Ricki Lake is an actress and tabloid talk show host who is best known for her long running Ricki Lake Show and a recurring role on King of Queens.  She made some significant life style changes in early 2007 and has lost 140 pounds ‘the old fashioned way‘.  She once tipped the scales at 270 pounds and still can’t believe that she was ever overweight now that she has become accustomed to her new form.

The 40 year old mother of two sons, credits her daily delivery of prepared meals from Fresh Dining.  The organic fare satisfies her and keeps her on track but she does worry that something could throw her off balance.   She stays active and is satisfied with her current weight but does admit that she is guilty of wanting to lose more.  Not immune to the pressures of staying thin, she said, “According to Hollywood standards, I’m not a thin girl, I’m a normal girl.”

The holiday season can pose problems for many people who suddenly lose their resolve and succumb to full blown grazing.  She weighed in on the dilemma by saying, “I will be really conscious because I have this book coming out and I want to look great.  I don’t need to lose any more weight but I don’t want to go backwards.  So I’m not going to pig out this Christmas.”

We checked out the website and discovered that Fresh Dining, located in Southern California, was founded in 2005 and offers five plans:  Fresh Dining, Fresh Lite, Healthy Lifestyle, Fresh Mommy and Whole Family.

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The deal will see the couple - who have recently been forced to deny rumors their marriage is in trouble - make two more TV series, and will earn them £1 million ($2m) each.

According to Britain's News of The World newspaper, Price and Andre will star in the 12-part series Katie & Peter: Stateside in April and will then film another fly-on-the-wall series, which air at the end of next year.

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Here Are Some Ideas for Your Christmas Baking. In the email that I got you just had to click on it and it appeared. I tried but it does not work here. However if you find a cake name interesting, just google it as RECIPIE and the cake name.

'Night Before Christmas' Coffee Cake
'Real New York Style' Cheesecake Supreme

A Cake That's Fit For A Queen
Amaretto Italian Sour Cream Cake
Amazing Tropical Fruit Cake

Apple and Nut Cake
Apple Cake
Apple Cake

Apple Sauce Cake
Applesauce Fruitcake
Apricot Nectar Pound Cake

Baby Cheescakes Baby Cheesecakes
Banana Cake
Barron Family Cheesecake

Baumtorte (Tree Cake)
Becky's Pumpkin Cupcakes
Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake

Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake
Broken Angel Cake With Chocolate Chips
Candied Fruit Cake

Carmel Coffee Cake
Carrot Cake with Hot Glaze
Carrot-Pineapple Cake

Cherry Cake
Cherry Cake Sauce
Cherry Cheesecake Cups

Cherry-Pineapple Dump Cake
Chocolate Angel Food
Chocolate Browny Cake

Chocolate Chip Muffins
Chocolate Cookie Sheet Cake
Chocolat e Éclair Cake

Chocolate Ice Box Dessert
Chocolate Logs
Chocolate Lovers Heaven Triple Threat Chocolate Di

Chocolate Sheet Cake
Chocolate welington fudge pudding
Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Cake

Christmas Cake
Christmas choclate cake
Christmas Mixed Glace Fruit Loaf

Christmas-Comes-But-Once-A-Year-Chocolate Cake
Cinnamon Morning Delight
Coca-Cola Cake

Coconut Cake
Cookie Pizza
Cream Cheese Icing

Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Cream Puff Cake
Creamy Chocolate Cupcakes

Creamy Chocolate Layered Cake
Decadent Chocolate Cake
Decadent Fudge Cake

Deluxe Chocolate Marshmallow Bars
Dream Cake
Dreamcicle Cake

Drizzle Cake
Earthquake Cake
Easy Cocoa Snack Cake

Easy Coconut Cake
Éclair Cake
Edie Ching's Cherry Cheesecake

Eggnog Cake
Extra Moist Coconut Cakes
Festive Pumpkin Gingerbread

Flower Garden Cake
Fruit Cake
Fruit Cocktail Cake

German Chocolate Upside-Down Cake
Golden Bacardi Rum Cake
Gooey Butter Cake

Gum drop cake
Heavenly Pecan Cake
Hedge Hog Cake

Holiday Cake
Holiday Poke Cake
Holiday Rum Cake

Honey Bun Cake
Honey Cake
Hot Fudge Pudding Cake

Hummingbird Cake
Ice-Cream Chocolate Roll
Jewish Apple Cake

Johnny Appleseed Cake
Lemon Cake
Lemon Poppyseed Cakes

Lemon Pound Cake
Linda's Yule Log
Mama's Homemade Banana Cake

Mandy's Cake
Microwave Scottish Pudding
Mini Fruitcakes

Miniature Cheesecakes
Mississippi Fudge Cake
Mississippi Mud

Mock Lemon Meringue Cake
Neiman Marcus Cake
No Bake Fruit Cake

Norwegian Gold Cake
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake
Old Fashion Pound Cake

