Life

Monday night I was sitting on the couch with Rummy.  It was really windy, when all of a sudden I heard this loud THUMP!  My neighbors tree fell into my driveway.  Luckily it missed the house, the cars and there was no damage other than having a giant tree in my driveway! Since we live in the sticks, there are no street lights and didn’t...

I had a great week last week.  So many non-scale victories! drinking water instead of wine (that will change tonight 😀 ) fitting and more importantly ZIPPING up a pair of size 10 jeans walking both Saturday and Sunday buying myself flowers on the anniversary of my first date with Tony instead of eating 1/2 a box of donuts and a deep dish pizza blue...

I hadn’t had a breakfast baked potato in the longest time.  So good and such a great way to use up leftovers.  I used half of my baked potato from the dinner out the night before, scooped out the potato and scrambled that with spinach, then stuffed that back into the potato skin.  When I got to work I added an ounce of chopped steak...

I brought the last two of my carrot cake waffles to work yesterday – over the course of a day I made these, the dogs ate two of them as treats!  Two waffles (6), 1 ounce of deli ham (1) and 1/4 cup sf syrup (1). Since our office move, there are a few people I talked to throughout the day, but now because of...

Remember how I told you I was going to start my summer of Insanity?  Um, turns out I cannot find my Insanity DVD’s.  I’ve looked everywhere, and they are nowhere to be found.  Mind you, they were bootleg copies from my step-son and his wife, but I am bummed I can’t find them.  But thanks to Amazon Prime, I’ll have a new set in a...

There is no secret to being successful on Weight Watchers.  You just have to track your food.  That’s it.  I don’t think it matters if you are a gym rat, get up at 4:30 to workout before work  – that is icing on the cake, but it really just comes down to the food.  Turns out if you don’t eat half a bag of Doritos,...

I brought some of my Elvis banana cream protein pancakes to work yesterday – I decided to heat this one up in the toaster and it was slightly crisp on the outside, yet super fluffy on the inside.  And what goes better with steak than beef!  Breakfast came in at 8 smart points. I had a work lunch, but as luck would have it, there...

With my attitude adjustment, my mind set suddenly shifted and I had the perfect Weight Watchers day, despite a gain of 1.8.  I passed by all the pastries at the farmers market and bought more of my favorite mushrooms.  I packed an egg white omelette with 2 tablespoons real bacon bits and Trader Joe’s lite mozzarella (4) topped with 1/3 cup canned potatoes that I...

Last night I was reading through some of my old blog posts while the construction crew were working.  I was told unequivocally that I was not to help. And not surprisingly, I read several posts where I put myself down because either I had an impromptu dinner out and didn’t make the best choice.  Or I hadn’t been to the gym in a week. If...

Being diabetic, I go to the doctor twice a year.  Once a year with the endocrinologist and once with the nurse practitioner.  Yesterday’s appointment was with the nurse. I missed my last appointment because I just started working downtown so couldn’t take the day off.  My last appointment was a year ago. Of course the first thing they do is weigh you. I got on...