Spicing it Up for Weight Control!

This blog is the result of my own frustrating search for waistline-friendly Indian and Indian-inspired recipes.   

 

Spices are important to me for one very good (albeit atypical) reason:  Weight Control. 
    

16 years ago, I underwent a weight loss journey, shedding nearly 60 pounds.  Maintaining it has been a challenge.  That's because,  like many of you,  I was in LOVE with the taste of fat. 

As part of my weight loss and maintenance journey, I discovered that using spices, especially Indian spices, made eating healthy a lot more enjoyable.  Just substitute a spice for fat and voila! You have something so new and exciting that your taste buds won't even miss the fat anymore. 

I hit a real snag when trying to find healthy but spicy recipes.  There are plenty of diet-friendly recipes out there.  There are plenty of spicy Indian and Indian-inspired recipes out there. But boy, do they hardly meet!  

Thus, this blog was born. 

I love experimenting with  different spices, taking classic Indian and Sri Lankan dishes and making them healthier or taking  American diet-friendly foods and spicing them up a bit.  Doing this helps me resist fat, and helps me control my weight.  It also helps me explore the depth of culinary flavors that our beautiful world has to offer.
   

I'm not one of those who can forgo food to be thin.  So, I eat, but try to make it healthy.  Every once in a while, I have a little food fun with a not-so-waistline-friendly recipe.  But, hey, a little bit of fun is healthy too.  So, here goes......   Hope you enjoy the blog!