Category: Keeping track of what we eat

• Girls just want to have fun, #101daysagymrat

  So on Day 101 at the Y I was 15 pounds lighter than 101 days previously, I co-taught a Silver Sneakers class and then went to a 60-minute kettle bell demonstration. All in my purple tutu with LED lights (3 speeds). Lessons learned: A tutu on big hips sticks straight out like a ruffle on…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 3, 2018

  Balance, Building better habits, Depression, Exercise, Holiday eating, Keeping track of what we eat, Making new habits, Senior fitness, Uncategorized, Weight Watchers, Working out

  Cooking Light magazine, healthy eating, Paula Poundstone, weight loss

• Back in the kitchen, empenadas

  Eight weeks after my second hip replacement and I was ready this week to get back in the kitchen. Stoic the Vast does well at the stove (especially considering he started at Ground Zero), but he gets impatient, doesn’t like anything complicated. I live for complicated — as long as it’s healthy and fast. Not…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  February 10, 2016

  Building better habits, Easter, Exercise, Falling off healthy eating wagon when discouraged, Importance of exercise, Keeping track of what we eat, Lent, Starting over

  broccoli, Calzones, cheese, chicken, Garlic, Good and Cheap by Leanne Brown

• We are each other’s memories, home-court habits

  “We are each other’s memories,” said my beautiful, silver-haired friend yesterday morning at book club, and with that remark, she grounded me in my world in a way I’ve never before felt. Until I went to college at 17, my mother, sister and I were kept isolated in a very rural setting by my control-freak…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 18, 2015

  Building better habits, Celebrations, Emotional side of weight loss, healthy cooking, Holiday eating, Importance of exercise, Keeping track of what we eat, Roasting vegetables

  cauliflower, healthy eating, Peppers, Potatoes, Rosemary

• 70 is the new awesome

  Tomorrow morning, to paraphrase Anne Lamott’s birthday column opener, I’m going to wake up 70 years old (9 years older than she). I am delighted that 1) I will most likely wake up; and 2) I will be at least 30 pounds lighter than on my 69th birthday. I’ve worked really hard on this; in fact, for…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 23, 2015

  Aging, Anne Lamott, Emotional side of weight loss, Exercise, Keeping track of what we eat, Restaurant eating while dieting, Seniors and weight loss, Sugar in the diet, Uncategorized, Weight loss, Working out

  binging, healthy eating, nutrition, obesity, weight loss

• Acceptance shouldn’t be approval

  Have you seen last week’s People magazine? Twenty-nine-year old Tess Holliday is on the cover — “The world’s first size 22 Supermodel!” — like it’s a good thing. I’m all for accepting yourself and seeing beauty in every size and color, but the 5’5″ 280-pound Holliday is cruising toward diabetes at warp speed. She may feel great…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 25, 2015

  Aging, Exercise, Food addiction, good food, healthy cooking, Keeping track of what we eat, Sandwiches, Seniors and weight loss, Sugar, Sugar in the diet, Weight loss

  “Fed Up” documentary, Arugula, chicken, Goat cheese, self-image, Whole grains

• Meyer lemons, baby puff pastry shells and a holiday dessert that doesn’t break the calorie bank

  Disaster  narrowly averted at our house this morning: Slicing into a newly baked loaf of Stoic’s oat bread, I started to walk computer-ward with my usual thick crust that I always log as 200 calories. Just for grins, I weighed it before I left the kitchen. Three ounces! An extra 100  calories that I’ve been scarfing…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 30, 2014

  Fruit, Holiday baking, Holiday eating, Keeping track of what we eat, Lemons

  Cake filling, Meyer lemons, Puff pastry cups, Whipped cream