams and sauces, that causes you to crave them as much as you would crave a candy bar. Heck, you don’t even have to cook them. I still carry a bag of raw radishes in my car whenever I run errands, because I LOVE THAT CRUNCH!! But, roasting them, that’s the ultimate, cheesecake, of all cheesecakes in the vegetable world. Trust me on this. For this one, I’ll show you how I roast cabbage…
