Month: January 2017

Not only did I make a decision on paint colors, but this blog post is seriously ALL over the place, kinda like my brain the last two days. Paint I finally made some decisions on paint colors for the entry and hallway and powder room and its time to get started! I need a project and I’m ready for a lighter color on the walls.  When I say project, I’m talking about shopping for new things to hang on the walls, not the painting. 🙂 I’m going to have someone else do that.  I would love for the whole first floor to feel like this picture.   Feet I spent over an hour at the shoe store on Tuesday where I buy my walking shoes, getting fitted for just the right insert for this plantar fasciitis. I also bought some special sock? We’ll see. I’m also doing stretches for it and […]

Short on time, but posting my food for the day because it helps me so much with accountability. Have a great day! Here are yesterday’s eats… Breakfast – 7 SP Slept late and had plans with my dad, so I grabbed this bar and ran out the door. RXBar, un-pictured Banana and Black Coffee   Lunch – 10 SP It was after 2:30 when I got home to eat lunch and I was so happy I had made extra of these on Sunday for the Football watch party. Chicken Poppers, Dill Mayo, Asparagus   Dinner – 10 SP I was gone until about 7:30 pm and had no dinner plans and we had consumed all of the cooked food. Yay! No waste! I scrambled us up some eggs and called it good. Three Scrambled Eggs topped with Pico and Smashed Avocado, Grapes, Banana and Almond Butter Daily SmartPoints Total = 27 […]

The weather calmed down a bit here in KC, but not before they moved the KC Chiefs game from a day game to a night game to avoid the icy roads. We were anticipating the play off game all day long! We went to a neighbors house to watch and yell and scream at the TV, only to come home with a loss. Just before that game, we watched the Dallas game, and the end of that game was crazy and also ended in a loss for Dallas. It was a sad day for Dallas and Kansas City fans. I did take some of those Chicken Veggie Poppers for everyone to snack on, and they were a hit!   I also took a few of these monsters. So juicy and sweet! Posting late today, so keeping it short. Here are yesterday’s eats… Breakfast – 13 SP I’ve never made Latke’s […]

(Edited 1/16/2017 to include Youtube Treadmill Video) I took full advantage of being home all day yesterday. I relaxed all morning drinking coffee by the fire, I did a treadmill YouTube video, a Yoga YouTube Video, I took a long bath, did a little house cleaning, I played in the kitchen a little and we finished up watching Homeland last night. I’d say it was a great and cozy Saturday at home. Have you watched Homeland? It is intense and oh so good!! I know I need to up my activity a bit, so I searched on YouTube and found this treadmill video and the perfect one popped up right away. 5 minute warm up, walk 1 minute, run/jog 4 minutes and a 5 minute cool down for a total of a 30 minute workout. Perfect, and I ran each 4 minute section. I hadn’t done any running or jogging in […]

Most of the schools cancelled class yesterday and we had no precipitation all day long. When I let the dogs out before going to bed last night, the deck was a sheet of ice. Mishka would barely step outside at all and Tucker went down two steps, then turned around and looked at me and wouldn’t move. I had to go pick him up, leash him and takes the dogs to the front yard. Those kids. I’m glad I made it to the grocery store with all of the other crazies yesterday, but I will admit that I was surprised to see that there were no banana’s, no zucchini (I found some organic zucchini, and I really wanted to pull that organic sticker off!!!), very few potatoes and no chicken stock!! The canned tomato and bean isle was bare!! I guess everyone is having chili, potatoes and banana’s this weekend?? […]

The School Districts went into some sort of panic mode here last night and cancelled school today due to the forecast. We may or may not have some ice this afternoon? It’s still unclear to me. Well, after hearing that on the news last night, I changed my whole day around because the media is always right. (insert major eye roll here) I don’t have my car this morning anyhow, (That is going to be a small fortune to pick up later today!) so I needed to change things around a bit anyhow. I did have my Christmas present massage scheduled this afternoon. I’ll just look forward to that next week and spend today in the kitchen. Sounds like a nice way to spend a cold afternoon anyhow. I met a few friends around 5:00 last night at a Mexican restaurant for a birthday celebration, and while they were enjoying […]

I like rules and guidelines. I have a clearer vision of what I need to do when I have them. Since discovering the Blue Dots on the Weight Watcher App, I’m shooting to eat between 27-37 SmartPoints each day since that is what Weight Watcher’s recommends that I eat based on my gender, age, height and weight. Yesterday, I ate a low point, but very filling breakfast and lunch. Come dinner time, I knew we were eating Chicken Breast, and that’s all that I really had planned. After a little more planning, I still wasn’t going to be even close to eating all of my daily points. I added a little extra Olive Oil to the green beans and added almonds to increase my points for the day. After dinner, with several points still left for the day, I debated making up some trail mix to snack on for the […]

Just as I posted a blog stating that I needed to put my RXBar’s outta sight for a few days, I was running a bit behind and grabbed one of them and an apple to eat for breakfast in the car. I was gone from 8:00 to 4:00 yesterday with no meal plan for while I was gone. I stayed within my SmartPoints range and I still got in a full day of whole foods, it just wasn’t the best balanced day. Oh, and I made this White Chicken Chili the other day in the crockpot. Here is the picture from the Website. Looks amazing, right? Here is a picture of my my crockpot. It doesn’t look nearly as good, but it did have good flavor. It did call for Almond Milk, and I left that out. Maybe I’ll try this again using all of the ingredients and see what I […]

You guys, it’s hard to come up with a blog post title every…single…day. I’m not that clever. Sometimes, I just gotta call it what it is. After posting my blog yesterday, Bird Balls, I received a reminder text from my doctor’s office that I had an appointment at 10:40 a.m. Thank goodness for all of the things that we can do with our cell phones! I had completely forgotten about it, so my 9:00 a.m. Hot Yoga class didn’t happen, but I did get in a 3 mile walk outside in the afternoon. I had planned to pick up some paint color samples to bring home. Yeah, that didn’t happen either. Here’s what did happen. After my appointment (just an annual thing), I went through the car wash, drove 1/2 mile when a gazillion (I am not exaggerating) birds flew over and about 10 of them pooped on my clean […]

(Recipe Card Revised 12/05/17 to  reflect Freestyle SmartPoints) A quiet day here on Sunday. It was nice. I watched a little Netflix while Mike replaced all of the under cabinet lights in the kitchen. He was having a blast. I could tell. After I had new lights, I went in the kitchen and played with a Chicken and Turkey Meatball recipe that I found on Instagram.  I think the credit for this recipe goes to mudhustler_official. He calls them Bird Balls. Pretty simple. These huge meatballs are only TWO SmartPoints each. I’m out the door to Hot Yoga, then to pick out some paint colors for my upcoming projects! Happy Monday. I hope you all had a great weekend and that you have a great week planned for yourselves. Here are yesterday’s eats… Breakfast  Pork Sausage, White Sweet Potatoes, Peppers and Onions stuffed into this big Egg White Omelet and […]