Stop looking for a quick diet fix. Stop eating crap! Stop spouting excuses for why you cannot workout today. Stop wishing your butt and thighs fits into skinny jeans and do something about the state of your fitness. Stop complaining, repeating bad habits and then maybe, just maybe, you can have the body you know is buried under layers of accumulated fat. And do it now!

Get Moving

I’m sorry, but every year it’s the same thing. It’s January and the gym is full of people who will drop out within 3 weeks.

Fitness is not just a dream

You want to be fit, but do you really believe you can ever be in great shape? If you don’t believe it and want it, you can never have it. Sorry, just the way it is. You must have faith in yourself and realize that you are  a member of the most advanced species on this planet. You have an amazing brain inside your pretty head, so use it!

Check out my healthy eating and exercise videos on youtube.com/roundlady.

Let me Scream

Every time someone gives up on themselves and resumes bad eating and starts their day with exercise excuses, I want to scream like a giant angry head. Your body is made to move and be fueled with real food. So do it now!

Eat less & healthier

Yes, you will need to cut back on seconds, heaping helpings, and sugary, salty and fatty foods. You can do it! Use smaller plates, portion out your food ahead of time, shop healthfully, cook at home, avoid fast foods, shun sodas and other useless non-foods. Take charge of your eating, and not just for a few weeks.

Stick with it

In other words, if you really want to make a change to one of fitness and health, then push through your excuses and don’t give up. Allow yourself only positive motivating thoughts, and stay that way all year and for the rest of your life. it’s your choice!

Choose!

Fitness or fatness! Skinny jeans or fat pants! Long or short life!

More tough love coming…

Stay tuned!

Exciting news is having a baby, winning the lottery, or getting married. Getting a hysterectomy is not exactly something most people would shout about or even whisper about. Yet, for some of us it feel like Christmas to get the gift of health and a longer life.

So let me speak out loud! YAY! I just had a hysterectomy. I feel as female as ever! I am free of so many fears. I would do it all over again.

See for yourself!

Thanksgiving dinner keeps on giving with this simple, delicious, flavorful wrap filled with yummy leftovers.

Try the Round Lady’s easy to make Thanksgiving Wrap!

This diet is as easy as 1, 2, 3.  How can this be true? Just ask Sesame the Cat!

Sesame is the master living and breathing for one thing — food. Some say this is  because he was neutered last year, which freed him of all his manly cat ways. But those who live with him, such as the Round Lady, know his thoughts are  consumed with eating his next meal or treat.

So, when Sesame was asked by his Hollywood friends to partake in a review of the latest diet craze in Hollywood, he did not need to lick his lips twice.

Learn the three basic rebounding moves Diana does every day. They are perfect for for beginners or advanced bouncers to warm up.

Diana’s Favorite Mini-Trampoline: http://tinyurl.com/czeapka

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Healthy Fruity Oatmeal

Ingredients
1 cup oats
2 cups water
1 banana smashed
1 apple diced
1/3 cup raisins
1/3 cup sliced almonds
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 Sprinkle brown sugar
1/4 cup milk

Directions
Add all oats, water, banana, apples and raisins, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cook for 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in cinnamon and nutmeg, and let boil for 1 minute. Plate in a bowl, add milk, and sprinkle with brown sugar. Enjoy this hearty, health, extra Round breakfast.

Healthier homemade Martinis

Fresh fruit can turn an ordinary adult beverage into a tasty drink worthy of calling a snack–even a healthy Round snack–okay let’s call it healthier–after all liqueur is not really considered healthy.

That is why it is good to know that it is what you do most of the time, not some of the time that matters most.

And now for the recipes

Enjoy the Round Lady’s original fruity cocktails, as  shown in the latest  Citrus-Tini’s — refreshingly tasty video.

Tangerine Citrus-Tini

Ingredients
2 tangerines
1 orange
1 Meyers lemon (orange variety (or use an extra tangerine)
1/4 pear
2 ounces vodka
1 sprig fresh mint leaves

Directions
Squeeze juice from 2 tangerines, 1 orange and 1 orange Meyers lemon (or use an extra tangerine). Add ice in shaker, 3/4 full, then add juice, and vodka. Shake mixture, put 3 pear strips in each chilled martini glasses, and pour drink. Garnish with fresh mint leaves and serve immediately.

For a taller, more fruity single version of the Citrus-Tini, double the citrus, omit one ounce of vodka, pour into a bigger glass, and double up the pear strips.

Big Tequila tangerine Citrus-Tini

This drink is for tequila lovers. As with the vodka version, you can make a taller drink by doubling the citrus, omitting one ounce of tequila, pouring into a bigger glass, and doubling up the pear strips.

