Fat Frog Diary

I don't talk about my diet much on Facebook. No one gives a rat's patootey about your diet except someone else on the diet. Your friends will applaud when you've lost a few pounds, but this is a long-haul marathon slog. In fact, it's a full lifestyle change. This is kind of like how vegans seem to brag about their diet choice and post recipes like they expect you to join in. The most I could ever manage was a lacto-ovo-pesco-pollotarian. (Willing to give up beef and pork, but will eat chicken, fish, eggs, and milk.) I've been back on a low-carb diet for months, and transitioning over to the Phase One of the pre-surgical diet has been relatively smooth. Do I miss my carbs? YOU BETCHA! Especially my morning bowl of hot cereals. Everything else I can live without, but that's a lifetime habit to have a bowl of carbs in the morning to fuel the day. I don't even miss red meat right now. This may change, but so far I'm okay with just fish, eggs, beans, white ...

Have you seen the 21-Day Fix diet? I kept coming across pins on Pinterest related to it, and I was intrigued by the seeming simplicity of simply measuring by using colorful containers. No counting! Let me state right at the beginning that I didn't buy the book, nor did I buy the colored containers. While they are inexpensive enough on Amazon, I want to "try before you buy" and simply see if it would help me in my weight loss adventures while I wait for surgery. I'm a dedicated foodie. That's one reason why my BMI is a whopping 43. I love food, and I love combining my foods into interesting and tasty combinations such as mini-peppers cut in half and stuffed with half a mozzarella stick. Yumm! Who says diets have to be boring? Anyway, I checked around and found the number of colorful containers for my weight. Each color represents a different food group and each container is a specific size to match a serving of that food group. For instance, I am allowed 3 gr...

Turtle Cheesecake Trifle 2 Sara Lee Pound Cakes (found in the freezer section of the grocery) 3 8-oz pkg cream cheese, softened 1-1/2 tsp vanilla extract ¾ cup sugar 12 oz Cool Whip 2 c chopped pecans (I used walnuts) 10 oz caramel ice cream topping 10 oz hot fudge ice cream topping (I used Hershey’s syrup) 1.        Cut the pound cakes into bite-sized cubes 2.        Use a mixer to cream together the cream cheese, vanilla, and sugar. Fold in the Cool Whip. 3.        Layer the trifle as follows: a.        Single layer of pound cake cubes b.        Drizzle with ice cream toppings c.        Sprinkle on nuts d.        1/3 of the cheesecake mix e.        Repeat, finishing last cheesecake layer with ano...