“In Ukraine, you eat chocolate all day, you not get fat!”
A few years ago a young intern who worked at my office for a few weeks told me this. She had spent 4 years in the states going to college, and found she gained some weight here preparing things she knew, the way she’d prepared them in Ukraine. But things were not the same. “Here,” she said, “They put things in the food. Make you fat!” (more…)
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I am writing this guide because it took me extensive research to nail this down for myself in November 2009.
How I came to know about Black Salve:
I am fair and according to most dermatologists, destined to get malignant melanoma. One even told me, “Even if we take off all your moles, you get melanoma someplace else–like your uterus.” You can imagine how long I stayed with that guy. That is what is called a MEDICAL HEX. (more…)
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Take your dogs for a very long walk and run here and there.
Then drink a lot of water.
Then put in your earbuds and dance, dance, dance until you are good and soaking wet and your heart is pounding out of your chest. (more…)
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Some other combos I’m planning to try:
Tonight:
1 lb. brick of Callebaut Dark Semi Sweet, melted
1 lb. brick of Callebaut Unsweetened, melted
stir together.
Add 1-2 cups organic Thompson raisins and dried organic cranberries and 1 cup of salted roasted organic pistachio meats. Possibly also some dried sweet bing cherries here. (more…)
I’ve been experimenting recently with making chocolate “bark”. This is a blend of chocolate with other ingredients, usually fruit or nuts. I’m a big fan of good chocolate with fruits and nuts, and have a weakness for Berkshire Bark–they make a dark, dark bar and a white lightening bar that make me swoon. The white chocolate one has macadamia nuts and ginger, and I swear there is also a touch of salt in it. (more…)
Hovering pretty much spot on 124 these days between a mostly draconian diet and unflinching attention to physical fitness.
So I opened the bottom drawer of my dresser the other morning and it is literally like a designer jean convention in there. I really don’t know what happened. For the last many years (it all kinda started during my yoga period) I just grew to dislike the feel of wearing jeans. Too tight. Pinch when you sit down. Unforgiving. (more…)
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There are only a few vendors left this late in the year at the Berkshire Mall Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings.
And it’s only running a few more weeks.
I started purchasing more this year from these vendors–they had bags and heads of things I love:
broccoli, cauliflower, squash, huge bags of spinach…. strawberries, raspberries…. (more…)
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Turmeric.
It’s what makes curry curry.
It’s what gives Indian fare its flare.
It’s what makes mustard yellow.
And not only is vibrantly hued turmeric good for you, it’s also delicious.
It is spicy and slightly bitter, and until very recently, I only added it in 1/4 teaspoon increments to entire pots of beans or soups, and nearly always combined it with other spices. I thought it was too bitter to stand alone. (more…)
Yesterday was busy and kept me distracted, so I actually ate very little and TODAY:
122.6
I haven’t seen this weight since right after high school or something. In high school I ate junk when I could, but the healthy fare at home that mom grew, cooked, canned and froze. I was not into sports. Too bad–I did not know what I was missing, but then there are also all those stories about folks who were active in school who blew up to many hundred pounds after they got out into the real world, so it sometimes occurs to me that I do these things backward. (more…)
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