February 2008
5 posts
What (Was) For Dinner: Coconut Noodles and Spicy...
So, after searching high and low on Martha’s site and coming up with naught, I finally just broke down and scanned the recipe cards I used for her Coconut Noodles and Spicy Shrimp recipes…and they are inexplicably tiny. No matter - comment if squinting at the screen leaves you with questions. I had been wanting to try shirataki-style noodles for ages, and this recipe seemed like a...
While I'm being uplifting... →
From UPI via Jezebel: macaroni and cheese sales are up. While I love me some mac and cheese, it also probably means the U.S. economy is in the crapper, which is bad for me for obvious reasons. - Posted by Tanya
Feeling less than hawt.
I’ve been a bad hawt blogger lately, largely because I have pretty much been spending the last few days working against any sort of increased hawtness. Beyond just being busy and having random shit to do, I have just been extremely unmotivated for a number of reasons. So I’ve just been eating massive amounts of shit, and as I was out of town this weekend, have not really done any...
January 2008
18 posts
Today for dinner: French Onion Soup
Let me set the record straight: I may hate on Progresso’s stupid “soup diet” ads, but I love me some good soup. The nice thing about making a big pot of homemade soup on a Sunday night is that it can last you all week, doesn’t have the bad fillers and heart-attacking amount of sodium like canned soup, and only gets better after a couple of days in the fridge. French Onion...
Now THIS is a meal plan I can get behind...
It’s so funny that I found this article tonight, because I was just thinking this afternoon about the bitter fact that alcohol impedes weight loss as, among other things, it’s the first thing your body burns (i.e. before fat). Granted, this new study is probably total bunk, but I’m willing to believe! From Time.com: “If you want to live a long and healthy life,...
It's terrible, but...
…one way to get my ass on the Precor and to keep it there is having some decent (and by decent, I mean deliciously trashy) on TV. Our gym has little individual TVs on most of the cardio machines, so I can watch Bravo instead of golf that some meathead set the general channel to. Seeing that the Real Housewives finale that I missed would be on at 2:30, and being hopped up on what seems to be...
Today for breakfast: "Perfect" French Toast
This recipe, of course, came via Martha Stewart, which…perfect is really unnecessary, Martha. I’m just shooting for very good. Perfect French Toast Ingredients Serves 6 6 large eggs 1 1/2 cups milk Juice of 1 medium orange, (about 1/4 cup) 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract 2 tablespoons cognac, (optional) 1 tablespoon sugar Zest of 1 lemon, (about 1 tablespoon) 1/2 teaspoon...
The steaming crock of poo that is the "Progresso...
It’s no mystery that losing weight is something that consumes the minds of most American women. It’s a no mystery that advertisers have and will continue to exploit women’s preoccupation with weight and diet. So what is it I find so particularly grating about the “Progresso Soup Diet” commercials? I find it difficult to pinpoint. It could be the woman who...
All is right with the world...
…the comments are back to showing and working after my temporary HTML brain fart. I’m even going to flossify the blog a little. - Posted by Tanya
Limping behind... Or is it rolling...
So clearly T has dedicated herself much more to this project in the past week than I have. Even though they mean nothing - I must go through the litany of excuses to vindicate myself. (at least in my own mind - you know denial is the #1 rule to ending up where I am at the moment chunk wise - and I’m a master of denial) Excuse #1 - I got the flu last week… It made me lose 2 days...
So Crazy it Just Might Work: Tips from Body...
So a few months ago I was retaining water in a really odd way. Well, in that I was retaining water, period, I don’t tend to be the type of person who is bloaty in that fluid retention sort of way. Anyhow, this perturbed me and so of course I got to working on how to get rid of said water retention. My first Google result were these incredibly priceless tips from a body builder (and by...
So Crazy it Just Might Work: Tasty Salads!
Part of the Get Hawt plan has involved, for at least the past week, eating salads for lunch, largely because otherwise I will just find myself down the street at Victor’s getting nachos for lunch ONCE AGAIN. And as much as I love nachos, I can’t fool even myself into thinking that they really serve as a balanced meal and that their daily consumption fits seamlessly into the Get Hawt...
From Health.com: Five “Bad Foods” That May Help... →
Sadly, nachos didn’t make the list. I also like how they list ice cream as one of the foods, but then they’re like, “well, not so much ice cream as full fat dairy milk or cheese.” To which I say dur…as I have and will continue to mention time and time again, I am nothing more than a crackpot eating enthusiast, but one thing I do know with absolute certainty is that things...
"Shy Eating" – Just a Euphemism for Eating... →
Sigh. It’s so sad that these things start so early in life, and continue so late in life. - Posted by Tanya
Of course...
I’m not sure how the delicious cookies that Christina sent figure into the whole dieting plan. Unfortunately for me, the combination of chocolate and peanut butter is my kryptonite. Photo credit: Hot Cookie I cannot resist that siren song of sweet and salty goodness. Fortunately for me (I guess), D and his infamous sweet tooth ended up scarfing down most of...
So Crazy it Just Might Work: Hair Vitamins
I’ve been intrigued by hair vitamins for a while. I’ve always suspected that they were largely bogus by secretly wanted to believe that if I took them they would take my hair to heretofore unknown Rapunzel-like silky lengths. Well, I just got a big motivation to buy and try. I have had shorter hair for the greater part of my life, mostly because I a) didn’t have the patience to...
Dean Hrbacek Gets Hawt! →
From CNN: “A mailer from a congressional candidate’s campaign contains a photo of his head attached to an image of a different body that makes him look thinner.” - Posted by Tanya
Today for breakfast: Flax Meal and Blueberry...
I somehow got the idea of blueberry pancakes and bacon in my head earlier this week, and decided to make a semi-healthy version of it for Saturday breakfast. I decided to find a recipe that incorporated flax meal into the pancakes, and found this very promising one. Flax meal is really good for you…no carbohydrates*, high in fiber, full of omega-3 fatty acids. It also makes you poop,...
Mission Statement: Tanya
I am Tanya. I work in fashion but am not a size zero…not even a size 4. If I ate only chicken breasts and spent two hours a day in the gym, I *might* whittle myself down to a size 6. But the fact of the matter is, a) being a healthy size 8 is more than a-okay with me, b) I love to eat, and c) I have a life and think spending any longer than 1.5 hours in the gym is ridiculous (unless 30...
The rumblings...of greatness?
Tanya: i think we should have a katieandtanyagethawt blog
Katie: does this involve getting dressed up & standing on the corner
Tanya: lol
Katie: and what would we discuss on said blog
Tanya: not really
Tanya: we would discuss getting hawt
Tanya: for our respective events
Katie: hawt - like the corner hawt - or what :-)
Tanya: just so we can be semi-accountable
Tanya: but also just for fun
Katie: sure - you know i love to talk... may as well just write instead
Katie: matt thinks you're high - and wants to know if you've been at the brown house