On this St. Patrick’s Day, I’d like to take a moment to tell you about my father’s mother — my Irish grandmother, Ellen. Irish Ellen’s people were from County Cork in Ireland. She was the youngest of 10. I am not sure if all the things she was came from her Irish blood, but I [...]
The traditional Irish dinner is your basic Corned Beef and Cabbage. Here’s a handy dandy link for the actual nutritional information of a LIGHT version. Your basic corned beef and cabbage isn’t too bad, even Spark People has two-cups under 400 calories. But no worries for me it’s nothing. Let me state that St. Patrick’s [...]
You’ve seen Jennifer Aniston wear the long sweater or duster as they’re called? For some reason I believed buying a similar long sweater or duster would be stylish or perhaps make people believe they were looking at Jennifer Aniston. So I bought this thing several years ago. Instead of making me look like Aniston this [...]
A few dieting friends and I have been lamenting over how SOME people seem to lose using GODKNOWSWHAT DIET and others don’t. Well Eur-FRIGGIN-REEKA!!! A study on fruit flies has finally given scientists the idea that different diets help different people lose different amounts of weight. This has been our philosophy since we first heard the word [...]
Has anyone ever put off going to an annual check up w/ their doctor because they didn’t feel like being weighed? {raises hand} I’ve been avoiding the thyroid doctor for 5 months because of the dreaded scale. But, I went last Friday. I had boots on (knock off Ugg’s). So here’s the age-old dillema…do I [...]
