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My step-son Joe left today to move to Austin, Texas 🙁  That’s a 19 hour drive people! I first met Joe when he was a 10 year old, slightly pudgy boy with a buzz hair cut.  I know it had to be hard seeing his Dad with someone other than his Mom, but he warmed up to me pretty quickly. I am an affectionate person...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGf0d3tZRIw] I had a way bigger post, but with one key stroke it deleted the whole thing!  Crap – so this is a much smaller version of that post because time is running out of time and I have to get ready for work! She didn’t sleep at all during the 10 hour flight, and was amazingly wide awake when she landed, even though it...

So I started this 101 days of summer challenge at 169 and I lost a whopping – 1.6 for the month.  I remeasured myself, and while my hips, waist and chest stayed the same, I lost 1/2 an inch on my bicep and 1/2 an inch on my thigh. While I was expecting a better result, two things came to mind while reviewing my food...

Wow, after what seems like weeks of thunderstorms, Chicagoland’s weather could not have been better yesterday!  In the 70’s, blue skies, and perfect sleeping weather – I think it got down to 50 degrees last night 😀 For breakfast I scooped out half of a baked potato, leaving 3.5 of the shell.  I scrambled 1 egg, 1.5 ounces of deli ham and red pepper and...

Weekends are going by way to fast!  Although I am excited about this week – Hannah comes home from Germany this week! We talked to her on the phone yesterday – her host family has treated her so nice and actually said they wanted her to come back to visit at Christmas! Since it was stormy yesterday morning, Tony and I decided to take our...

I couldn’t even turn the computer on this morning.  The storms rolled in around 8:00 a.m., and when it didn’t look like it was going to let up, Tony and I decided to go out to breakfast and run some errands.  We may get some more storms this afternoon so I have to be quick! I did not do Jilian’s Shred yesterday as planned –...

Okay, I was really grasping at straws and only had enough to put together my breakfast!  I can’t wait to go grocery shopping!!!  I haven’t been in three weeks!  Looks like I’ll be making a lot of pasta sauce and salsa!  Check out the price of tomatoes! For breakfast I had egg tostadas – 2 tostadas, 2 eggs, 1 ounce cheese and yes, pickled jalapeno...

It was back to my good ole breakfast sammie, although this time I added cooked red pepper left over from our fish taco fiesta.  Breakfast comes in at 380 calories, 45 carbs, 21 protein, 15.3 fat and 10.1 fiber. With delicious strawberries on the side – these are so sweet! I planned on running a 5k at lunch yesterday.  While I love the bike machine,...

I forgot to post this picture yesterday from our drive home from seeing Toy Story 3.  I thought my friend Beth would enjoy it – turns out we can’t get enough cloud or sunset pics! 😀 Breakfast was delicious – I have South Beach Steve to thank for the idea of adding basil to my scrambled eggs – so good! Lunch was another addition of...

This is going to be a quick post because the storms are getting closer and I need to shut off the computer soon! So for lunch it was more “what can I make out of my fridge!”  I used two flour tortillas, 1/4 cup refried beans, baby spinach and an ounce of colby cheese to make a quesadilla, drizzled with my baja fresh salsa. And...