Postby Harriet » Fri Aug 26, 2022 1:58 pm
Nancy, the heat is slowing our walking to a stop - whew. (pant, pant)
I was amused at what dd42's younger boys are calling her indoor summer exercise. They will say, "Mom did her steppies today." That is their abbreviation for the 20-minute T-Tapp DVD, Step Away the Inches. I think she tried to tell them a few times and they just remembered "step" and that something had an "I" in it.
I've proved to myself again that I can rein in a weight gain by including sweet potato in my day. If I pop up a few pounds, planning a sweet potato meal will assure me I can ease that off. It's filling and as long as it's not sugared it tends to tamp down the appetite for much more. No water weight gain, but tasty. I do add a bit of the earth balance "butter". It's been worth learning for me, to steam/bake a sweet potato in wax paper in the microwave. I scrub and rinse one, poke with a fork or knife, wrap in wax paper on the diagonal while it's still damp, and crimp or tuck under ends so it steams. You learn to look at one and guess how many minutes it will take.
We've decided we would buy the Oli pop product again if we saw it in stores. On our big grocery trip we did not, though, even though we were at a large, nice store.