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Paleo Smoky Grilled Pineapple Burgers

Since going Paleo my family has fallen even more in love with our grill. Paleo and grilling just work well together. The past couple of years I've even been stepping outside my grilling comfort zone more and more. Grilling things I'd never thought to have grilled before and trying new flavor combinations. I have to say I'm pretty thrilled with the results of most of my flavor experiments.  In the past I'd never have thought to grill fruit, but it's amazing. Grilling fruit and adding it to traditionally savory dishes? Brilliant. Oh yes, and? New rule: every burger recipe for the rest of forever must contain grilled pineapple. OK, maybe more of a guideline. It's a seriously delicious combination though. This Smoky Grilled Pineapple Burger is always a crowd-pleaser at my house. It's not only Paleo, but Whole30, glutenfree, lower carb, and clean eating friendly. I promise you won't miss the bun!  paleo, grilled pineapple burger, smoky
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Budget Running Wear Experiment Part 2...Shopping!

This is my 200th Post, woooo! Thank you all for sticking around. I had hoped to do another giveaway, but couldn't find any sponsors, boo. But you can still enter my birthday giveaway to win The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl or a signed copy of Half-Assed  until July 1st. As I said in my last post, I headed out shopping on my birthday hunting for cheap, yet functional running clothes, first...Walmart: Disappointed, maybe need to go at the beginning of a season? Skipped Target, whoops, will try them next time. Next was JCPenney. Jackpot. Lots of 50% off sales and Doorbuster Specials. Regular price of the gear I got was double or more the price I paid.  Now for the haul, this is what I got at JCPenney: At JCPenney trying on the navy set. The running skirt from the side. I'll keep ya posted on how the gear works out and will be hitting up Target and Ross, etc for future posts in this series! Do you think $60 is too much for two running outfits..o

Budget Running Wear Experiment

I am starting a new series on searching for budget running clothes. I truly believe that one should never skimp on running shoes  and sports bras they are just too important, but can you get your running clothes on the cheap?  I'll be shopping around at places like Walmart, Target, JCPenney, and maybe even clearance racks at regular running stores, sporting goods stores, online, etc and seeing where I can find the best deals. Then I'll be putting them through the paces as I half marathon train and writing reviews on how they do. Hope you enjoy this new series!

Monday Miles--Half Marathon Blogroll

image via Wyvern Running I had planned to do a post about my training plan, but decided to pre-empt that post for a little half marathon blogroll. Lately there seems to be a half marathon craze amongst bloggers. Everywhere I look is another blogger training for a half marathon. Or possibly I'm just paying more attention because I'm training for one too. Either way, I'm excited to be virtually training with so many of my blogger friends. I thought it would be fun to put a list together of all the bloggers I know that are training for a half marathon. It seems everywhere I look bloggers are kicking butt and working hard to reach their goal of running 13.1 miles. My message to them: We got this! Can I get a drum roll?  Brandon, who is kickin' butt over at  So Long, Fat Ass  will be tearing it up at the Skinny Raven Half Marathon August 15th. Mike, who blogs about his running adventures over at Mike's Running Blog  will be running the Run to the Rock

My Weird Cat

OK, this is just complete silliness and utterly unrelated to my blog, but it cracks me up. My cat doesn't like canned cat food and tries to 'bury' it like it's...well, watch:

Birthday Celebration and PRESENTS

Happy Birthday to ME, Happy Birthday to ME, Happy Birthday to meeeee, Happy Birthday to ME!! yay! That's my Facebook Status right now and exactly how I'm feeling this morning. Regardless if there's a party or presents, or whatever the day may bring I am happy, I am celebrating me.  I thought a lot about what I wanted my birthday post to be. Because my birthday is so special to me this year, this post by extension was special too. I decided I wanted to not only celebrate myself today, but all of you too! All of you who read, subscribe, and comment on my blog, all of you who chat with me on Twitter and Facebook. Those of you who put up with my silly-I-don't-have-a-clue-what-I'm-doing questions. All of YOU who keep me going doing what I do here. You are awesome! This blog has evolved into so much more than just talking about weight loss and products. I feel like I have a real community of support here. For that, I thank you. Now, a birthday surprise!

Why Diet is in my Blog Title

When people see my handle "katdoesdiets" or my blog title "Kat's Adventures in Dietland" I think they often get the wrong idea. I don't really 'do' diets. I have done a lot of diets in my lifetime, but currently I am searching for how I can nourish my body for life. I think the word diet has a lot of negative connotation. Most see it as some crazy strict thing you do until you lose weight then you go off of it. To me your diet is simply what you eat. Period.  I was being a little tongue and cheek about reviewing diets when I came up with katdoesdiets. Anyone from Colorado remember Debbie Does Donuts...OK, no topless reviews here, but it was sort of a silly play on that. I read a lot of 'diet' books. I love to research. I peruse a lot of articles on nutrition. But I don't really 'do' any of them.  I think most of these things have their good points and their bad points. Even some of the crazy ones have a few pearls of wisdom de

