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Eat Chocolate and lose weight – Yes I am serious

March 24, by Shellie Wilson.

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WEEK 1 –  So since my darling babies I gained around 30 kg and have struggled to drop the last 10kgs of baby weight.  My biggest problem is finding the time to exercise and the motivation.  I am basically a Lazy dieter who is easily tempted by food (of any kind).

So I nominated myself to participate in an 8 week weight loss challenge but not just any weight loss challenge but one that appealed to my heart (and taste buds) The Chocolate (over) indulgence Diet.

New  to the market, The Chocolate Diet is a meal replacement program that allows you to feed your angel by combining healthy natural foods with the goodness of cocoa rich and satisfying shakes to replace two meals a day, but also indulge your devil with a daily chocolate treat high in polyphenol rich cocoa, nature’s new super food.

So basically for the next 8 weeks I will be trialing this product and keeping you upto date on my progress as I go. I won’t post my before picture (required for the challenge) until I can actually see results. Let’s face it no one needs to see me in tight fitting clothes with lumps and bumps unless there is something pretty to see at the end. Stay tuned for more updates.

Want to join me in the challenge?  pickup some supplies from The Chocolate Diet website. 

 To celebrate my commitment to weightloss they are giving away one weeks’ worth of free product to one lucky Australian Craftgossip.com reader  to the value of $60. Check out the competition here.

 

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An Easy Scarf to Use Up All Your Scraps

If you’ve been around here long, you know that I’m in a perpetual battle with my stash. I feel like I haven’t bought yarn in years unless I needed it for a specific project. I knit fairly a lot, and crochet some, too, but it feels like my stash never gets any smaller.

It’s not just the unused balls of yarn that are a problem. In fact, maybe a bigger issue is all the odd balls and leftover bits that seem to pile up without any effort. Even though I love scrappy projects (and knit a whole sweater dress with scraps earlier this year) it still feels like a never-ending quest to use up all the little bits.

So I’m always on the lookout for good patterns that are made to use of the extra bits of yarn. If they are super easy, too, that’s so much the better.

So it is with the Lalu Scarf by Sheena Stone. This any yarn, any gauge pattern is designed to use up whatever scraps you have on hand (assuming they’re mostly the same weight or can be held double to make the same weight). 

It’s a tube scarf worked in the round, and she specifically notes that she works it outside in, so the back of the scarf is on the outside as you knit. The needle tips are on the part of the circle farthest away from you as you knit.

It also has an attached I-cord edging, which sounds really time consuming but does give the edges a nice, finished look.

The way the colors are changed as you knit you don’t really need a lot of each color. It would probably be good if you had at least enough of a color to complete one round, but you can change colors more often than every round if you need to because you’re using all your tiny bits.

Grab the free pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Sheena Stone.]

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