Old Fashioned Light Fruitcake
Orange Date-Nut Cake
Orange Slice Cake

Oreo Cheesecake
Peanut-Topped Devil's Food
Pecan Icing

Pennsylvania Dutch Pastry
Pineapple Heaven
Plum-Nut Cake

Pound Cake Pound Cake
Pumpkin Cake Roll
Pumpkin Cheesecake

Pumpkin log
Pumpkin Nut Roll
Pumpkin Pie Cake

Pumpkin Roll
Queen's Cake
Red Velvet Cake

Reese`s white cake
Reese's Brownie Cupcakes
Refrigerator Chocolate Cheesecake

Russian Tea Cakes
Russian Teacakes
Santa's Breakfast Cake

Self-Filled Cupcakes
Shirley's Chocolate Sheet Cake
Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Sour Cream Pound Cake
Southern Apple Cake
Swedish Nut Cake

Tiny Christmas Fruitcakes
Toll House Carrot Cake
Triple Chocolate Torte

Turtle Bars
Turtle Cake
Warcake

Watergate Cake
White Christmas Loaf
World War I Cake

World War II Cake

How many of you have helped with some kind of holiday decorations. I know many of you might not celebrate Christmas but surely you have helped out with some Halloween decorations or taking some kind of rarely used box down from a shelf, the garage or the attic. Everyone has.

See if this sounds familiar. There are two of you. The idiot, in this couple can generally be found at the top of a ladder if you are lucky. If they are not lucky they are swaying precariously on a bar stool while standing on their tip toes trying to reach the box that was shoved six feet above their head about a year prior. The idiot then attempts to lift a 30 pound box with the tips of their fingers while the person down below looks serious, but is in fact laughing their ass off. At this point, the idiot is either successful, falls over or drops the box on the unsuspecting person below.

Well, Jamie Hince and Kate Moss would have us to believe that the black eye, and cuts and bruises they acquired were as a result of Jamie being on a ladder, then somehow dropping the box on Kate Moss and at the same time finding a way to get under the box so it also landed on top of him as well. Umm. This is like watching the Seinfeld re-enactment of the JFK shooting. I don’t think its possible, but I have to admit that this is probably the most inventive story I have heard in a long time. Just for that, I am going to give them the first holiday b.s. pass. I don’t believe your story, but it is damn good so from now on I will treat it as gospel.

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New York Yankees third baseman and British homewrecker, Alex Rodriguez, has decided to spend Thanksgiving with none-other than Madonna. And not with his kids, prompting his soon to be ex wife Cynthia to refer to him as “soulless.”

The Yankee slugger, who ditched his wife of six years, Cynthia, after becoming besotted with Madonna, is a “soul-less” man who is “abandoning” his kids on Thanksgiving for his lover, according to what Cynthia is telling friends.
“Access Hollywood” reports that Cynthia, who’s in the final stages of her divorce from A-Rod, wrote an e-mail to a confidant noting: “My 6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna . . . She called and he ran on her command back to New York City . . . Gross!”
To add insult to injury, after Rodriguez left Miami at Madonna’s beck and call, his lawyer called Cynthia and wanted her to sign the couple’s divorce settlement.

I really thought Steinbrenner was the only ’soulless’ Yankee? Why is he doing this? Not ditching the kids, but hanging out with an old woman? I don’t get it. At least leave your hot wife for a 21 year old cheerleader. Have some dignity.

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Alex Rodriguez will not be spending time with his children this Thansgiving, because he has other priorities in mind. Like hosting a dinner party at his NY condo for Madonna, her manager and her children.

Yes really.

And Dill-Rod’s ex-wife Cynthia is not happy about it either. According to Access Hollywood (via the NYP), Cynthia vented to a friend in an email saying,

“My 6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna. She called and he ran on her command back to New York City . . . Gross!”

The recipient of the email added that Cynthia also described 50-year-old Madonna in “not so nice terms”.

Vadge Hag Madge. Ok, I named her that, but I am sure it was something equivalent!

The Rodriguez children will spend this Turkey Day without a father. Natasha is 4, and little baby Ella, who will be celebrating her first Thanksgiving, is 7 months old.

[photo: NYStadiumInsider.com]

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"My 6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna . . . She called and he ran on her command back to New York City . . . Gross!"

The Yankee slugger, who ditched his wife of six years, Cynthia, after becoming besotted with Madonna, is a “soul-less” man who is “abandoning” his kids on Thanksgiving for his lover, according to what Cynthia is telling friends.

“Access Hollywood” reports that Cynthia, who’s in the final stages of her divorce from A-Rod, wrote an e-mail to a confidant noting: “My 6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna . . . She called and he ran on her command back to New York City . . . Gross!”

Instead of ushering in the holidays in Miami with his children, Natasha, 4, and Ella, 1 - A-Rod, 33, is hosting a dinner at his Manhattan apartment for Madonna, 50, and her kids, Lourdes, Rocco and David, and manager Guy Oseary.

The friend of Cynthia said A-Rod’s furious ex described Madonna in “not so nice terms” in the e-mail.

To add insult to injury, after Rodriguez left Miami at Madonna’s beck and call, his lawyer called Cynthia and wanted her to sign the couple’s divorce settlement.

When Cynthia filed for divorce last summer, she cited irreconcilable differences and claimed her husband had an “affair of the heart” with Madonna. The sinewy pop siren claimed at the time she was still “happily married” to Guy Ritchie, but two months later she and Ritchie filed for divorce. Since then, Madonna and A-Rod have been inseparable.

An insider told Page Six, “Alex likes a woman with a strong hand. He likes to be told what to do. He’s a bit of a cipher.”

A rep for A-Rod declined to comment.

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