Category Archives: The 17 Day Diet

Fill in the Blank Random Friday! {Free Time}

Today is all about free time, as if we ever have any. I guess it depends on what your definition of free time is. My definition of free is when I don’t feel like I have to hurry, which is never. I always feel like I have to hurry up and write a post while…

Food Fodder {Winter Squash Soup}

“I hate squash.” That’s been my motto for the past 29 years and 8 months. Until now. I realized, I actually do love some squashes! I love zucchini, for example, and yellow squash. I’m amazed at Spaghetti Squash and how it can be a valid replacement for pasta. (If you haven’t tried this, do it…

FoodFodder: Turkey Meatloaf & Cauliflower Cakes

My greatest downfalls, when trying to lose weight, are a) I get bored with the food and b) complacency. You know, when you tell yourself “Self, you’ve lost twenty one and a half pounds! Eat a cookie! It’ll be fine!” and before you know it, you’re eating leftover pizza for lunch and ordering take out…

Losing The Cow (with The 17 Day Diet)

Well, there are no excuses now. No medical reasons to sit on my carcass. No hot weather to keep me inside. No wiggle room in my jeans to seduce me into thinking I’m just bloated. Nope. It’s time to face the scale and admit it. I’m fat. Again. I have a better reason than “Doritos…

My Big Fat Plan

I decided the other day that I need to start blogging again more often, and then Lily needed a new diaper, Molly was tired of her bouncy seat, the dryer finished its obligatory daily duty which meant it was time to fold and stuff diapers, and I still had to locate and adorn myself with…