Declutter Your Diet
RSS Feed- The FPP ‘bagged fat’ food drive June 1, 2012Last year, on the suggestion of a Wells Weighs In competitor, Team Caylor did a “canned fat” drive in which we donated the equivalent amount of team weight lost (38 pounds) to Community Harvest Food Bank in Fort Wayne. This … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Shifting my weight-loss focus May 31, 2012Though it’s far too odd to publish anywhere other than this blog, if I wanted to lose weight right now — and I do want to drop a couple of pounds, actually, because I’ve slacked off a bit after the … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Food fight: Single-serve Nutella vs. Snickers May 30, 2012Given how dangerous it is for us to keep a container of Nutella in the house, I was thrilled to see they’ve come out with a single-serve container paired with tiny cracker “breadsticks.” Then I compared this snack to a … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Fitness Tunes and fried plantains: The ‘Eclectic City’ flashback interview May 29, 2012What do Nikola Tesla, Disco Demolition Night and Neil Young’s new rendition of “Oh Susannah” have in common? They’re all part of the mix on Gabriel Szoke’s most recent episode of “Eclectic City,” a pod cast of diverse tunes and … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- The upside of the 98-degree ‘brick’ wall May 28, 2012My sister and I were planning to get together for a run on Friday, but when we realized it was going to be in the 90s, we decided on a bike-run “brick” instead. I’m not sure when I’m going to … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Not-so-stealthy smoothie secretly satisfies May 26, 2012Nearly an hour after she griped about trying the blueberry-kale smoothie I’d loosely based on a recovery drink created by Elizabeth the Ironman competitor, Colleen ‘fessed up: “It was OK. I’d probably go ahead and drink it next time.” She … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Fitness Protection Program in 5th-place finish May 25, 2012The official results have been tabulated for Wells Weighs In, and our team, the Fitness Protection Program, finished fifth out of 101 teams with a loss of 8.96 percent. We’ve got to salute the winning team, “Here We Go Again,” … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- The ‘whim triathlon’ training schedule May 24, 2012One of the problems with deciding to do a triathlon with just four weeks lead time is that I had to start in week 7 of the 10-week training schedule I was ostensibly going to use. I’d been running about … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- Communicating with your brain May 23, 2012Like a baseball coach using hand signals to communicate with a batter, I sometimes tweak a simple snack — a banana folded like a hot dog into a slice of Healthy Goodness bread — to signal my brain as to … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- How People Eat: author Ann Staadt May 22, 2012Deciding which of Ann Staadt‘s novels to read first was an easy choice for me: A New Moon for Emily, featuring a character who drives a purple Volkswagen Beetle like I did back in the day, got first dibs. Between … Continue reading →tischcaylor
- The FPP ‘bagged fat’ food drive June 1, 2012
Category Archives: Weight Watchers
Shifting my weight-loss focus
Though it’s far too odd to publish anywhere other than this blog, if I wanted to lose weight right now — and I do want to drop a couple of pounds, actually, because I’ve slacked off a bit after the … Continue reading
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Tagged weight loss, Weight Watchers
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Nutrient-spiked banana pudding
With its milk and fruit base, banana pudding pretty much starts out as an “A list” dessert, and if you downshift to sugar-free pudding mix and fat free whipped topping the numbers get even more favorable. But in a recent … Continue reading
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Tagged banana pudding, recipes
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Sandwich batch reveals divergent Weight Watchers realities
Still in the grip of a Dragon Tattoo sandwich fix, my inner anarchist spent the better part of yesterday convinced I’d created a zero-point sandwich platter. My creation was based on half a slice of Healthy Goodness bread cut into … Continue reading
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Tagged Dragon Tattoo, low-cal sandwiches, Weight Watchers
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Dragon sandwiches
Three-quarters of the way through Stieg Larsson’s Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and I’m not nearly as curious who killed Harriett as I am about another question: What’s with all the sandwiches? Every other page, it seems, the journalist Blomqvist … Continue reading
Chocolate chip pumpkin cookies
These aren’t exactly like the ones I periodically ogle in the Kroger bakery department, but they push all the right buttons without inflicting as much damage — especially if you only bake up as many cookies as you plan to … Continue reading
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Tagged chocolate chip pumpkin cookie, recipe
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Interview with a Weight-Loss Master: Shannon Canaday
Shannon Canaday lost roughly the same amount of weight I did in slightly less time using the same basic methods: Weight Watchers and jogging. But Shannon’s kept her weight off for nearly four years now. That makes her a “weight … Continue reading
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Cheese straws put to Super Bowl party pretest
We made these cheese straws Thursday night as a test run to see if they were good enough to take to Brent and Darcy’s Super Bowl party. The consensus: Good flavor, but what’s up with that photo in the Weight … Continue reading
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Another 3 foods I’ve kicked off my diet
I like to eliminate foods in threes, and for some reason it works even better if I can find a common theme or way to group them. These latest deletions were all things that I ate last week in a … Continue reading
Rising above the dietary language gap
Seated amid aunts at the recent Isch Christmas, I was feeling a bit like an interpreter — and not just because of the state dinner-like table arrangement.* The topic was dietary monitoring code. To my right, Aunt Imogene was of … Continue reading
3 foods I’ve edited out of my life
1. Subway’s oatmeal raisin cookie. A sugar cookie is an obvious indulgence. But an ambitious oatmeal raisin cookie can blur the boundary between “treat” and “fuel.” Subway’s oatmeal raisin cookie is a slacker. When I ordered one recently with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Candy Corn, lac bug, McDonald's, Subway oatmeal raisin cookie
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