Happy Birthday To ME

If you're on Twitter you might be aware that my birthday is this Friday, the 25th. Aware because I can't quit talking about it ! I was thinking earlier and tweeted about why I have no idea why I'm so excited about it. I mean, I turn 34, not exactly a milestone. We're pretty tight on our budget this month since I bought spoiled teen boy an XBOX 360 for his 16th birthday (which is the 29th so shhh, don't tell). There won't be any celebration or big to do. And likely presents only from my mom and mother in law. But still, I am excited about it. I can't wait. It's a big deal to me this year. But kept wondering why I felt this way. Then someone tweeted back to me: losingmybehind      @ katdoesdiets  You are a different woman than last year!! You feel good!! You look good!! Your birthday will be a celebration of it all!! Um, BINGO! She is exactly right. I want to CELEBRATE my life this year. I had to let that sink in a moment. I WANT to CEL

My Response to Dr. Siegal's The Cookie Diet

Have you heard of this new craze The Cookie Diet? Seriously guys, this is nuts! Let's think about this for a minute. You are replacing a diet of good wholesome nourishing food with six cookies a day and a small dinner. A total of 1,000 calories a day?! Can you say...nuts?! From his site www.cookiediet.com: "The  Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET ®  suggested daily caloric intake is 1,000 calories but your doctor may raise or lower the amount based on your medical history. (Always follow your doctor’s instructions). On 1,000 calories a day (or even 1,200),  everybody  loses weight. Therefore, your success is guaranteed if you follow the plan." I love how they cover their butts by saying see your doctor...um, what doctor is going to OK 1,000 calories a day?! Let's face it guys, there's no cheat. We gotta eat a variety of good whole high nutrition foods (in proper portions) to nourish our bodies so they are ready for good challenging workouts, and just life in general. Ea

Monday Miles--Half Marathon Chosen

Every Monday for a while will be Monday Miles here on my blog. As I'll be beginning half marathon training next Monday these posts will be dedicated to all things running. I am really excited to have an excuse to do more  running gear reviews  throughout my training process...and maybe even giveaways? We'll see if I can get any companies interested in sponsoring.  THIS Monday however I want to say that I've chosen a half marathon...yay! I decided budget-wise it would be best for my family if I picked a Colorado race. Plus, I found one that is only $35! Since I won't have to fly anywhere I am hoping that hubby and I can even go stay in a Fort Collins hotel and make a mini vacation of it as a late anniversary (our anniversary is Aug 31). Who would've ever thought that I would think running a half marathon would make a fun part of a vacation?! Crazy how much our paradigm shifts. So, without further babbling: September 19th I will be running the Crossroads Half Mara

Changing Others

Good morning! Happy Father's Day everyone. I am up early at my sis's and the house is all quiet. Love it. I started thinking about what to write for a post for Father's Day. I kept coming back to thinking about unhealthy and/or overweight family members.  I have several of those, do you? It's always tough I think when we start making the changes needed to live a happier, healthier, longer life and our family doesn't. I always want to just fix them. But we can't fix other people. We can't change other people. We just can't. It takes them wanting to change, choosing to change, then doing the work. We can be helpful and encouraging all along the way, but we can't (no matter how much we'd like to) do it for them or make them want to do it for themselves. Several people in my family are overweight and I know from experience that preaching at them does nothing. I do still share with them what I'm doing. Talk about my running, talk about new b

Lightning Bolt Moment

So, I'm at my sister and brother in law's for the weekend. We're running a family race tomorrow. Fun, fun! I was talking to my bro in law about my writing, the book I'm working on, and the fact that I tend to start something and drop it after a few chapters. I talked to him about the possibilities of self publishing vs trying to get traditionally published, blah, blah, blah. He said something to me that was so lightning bolt moment to me, yet should have been completely obvious. He said that I needed to write for me. Not focus so much on trying to write something people will want to buy/read so much or on writing something I hope will sell well, yada, yada. I need to write for me. Um, duh! For some reason this just struck me. I have never thought of it that way before. He is absolutely right. I have no idea where this will take my (non-blog related specifically) writing, but I'm excited to find out. My writing should be no different from my weight loss, my w

The Positivity Project

As I mentioned in yesterday's post one of my new goals is to have a more positive attitude, and in specific to SAY positive things. Whether I particularly feel like saying positive things...or not. I think a positive attitude is important. I also believe that speaking positive things is important. I really feel like when I say negative things my attitude and my day follow suit. Likewise when I say positive things, even when I really have to search for them, my day and attitude still follow suit. Words definitely have the power to build people up or tear them down, and that includes ourselves. I envy people who are naturally more glass half full, sunshine, and rainbows. That's actually not my natural bent. I am more the one who will tell you everything that could possibly go wrong with your new plan. Most of my life I have spent negative, pessimistic, and even critical. I am not sure when I decided to change that. But I did make a choice. I have to practice to be positive.

