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Do you have a favorite brand of fat free yogurt? I’ve been buying Horizon’s Organic Fat Free yogurt at Costco. My family is a big fan of their low fat blended yogurts. It’s the closest thing to full fat European-style yogurt that we’ve found here in the States. I could do a Five Things/Way post [...]
151. Do I really need to discuss my weight loss this week? I went up a couple of pounds last week due to the back injury and going out of town for Labor Day. Then I promptly lost it after going back to eating properly and working out on the stationary bike. Same old crap. [...]
Two staples of my diet whether I’ve been on Weight Watchers or the Extreme Fat Smash diet has been oatmeal and apples. The combination is great for breakfast or a quick, healthy dessert – lots of fiber, too! Fat Smash Apple Crisp Preparation time: 10 minutes Ingredients: 1 cup chopped apples 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon [...]
Another terrific Extreme Fat Smash Diet recipe with brown rice is the Fat Smash Rice Pudding. I like to combine this with cooked apples for a filling, hearty dish. Remember – precooking brown rice cuts down prep and cook time to a mimimum. Fat Smash Brown Rice Pudding with Sliced Cooked Apples Makes 1 serving [...]
One of the foods I’m really enjoying on my weight loss journey with the Extreme Fat Smash diet is brown rice. Since brown rice takes a long time to cook (45 minutes or more) I cook up a couple of cups and put it in the refrigerator for future use. Precooking brown rice cuts down [...]
Week nine on the Extreme Fat Smash Diet – it was good to get back on the weight loss and exercise plan after going on my business trip to BlogHer07. I can now say the biggest weakness to the Extreme Fat Smash Diet is that it doesn’t travel well. You have to be cooking out [...]
My new favorite dish on the Extreme Fat Smash diet is the Thai Inspired Brown Rice Salad. It was a nice change from soup and sandwiches I was eating last week in cycle 3. One advantage to doing the Extreme Fat Smash diet online is that I can substitute whatever lunch comes up with the [...]
Week seven on the Extreme Fat Smash diet was challenging. After six weeks, I was getting tired of the diet, tired of being "good," and just plain tired. And when I’m tired, I eat. I ate stuff on the plan, but lots of it: nuts and cereal with milk. What is it about me that [...]
I’ve been listening to Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life on CD in the car as we drive around town. It’s been even more inspiring than The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally probably because Kingsolver [...]
At the end of week six, I’ve lost a total of 8.6 pounds. It’s only a weekly loss of .2 pounds, but I expected that in Cycle 3 since I didn’t lose any weight the last time I went through this phase. Remember, the Extreme Fat Smash diet has three cycles, which you keep repeating [...]
Yes you can eat BBQ and lose weight – you just can’t eat a lot of it, drink a six-pack of beer, and indulge in all those fattening sides like coleslaw, baked beans, potato salad and chips. It’s all about portion control and eating your veggies. Everything in moderation, dear reader. Here was my Fourth [...]
I wanted to post a still from Ratatouille of Thomas Keller’s gorgeous Confit Byaldi that Rémy makes in the movie. But alas I couldn’t find one. However, I did find a photo at the Huffington Post of Keller and Ratatouille Producer Brad Lewis making one. If you look hard – and have a big magnifying [...]
I like the breakfasts best on the Extreme Fat Smash Diet because they’re so satisfying. One of my favorite meals is the six egg white omelet with veggies. It’s three servings but some mornings you’re allowed to eat that much. Here’s my breakfast: an omelet, flavored seltzer water in my Marilyn Monroe glass, a 2/3 [...]
I mentioned in my Cool Stuff for Dieters and Brown Baggers post that I got a Fit & Fresh Power Shaker since I’ve been making lots of smoothies on the Extreme Fat Smash plan. My son is using it as much as me since I’ve been making him banana-vanilla yogurt shakes. (Just yesterday his grandma [...]
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