What To Do When You Slip Up On The Dukan Diet

A friend comes to your house wanting to celebrate her recent success with you or share her current woes. A bottle of wine and two glasses are quickly produced. You are her friend but you’re on the Dukan diet, so what do you do? There is a birthday in the office, someone has bought in a cake. It is sliced up and everyone gets a piece, including you. But you can’t eat cake on the Dukan diet! You can’t be rude either, so what do you do? Your child has a party, it’s his birthday and all his friends are coming round to celebrate the big day. The party is a success but now you’ve got the clearing up to do. Cookies and crisps are tempting you, you try just one, then another and then some more. You’re on the Dukan diet, what should you do now?

You can probably think of hundreds more examples of finding yourself slipping from your diet. Should you abandon hope? Are all diets ultimately destined to fail because situations like this will just keep happening? Of course not.

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Finding the Best Traditional 65th Birthday Gifts

Turning 65 is, for many, a sign that it’s time to start taking life a bit more slowly. The vast majority of people are retired by this age, but that doesn’t mean all the fun has gone from life – anything but! It’s a great excuse to get some sensational 65th birthday gifts to really help your loved one celebrate their day in style.

There are some really great traditional presents available for 65th birthday gifts. For example, you could treat the person celebrating their birthday to a gorgeous afternoon tea for two at a range of fantastic locations. There are places all over the country that offer delicious afternoon teas and some of them even include a glass of champagne, which is sure to make for a really memorable birthday treat.

Our love of chocolate also stays with us throughout our life, so why not indulge the birthday boy or girl in a wonderful chocolate gift. For example, you could get them some tasty chocolate or even a Tower of Treats Hamper, which is exactly what the name suggests it is – a tower of treats, in a hamper. There’s Chilean wine, sweets, cake and shortbread in the hamper as well as much, much more. Continue reading “Finding the Best Traditional 65th Birthday Gifts”

How to Make Cake Decorating Supplies, Eggs, Milk and Sugar, Into a POWERFUL Cake Design Business

How would you like to make a very lucrative living, working from home, creating Cakes to DIE for? How about a Professional Cake Design Business? Enter the Cake Decorator – yes, YOU! Think about this. How many special occasions can you think of that just might require a very SPECIAL kind of Cake? – answer, HUNDREDS! Weddings, 18th & 21st Birthdays etc are just a few.

Now, people don’t just want any old Supermarket, mass produced pile of STODGE at that EVENT.., NO SIREE, they want a beautiful piece of carefully sculptured sugar sweet HEAVEN… Cake designs are getting more & more creative all the time, Three-dimensional designs are in vogue right now, resulting in cakes that can look like pillows, animals, handbags, telephones, or whatever you can dream up. Contemporary cake towers are being created, that rise up many feet in the air, that lean every which way, stabilized by mysterious forces, known only to the cake decorator. There are no LIMITS! You can produce the most amazingly DYNAMIC designs that will set you apart from the normal run of the mill cake designers, just with a little practice. Continue reading “How to Make Cake Decorating Supplies, Eggs, Milk and Sugar, Into a POWERFUL Cake Design Business”

How People Spoil Their Dogs

Most people love their dogs and think of them as a four legged member of their family. However, there are some people who see their dogs as royalty and treat them as such. Here are some of the more interesting ways people spoil their dogs.

Designer dog collars

While many people like putting cute looking dog collars on their dogs and some even like to dress their favorite pooch in bling by giving them collars of fake jewels, others feel nothing but the real thing is good enough for their sweet pup. Just imagine walking your little pooch in this day and age with $100,000.00 worth of jewels around her neck. Of course, most people don’t go to quiet that extreme to spoil their pets but there are plenty of ways to spoil your dog.

Birthday parties

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Baby Turns 1 years old – A First Birthday Party Celebration!

A baby’s first birthday is a milestone to cherish. Growth and development happen so fast in those first years that it is worth an extra special celebration. Planning a first birthday is easy to do, and any party planning specialist from a party supply store will be more than happy to help you.

Themes to celebrate your baby’s first birthday can include a number of characters holding the number 1. Plain characters, a color or other party theme can also be used if your baby shows a favorite. Pink is very popular for girls and any shade of blue is tops with boys.

