Month: October 2014

(Revised 2-10-17. This recipe taste great made with 93% Lean Ground Turkey, or 93% Lean Ground Beef. It is approximately 6 Weight Watcher SmartPoints per serving made with either the Turkey, or the Beef.) I’ve always liked a pot of soup, or a stew, or a big pot of Chili simmering in the kitchen on a cold Fall day. I love making it, I love the way that it fills the house up with yummy smells, and I love the convenience of filling up a bowl and cuddling up on the couch in front of a Football game or a good movie whenever the mood, or the hunger pangs, hit! A few years ago, I tasted some chili that my friend, Renee, had made. I loved it. It wasn’t too salty, or too spicy, or too thick, or too thin. I loved everything about it. After getting the recipe from […]

Organizing I’ve been in some sort of crazy cleaning and organizing mood since the house got painted! I had been planning to paint our bedroom, and assumed that when the house got painted, I’d get the painting fever and paint the bedroom, and I did! Well, that made me want the whole room to feel fresh, so I cleaned out our closet. When I say cleaned, I mean I purged a whole bunch of stuff. I’ll probably regret that when the seasons change. Purging our closet made me want to move from room to room and clean out the closet’s in the two spare bedroom’s, which I have now done. Now, our empty nest is really empty! It does feel good to have everything so organized, but I’m not sure what this little nesting feeling is all about. I’m not pregnant, we are not adopting, and we are NOT getting another […]

I knew I had consumed too many points…calories….food…..beer, all of those, on Monday, so I wanted to have a great and successful Tuesday and keep the week on the right track. I walked EIGHT miles with a friend……   ……ate lots of fruits and veggies…..   ……drank extra water and stayed focused! I was home all day, and sometimes that can be a challenge, but I did every ounce of laundry that needed to be done, and I cleaned house, keeping myself busy. At the end of the day, I felt like I had conquered any food demons that were lingering in the back of my mind! Here are yesterday’s eats!   Breakfast Two Gluten Free Waffles 1 T. of Jiffy Whip’s Pumpkin Pie Spice Flavor Black Coffee 8 PPV   Lunch Mixed Greens, Salmon, Edamame, Avocado Balsamic Glaze 6 PPV   Snack Un-pictured Banana and Grapes Honeycrisp Apple and […]

Well, it was a good thing yesterday started off with a nice walk, because the rest of the day ended up being an unplanned pub crawl. Okay, it really wasn’t too bad, but we did go to three bars, and we did have three beers, but it definitely wasn’t a part of my plan for the week! Tess came in town to watch the Royals play on Sunday night, we spent Monday playing in the city, then I took her to the airport at 5:30 this morning! It’s been a crazy couple of days here! Yesterday, Tess and I had a productive morning that included a 4.5 mile walk. Later in the afternoon, we found ourselves downtown at Anton’s Tap Room, where I had a pumpkin ale, and we shared sliders and shrimp!   These little sliders were awesome!     The shrimp wasn’t too shabby either.   Our next […]

My daughter, Tess, lives in Dallas, and is a HUGE sports fan! She had decided that there was no way that she could NOT be in Kansas City watching the Royals play last night. So she hopped on a flight (yay for free flights!!) and came home! We met some friends up the street and cheered the Royals on to victory! It is seriously a great place to live, but especially right now! Since they won last night, they won’t be playing today, and that means that Tess and I have the entire day to play! We got our day started off right with a 4.5 mile walk this morning followed with coffee on the deck. It is a beautiful outside, and I’m really looking forward to spending the day with my girl!   My goal for the week is to eat no more than 30 points each day, and […]

This Week’s Food and Fitness Goals My plan for this week is to walk 20 miles, and keep my daily points for the rest of the week at 30 or less.   It’s been a really great two days. Friday started off with great results at the scale at my Weight Watchers meeting. I was down 4 pounds from last week! I knew that I had planned well, drank lots of water, and did a good job of tracking what I ate, and I didn’t do any mindless snacking. I had weighed each morning, so I knew it was going to be a good weigh in. I know I won’t lose 4 pounds a second week in a row, but here’s to another successful week! I had plans to spend the day and evening with a girlfriend, so I tried to eat low point options that would keep me full, […]

Well, it’s been a great week in the Weight Watcher World, and just in life in general. I’ve been getting things marked off the “Big Project To Do List”, and that always feels great! It’s also been an awesome week to live in Kansas City! The Chiefs had an awesome game on Monday night Football and the Royals made it into the Playoffs on Tuesday after 12 innings, then won last night in extra innings! It’s First Friday’s in the crossroads district downtown today (if you live here, and you haven’t been, you REALLY need to go and experience it) and I am spending the entire day with an old friend playing downtown! It is also the American Royal BBQ this weekend in Kansas City, which is a HUGE annual event! It’s just a great week to be a Kansas Citian!! I feel like I am back on track with […]

I am aware that nobody is nearly as excited to read this post as I am to write it, but I’m so HAPPY with my new Master Bedroom! We have lived in our house for fifteen years, and I’ve never really loved our bedroom. 1. It’s a big square with really only one option for bed and TV placement. 2. We have never purchased a bedroom set, so the pieces that we do have are completely random and nothing matches. 3. Mike designs cabinets for a living, so he did a great job of making sure we had “built ins” in our closet, so we really have no need to purchase a  chest or a dresser to fill up the big square! 4. There are three large windows along one wall. I originally wanted there to be a window seat, but after the house was built, I realized that I […]

The Kansas City Royals win! I finished up my “Walking 100 Miles in September” challenge I finished painting and redecorating my bedroom! The Scale went down! It was a late night in Kansas City last night and the adrenaline rush made it really hard to go to sleep! But after 12 innings, the Royals came away with a win!   I got the idea for the walking challenge from someone that I follow on Instagram! It was a great way to get me out the door on days that I likely would have made excuses. Now I need to come up with a Challenge for October! After several months of pondering what I wanted to do, and shopping for some inspiration, I found some curtains that I liked, and based the whole room around them. I’m really happy with the way that it all turned out! I’ll take more pictures […]