Five Reasons to Eat Chocolate Every Day | Insight from Guru Christy Hovland
April 20, 2012 – 3:20 pm
Save the Earth! It’s the only planet with Chocolate!
Good friends can disagree about lots of things and still be really good friends. Different taste in music, clothes, TV programs…the list of things we might not agree about goes on and on. But very few people really disagree about chocolate. Even people who don’t adore the gooey goodness of really well made chocolate generally just say they don’t like it, not that it is bad.
Chocolatier and Girlfriend Guru CHRISTY HOVLAND loves chocolate. She loves talking about it, blogging about it, making it, and indulging herself and her girlfriends. Today, she shares five reasons to eat chocolate (as if we really needed a reason!). Now if we could just figure out how to give samples through the internet…
Let’s be honest here girlfriends, I think the majority of us would like to eat chocolate daily. I’m not talking about Read More »
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LOL! Fun Friends, Silly Spring Stuff & Chocolate – Something for Every Girlfriend!
April 16, 2012 – 11:04 pm
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
- Charles Dickens
What girlfriend makes you LOL? What silly stuff are you and your BFFs up to this Spring?
It’s a wild and wonderful Spring when you get the girls together for fun stuff! We love hearing your stories of Happy Hours, Girlfriend Trips you’re planning, funny friends who make you LOL, and how your friends are there for you – you rock Girlfriends!
Share your funny friend tales on our Facebook page and comments right here on Girlfriendology!
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Coffee Commentary | Thoughts from the Faux Diet Queen
March 23, 2012 – 10:35 am
Woman does not live by coffee alone. Have a danish. ~ Unknown
As usual, The Faux Diet Queen is thinking about food. This week the FDQ (as we affectionately call her) is talking about coffee.We’re not sure why she’s talking about coffee (we can only guess she hasn’t been getting enough sleep…).
Whatever her reasons for picking this particular topic, we hope you’ll join us for a cup of coffee, or tea, or water, or just for a visit as we follow her commentary about coffee and friendship.
There are two kinds of food—food you need and food you want. It’s the difference between broccoli and chocolate (bad example—I need both of those).
More specifically, there are two kinds of coffee—the coffee you need and the coffee you Read More »
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Top Ten Reasons Chocolate is Good | A List from the Faux Diet Queen
March 9, 2012 – 11:24 am
“There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson, The Pickwick Papers
In the 1850s, Englishman Joseph Fry was the first person to make solid chocolate. We’re not sure why we didn’t learn about him in High School. Clearly, his invention is much more interesting and practical that learning about someone inventing the cotton gin (and we were too young to suggest cotton gin and tonics). It’s all too clear that men created the curriculum back then.
The Faux Diet Queen may not know about Joseph Fry, but she certainly knows about chocolate. Today she shares Ten Reasons Chocolate is Good. (As if we needed a list!)
I was baking for a bake sale. I find bake sales to be diet un-friendly events. It’s so easy to save a dozen (or two) cookies for “home eating,” or to cut the edges off the brownies so they look nicer (and you can’t just throw the best part of the brownie away, right?). I was bagging things right up so as to avoid finding myself back Read More »
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Posted in Be a Better FRIEND, Health and Fitness, thankful for girlfriends
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Tagged #FDQ, chocolate, Faux Diet Queen, healthy weight, Linda Grayson, losing weight with girlfriends, The Pickwick Papers, top ten, Top Ten list
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Rituals, Coffee, and Me Time | Thoughts from the Faux Diet Queen
February 24, 2012 – 9:11 am
With our busy lives, we sometimes forget to find a little time to take care of ourselves. The Faux Diet Queen shares some of her ideas for creating small bits of self-indulgent time.
The Faux Diet Queen (or as we affectionately call her, FDQ) has agreed to share her latest (and last) weight loss journey with us as a regular feature at Girlfriendology. We hope you’ll join us to cheer her on, nudge her back on track when she strays, and generally giggle along.
Rituals are important in our lives.
