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Finally…My Cookbook in Print!

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Yay! It took much longer than I expected but it’s finally finished and already selling like hotcakes. Low calorie hotcakes, of course!

It was frustrating that the process seemed to be so drawn out, but I only have myself to blame. Because I was combining all the previously published recipes plus about 60 new ones, I kept finding things that were formatted differently.

I wrote each cookbook at different times, so in one book, for example, I’d capitalize the first word in the ingredient list and in another I wouldn’t. The reader wouldn’t notice because the continuity was there within a cookbook, just not between cookbooks. So when they were all compiled together, it became obvious.

But not so obvious I’d catch everything at once!

However, it’s done now and I want to thank everyone for their patience. I know you’ve been on me for a print book rather than digital, and I hope you think it was worth the wait.

Here’s the link to buy … (THANK YOU!)

And here’s the cover, front and back …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Glamorous Life of a Writer

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It seems I always end up on the most difficult path in any endeavor except, ironically, when I’m literally on a path. But even I was surprised when I accomplished all this stuff over the course of five days …

• videotaped and edited six videos (including wardrobe and jewelry changes!)

• posted them to the Lazy Low Cal Lifestyle YouTube channel

• tested and finalized a dozen or so recipes (finally perfecting the Guinness Ice Cream!)

• revamped and reformatted Lazy Low Cal Lifestyle Cookbook #1

• compiled all the recipes in Lazy Low Cal Lifestyle Cookbook #2

• created a Just Desserts compilation cookbook

• created a compilation cookbook from Cookbooks #1 and #2

• made internal hyperlinks in the appropriate places in all 4 cookbooks (so when people are reading them and I refer to a related blog post or video or website, they can click the live link and be taken there … right on their Kindle!)

• bookmarked and hyperlinked each recipe to the Table of Contents in all 4 cookbooks (so when people want to go from the Table of Contents directly to a specific recipe, they just need to click on the name of the recipe in the TOC)

• searched line by line for extra spaces, tabs and hard returns in all 4 cookbooks

• wrote marketing copy for all 4 cookbooks

• agonized over where to set the prices

• created covers for all 4 cookbooks (luckily I have a theme going, so all the covers are similar)

• uploaded all 4 titles to Kindle

• added all the new covers to the Lazy Low Cal Lifestyle Facebook page

The truly remarkable thing about all that? I didn’t know how to do 95% of it nine months ago.

Shaking It Up

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I’m working diligently on my new cookbook and have realized lately my jeans are a tad tight. Think there’s a correlation?

Sometimes when I’m creating a recipe I can’t always determine the calorie count right away. Sometimes it’s because I’m in a hurry and I haven’t calculated the calories for a particular ingredient. Sometimes it’s because I don’t know the serving size. But mostly it’s because here at Casa Lazy we don’t throw away food. Ever. So even if I’ve accidentally created a high-calorie recipe, we eat it. And if there are 12 servings, we eat ‘em all. Not in one sitting, mind you, but probably not in 12, either.

When I’m in ‘cookbook mode’ I’m creating at least one new recipe every day, often two, and occasionally three.

All this to say, I haven’t been following my own advice about portion control very well lately.

Add to that my, um, lackadaisical attitude toward exercise the last couple of weeks and you understand the too-snug jeans.

I’ve become more conscious of the food thing, but the exercise has begun to bore me. And if I’m bored mentally, you know my body is bored too.

So I’m shaking it up and doing something different and — so far — more interesting.

I read a lot — a LOT — of healthy living magazines and save lots — LOTS — of articles about particular exercise routines. They get ‘filed’ in a pile near my treadmill and weight machine. Do I ever look at them? Why, no … no, I don’t. So I’ve started to go through them (in front of the TV, of course), listing the ones I a) understand how to do; b) have the equipment for; and c) promise me smokin’ hot results.

I have a master list for arms/shoulders, legs, abs/core, and back exercises and I’ve simply listed each under the proper heading. Every other day when I go downstairs to strength train, I choose 2 or 3 from each category and do 3 sets of each, making note of how heavy my weights were, how many reps I did and any other pertinent info. I’ve vowed not to do the same exercise within the same week and I won’t pair the same ones together again for a while. I also try to increase my weights or my reps every time.

So far, so good. It’s given me a renewed interest in working out. I love the variety as well as tracking my results to see that I’m doing more each day. Plus, I refuse to buy new jeans. I’m just that lazy.