Seafood

I had a loss last week!  -.6, but I’ll take it.  Um, maybe there was some leftover wine from the celebration memorial for Jacob’s grandma, and maybe I had wine a couple nights last week.   I am totally fine with it – while the scale is moving slower, today I am wearing a pair of pants that Hannah gave me for Christmas that I couldn’t...

UPDATE:  This post is a couple years old, but I had to update the photography so you guys would try these super easy shrimp and grits.  If you haven’t tried grits before, they are so delicious and microwavable, so this shrimp and grits comes together in 10 minutes.   Do you guys love Dave Chappelle??  Tony and I used to watch his HBO specials all the...

I went to my final weigh in at Weight Watchers on Saturday and was pleased that I gained only .6 pounds during Christmas week.  So in 52 weeks I managed to gain 1.4 pounds – so call me the queen of maintenance!  If you’ve followed me all year, you’ll know I lost 20 pounds the first 10 weeks of 2017 – I tracked like a...

If you have not tried ahi tuna with avocado salsa, it’s so good!  My late husband introduced me to this and I just assumed I hated it and never gave it a chance. My sister and I were able to walk together for about 30 minutes – her schedule was a bit more open than mine, so she walked to my office, met my new...

This shrimp lo mein could not be easier or more delicious! Friday night I posted my dinner on Instagram and Connect, and I got all sorts of messages “recipe please!”  There isn’t really a recipe because there are only four ingredients, but I thought I’d post it here for reference. This is my favorite stir fry sauce – only 1 smart point per tablespoons and...

I know I’ve talked about these Joseph brand pita breads, but I absolutely love them.  The only thing is that next time I won’t try to stuff them – since they are only one point, they are thin, and when I tried to picked these egg white and romaine lettuce pita halves, they kind of fell apart.  I’m not mad about that though – at...

These shrimp nachos taste like the best bar food at home! I can’t even remember the last time I had a bagel, but my store had Dutch Farms bagels for .99 a package, so I picked up a package of everything bagels.  The whole thing would have been 6 points, but I thought, why not ditch the top?  I cooked my egg before work and...

I can usually get so much done at work in an hour before my actual start time without any distractions.  Yesterday I had plans of taking the early train in, but even though I had 5 minutes to spare (which is cutting it close for me!) the train that was supposed to come at 6:58, came at 6:53. And sat for 5 minutes and then...

When I woke up yesterday morning, I got a little teary right off the bat.  This was my Timehop picture from just 3 years ago. He was being so goofy in this picture, but what I can’t believe is that I let him help me shovel snow when he spent the first nine days of 2014 in the hospital.  It’s not that I don’t think...

I had to share this picture from when I left work on Tuesday night.  Chicago at night never ceases to amaze me.  I have to remind myself how lucky I am to leave so close to a great city like Chicago! I was ill prepared with my food yesterday.  I wasn’t thinking about my lack of time to put stuff together for the day after...