• On Life and Love

    Post-#SexyShred Thoughts

    Or: What Garbage Will I Eat Now? I spent 4 weeks eating “clean” in July and August as part of #SexyShred: no preservatives no pork little beef few oils most cheeses eliminated few processed foods no white rice or white flour organic fruits and veggies no added sugars or sweeteners other than honey or molasses Their version of clean eating is a variation on common styles that might prohibit any added sugars at all, but wouldn’t disallow pork. I felt pretty amazing. I’ve been working through all sorts of food stuff the last few months, discovering what foods trigger more overeating, what foods negatively affect my mood. #SexyShred came at…

  • On Life and Love

    SexyShred Cleanup: Watermelon Sorbet

    One of my SexyShred food challenges is to take a recipe I might crave, and rework it in a Clean Eating way. I’m not really up for diving into my old comfort foods. A lot of that is garbage on more levels than just the ingredients, so I struggled to come up with something to convert. Cranberry sorbet was my first impulse, but not only did I not have cranberries, I’m sick of grocery shopping (been doing it a lot as part of SexyShred) and I knew the honey/water syrup would be pretty hard to get right. Hell, I hadn’t perfected it with sugar in a way that didn’t require…