Cayenne peppers | Photo credit: Princes Milady
Rambling
I spent part of the weekend trying on bathing suits. Clarification: Trying to squeeze into bathing suits. As I quickly round the corner to 40, and fight a nearly inactive lifestyle alongside my comatose metabolism (yeah, that’s the ticket, it’s my metabolism), I acknowledge that, at least for this upcoming swimsuit season, I must wear the more figure-flattering swimdress. Or, as a last resort if I am trying to pull off the “athletic look”, swim shorts with tank top. Ee-gads. How did it come to this?
I am not going to pretend that I have tried to keep the weight off. I don’t do sweat-inducing exercise regularly, I don’t count calories, I don’t not watch TV while eating. All of the things you are supposed to do to fight middle-age weight gain…I don’t do. Except read a lot about what I am supposed to be doing. One of the things I am supposed to be doing is eating spicy foods. Apparently, anything spicy–especially food kicked up with cayenne pepper–is supposed to heat up your body (literally), increasing your metabolism and thereby helping to burn more calories and “blast fat”. Fantastic!
So, I have started putting cayenne on and in everything I consume. I have been carrying around a mini jar of the powdered red pepper in my purse, and whip it out for added seasoning when dining out or eating/drinking at work. Cayenne has wiggled its way into just about everything I ingest, including tea and coffee. (Seriously. Try it.) Any day now, the fat should just start falling off my hips. If “you are what you eat”, then I will soon be a red-hot, pinky-thin, stringbean-looking gal. Or least be able to lose the swimdress. Sa-weet.
Roast
I don’t (yet) have any recipes specific to including cayenne or other hot peppers, but do plan to incorporate hot pepper varieties in our backyard garden this summer. So I turn to my friends in Bloglandia for ideas. Fellow food fans, can you help a girl out? Please tell me how you use cayenne (or other hot peppers or “fat-blasting” spices) in cooking, or if you have specific pepper-centered recipes!
ramblings & roasts 
And I was thinking about getting on the treadmill for a little while every day. But I like your idea much better. 🙂 I don’t have any recipes for cayenne or hot peppers, but I love them and will be very interested in what you find!
Will keep you posted, Sarah! Yeah, I was trying to walk everyday, or hop on the elliptical. But if I don’t “see results”, those efforts discourage me. If cayenne lets me down…oh, well! I’ll still be happily nourished 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
arthur dent 說:I have heard that it does but never have tried it. I suggest U talk to a colpue homeopathic Dr.’s before U try it. Dr. Whitaker has a formula I have tried if U have mildly HI BP it helps. Few more things are drinking distilled water, Eating as much potassium as sodium in diet. Fruits veggies is where that is. Also backed Potato’s have about 700-1000mg potassium, just don’t load’em w/ to much junk. ie. sodium. goto nutritiondata.com for all the facts. For all medications the best site is ASKAPATIENT.COM.
Hmmmm.. it doesn’t seem to matter how much I exercise.. it’s food portions that does it for me.. Even for my dog, lol, I changed his diet to include some ground hamburger and voila.. two weeks later he’s a rotund little portly dog! Anything done with consistency.. sigh.. now where are my donuts..
You’re so right! Portion control. Everything in moderation. And when the advice is to eat 5-6 times a day, remembering that those 5-6 times are MINI meals 🙂