New Goals

I am huge on goals . I think they are very important in life. Without goals...how do you know where you're going? I am constantly setting goals, reviewing goals, reworking goals, reaching goals, tossing goals out the window... Today I set some new goals for myself that I'm excited about and wanted to share: I joined a challenge  to post something every day for 30 days here on my blog and/or you tube channel. I have been getting slack in my posting and I think this was just what I needed to shake things up and help encourage me to be more consistent. I finally made a decision, I will definitely train for a half marathon AND do a 10k as part of the training...now to choose which one?! hmmm. I will probably do my local 10k, but the half marathon is up in the air...suggestions? I would love to run in Vegas for the #mizboorun  or someone on twitter told me about the Eugene Women's Half Marathon which looks fun. Of course, there are tons here in Colorado too...ya, I

Courage

My word of the day on Twitter was courage. Why? Because I think it takes a lot of courage to start this battle and an extreme amount to win this battle. Courage to get up every day and make better choices. Courage to walk, or bike, or run, or dance, or swim... Courage to push yourself farther than before in your workouts. Courage to say NO to nasty foods that you know will make you feel like crap later no matter who is pushing them. Courage to believe in you. Courage to believe that you can do so much more than you've ever thought possible. Courage to love you. Courage to choose to take care of you. Courage to know that you can live without that candy bar or piece of cake. Courage to make time for yourself. Courage to keep taking step after step after step even when you aren't seeing what you want to see. Courage to get back up when we fall down and mess up. Courage to forgive yourself. Courage to see yourself as that healthier person (

Weigh in 06.16.2010 well....sorta

Not sure where this pic came from, but I just love it. This is how I feel right now. Well, I was trying to do weekly weigh in posts on here. Lately however I am so much  not obsessed with the scale that I just forget about it. I will call that a good thing. I did weigh a day...or two...or three ago. Not sure. I weighed 172 . Considering I was up to 177 after my Memorial Day Fail , that's awesome. However, I'm sure much of that gain was water weight etc, so really I'm down a half pound from where I was. A half pound sounds like nothing, but it rocks to me. I had stalled out for over a month, I was getting stagnant and not progressing. It was beginning to affect my attitude, my drive to keep pushing hard. I was letting my eating and workouts slip because I felt discouraged. I am glad to realize that the changes I made recently work for me. Woo! I feel very refreshed and ready to hit this whole weight loss thing right now. Feelin very ninja . That scale isn't

Crock-Pot Black Beans Recipe

OK, so I am in love with this whole clean eating thing. I feel great, I'm not famished all the time and...I'm losing weight. Bonus. So, my son came down the stairs this morning and said, "mmm, what smells so good?" Beans I said. Yes, I put some black beans in the crock pot first thing, and they smell friggin yummy...here's the recipes: Crock-Pot Black Beans 1 lb (16 oz) dried black beans water 1 small onion chopped 2 cloves garlic chopped very small 1/2 tsp cumin 1 tsp chili powder (or more to your tastes) 1/2 tsp ground hungarian paprika (I get this at Natural Grocers and LOVE it) 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper Rinse the beans and sort out any funky non-beanness that can be in dried beans. Now, most people soak their beans overnight...I rarely get this done. I simply dump the rinsed beans in the crock pot. Add water until about 2 inches above the beans. (depending on your crock pot you may have to watch the water level closely and add more later if it

My Weight Loss/Getting Fit Journey in Pictures

This post has been a long time coming. It was inspired by my friend in hopes that it will encourage and inspire others.  It took a long time for me to want to post 'before' pics of myself and then it took even more time to find before pics. I was a master hider. Case in point. Hiding behind the kids...then craftily cropped most of me out. I was about 226 here, that shirt was a 3X. Wish I still had it, it'd be a dress. Those are my 2 youngest about 5 years ago. I decided then that they deserved a happier, healthier mommy. OK, hardest pic to find and to post. This is my before. I quote my highest weight as 226, but looking at this pic I wonder if I was heavier. I wasn't weighing. I started walking and doing yoga, and even joined Curves. At this point I went gung-ho low carb...it worked for a while. Then I stalled out about: 204, bad pic, but this is when I joined Sparkpeople. Started counting calories and adding some workout DVDs. me at 200 lbs. Cut my calories even m

Cheribundi Review

The wonderful folks from Cheribundi sent me a four pack of their cherry juices to try. Opinions expressed are 100% my own and I receive no compensation for this review. Now when I got their email I was like, sure, I'll try it. But in the back of my mind I was a little unsure. I love fresh cherries, but I don't love cherry flavored things, or even cooked cherry things, like cherry pie at Thanksgiving, blech. This however I loved. I give the Tru Cherry and Whey Cherry Four stars and the Skinny Cherry I happily give Five stars. A little info from www.cheribundi.com :   cheribundi™   starts as Montmorency cherries grown in Michigan and New York orchards. We use a proprietary juicing process that was developed with Cornell University to make a drink that retains all the power and benefits of the nutrients and antioxidants found in the little round fruits.   cheribundi™   has more disease-fighting antioxidants than other juices and has been tested in the lab and field by athletes