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Category Archives: HCG
Homemade Sugar-free Chocolate made with Coconut Oil (a.k.a. Chocolate Delight, Cocoa Crack, Chocolate Bark)
I love love LOVE this recipe. I’ve been making it for about a year, and I tried quite a few variations before settling on this one. I generally only make a little bit at a time. This way, when I … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cooking, DIet, Dieting, Fitness, Food, HCG, Health, Life, Personal, Recipes
Tagged chocolate, cocoa powder, coconut oil, dessert, gluten free, HCG, paleo, snacks
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Diet-friendly Mashed Cauliflower (aka “Mock Mashed Potatoes”) – two versions
I first heard about mashed cauliflower as a substitute for mashed potatoes almost 10 years ago, when I was doing the South Beach Diet. My first attempt at making it was a failure. I didn’t blend it enough and I … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cooking, DIet, Dieting, Food, HCG, Health, Life, Personal, Recipes
Tagged cauliflower, Laughing Cow cheese, low carb
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Sugar-free strawberry cream cheese frosting
My plan was to post a pretty pink strawberry cupcake with strawberry frosting for Valentine’s day. But things don’t always go according to plan, right? I’ve been having “technical difficulties” trying to make a sugar-free version of THIS cupcake. I’ve … Continue reading
Sugar-free, gluten-free banana nut muffins. Yum!
I have made this recipe several times and it has NEVER disappointed me, despite the fact that I’m always changing the measurement of the bananas depending on how many I have. I’ve made this recipe with two bananas, four bananas, … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cooking, DIet, Dieting, Food, HCG, Health, Life, Personal, Recipes
Tagged almond flour, bananas, coconut oil, dessert, gluten free, muffins, sugar free, Truvia
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Sugar-free Vanilla “Thai-style” Coconut Milk Pudding/Ice Cream
What better way to follow up a chocolate ice cream recipe than by posting a vanilla counterpart? When I started making this recipe I fully intended to turn it into ice cream. Like I’ve said before, I have portion control … Continue reading
Sugar-free Chocolate Coconut Milk Ice Cream/Pudding, with Almonds (Paleo, Low Carb)
Oh. My. God. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. (I could stop this post right there, because seriously, that’s all that needs to be said about this ice cream recipe. It is AMAZING. Quite possibly the best chocolate ice cream I’ve ever tasted. Sooo rich. … Continue reading
Unexpected weight loss
I got on the scale this morning and I was shocked – SHOCKED – to see that I was down to 139.5! It was really unexpected, considering yesterday I was 141.5 and I ate two sweet potatoes. I think it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, DIet, Dieting, Exercise, Fitness, Food, HCG, Life, Personal
Tagged health, salsa, sweet potatoes, weight loss, working out, Zumba
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I stopped taking the HCG drops today.
I live right next door to my mother. While this occasionally has its disadvantages (like the time she called my male friend at 5 in the morning to see if I was still there because she had looked outside and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, DIet, Dieting, Food, HCG, Life, Personal
Tagged cheating on diet, food, health, low calorie diet, maintenance phase
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Like me on Facebook?
I’ve had a Facebook page for this site up for a while, but I only recently realized that I hadn’t “published” it – meaning nobody could see what I was posting up there! Duh. Not that there’s all that much … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, DIet, Dieting, Food, HCG, Life, Personal, Recipes
Tagged facebook, social media, social networking
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