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Popular nutrition site confirms: breakfast cereal makes you fat by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Just for giggles, I used NutritionData ( http://nutritiondata.self.com ) to query on things that are better choices than mayonnaise for weight gain. I figured like, so ... Read on »

Weigh In, Week 2 by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Weight on 3/23/11: 153 lbs. Weight on 4/6/11: 148 lbs. ::fist pump:: Wait, you might be thinking. Didn’t you post on February 24 saying you were getting on the ... Read on »

Overheard at the Playground … by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living … a conversation between a mom and a young woman walking her dog. They knew each other from the local women’s-only gym. It transpired that the young woman had lost 68 ... Read on »

What I Had For Dinner by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living I decarbed this quite a bit – I omitted the white sugar, used xanthan gum instead of flour for thickening, and replaced the ketchup with a tablespoon of tomato paste. I ... Read on »

Coconut Oil No Longer a Villain by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living I almost fainted when I read this: Especially this: ‘“I think we in the nutrition field are beginning to say that saturated fats are not so bad, and the evidence ... Read on »

The Migraine Update by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Oh, yeah, I’m supposedly the Migraineur. So let’s have the migraine report. I forgot to refill my Inderal prescription about 2 days before the pregnancy test, and so ... Read on »

Befriending Myself by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Monday weigh-in, at 151 pounds. Hard to believe, but I can’t remember what I weighed last Monday. It was probably 155, but it might have been 157. I have, lately, ... Read on »

Stats by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living My highest non-pregnant weight was 167 pounds. When I got my PCOS diagnosis and went back on low-carb back (around August 2007), I was at 162 or 163. When the litt ... Read on »

Speaking of Michael Pollan … by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living … am I the only person who thinks maybe he has jumped the shark? Has he written anything lately that can compare to the originality of The Botany of Desire or The Ominvor ... Read on »

Crunchy, Salty Things by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living I was skeptical about Giada de Laurentis’s recipe for vegetable chips , including kale, but I gotta tell you, if you miss crunchy, salty things, these are to die for. I t ... Read on »

Rules for Eating by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Here’s my entry: “Eat whole foods – and that includes foods of animal origin. Our great-grandparents didn’t drink skim milk, throw away the chicken skin, or dump the ... Read on »

In Which the Migraineur Is Humbled by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Things I will (probably) never say again: * Low-carb is not a matter of willpower. The truth: I have had a hell of a time with carbs ever since my pregnancy test ... Read on »

I might be back by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living I wonder if anyone reads this blog any more. It’s been about 2 1/2 years since I wrote. First I was pregnant, then … well, let’s just say that I am one of those peopl ... Read on »

The Farm (Shares) Report – 06/09/09 by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Fans of local food should check out this week’s Farm (Shares) Report on my other blog, Psipsina. http://psipsina.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/the-farm-shares-report-060909 ... Read on »

In Which the Migraineur Laments the Sorry State of Health Science by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living First of all, yes, I’ve been away for a while, and no, I don’t know if I’ll be writing regularly again any time soon. And, my daughter Gillian Rose was born on January ... Read on »

Holy Canoli, Batman - Migraineur Passes GTT by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living I rather reluctantly took the dumbed down pregnancy version of the glucose tolerance test today. I say it’s dumbed down because 1) you get only 50 g of glucose instead ... Read on »

Recommended Reading: In Defense of Food by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Here’s the label on a box of animal crackers that someone is storing in the work fridge (why the fridge? don’t these have a shelf life of 100 years?): “Good source of ... Read on »

The Temple of Omnivory by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living (this picture of marinated fresh anchovies is a screen shot from a slideshow on Dalí’s website ) My husband and I went to Dalí for dinner last Sunday. He’d b ... Read on »

Be Careful What You Name Your Blog by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living Where do I get off calling this blog The Migraineur? I haven’t written about migraine in months! What the heck is this blog about, anyway? I started it as a form of ... Read on »

Omnivory: Eat It All! by Dianne C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Living I’ve had a couple of thought-provoking experiences lately. First, Huckleberry commented on my original Omnivory Month post that it was probably harder to do this in Mar ... Read on »

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