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This is what I took for snacks on my 8-mile hike. Two boiled eggs and two peanut bars (held together with some kinda hard syrup). A folded piece of aluminum foil that contains salt and pepper for the eggs. Also, four 1/2 liter bottles of water.
As mentioned, I used to have exercise induced hypoglycemia (and [...]

Hi, I’m celebrating getting to one-half year (roughly) in spite of a 0.0 weight change this week. That’s right, no loss, first time since mid-November, before I came to Colorado.
Reason: snackie, snackie, snackie. I lost track of how many times this week I opted for things that were obviously not good in the diet direction: [...]

This was my snack meal today and it was yummy. I can see that it is going to be nice to mix the snack meals up between sweet, savory and smoothies. It is also very filling.

1/2 cup hummus (I made fmine from a very easy recipe on allrecipes.com)

2 stalks celery, cut in pieces

1 cup mini carrots [...]

I’m not a real Starbucks person, but not averse to a special coffee now and then either, and when they put Starbucks in Barnes & Nobles… Well, I usually justify my reading and drinking habit with good-for-me green tea. This is one of my favorite getaways.
NOW! Let me be the first to tell you! Starbucks [...]

My first Flat Belly dessert. I knew that chocolate was a MUFA (moly-unsaturated fat), usable at any meal, but just hadn’t gotten around to buying any or choosing a menu with it.
Then, today, I did buy some: bulk dark chocolate chips sweetened with cane at Whole Foods.
Eating my unplanned meal, I realized I hadn’t added [...]