Keto Treato

Keto LC Meatball Parm

Meatballs

1.5 lbs ground beef ½ cup almond flour ¾ cup Parmesan cheese 2 eggs Lots of Italian seasonings

Combine all ingredients and form about 15 meat balls.

Brown with bacon grease or oil in cast iron to get crispy or cook on oven to get soft texture.

When meatballs are cooked pour tomato sauce over meatballs in pan and cover with mozzarella cheese.

350 degree oven for 25 minutes

Let cool.

Or, “My New Year’s Resolution is to get fit/go to the gym/run more.” How should I start?

So you’ve decided that you want to work out in 2015, but gym culture is intimidating, fitblr culture is impenetrable, and last year you only worked out for five weeks before giving up the gym membership and use the extra hour every other day to catch up on tumblr. And that’s fine. It’s also fine if you don’t even want to start working out this year.

But for those who want to get into fitness this coming year, here are some resources to get started;

General 

Beginner’s Exercise Dos and Don'ts

Insanely Helpful Workout Tips for Beginners

Stop Gymtimidation

Tips to Feel More Comfortable at the Gym

Body Positivity

Don’t forget– you’re not exercising to punish your body, you’re exercising because you love your body. Being positive about what your body can do will help you stick with it in the long run.

Fat Positive Fitness and Fat Athletes on Pinterest

Reclaiming Fitspo

I Love Fat

Redefining Body Image

Body Positive Fitness

Feminist Fitness

Nutrition

The Fat Nutritionist 

Yoga

Free Yoga Downloads

Yoga For Complete Beginners

Body Positive Yoga

Fat yoga

Here’s looking at you, yoga; fat fitness

Running

Running for Beginners

The Guardian’s Running Blog

Runner’s World (8 Week Beginners Program)

Lifting

Strength Training 101 - Where do I start?

The Beginner Weight Training Workout Routine

Crossfit

A Beginners Guide to Crossfit

6 Week At Home Crossfit Inspired Workouts

Crossfit WODs I Can Do At Home

Blogs to Follow (Basically a Follow Forever)

The Exercist

Evolution of a Fit Geek

Healthy-Curvy-Happy

Go Be Fat Outside

The Dragonfly Warrior

Body Positive Fitness

Body Posi Fitness

Big Like Barda

Run Like a Zombie

Tunes

Sideways Scrolling

Bulletproof

Ready, Set, Go!

Music For Sport

Time to Run: A Fandom Workout Mix

Lets Workout

Running # 3

Born to Run Part 2

Zombies, Run!

Apocalist

Running Mix: 150 BPM (10:00 Mile)

Apps

Ease Into 5k

Cody App

Zombies, Run! (And everything else by Six to Start)

Free Legs Workout App

Couch to 5k

Runnit

Things to Remember:

You are strong and fantastic no matter what.

It’s okay if you mess up or skip a day; just keep trying.

Drink water.

Food is important! You need calories. 

The tumblr fitblr community is full of some of the most positive, body positive, helpful people if you know where to look.

Stretch first. 

Get a gym/running/fitness buddy.

Don’t let the haterz get you down.

Don’t be a dick. This is for you, everyone. 

Challenge yourself, but don’t break yourself. You’re stronger than you think.

Keep me updated on how your year goes! 

Do not work out because you feel GUILTY.

Working out is not a punishment.

Do it because it is fun, because you like doing it, because you like who you become when you work out - but never do it out of guilt and shame.

Do it with joy and love. 

If you had a cookie yesterday it does not mean that you have to forcefully add reps to your workout routine because you feel bad. ENJOY THAT COOKIE.

I spent a lot of Sunday cooking, prepping, and simply looking up delicious keto recipes to try on my poor unwitting family. I thought a lot about that today, and I slowly realized that I used to be the queen of convenience. Fast food, restaurants, frozen meals, and the cafeteria where I work were all my chef. And man, my body sure knew it- I gained 110 pounds in the 5 ½ years my husband and I had been married, and blame every bit of it on my craptacular diet. 

Yes, fast food sure is easy, but surely there are some keto kitchen items that make life more convenient, right? 

Absolutely.

Of course food processors are a modern miracle and the microwave saves my foodie ass from digging out leftovers from the fridge and calling it a meal when we fail to plan dinners, but what about the convenience items that aren’t quite so well-known? I have a few. These are all items I currently have in my kitchen and I use (weekly, if not daily.)

1. An Egg Cooker

It isn’t hard to explain exactly why egg cookers were the first thing I thought of for this list. By and far, this little $17 appliance has kept me on track so much. They can make soft/medium/hard-boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, and omelettes in minutes with minimal cleanup. Seriously. It is so easy to pop a few eggs into this bad boy in the morning, and 10 minutes later you have breakfast. You set it and forget it–it’ll let you know when your eggies are done. I usually make 6 or so hard-boiled eggs at a time just to have in the fridge. They’re great by themselves and it’s also awesome to be able to make deviled eggs whenever you want.

2. A Spiralizer

Zoodles, guys. Zoodles. Zucchini Noodles- they open up a whole host of meals that are usually cut out of LCHF meal plans. Spiralizers are fun to use, so whenever I break it out my husband jumps up from his recliner to “help me with dinner” - he loves to spiralize up some zoodles for a quick “pasta” dish for me. Thanks hon. I have this particular one and it works great.

3. A Cheese Slicer

A cheese slicer? Is she serious? How did this make the list?? Hear me out. Meat, cheese, and cucumber slices make super-easy snacks, lunches, and full-on meals (especially when the weather gets hot and no one feels like standing over a stove.) I use our cheese slicer almost daily for our lunches, and it’s convenient for slicing all those cucumbers, too. The cleanup is practically non-existent. But why not use a knife? It is difficult to get a knife to cut cheese in thin, even slices, and I am impatient.

Not Your Caveman’s Chili from ruled.me

Shrimp and Bacon Skillet from The Nourished Caveman

Spinach and Artichoke Dip from Real Housemoms

Soul Bread Chips from Low Carbe Diem (I slice the bread thin and bake for a few minutes in the oven to make chips)

Hufflepuffs getting gains, bruh.

get it on a shirt!