A healthy, calorie-restricted diet does not leave a lot of room for pasta, especially low-carb diets. The few times I do eat it, it’s usually carefully portioned whole wheat or whole grain variety. During a Costco shopping spree, I flipped through the Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide and came across a product on [...]
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Eating Less Processed Foods
This time of year is not great for newspaper advertisements for a youngish, active, childfree female. During the holiday season, they’re cluttered with toys and other kid-related gifts. Then, around New Years, the toys are replaced with exercise equipment for those with weight-loss resolutions. For years before setting up a home gym, I was a [...]
Eating on the Run
As I was leaving work for lunch, I was cut off by a Porsche leaving McDonalds’ parking lot. “No big”, I thought, “It’s a Porsche and will surely move it, right?” Yeah, wrong! The driver was apparently having problems getting past first gear to get through the intersection and in the left (formally fast) lane [...]
Appetite Robbing Appetizers
At our family gatherings, caloric hors d’oeuvres are a huge temptation. It seems that everyone brings something to snack on before the big meal, mixed nuts and chocolate cookies from grandma, cheese and crackers from sisters, chips from mom, the list goes on. Typically the meal itself is not too sinful, everything before it is. [...]
Temptations
When trying to eat smart, peer pressure is a challenge for me. When my niece turned 3, my sister made like forty-thousand cupcakes for her preschool party and served the leftovers while I was over for lunch (the cake was not served until the actual party the following weekend). I declined to have [...]
Staying In Shape
I’ve worked to stay in shape for years now, since high school. I’ve always been conscious about my diet and getting enough exercise. I quit reading Cosmo, Vogue and many other fashion mags because I got tired of looking at crack-thin models and feeling that I should be comparing myself … and noticing that I [...]
Kentucky Fried Nightmare
Saturday it rained all day and I was not feeling motivated enough to do anything except a few chores around the house and park myself in front of the TV most of the day after a busy week. Anyway, I caught a commercial for a new KFC combo box meal full of fried insanity. Just [...]
Miracle Diet Pill
Occasionally I go to the mall for lunch, using my hour away from the grind to eat a so-so bourbon chicken rice bowl (this tastes much better) and watch those leisurely shopping instead of running in the rat race. I got an interesting view from the food court balcony today of a kiosk with a [...]