June 20, 2011

Local radio personality Steve Dahl declared that he had the best tacos at a Mexican restaurant in Mt. Prospect called Los Compadres.  Tony and I wanted to go to the Japanese grocery store, and figured we would combine the trip on Saturday. I decided to get the combo plate – a great deal at $6.99.  I got carne asada and ground beef on my tostada. Yep,...

I am cheating this week – instead of doing a huge recap this week, I am asking my participants to leave a comment on this post on how their week went.  I know Errign had a good week – she found a job in her new town!  I know she’ll have more friends than she’ll know what to do with. 😀 And my sister is...

You all know that I have anxiously been waiting to get my 10% goal, or 17 pounds lost since March 1.  I only had .8 to reach that goal today. So.fricken.close.  But I’ll take it – I know my exercise has been changing the shape of my body, even if I don’t have a huge loss each week – but seriously?  .6 three weeks in...

I stopped by Brandi’s blog yesterday morning and saw she had made a breakfast bread pudding for her husband’s weekday birthday.  I needed one other dish to bring to our office birthday breakfast and it sounded delicious.  But this is going to be one of those recipes that inspired me, as you will see my changes below: Vanilla Maple Breakfast Bread Pudding Makes: 9 servings ...

It was my bosses birthday yesterday morning, and I was crossing off my checklist to make sure I didn’t miss anything, I walked out without my camera. 🙁  But it was a nice spread – I bought bagels with WW cream cheese, had granola, vanilla Greek yogurt, fresh strawberries, grapes and bananas, and made these blueberry scones.  Thanks to my co-worker Cassie for sending me...

Wow -thanks for all your comments yesterday clearing up the confusion I had over the Athena/weight classifications on races – I had no idea!  You guys are so smart. 😀 Guess who got up and went to the gym yesterday?  Yep, my 101 Day Challengers know that I wanted to swim twice this week and run a 5k outside.  I was happy when I walked...

I came back from my WI on Saturday discouraged at my only .6 loss – its the third week in a row that I’ve had below 1 pound losses.   Tony picked my spirits back up (thanks honey!) and as I was bike riding yesterday at lunch, I realized my muffin top wasn’t getting in the way as much on my rides. 😀 You ladies will...

We had such a great weekend.  Saturday instead of our normal grocery store day, we decided to have lunch and see Hangover II.  My cell phone wasn’t working right – I couldn’t reply to any emails for a while and it was driving me nuts – just so happens the U.S. Cell store was near a bunch of restaurants to choose from. Believe it or not,...

I have to say that knowing all of you were starting off your week on the right foot motivated me all week long.  Let’s all keep up the great work! Here is an updated after week two.  Christina of Dinner at Christina’s.  She started out her challenge by moving from Illinois to North Carolina.  In her words: Last Wednesday and Thursday we loaded the 16′...

I was 1.4 pounds away from getting my 10%, or 17 pound loss.  All the way to the meeting my mantra was “1.4, 1.4!”  So I was a little bummed when I saw this: I came home and Tony was like “how did you do?”  When I told him ONLY -.6, he said the perfect thing.  “You worked hard for that .6, and you keep...