{"id":346,"date":"2023-03-25T15:07:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T15:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/?p=346"},"modified":"2023-03-25T15:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T15:07:13","slug":"that-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/2023\/03\/25\/that-time-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"That Time of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/hstacos-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/hstacos-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/hstacos-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/hstacos-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/hstacos-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/hstacos-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/hstacos.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a trend the past few days, one that always crops up around this time of year. One I have contemplated joining in with, but still haven&#8217;t made that leap yet. That time of emerging from our winter cocoon of hibernation and telling one&#8217;s self, it&#8217;s time to start that diet. With the warmer weather, shedding of heavy layers, it&#8217;s also time to shed those excess pounds from the holidays, from the sedentary lifestyle of the past wintery months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw a post by a guy on Facebook that he had cut out cake, cookies, marshmallows, chocolate, and basically all things sugary. I could only think good for him as I nibbled on salt water taffy and called it my dinner last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my brothers started a diet after his latest check-up with his cholesterol being a little high. So he is eating a low fat, low carb, low salt, no added sugar diet of fruit and Lean Cuisine. I&#8217;m not sure how long that is going to last, but good for him for taking the initiative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has me thinking, I need to cut the salt and sugar as well, but then I eyeball the rest of the package of salt water taffy and tell myself, it might have to wait until after Easter. Don&#8217;t even get me started on cutting out tacos, or pizza, or anything cheesy. Is there any other food groups but those? I don&#8217;t think so, or at least the good kind of food groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come spring, once I am out there slinging bags of mulch, digging holes, hauling brush, I&#8217;m sure my tune will change&#8230;a lot. So maybe I will hop on that bandwagon sooner than expected. I refuse to eat the Lean Cuisines though. So I guess googling is in order for those recipes that are low fat, low salt, low cholesterol, low sugar, and low in taste&#8230;. (sigh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So people of Civatar, what are your favorite HEALTHY go to recipes? No Brussel sprouts though, I don&#8217;t do Brussel sprouts&#8230;ever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a trend the past few days, one that always crops up around this time of year. One I have contemplated joining in with, but still haven&#8217;t made that leap yet. That time of emerging from our winter cocoon of hibernation and telling one&#8217;s self, it&#8217;s time to start that diet. With the warmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/thepinkbeehive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}