Tag: managing party eating on a diet

• Out of sight, out of feeble mind

  This was not a good weekend, healthy eating-wise. Well, actually, lots of what I ate was healthy food with the key word here being “lots.” Lots and lots. Like Ray Milland finding the bottle in the overhead light, I made choco espresso gems, pumpkin pie bars and peanut butter cups and sampled them all. The […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  December 12, 2011

  Candy, Chocolate, Desserts, Holiday cooking, Holiday eating, Simple foods

  Chocolate candy, managing party eating on a diet, over-eating

• Starved

  Picking from last brilliant flush of zinnias yesterday, flashed back decades to my habit of crying whenever my mother said anything nice to/about me — yes, compliments were that rare. I was literally starved for affection, and it takes no  keen insight to see why I’ve overeaten my entire life. I remember asking once, as a so-called […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  October 17, 2011

  good food, Seasonal food, Weight loss, Why overweight?

  chocolate, green beans, healthy eating, macaroni and cheese, managing party eating on a diet, pumpkin, pumpkin mac and cheese, Vegetables

• 30 pounds gone

  One of the nice things about dropping 30 pounds is that I’m more easily able to hop into the saddle for a morning trail ride. Well, not hop exactly, but the screaming is at least more muted when I  wrap my short legs around my 1,200-pound mare’s barrel. Two of the not so great things […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  June 13, 2011

  Rural life, Weight loss

  chicken, managing party eating on a diet, Quesadillas