Crudités is a fancy French word for a plate of various raw vegetables cut up and usually served with some sort of dip or sauce. Crudités have been my go-to dish to take to potlucks or to serve to guests before a dinner party for many years. It didn’t occur to me to eat crudités…
It’s the last day of 2021 so I’m taking a moment to take a look back at an eventful year. I had lots of excitement in early 2021: being in an article on CNN’s website, sharing – in a very small way – the cover of Woman’s World Magazine with Dolly Parton and being interviewed…
It’s hard to believe that 2021 is already coming to an end. In a few short weeks, a new year awaits us. Now is the time you may be thinking about New Year’s Resolutions, resolving to do something better or stop doing something you know isn’t serving you. To put it simply, it’s planning to…
Having lost weight and given up alcohol at the same time, I have noticed some practices I use for one area also work well in another. I thought I’d share a few handy tips that apply to both weight loss and avoiding alcohol. But first, I want to note that these tips for alcohol may…
Many salad dressings available to use at the grocery store are high in calories. And those calories can really add up if you use more than the usual two tablespoon serving on your salad like I do. My every day big green salads need more than that! Commercially made dressings often contain ingredients that I…
In my latest Every Day Habits post, I am talking about the Big Green Salad. It’s been a big part of my weight loss success. Here are 12 ways to liven up your green salad without blowing your calorie budget.
I’m answering questions about fitness this time for Ask Adrienne. So let’s get right to it! Question: When you started your weight loss journey, how did you start exercising? Answer I became a lover of exercise in my early 30s. When I moved to Sonoma County after my husband and I were engaged, he bought…
At the start of my weight loss journey, I weighed in for the first time in a long, long time and I took my body measurements. I wrote the information down in this journal for safekeeping. I didn’t look at the body measurement numbers again until I was certain I had made some progress, several…
Since I began talking openly about my experiences losing over 80 pounds, getting the fittest I’ve been in my entire life, breaking up with alcohol while living in wine country, and purging my home of unwanted, unused stuff – all during the pandemic – I’ve received quite a number of questions. So I started “Ask…
A reader asked if I would write a post about my experience with intermittent fasting. I am happy to oblige as intermittent fasting – or IF – has been an important tool in my weight loss success. Let’s start by clarifying that losing weight, while complicated at times by hormones, stressors, genes and environment, can…