Ingredients
2 tangerines
1 orange
1 lime
1/3 to 1/2 pear
2 ounces tequila
1 sprig fresh mint leaves

Directions
Squeeze juice from 2 tangerines, 1 orange and 1 lime. Add ice in shaker, 3/4 full, then add juice, and tequila. Shake mixture, add 5 to 7 pear strips in chilled wine glass, and pour drink. Optional: add ice to drink. Garnish with fresh mint leaves and serve immediately.

Note: Drink responsibly and do not drive after imbibing on any alcoholic beverage–meaning do not drive even after enjoying one Citrus-Tini!

Combining certain foods is part of the new healthy food frontier. The future of healthy eating is all about creating your own meals and veering away from fat-inducing, disease-thwarting habits to make sure that you do not become one of the 50% of the human race who will obese with diabetes by the year 2030.

Nature is super smart and makes sure that foods with synergistic nutrients taste yummy together. Here are a few foods to eat together that become more nutritious and delicious when eaten together.

Combine Tomato with Avocado

Tomatoes and avocados make for a favorite fresh combination. Both are carotenoids, also known as cancer-fighting, cardiovascular-enhancing antioxidants.  The fat in avocados make the nutrients in tomatoes more powerful in your body.

Mix Blueberries with Grapes

Turns out that eating a blueberry with a grape is more powerful than eating just one or the other by itself. Together they blend into a super antioxidant, more nutritious and powerful than any one fruit and smarter than any vitamin. We humans are just not all-knowing enough to decipher every synergistic compound that nature cleverly designed into fruits–or vegetables.

As humans, we need to eat a mix of fruits and vegetables for awesome health. The magic number to eat is between 5 and 10 servings every day, and that includes Sundays and days when cravings for fatty, salty, sugary treats become a constant yummy hum inside your head.

Enjoy an Apple Chocolate Union

Apples are one of nature’s most scrumptious sweet crunchy desserts. They also happen to be filled with healthy anti-inflammatory flavonoids capable of a plethora of disease-fighting properties.

Chocolate is at the top of nature’s most beloved, intoxicating, flavonoid-antioxidant-filled foods, also known for unparalleled healthy romantic side effects. So it makes sense to marry apples with chocolate to bring to life one of nature’s most powerful unions. When eaten together, apples and chocolate morph into a super satisfying cardiovascular boost for your entire body and love life. So plan your life accordingly.

Fuse Kale with Lemon

If kale signed up for online dating, you c an be sure that meeting up with lemon would be a match made in healthy heaven. Kale’s plant-based iron personality makes for the perfect hook up with lemon’s natural vitamin C brightness. Once they kiss and seal the deal, kale’s iron would immediately send oxygen through every blood cell, all while inspiring their immune systems to greatness, and turning their every muscle into a bundle of energy and strength. Sexy!

TIP: Try Kale Chips, a favorite new snack making headlines in kitchens around the world. Remove stems off one bunch of kale, wash and thoroughly dry. Spray baking sheet with olive oil and spread out kale, sprinkle with garlic salt and shredded Parmesan Reggiano cheese. bake at 250 for 20 minutes.

cooking with chemistry

I don’t know if it’s because I married a chemist or if it’s because I once had cancer, but I do know that I am obsessed with the show “Breaking bad.” My husband often tells me that cooking is just chemistry, so it made sense to break bad in the kitchen. Legally of course.

Watch: Breaking Bad Brunch

Hence, the Breaking Bad Brunch was born. Watch the video (see below), and see how you can break bad in the kitchen. And as promised, here’s the recipe for the Breaking Bad Biscuits and Sandwiches.

Breaking Bad Brunch Sandwich

These are the ingredients I used to build my sandwich. You can follow my lead or build your own as breaking bad implies. Break as bad as you desire, knowing it’s what you eat most of the time, not some of the time that matters most.

Ingredients

• Any pretty rolls
• Munster cheese
• Smoked cheddar
• Cream cheese
• Sliced ham
• Sliced avocados
• Sliced tomato
• Sliced cucumber
• Radicchio
• Baby spinach
• Sliced red onion
• Slivered green onion
• Sliced radishes
• Fresh mint leaves left whole or torn
• Mayonnaise
• Dijon mustard
• Wooden skewers
• Dressing: 2 parts olive oil, 1 part rice wine vinegar, 1 part lemon juice

Directions: Layer the wet ingredients, then the cheese and add the rest in any order. place the top on the bottom, pierce the sandwich with two skewers from top to bottom, and slice in half. Remove skewers, and serve with the beverage of your choice.

Open-face Breaking Bad Biscuits

Ingredients

• Biscuits cut into halves
• Bacon (pork or ham)
• 1 fried egg per biscuit
• Extra pretty mint sprigs
• Same as above

Directions: Layer mustard, cream cheese, Munster and cheddar and broil for 30 to 45 seconds. Remove from broiler and place on plates or platter. Add the other ingredients, top one side with a fried egg, and garnish with springs of mint leaves and green onions. Serve warm with the beverage of your choice.