I’m not talking about religious rituals, although those are important too. I’m talking about the “me time” rituals. The time we build into our crazy busy lives to take just a few minutes off from caring for others to take care of ourselves.
Not surprisingly, that “me” time has changed over the years. At one time, it was Read More »
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Posted in Girlfriend Advice and Reviews, Health and Fitness, thankful for girlfriends
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Tagged #FDQ, chocolate, Coffee, Fat Burning Coffee, Faux Diet Queen, girlfriend, Me Moments, Me Time, Rituals, time for self
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Food Beliefs I Need to Ditch—Part II | More Baggage from the Faux Diet Queen
January 20, 2012 – 4:47 pm
The Faux Diet Queen (or as we affectionately call her, FDQ) has agreed to share her latest (and last) weight loss journey with us as a regular feature at Girlfriendology. We hope you’ll join us to cheer her on, nudge her back on track when she strays, and generally giggle along.
This week the FDQ is trying (once again) to be more realistic about how she thinks about food. Clearly, this is not something that can be accomplished in one week!
I have a closet full of clothes. I have clothes in pretty much every style that has come and gone over the last umpteen years, in every size ever manufactured on any continent, and in colors that range from “fab” to “should never, ever see Read More »
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Posted in Be a Better FRIEND, Girlfriend Advice and Reviews, Health and Fitness
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Tagged #FDQ, chocolate, cleaning out the closet, clothes, Faux Diet Queen, food beliefs, funny, losing weight, Weight loss
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Put Down Your Stress! | Life Lessons Girlfriends Share
November 17, 2011 – 2:12 pm
The Benefits of female friendship, chocolate and laughter … less stress!
My aunt sends me mass emails. Sometimes they’re scams (which often aren’t really scams) or amazing videos of powerful telescopes viewing the heavens. Sometimes they’re funny stories with a message – like these Life Lessons and sometimes they’re just inspiring mass-distributed (and therefore unattributed to the writer – I apologize to whomever you are!) parables like the following.
Like a girlfriend, she’s just sharing what she thinks is something a woman would benefit from reading/seeing/viewing. So this one is from my beautiful aunt. Hope it Read More »
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Unique Chocolate Girlfriend Gifts | Perfect Friendship Presents
August 7, 2011 – 7:22 pm
There is something about the sizzling days of summer that make me think of chocolate.
Um, actually, there is something about EVERY day that makes me think of chocolate.
If you are like that, or if you have a girlfriend like that, then this is the post for you.
If you only like super special chocolate, or if you have a girlfriend who only likes super special chocolate, then this is most definitely the post for you!
Just for you girlfriends, we have scoured the web to find the best of the best in chocolate and where to buy these amazing chocolate Read More »
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Posted in Be a Better FRIEND, Girlfriend Advice and Reviews, Girlfriend Gifts
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Tagged balloons, books, brownies, champagne, chocolate, chocolate coffee, chocolate dipped fruit, Coffee, friend, friendship, Gift, girlfriend, present, Wine
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Girlfriend Gifts for friends who love Chocolate!
August 24, 2010 – 4:00 pm
Know a girlfriend who LOVES chocolate? Why not make her happy and healthy with these chocolate girlfriend gifts!
Did you know that 40% of women don’t just LOVE chocolate, they CRAVE it? Do you also know any women who admit to preferring chocolate over sex?! (No comment on that one!) They’re out there based on several studies on the positive effects of chocolate. These studies reveal that several of the chemicals found in chocolate have a positive psychological effect on women – chocolate actually can Read More »
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Helping a girlfriend through a transition – Chocolate helps!
May 5, 2008 – 12:30 am
How do you handle a job change / life transition? With girlfriends – of course!
My thoughtful girlfriend Jennifer (from my entrepreneurial group), gave me this wonderful orange daisy chocolate to celebrate my leaving a job and moving forward toward my dreams. (Recognize the flower in the Girlfriendology logo?!) She wasn’t the only girlfriend who marked this change in my career and life with a gift or card. My friend Katie (who is so dang thoughtful!) Read More »
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