five friday favorites #8

five friday faves on a saturday? say whaaaaaaaat?!

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tardy! i am sorry for my delay in posting this. what began as a relaxed friday morning soon became a run-like-heck, jam-packed day full of tasks and errands. if you are ever feeling like you do not want to have a life anymore just plan a wedding haha. you will no longer have free time the closer you get to the actual day. ;)

but enough with my whining, i am back and ready to share my top favorites from this week!

1. fave fad diet

okay, i know that by now the entire world and its mom's dog have seen this video at least 10 bazillion times . . . but no cares here. i am still getting a kick out of it!

"gluten. it's like a grain, right?"

"...it makes you fat..."

"...it is a part, i believe, of the wheat that . . . i really don't know..."

hilarious! and sad. oh, so sad. my diet is wheat free for reasons other than a gluten intolerance. nixing wheat products was one of the necessary changes made after my doctor started me on the low FODMAP diet (to help with a seriously dubious ibs belly). even with a board certified, P.H.D. wielding doctor of gastroenterology stressing the need to follow this diet/lifestyle until forever, i still devoured every piece of low FODMAP literature i came across. and still do my own research anytime i have doubts about whether i can eat a specific food. i cannot imagine blindly cutting out a food just cause. (shakes head)



2. #girlpower

another something everyone on the planet is probably sick and dog tired of hearing about. but again, no cares here. brooke birmingham, you are my hero and lady crush of the week. now my intension is not to start a holy blogging war, as i know her story comes littered with opinions that sit on various ends of the spectrum. i would simply like to voice my opinion and say that any woman (or man, girl, boy, child, etc . . . ) who is not afraid to not only stand up for what she believes to be just, but has the grit to make her voice heard is 1,000,000% amazing in my book. the end.

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if you would like to read more about this specific story or about the blogger herself (in her own words), you can find her lovely blog here: Brooke: Not on a Diet 

she also shared her story in a huffington post article here:  why i refused to put a shirt on for shape magazine

3. grab a snack and kickback!

i tend to gravitate towards funny, dumb, idiotic comedy. so naturally, i am convinced that i need to see a million ways to die in the west. what can i say, i love a good belly laugh. and it's so rare that i even see a movie in the theater (or within the same year of it being released!) that this one just feels like a winner, in a bad, cheesy comedy sort of way.



4. oh the weather outside is weather!

take a look at that gorgeous forecast! you know what that means . . . i for sure want to get my hike on! there is simply nothing like getting away from the busy city streets for a little. this weather also makes me want to slip into my teenie-weenie-bikini and get my sun on! lather on that 5,000+ spf. summertime fedora. my sunnies. a good read or juicy mag (or both). a nice, tall, cool sip. aaaaaaaaaaaaah. i could relax the year month week day away.

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5. ma, the meatloaf!

there is no shame in revealing that i have never been a fan of meatloaf. okay, scratch that. until this past weekend i had never even had a bite of meatloaf in my life. nor did i think that i would ever want to. call me meatloaf prejudice. anyways, in my quest to use only the proteins in my freezer for last week's meal plan, i stumbled across juli's paleo meatloaf recipe on her fabulous blog paleOMG.com. juli, you have forever changed my ways. i was once a lost, meatloaf hater, but am now a reformed embracer of all things meatloaf. well maybe not all . . . girl makes a mean italian meatloaf though! you can find her recipe here. i made a few tweaks, using 1/2 ground turkey and 1/2 ground bison (because again, i was trying to use only protein that i already had), and skipping the onion altogether (because it is not low FODMAP friendly and is equivalent to death for me).

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how often do you see movies on the big screen?

any spring/summer flicks on your radar?

how do you feel about meatloaf?

do you have a food prejudice? 

peace. love. :)
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