Trying to create  healthy summer meals isn’t always easy when you are dealing with sweltering days. And while some homes are equipped with central air, living in the northeast many of us get by with just window units. These units aren’t always good for houses like mine that is kind of open floor plan  so my kitchen and dining room gets hot in the summer, making me not want to cook or worse-resort to unhealthy take out! Read more »

I love diet smoothies, hence the name of this blog but I usually have a can of Slim Fast powder on hand as well.  The Slim Fast Diet Program offers convenience with their shakes, meal replacement bars and snack bars, in fact, the snack bars are pretty good substitute for a candy bar. However, sometimes having just a shake or a meal replacement bar just isn’t enough and you end up feeling really hungry soon after. Read more »

Many of us living in the northeast aren’t equipped with central air, so when the heat reaches the high 90’s many of us just can’t function. I will never understand those who say “the hotter the better”. I can’t stand the heat and find that I am very unproductive when it hits. Read more »

Yesterday was my third full day of loosely following the flat belly diet (I say loosely because I am still reading the book). All was well and I was feeling very satisfied on the 1600 calorie diet. However, yesterday I made the mistake of eating all of my calories early in the day, which set me up to cheat last night. I didn’t have a full blown binge, thank goodness but I did go  over my calories for the day. So, lesson learned, don’t eat all your calories before 5 pm and don’t choose a dinner with very little protein and expect to feel satisfied for the rest of the day. Read more »

Well today I unofficially started the flat belly diet. I say unofficially because I am still not quite sure about what I am doing. I was going to skip to the diet part of the book but decided that if I don’t read it all the way through now I never will.  So, to improvise I am trying to stay around 400 calories per meal and 1600 calories per day. I didn’t do perfectly today but I think it went okay. Read more »

Well tomorrow, which is Wed, June 9th is the day that I am starting the Flat Belly Diet. I bought the book three weeks ago but have struggled to find the time to read through it. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great book I just seem to be going in so many directions right now.

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I have to admit that  I haven’t been trying to lose weight in weeks. I had been planning to start the Flat Belly Diet the day after Memorial Day but had no time to sit and read the book ( I have since been reading some every day and have started stocking up on foods to start on Monday).  Still, even without committing to any diet, I was shocked to see that I am down two pounds; which means maybe losing weight without trying is not so difficult.

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