“I found that if I had a couple of days at home when I was sitting and working a lot, it showed itself both in the number on the scale and in the way I felt overall.” “I still did the rowing machine, lifted weights, and did Pilates, but I was exercising only two or three days a week, instead of the five or six days I was doing before,” she said. Then once work picked up in fall 2021, the star started to ease up on her regimen-and she said it showed. In the early months of her weight loss journey, Drummond said she followed a more strict workout and diet plan, which included exercising up to six days a week. “It’s really nice to just kind of feel the muscles that I thought were gone forever,” she added to ET. “The months I spent doing squats, lunges, and deadlifts early in my weight loss process really laid the foundation for a summer and fall of more efficient calorie burning.” “I can’t emphasize this enough: Building muscle-not just the smaller muscles in your arms, but the larger muscles in your legs and butt-will turbocharge your weight loss like nothing else and set you up for more success,” she said. In her recent blog post, the celebrity chef added that she started lifting weights- a key exercise for not only burning fat, but strengthening the entire body. Thanks to the company of her dogs and a good podcast, it’s been an enjoyable form of exercise for the star. She added strength training to her routine.ĭrummond gave her rowing machine a shout-out back in 2019, but more recently, she’s been all about taking walks around her ranch. Here’s everything we know about the Food Network star’s approach to losing 50+ pounds. It was never about I have to lose this amount, it’s really about how I feel,” she told ET. “The scale was sort of a gauge for me that I was heading in the right direction.
Instead, she cut out alcohol, started lifting weights, and began to track her progress.
“I didn’t use a trainer, I didn’t do Keto or Paleo or follow an official diet, I didn’t eat specialty foods, and I didn’t do intermittent fasting,” she said. Without further ado, here are some of mine and my blogger friends' favorite Pioneer Woman recipes.The Food Network star decided to make small lifestyle changes that led to her weight loss. Every year, the family loads me up at birthdays, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and more with all her cool kitchen gadgets and such. Of course, if you know anything about Ree Drummond, you know she loves her kitchenware and I own a lot of it. I need another Pioneer Woman fix! Pioneer Woman Kitchenware Since I visited there last year, they have opened an ice cream shop, a steak house, and more. I honestly think it is time for me to go back and have another visit to Pawhuska. Have breakfast, lunch, or dinner at the Mercantile.īut don't forget to get pizza at P-Town Pizza.
Of course, her website is chocked full of delicious recipes! The best thing though, if you want to know how her food tastes, is to take a visit to Pawhuska, OK, the hometown of the Pioneer Woman.
The first time I ever heard of The Pioneer Woman was in our homeschool group. In fact, she is my favorite cook in the whole world (besides Julia Child) and she has been ever since she came on the scene many, many years ago. Most everyone knows who America's favorite Food Network sweetheart is. If you have never heard of the Pioneer Woman, aka Ree Drummond, what rock have you been living under?