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Well, no sequin sheath for me, come New Year’s

December 14, 2008 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

For those of you who were there when they strapped the tattle-tale on me, it’s been almost 8 weeks now that I have been expending 1000 more calories daily than I’ve been eating. Balancing my carbs and proteins and fats. Getting the hour of activity in (I’ve been excused from the 10,000-steps-a-day requirement what with my bad knee and hip and all (I REPEAT… get and USE GelMats in your shop!) )

So that should mean 16 pounds gone.

I’ve lost 2.9. What do the experts in the hospital weight management program have to say about that? “Everyone’s different.”

So I decided to be different for Christmas, and finally dare to use the Bundt pan I bought at a consignment shop lo these many years ago. And here’s the recipe I’m gonna use.

Pioneer Woman’s Mother-in-law’s Rum Cake.

Wonder if I can stop at one…well, maybe 2 or 3…pieces. Wonder if the dietitian will roll her eyes at me, and Mike The Gym Torturer will make me do three more sets of everything?

Wonder if I care? 2.9 pounds. In 8 weeks. And I finally get to use the Bundt pan.

Photo borrowed from Bergdorf Goodman, but that’s okay. I used to shop there a lot. Back in the day.

Posted in Slices of (my) life | 3 Comments

3 Responses

on December 16, 2008 at 8:34 am Patty

I thought my mother-in-law made up that chocolate sheet cake recipe. It’s the very same one.

Back before we knew what carbs were, we bought buttermilk for the sheet cake, then we added it to our mashed potatoes and used the remainder of the carton in buttermilk waffles.
on December 14, 2008 at 11:40 am Deb

Oh my gosh – that’s the same cake my great aunt used to make for the holidays. I made it one year when she wasn’t able to make to from WA to CA for the holidays and it just wasn’t the same without her. I think I might try it again because the photos on her site make me want to eat the screen of my monitor.

Thanks, Kate. And, her chocolate sheet cake is a recipe I’ve used many times over the years. To die for…. esp when you use dark chocolate over regular chocolate powder. YUM.
on December 14, 2008 at 10:13 am Patty

Well, look at it this way:

a.at least you didn’t GAIN any weight after wearing that tiring tattle-tale thing for all those weeks.

Did you see those mixing bowls? Oh my.

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