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Chocolate Cream Frosty a la Atkins

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed Congratulations! You have been to to Ship Full O’ Pirates over 100 times! Just thought you’d like to know. Updated at the end!  2/28/10 I can do this!  Chocolate Cream Frosty while on a diet?  Count me in! I love Love LOVE [...]

Fit as a Farmhand 2-9-10

I’m having so much fun on the Atkins website! The latest fun is the page of recipe links.  They’ve sorted the recipes by phases.  Such a simple thing to do, yet so valuable.  Don’t you just hate looking through recipes you can’t have when you’re on a diet!  Not much in this life is more [...]

Menu Plan Monday 2-8-10

Yikes!  It’s getting painfully close to Sweet Sally Mae’s birthday.  This is her first time to really be interested in a daily count-down.  It’s been a very real-life demo of why we have to learn subtraction.  Cute! Her birthday is this Friday and we still don’t have a menu for that yet.  But here’s the [...]

Three Reasons and Three Recipes to make Homemade Salad Dressings

The reasons are: It’s frugal. It tastes better, by far! It’s wholesome. The recipes to get you started: Thousand Island Dressing (not Atkins friendly) ½ cup mayonnaise 2 Tbsp ketchup 1 Tbsp vinegar 2 tsp sugar 2 tsp sweet pickle relish 1 tsp onion flakes (or minced, fresh onion) pinch each- salt and pepper All [...]

Fit as a Farmhand 2-2-10

This post is linked to Works for me Wednesday and Things I Love Thursday because this diet works! I have never been so excited to get on the scale as I am these days.  Now I can’t wait for Monday mornings to roll around. Atkins diet is kinda difficult since I am only supposed to [...]

Menu Plan Monday 2-1-10

As you may have surmised from my rant last week, it’s a bit of a bummer cooking for folks who are free to eat whatever they fancy while I’m on a diet (even though I love my diet). I’ll post the menu plan for the family, and then explain what I’m eating and it’ll be [...]

OK, Guess what stinks!

I know you don’t really wanna guess , so I’ll tell ya. What stinks is meal planning when I’m on a totally different diet than the rest of the family!  AND I’M A BIT GRUMPY ABOUT IT!  Can you tell? I just planned the next seven days of meals for the family and myself and [...]

Fit as a Farmhand – 1/26/10

This post is linked to Works for Me Wednesdays and Thing I Love Thursdays because I finally did something that worked! I am so excited I hardly know where to begin! Last Thursday I had a tiny bump on my arm, so I went into the bathroom to see if it was a tiny pimple [...]

Fit as a Farmhand – Jan. 18, 2010

I’m a little more excited about my diet today than I was last week.  It helps when there are results! Weight Loss I actually lost a pound this week!   I understand that it is better in the long run to go at a moderate pace. I’ll try to get on board with that plan! [...]

Fit as a Farmhand – Jan. 11, 2010

Welcome to Fit as a Farmhand! This is my weekly linky post for fitness and/or weight loss.  I hope you’ll join in! Weight Loss No change from last week. Exercise I have been using the Walk Away the Pounds one mile walk.  I haven’t been as diligent as I should on this one.  Only walked [...]