Won’t hurt yours, either! When I made the ice cream restriction, it wasn’t my whole diet I was worried about. No major health issues—that happened later. No guilt. I just realized that eating ice cream in large servings multiple times on most days of the week year round was not a good habit and I … Read more
When I graduated from college in 1999, I was pretty heavy — over 200 pounds on my 5-foot-4-inch frame. Near the end of my first year living on my own, I decided that something needed to change, so I made a new rule: I will eat ice cream no more than once per day. If … Read more
There are a lot of recipes circulating that claim to be healthy “treat” food. (If we’d stop using language like that, it would take away some of their power.) Unfortunately, all of the ones I’ve seen and/or tried are either not actually healthy or not actually tasty. Sure, I can make cookies out of oats … Read more
People eat a lot. Depending on your schedule, you could eat six or seven (or more) times a day. Quantities aren’t generally small (or moderate) either. All of those meals and snacks? They don’t have to be amazing. Many people eat junk often enough that isn’t all that tasty because it’s handy or “should be” … Read more
Every winter, there are countless holiday food drives. I’ve donated to some of them. I suspect many of you have as well. But now is actually the time of year when they need more. Why? School is out. (Or it’s getting close.) Many impoverished kids get two of their daily meals at school. Others get … Read more
When I moved to Arizona 16 years ago, I was a pretty conservative food consumer. I didn’t eat many foreign foods (Americanized or not). Some Polish (see: weird last name heritage), some Italian (see: married to the Pole), Chinese as long as it came in one of those highly-recognizable paper boxes. Tacos. In grad school, … Read more
The Climbing Daddy and I went to a Mongolian BBQ place the other night. (If you’re not familiar, you go through a buffet-type line full of potential stir-fry ingredients, and they cook it for you at the end.) The first section on the buffet was labeled “protein.” It was different types of meat: beef, poultry, … Read more
Neither am I. Once again, I’m inspired by a Facebook post (of mine) from a couple of years ago: So about the Starbucks multi-colored gross-looking thing … There are a lot of people posting selfies with them. Good for them. There are a lot of people posting about the sugar and/or calorie content on said … Read more
First, let me just say that I hate that the word “treat” is used in describing food. We’re not dogs! I prefer healthy/unhealthy or something else less emotionally charged. (Also, this post might push buttons and require a visit to the disclaimer post…) We often talk about treats with regards to food. Some variation in … Read more
At some point recently, my Facebook memories claimed this quote: “I have eaten a lot (for me) of junk food in the last week or two, and I feel like crap. It is amazing to me that how I feel right now used to be ‘normal.’” If we’ve never been on a path with decent … Read more