Update

I thought it was time to update on my weight loss status.  I am still at 20lbs down, but I wanted to let you know how I have been doing it. 

I found this great website calorie counter it is a blessing.  You can track everything you eat, all your exercise and weight loss trends.  It truly is amazing. 

Over the past few months I have learned to only eat what my body needs, not just what I want.  I used to eat whenever I wanted with little regard to whether I actually needed to eat.  Now I eat when my body is hungry, I eat to live.  I no longer live to eat.  It is very freeing to be able to say what I just said. 

My day usually start with coffee, and then moves on to food.  Sometimes I will choose to eat fruit in the morning, like an orange.  They are sweet, have fiber and seem to make my morning even better.  There are times I will have two eggs scrambled with salt and pepper, then I put it on toasted sandwhich thins...they are only 100 calorie bread thins.  This makes a good breakfast!  For lunch I will have a huge salad (just greens) and a boneless, skinless chicken breast, with Newman's Own Low Fat Sesame Ginger Dressing, only 35 calories for 2 tbsp.  Dinner is something similar to lunch. 

I do buy snacks, but they are the healthy snacks.  For example; Laughing cow cheese (35 cals), special k bars (90 cals), a hersheys nugget w/almonds (1 @40 cals), a half cup of low fat cottage cheese (80-100 cals), these are all healthy low fat snacks that won't undo all your hard work.  One other thing I just love to snack on is good old Edemame (soybeans), I buy a bag of frozen and when I am in the mood for something salty and yummy I thaw some out and snack on those, now that's what I'm talkin' about!


I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He is silent. *Written on a wall in a concentration camp*

Me...Tagged?

I've been tagged by Ellie over @Ella's Edge, isn't that sweet.  I believe this is the first time I have been tagged so here goes...

Question 1. Where were you 5 years ago?
My family had just moved here from Brookings, over on the Oregon Coast. We lived about 3 minutes from the beach/ocean, so we spent a lot of weekends there.

Question 2. Where would you like to be 5 years from now?
Living here in Oregon, and experiencing almost empty nest syndrome.  Let's see two of my sons will be out of high school by then, another one will be in 11th grade and my daughter will be in 7-8th grade.  I would like to be able to say I am published but I won't be holding my breath. I want to be alive.

Question 3. What was (is) on your list to do today?
To develope some more of the story I am writing.  I have lunch with a good friend @12:30 at our store.  Shower. Eat healthy. Pick up daughter after school.  Pay some bills.  Cook dinner.  Live.

Question 4. What 5 snacks do you enjoy?
Special K bars.  Dark chocolate hershey nuggets w/almonds.  Edamame.  Oranges. Laughing cow cheese w/healthy crackers.

Question 5. What would you do if you were a billionaire?
Tithe enormously.  Buy new homes for my parents and my in-laws. Give to charities for diabetes, cancer, and other various ones. Buy a home in Italy, Hawaii, and Switzerland. Live, love and laugh.

Now I have to tag five others, so here goes...

Alex J. Cavanaugh

Belbin9

Will

Fifi

Gregg

These are in no particular order and if you don't want to participate that is okay!

I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I feel it not. I believe in God even when He is silent. *Written on a wall in a concentration camp*

What the french, toast!

Okay, this is how I feel right now...I am over at my mama's and she has a...furry..fleecy..woolly..purring..cat, who will not stay away from me..I believe I am..allergic..severely..(go away cat before I go postal) sorry about that she just walked under the chair I am sitting in, she just can't seem to stay away from me!

This is her..the beast..Maggie!

This is how I look right now, no that is not me but you get the drift..red nose, stuffy head..sneezing uncontrollably.

Yup, that's me! This is exactly why we don't have a cat at my impeccable mansion home. By we I mean my hubby.  He wanted a cat so bad, but the kids and I wanted puppies instead..somebody should have shot me then.  I love my precious little babies doxies, but my hubby made us get two, "so they won't get lonely" and now well there's two to pick up after and bathe, and feed, and scoop their poop..etc.

This is what I need, but don't have at the moment! Sounds like it is time for a trip to the abyss Wal-Mart, for some relief..and maybe a few more snacks for comfort, after all I am sorta, kinda sick!