Month: June 2015

Immediately after I posted my blog yesterday morning, my new neighbors came out to play. I sat in my window with my dogs and watched them play for quite a while. Tucker is super confused as to why he can’t just go out in the backyard and play with them. I tried to explain to him that the three of the foxes together might decide that Tucker would make a good dinner, but he just didn’t seem to understand.   He did decide to just watch and be content. They would appear, then disappear all morning.   I’m a little hesitant to just let the dogs out in the backyard to do their business, so I’ve been putting them on a leash and taking them to the front yard, or taking them for short walks. Yesterday when I came home from working the food truck, Tucker had pooped in the living […]

Before I talk about the 7 miles that I walked yesterday, or the yummy dinner that I made last night, let me tell you about our new neighbors. In the last few weeks, several foxes have decided to make our nice little suburban neighborhood their home as well. I’ve seen some of them over the last several months crossing the street outside of the subdivision after dark, but I hadn’t seen any of them just hanging out in our backyard or in the street in front of our house in the daylight or anything…..until this past week. There is a concrete storm drain at the back corner of my next door neighbors yard where the corners of our yards meet. Wednesday afternoon, three foxes came in and out of the storm drain off and on throughout the day. They have remained there since, even going so far as to sun bathe […]

Our wedding anniversary is Mother’s Day weekend, and we never end up celebrating that weekend. We like to pick a weekend in June, and make a Staycation out of it. That’s exactly what we did this weekend. We started out in the West Plaza neighborhood walking from block to block at the second annual Porchfest. I loved it. There were over 100 bands playing from noon-5:00 on porches throughout the neighborhood. Everyone was walking around pulling coolers or wagons full of beer….or maybe wagons full of kids, either way…lots of wagons, and dogs, lots of dogs. We had a great time and we can’t wait to go back next year with our own cooler on wheels, any maybe even our dogs! After Porchfest, we checked into our room on the County Club Plaza, a great area to spend the night if you decided to visit Kansas City. I packed us an appetizer of fruit and cheese, […]

I’ll do an update of the weekend in my next post, but here are Friday’s eats! Breakfast – 5 PPV 4 Egg Whites, toast with 1/4 smashed avocado and berries. Black Coffee.   Snack – 0 PPV Un-Pictured Two Apples. While sitting in a class of about 50 people, and only the speaker speaking, my stomach was growling like crazy, and I just looked at the guy beside and said….”Sorry about that.” Lunch – 5 PPV Lunch was at 4:30, and it was the only protein I could find in my house. Carrots Sticks and a can of Tuna mixed with light mayo and pickle relish, all stuffed in some lettuce leaves. I ate the entire large can of tuna!   Un-pictured Beers – 14 PPV I went to visit a friend for a Friday afternoon beer. It turned into a late night out after I had dinner with the hubs. […]

Yikes! I had to revise my post from yesterday, because I completely forgot to include Jazzercise in my daily activity points or even mention the fact that I went to Jazzercise on Wednesday. How I could forget to mention a sweaty hour of jumping up and down, I do not know. But, I did. My activity points are all updated now. It was another day at the food truck yesterday! This is me getting ready to take orders! Seriously….I love this job.   And these are the two awesome people that I get the pleasure of working with! Sidney, the boss, the owner, the creator, the genius, is on the left, and that’s Nina on the right. She’s okay.  Yeah, totally kidding. I am in love with Nina, and she is leaving us in two weeks to move to Norway for a year! She’s going to be so hard to replace. The […]

(Revised: I completely forgot to include my Jazzercise class in this post! How could I forget an hour of crazy, sweaty activity? I’ve updated my activity points to include my class.)   Would you believe I had a hard time eating all of my points yesterday?? Yeah, I can’t believe it either! I ran out of greek yogurt, so I just took a big fruit bowl to eat at the food truck for my lunch, then when I came home, I basically had marinara and spaghetti squash in the fridge and no meat, so my point consumption for the day, so far was  really LOW! And….I was satisfied. I snacked on things throughout the afternoon, and had a salad for dinner, but I still didn’t eat all of my points, and I did NOT go to bed hungry. I got out earlier than usual again and got a few miles […]

Now that the sun has decided to shine a few days in a row, it’s a little warm here in Kansas. A predicted high of 95 today. I decided to get up earlier than usual yesterday and get my miles in before I did anything else. I’ve now got 50 miles under my belt…wait…under my shoes?   I worked at the food truck yesterday and we’ll be working today and tomorrow too, so I’ll be packing a lunch and eating a later breakfast as to avoid eating those Pork Taco’s that I so dearly love! Here are yesterday’s eats….. Breakfast – 5 PPV Black Coffee and these Apple Cinnamon Pancakes. These are SO easy! I added a little extra flavor by topping them with 1 tsp Almond butter.   Lunch – 3 PPV My packed lunch…..1 C. of Greek Nonfat Plain Yogurt with Vanilla Stevia drops, Cinnamon, Blueberries and Strawberries.   Snack – […]

I got in a 4.5 mile walk yesterday morning, and a Jazzercise class in the afternoon. Look at that beautiful blue sky!   Sunday night, I placed a big pitcher of water in the fridge with cucumber and lemon slices. This was super refreshing when I got home from my sunny warm walk yesterday morning! I don’t mind plain water at all, I actually really like it, but this was a nice little treat.   Let me talk about this bread for just a second. I have been buying it and talking about it for a while now. If you’re new to the blog, and you like crusty warm garlic bread, then you need to know about this bread. It is sold in the freezer in the healthy food section of my grocery store, and I would imagine that’s where you will find it in your store as well. It’s […]

Saturday was movie night at home on the couch and I’m loving those Saturday nights more and more. First, we watched Wish I Were Here, with Kate Hudson and Zach Braff. We thought it was weird at first, yet it was keeping us very entertained. The more the movie went on, the more we liked it, and at the end I was a blubbering idiot and loved this movie and the weirdness at the beginning of the movie completely made sense! Then, we started The Last King of Scotland, but it was late and we couldn’t keep our eyes open. Both being wide awake early Sunday morning. I made Frothy Coffee, and we finished The Last King of Scotland. What a great performance by Forest Whitaker! I always love his movies! After the movie, I made breakfast and we chatted about our plans for the day. Knowing I had some miles […]

Friday morning I got up earlier than usual and prepared for the day. I was going to WW, then heading downtown for First Friday’s to work the food truck. I made myself a breakfast sandwich to eat after I weighed in, and I packed a bowl of fruit and yogurt and put it in a cooler to have when we got done working around 2:30. I was so glad I had it with me! After that, I got in a few more miles towards my walking goal! My weigh in results? Good News and Bad News. The bad news is that I had gained more than I realized over Memorial Weekend, so the week before last, I was up more than I was hoping for. The good news is that, I lost 2.5 pounds this week. 🙂   I am trying to eat mostly from the Simply Filling Food List for […]