...ABOUT MY ATTEMPTS TO GET UP ON THE WEIGHT LOSS WAGON AND FINALLY STAY THERE...
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Check This Out
If anyone needs a little extra inspiration- and who doesn't- please go check out Tosca Reno's website. I have all her books and am trying to ultimately work my way towards following her food plan. Yes, with Weight Watchers you have the ability to eat whatever you want as long as you stick with your points. Tosca may not be a household name like Jillian Michaels, but I love Tosca's fresh approach to eating clean. It's real and it's not gimicky and it's healthy. I discovered her book The Eat-Clean Diet about two years ago and have read all her books now. I have fallen backwards and have been relying on Lean Cuisines and the like to keep me on the right path, but I know processed foods are high in sodium, full of chemicals, and not realistic if I want to lose the weight and keep it off for good this time. Tosca did it all on her own, and if you go see her before and after pics, you will be impressed. Has anyone else out there checked out her cookbook yet? Let me know what you think about it.
I recently started switching over to clean eating also. It is such a thing...I don't get hungry like before and find it easier and easier to maintain as the days go by.
I know earlier this year when I gave up all processed foods, boy I felt SO much better and I was definitely eating less. I have got to get back to that asap!
I thumbed through Tosca's book one day and really liked what she has to say - and what is cool about clean eating is that you don't suffer the effects of excess sodium and chemicals that are in all the processed foods (says a former Lean Cuisine addict).
I've set this blog up so I can focus more closely on my (lack of) effort to lose weight. I hope to blog often, to keep myself honest and on the right track.
My husband James and I recently moved to Virginia in 2019 due to his career (I finally retired a few years ago!). We love our life, our new country home, our four kitties, our family. We love to travel, we take frequent cruises and big epic road trips across the country. Most of all, we love to spend time together no matter what we're doing. I have an ordinary life but share it with an extraordinary man. I am so lucky! Life has been great to both of us. Please enjoy my blog filled with cat photos, pictures from our vacations, and some art thrown in here and there.
Stella Virgin
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I recently started switching over to clean eating also. It is such a thing...I don't get hungry like before and find it easier and easier to maintain as the days go by.
ReplyDeleteI know earlier this year when I gave up all processed foods, boy I felt SO much better and I was definitely eating less. I have got to get back to that asap!
ReplyDeleteI'm new to your blog but I am catching up now. I agree that less processed is better. You can really feel the difference.
ReplyDeleteI thumbed through Tosca's book one day and really liked what she has to say - and what is cool about clean eating is that you don't suffer the effects of excess sodium and chemicals that are in all the processed foods (says a former Lean Cuisine addict).
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