The Diamond Behind The Chocolate
I'm always all of the following:
-Shoe Humanitarian
-Wine lover
-Storm chaser
-Chocolate addict
-Sweat obsessed
-Daydreaming of traveling to Sicily
-Mathematically challenged.I'm sometimes:
-Rude
-Irate
-Insensitive
-The main character in a chick lit novel (usually a bad thing)
-In a love affair with leafy greens, HIIT workouts, and VH1.I'm never:
-A sports girl.
-A soapbox preacher.
-Old man winter's friend.
-Interested in driving (limo, please?)-
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Tag Archives: sugar
It’s That Time of The Month…AGAIN?!?!
The Tampax commercials and feminine product magazine advertisements are misleading. I don’t know about you but I have never in my life experienced a “happy period”. What part about bleeding for 5-7 days is happy? To top it off, if … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, angel, avocado, balance, bipolar, caffeine, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, commercial, cravings, cycle, devil, estrogen, foods to avoid, foods to include, grains, greens, happy period, health, holistic, hormones, integrative nutrition, menstruation, nutrition, nuts, period, playtex, pms, progesterone, refined flour, seeds, sugar, tampax, tampons
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-Things To Try Thursdays- Black Bean Brownies
It’s been a while since a recipe graced this blog. It’s kind of pathetic considering that’s one of the reasons why I started this blog in the first place, but life happens and I don’t always have access to my … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes, Things To Try Thursdays
Tagged black bean brownies, chobani, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, coffee, Cooking, dairy, dessert, eating, flour, fudge, happy herbivore, oats, substitute, sugar, things to try thursdays
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The Sweet’n Lo on Natural & Artificial Sweeteners
With today’s overly saturated market of sugar and spice and everything nice, it can be difficult to tell a bunch of bologna from the real deal. Manufacturers are able to throw keywords around like “natural”, “real”, “Zero calorie sweetener”, and … Continue reading
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Tagged agave syrup, america, artificial sweeteners, aspartame, brands, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, coconut, coconut sugar, corn syrup, diabetes, fda, food, grocery store, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, ice cubes, light brown sugar, manufactured, medjool dates, natural sweeteners, nature, processed, pure cane sugar, real, safe, Shopping, stevia, sucralose, sugar, sweet'n lo, trays, white lies, xylitol
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Goodness of My Heart- Recipe Tribulations
This was supposed to be scheduled for last Friday, however Foodie Pen Pals is like a breaking news story, so sorry for the delay… Last week, I think I tripled my time in the kitchen. I had a few recipe … Continue reading
Posted in Goodness of My Heart, Recipes
Tagged baking, Bethenny Frankel, blog, books, brownies, chocolate, chocolate chips, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, cookies, Cooking, eggs, enjoy, graham flour, love, milk, oats, recipes, ricotta, sugar
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Goodness of My Heart- Chocolate Deluge
Well, well, well, Friday we meet again. This week was a bunch of waterfalls and roller coasters for me. Instead of eating it out, I baked it out. (Get your minds out of the proverbial gutters!) Stress usually comes in … Continue reading
Posted in #HighFiveFridays, Goodness of My Heart, Recipes
Tagged a dash of meg, baking, breathing, chocolate, chocolate chips, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, cookies, Cooking, eating, eggs, Fitness, food, friday, health, heart, high five fridays, light brown sugar, living, marshmallow, milk, relax, stress, sugar, wellness, withdrawal
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Goodness of My Heart- St. Patrick’s Chocolate Mint Oreo Cookies
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t wearing my irish pride on the top of my head in the form of a shamrock headband today and that this will probably be on repeat tomorrow. My sliver of irish … Continue reading
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Tagged accessories, andes mints, baking, beer, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, cookies, egg whites, Fitness, flour, green, headbands, irish, keg stands, mint, nutrition, oreos, saturday, st. patrick's day, sugar, two peas and their pod, yum
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#MotivationalMondays- Better Than 5 Hour Energy Workout
On a recent outing with friends, story sharing became the main course and food seemed to take the tapas back burner. Story sharing always leads to eyes wide opened, jaw dropping, sex and the city type “oh my god Samantha!” … Continue reading
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Tagged 5-hour energy, adderall, beverages, christy dean, drinking, drinks, drugs, energy, energy pills, exercise, Fitness, friends, health, motivational mondays, nutrition, rants, raves, stimulants, sugar, supplements, unsafe, vitamins, work
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#WIAW- Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake Theme: Rated G
*Thanks to Jenn L. for hosting another beautiful #WIAW! Yes, I know the theme is veggies for the month of February, but I’ve had more of a sweet tooth to tame in the form of a job opportunity, so these … Continue reading
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Tagged birthday cake, breakfast, cake, chocolate chips, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, cinnamon, cupcakes, dinner, Fitness, food, frosting, nutrition, pancakes, peas and crayons, pink, pumpkin, rihanna, sheet cake, sprinkles, strawberry, sugar, veggies, wednesday, what i ate wednesday
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What’s Eating You?: A Lesson In Food Narcissism
Thumb through any K-12 history book and you’re bound to find Napoleon Bonaparte looking divinely debonair atop his horse after a won battle or accomplishment. History tells us to learn from not only this man’s leadership, but his unilateral reflection … Continue reading
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