A tradition at many 1st birthday parties is to let baby smash their cake. They get their own cake, whether it’s big or small depends on you and how much of a mess you want to clean up. Put the cake on their high chair tray and let them pick away at it with their bare hands is entertaining. The first taste of sugar and frosting may prove to be a great photo op for any guests. Removing any important clothes is recommended at this point! Continue reading “Baby Turns 1 years old – A First Birthday Party Celebration!”

Why Childhood Is Better the Second Time Around

This week the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and Yours Truly had the privilege of attending our youngest granddaughter’s second birthday party. I wanted to go to her third birthday party but she was not old enough yet. So, I will have to wait another year.

On the way home we sat in silence thinking about the party we had just attended. It just does not seem possible that we have eight grandchildren. I broke the silence with a little comment along this line. “I’m just not old enough to be a grandfather of eight grandchildren. I don’t feel old enough to be a grandfather”

From the other passenger in the car came a rather sarcastic snicker, if I say so myself.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” I retorted.

“Well,” she said rather slowly as if she was trying to collect her thoughts and use the right words, “believe me, putting all feelings aside, you’re old enough.” Continue reading “Why Childhood Is Better the Second Time Around”

Weight Loss – Getting Committed

The Chocolate Battle

You’ve made a commitment to yourself to stay on target. You’ve signed a contract with your favorite support group and dedicated yourself to a restrictive routine for three weeks and have not fallen from grace. You’re determined and believe that you are capable of achieving your goal. You remind yourself of how terrific your doing and how proud you are for taking off nine pounds of fat in just three weeks.

Comfortable with the tests of will power that present themselves daily, you prepare for an evening of food and entertainment. You run over in your mind how proud you are of yourself and how simple this new way of living has been thus far. You praise yourself for drinking eight or more glasses of water and logging every morsel that has passed by your lips. You complement yourself for developing new eating habits and weighing in with your favorite support group on a regular basis. You’re feeling confident in yourself and your commitment.

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Birthdays Come Faster Every Year

Our family celebrated birthdays over the weekend and though we didn’t celebrate my birthday, I thought about how fast birthdays seem to be coming. I remember birthdays going so “slow” as a child. It seemed like years between 12 and 13 years old and decades between 17 and 18 years old. Of course, I felt like I had lived a century by the time my 21st birthday finally arrived.

Since then, my birthdays seemed to have gradually picked up “speed.” It’s kind of like that 3 pounds a year I gained between 30 and 50 years old. Imperceptible one year at a time, but shockingly obvious 20 years down the road. Now the birthdays are coming so fast I can still taste last year’s birthday cake.

The 24 hours of each day that I experienced at 15 years old is still the same 24 hours I experience today. But now each day has more meaning because of what I’ve experienced along the way. At 15, my biggest stress was finishing my Geometry homework. Now I have my cholesterol, my financial future, my children and dozens of other things to worry about. But the biggest difference, is now I contemplate my pain and my losses and it puts a completely different spin on what’s truly important in my life. Continue reading “Birthdays Come Faster Every Year”

The Chocolate Coated Candy Bars in Various Flavors

The sweet, chocolate flavored confectioneries are often purchased in the form of bars. These offer delightful treats to the people of all the ages and are consumed all over the world as the chocolate bar snacks. This confectionery has sugar, milk, cocoa solids and cocoa butters as the basic ingredients.

Such types of bars were early manufactured during 20th century and their commercial venture grew rapidly since that time. However, at present the ingredients used can be added or removed or their concentration is increased or reduced to obtain other varieties of these bars like milk, white and dark chocolate.

These bars are manufactured with quality ingredients, coated with chocolate and later on, packaged in the form of small logs which are sized to be eaten by a person. Continue reading “The Chocolate Coated Candy Bars in Various Flavors”

Scrumptious Gourmet Desserts For Every Occasion

When hosting a dinner party, no matter how many people or how fancy, a great meal can be underappreciated without a final touch of tasty dessert. Desserts are perfect for holiday dinners, office gatherings, and birthday parties. And gourmet desserts have taken over as the norm in social events like these.

Despite their names, gourmet desserts can be quite simple to make. Crunchy, creamy, chocolaty or fruity, these desserts can turn every dining occasion into an exceptional experience. Tantalizing and attractive desserts can provide that special touch to a dinner table, and they add a singularly distinctive finish to elegant meals.

While some gourmet desserts can be created in a jiffy, others can be quite elaborate – but all of them usually have subtle flavors and are designed to indulge people’s sweet tooth.

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