January 19, 2013

Yesterday morning I had a desperate craving for a McDonald’s sausage biscuit.  I kept telling myself “it’s only $1, you can swing by the drive thru on the way to work.”  I was putting my stuff together for my Souper Friday lunch at work (for any new readers I bring soup on Friday’s for the office), got dressed and ready to go. And then I...

I thought it was appropriate to take a picture of my icy cold breakfast in an icy background!  It was a tad bit overcast yesterday morning! I added a tad more coffee to this batch too, hence the darker color. My lower back was sore yesterday morning.  I was on the fence about working out at all, but then I told myself, just go, and...

I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of this almond mocha green monster.  I thought I would miss chewing my breakfast, but this is so delicious and filling I could literally drink one of these every day.  And I like the fact that it takes me my 30 minute drive to work to drink it. And I don’t even mind that it’s cold outside to...

I am making breakfast for one of my bossed three days a week.  While she does pretty good with healthy lunches and dinners, breakfast just stumps her.  Other than yogurt and some fruit. she can’t wrap her brain around eating “real” food, i.e. non-diet food for breakfast. Enter the breakfast wonton.  I love wonton  wrappers.  My store normally sells them for .99 cents.  I use...

Tony would like to delight your Tuesday morning with a guest post.  Take it away Tony! While watching the Packers go down in flames over the weekend (They were humiliated 31 to 45), I remembered back to the days when I lived among them. The company I worked for wanted to open an office in Wisconsin. I was newly married (first wife) and we looked...

Friday night we still had temperatures in the 50’s before we went to bed.  It felt more like April than January.  But winter finally reared its ugly head, and we were blanketed in ice. We don’t have a garage, so it took me about 20 minutes to defrost the car before I could drive anywhere! Saturday morning Tony me another one of his delicious breakfasts. ...

My brother and I always talk about the “Switch.”  It’s the moment you go from not caring, eating whatever you want, to actually planning healthy meals and moving.  Neither one of us can ever figure out how the switch turns on and off.  But it’s turned on and off for both of us most of our adult lives. But it got me thinking.  Why does...

For being a full work week, it actually went by pretty quickly!  I’ll take it.  I got several emails asking if my pillowcase method for organizing my workout clothes worked.  The answer is yes and no.  My idea was to pack five pillowcases of workout clothes, put the dirty clothes back in the pillowcase and then put a ponytail holder to secure the top of...

First off, thanks for all your well wishes for my first WI of the year!  But the second week is probably going to be tougher than the first.  Because for me, I tend to get a little complacent in week two – maybe an extra bite here, an extra slice of cheese there.  I really need to keep my focus up so I will continue...

When the kids were younger, we loved to play games.  Monopoly, Pictionary, Scrabble.  Well, scrabble didn’t go so well because I always dominated and no one wanted to play with me anymore. Enter in game apps on your phone.  Tony and I are both big word search fans, so when he downloaded an app for word search, I did too!  And guess what?  I dominated...