Last week I made some homemade crackers. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while but just got around to doing. These were seed crackers, consisting of several types of seeds – pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, sesame seeds, and sunflower seeds. I threw in extra chia seeds due to lacking one of the…
A few weeks ago I wrote about how I have been debating about going back onto the Keto Diet for a while. I had gained some (less than three pounds) of my lost weight back and was not happy. But, by just watching my portions and cutting back on some of the carbs, I lost…
When my husband and I were on the keto diet, I posted updates on our Keto Journey on Mondays. Now, we are far past the time on the actual diet and are maintaining our respective goal weights (173# and 125#). These are our weights now, a week past the holiday (eating) season. Personally, I am…
What are the next steps after meeting your weight loss goal? Obviously, no one wants to gain weight back after a diet. No one, I am convinced, wants to be on roller coaster ride of gains and losses. The objective is to maintain your new weight. On August 10th, we started our weight loss journey…
Typically, November is not a favorite month. However, after a cool and mostly gray October, we’ve had a series of very beautiful days here in the upper mid-west. The sky has been clear and cloudless. The temperature has hovered around 70 degrees. It’s has felt so good to shed some of the layers that we…
My 21 year old bought himself an InstantPot for his apartment. He lives alone, works and goes to college. In the first couple of weeks he’s had the pot, he’s made sweet potato fries, and chicken wings that he’s raved about. The chicken wing endorsement is a huge deal for us! Before being transplanted in…