This is my first day of the month giving up sugar entirely* as part of the #Giveitupnz #fundraiser for gut cancer foundation NZ.

I’m already loving my #LowSugar #lifestyle and want to help others, so I’ve decided to ‘sell’ homemade low sugar pancake mix powder and hot chocolate powder for koha to this cause.

The pancake mix is a powder that you add water and vanilla essence and it makes sugar free, high protein pancake batter. It is available in regular or gluten friendly versions. It does contain dairy and may contain traces of soy, lipin, eggs, nuts.

The hot chocolate powder is a blend of cocoa, sugar and artificial sweetener.

Make a donation of $20 or more to my fundraising page for two cups of either hot chocolate powder or pancake mix, donate $30 or more for two cups of each, or donate $5 or more for an email with the digital recipes for both. Then pm me your address/email address and preferences. Physical products only available to be shipped within #NewZealand. If you get the physical products, they will come with a printed recipe so you can re-make them if you find them helpful.

All donations go to help kiwis experiencing gut cancer and I am donating the ingredients and shipping costs.

Anyway, link to sponsor me or sign up yourself:

https://www.giveitup.nz/michaela-hulse

*For this month, I am avoiding foods with more than 10% sugar by weight. I will eat fruit and use some dried fruit and small amounts of natural sweeteners like honey to sweeten other things, but the resulting food will be less than 10% sugar by weight. I am using some artificial sweeteners but limiting processed foods altogether to reset my sense of taste.

5 months into my journey of intentional #WeightLoss, (#Recovery from #Obesity as I’m now called it) I decided regular baking recipes are now too sweet, so I went to the library looking for low was looking for #LowSugar #recipes. Well, I accidentally discovered a treasure trove of #dinner recipes that perfectly suit my cooking style in ‘Fast Family Food’ by #SarahWilson and #IQuitSugar

Since my second child was born, my survival method has been to spend 1-2 hours #MealPrepping once per week, save food in portions in the freezer, and feed my family out of the freezer or make very quick meals all the other days. This book has recipes organised by cooking time, the longer recipes (most of which actually don’t take long to prep but want to spend 1-4 hours in the oven or slow cooker) and some of the quicker recipes are designed to transform leftovers from those into completely new dishes.

Best Greek Orzo Pasta Salad Recipe

Move aside, plain ol’ pasta salad—orzo is here to shake things up. Though it looks a bit like rice, orzo isn’t a grain—it’s a pasta! While I love using it …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanSalads #dinner #dinnerparty #Greek #LowSugar #lunch #Mediterranean #Mediterraneansalads #NutFree #sidedish #Vegetarian #weeknightmeals
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2458968/best-greek-orzo-pasta-salad-recipe/

Best Greek Orzo Pasta Salad Recipe

Move aside, plain ol’ pasta salad—orzo is here to shake things up. Though it looks a bit like rice, orzo isn’t a grain—it’s a pasta! While I love using it in comforting, warming pasta dishes (looking at you, …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanSalads #dinner #dinnerparty #Greek #LowSugar #lunch #Mediterranean #Mediterraneansalads #NutFree #sidedish #Vegetarian #weeknightmeals
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2458968/best-greek-orzo-pasta-salad-recipe/

Best Oven Baked Fries Recipe

Potatoes are so affordable and endearing. You can cook them any which way, manipulate them to no end, and they’ll taste comforting and filling in any application…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchholidayrecipes #American #baking #francais #france #French #Frenchholidaydishes #GlutenFree #Healthy #hearthealthy #HolidayDishes #holidayrecipes #LowSugar #sidedish #Vegan #Vegetarian #weeknightmeals
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2361759/best-oven-baked-fries-recipe/

Curb your cravings with these healthy late-night snacks! #snack #protein #lowsugar

https://fitasamamabear.com/low-sugar-snacks-that-stop-late-night-cravings-fast/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into fit as a mamabear @fit-as-a-mamabear-fitasamamabear

Positive Role Models for the Overweight

Mike and Molly was a television show that tried to have positive role models with its two overweight leads. They both meet at an Overeaters Anonymous and end up having a romance. That romance is complicated by all their friends and relatives.

Molly was played by the very successful Melissa McCarthy. Mike was played by Billy Gardell who went on to play Bob in Bob Hearts Abishola.

The interesting thing about Bob Hearts Abishola is that Bob is initially a very heavy set man but loses a lot of weight, right before our eyes as the show proceeds.

That weight loss may have felt like a betrayal for some viewers who might be overweight and happy to see a second love story for a very heavy set man. However, right from Mike and Molly, we were introduced to Billy Gardell’s character as having been someone who wants to lose weight at overeaters anonymous. Isn’t that a natural progression to losing weight? Especially since the second series scares Billy Gardell’s character with a heart attack.

Rebel Wilson was a bit of a heroine for heavy set women. Until she had her year of health in 2020 and started exercising up to 2 ½ hours a day (mainly walking). She also had a low sugar/high protein diet, was flexible with eating (allowing some cheats), used Ozempic for some of it, and focused on health and not just weight loss.

Anyhow she did it and now people see a thinner, healthier woman and not the body positive role model for the overweight. The same with Adele and Kelly Clarkson.

Many celebrities, if overweight, reach a point where they have enough money and time to do something about their bodies. And most do, now that there are effective weight loss drugs.

Meghan Trainor is most famous for her song, “All About That Bass” where bass stood for excess weight. But I guess she wasn’t all about her fan base. She credits Mounjaro with doing some of the most heavy lifting in her weight loss. Now she, too, is a thin person.

I’m just waiting for Ashley Graham, the body positive, overweight model to shed some pounds. That I think will be the last time that people will not see that money and time will almost certainly lead to weight loss in the overweight. That and the vanity of being a celebrity.

#Adele #AllAboutThatBass #allowingSomeCheats #AshleyGraham #BillyGardell #BobHeartsAbishola #bodyPositive #effectiveWeightLossDrugs #heartAttack #highProtein #KellyClarkson #lowSugar #MeghanTrainor #MelissaMcCarthy #MikeAndMolly #Mounjaro #OvereatersAnonymous #Ozempic #RebelWilson #walking #yearOfHealth