Month: May 2017

After working my WW meeting yesterday, I called my mom to see if she would like to meet for lunch. It was a perfect day for a short walk in Downtown Overland Park and it was good to get her out of the house. We had a good girly chat. When I got home, I had inventory to do. The one part of the WW At Work Leader job that I must admit that I don’t love, is the mini store you basically keep at your house. Four times a year you do inventory, and yesterday was my first experience at that.  After inventory, I had food on the brain. I had bought all of the ingredients the day before for the dinner I had in mind. I make a lot of recipes from Trina over at Paleonewbie.com. Every time I make one of her recipes, I love it! Yesterday […]

Such a great long weekend. Everything that I hoped that it would be. I picked up my daughter Tess and her boyfriend Manuel at the airport early Friday morning. We spent Friday morning and afternoon relaxing and getting caught up. Our phone chats are always good, but those in person convo’s curled up on the couch or sitting on the deck with a cup of joe are always so much better. Friday night was a family get together that included two month old granddaughter, Wrenley and two week old grandson, Sawyer. Wrenley is so big already!   Sawyer is just a little newbie still. So sweet.   The evening was spent holding and kissing babies. Who needs anything more? Oh, and maybe dogs.   I love those cheeks!   Such a proud Papa! So sweet to see Jake with his little girl.   Uncle Jake meeting Sawyer for the first time.   Sawyer […]

I’m not taking the weekend off of tracking. I’m going to track like a WW fool over this long weekend because we have a lot going on and I want to feel good about my choices at the end of the weekend, but I am taking the weekend off of blogging so there is plenty of time for family fun. I picked up my daughter Tess and her boyfriend Manuel early this morning and we plan to spend the weekend holding babies and spending time with family. A cookout here tonight and spontaneous stuff for the rest of the weekend. I hope that you all have a great weekend and be safe! I hope that you get an extra day off to enjoy family and friends. We started off our morning with these pancakes! I made the Big Ass Waffle batter and made pancakes. We shared the recipe for one which […]

Wednesday was spent working at the food truck, then paying bills and paperwork crud, then dinner, then a 90 minute bath and some reading. You know you might be in there too long when you have to add hot water…..twice. It really did feel good. I did crappy on steps yesterday, but I forgot to mention in the post before that I had a great step day on Tuesday. Yesterday – Blah Blah Blah….whatever. Standing in the food truck for four hours doesn’t give you ANY step cred!!     Tuesday – A nice walk with Becky as we got caught up with each other. Okay, food… Breakfast – 6 SP Pancakes made using the Big Ass Waffle batter. Topped with Warm Cinnamon Apples and 1 T. Pure Maple Syrup   Lunch – 12 SP I packed some raw veggies and an egg to take to the food truck. I had a Burger with […]

Busy day, no time for spilling all my thoughts here, but need to post my food. I’ll have a hard time going to sleep if I don’t do it. Maybe something will sound good to you like this soft boiled egg? Yesterday… Breakfast – 8 SP Sweet Potato Hash made with Peppers and Onions and Zucchini topped with two Soft Boiled Eggs. For Soft Boiled Eggs, bring water to a boil. Add eggs and boil for 6 min. Remove eggs from boiling water and place in a bowl of Ice Water for 2 min. Peel and enjoy.   Lunch – 5 SP Bell Peppers, Hummus and One Chicken Brat on Toast with Dijon Mustard.   Snack – 4 SP Still hungry after lunch…. Two Mama Lupe’s Low Carb Whole Wheat Tortilla’s with Hummus   Snack – 2 SP Enjoyed an afternoon Iced Coffee with this Caramel flavor of Premier Protein. […]

I had a hard time getting going yesterday morning. Monday is my “get sh*t done” morning and I was having a hard time making that happen. I was happy in my bed with my old school coffee pot, which actually does not keep my coffee warm at all, but it’s cute, so I keep the dang thing. After lots of coffee, I finally came around. Compared to our busy weekend, yesterday was really boring, so I’ll just leave you with what I ate. Breakfast – 7 SP Sweet Potato (100 g) with Peppers and Onions topped with Two Eggs Over Easy.   Snacks – 9 SP Handful of Cheerios, Raw Cashews, One Graham Cracker Lunch? – 2 SP Premier Protein added to 2 shots of Espresso in a Venti Cup with Ice while running errands. I just needed more caffeine. I follow a few ladies on Instagram that order this […]

It was a little girl weekend filled with giggles and hugs and snuggles. We had our 3 year old grand daughter and our 7 year old grand daughter with us for the weekend and I just can’t love these girls enough. These two cousins love each other to pieces and it is always so much fun to have them around. I feel like I need a diagram or a family tree each time I post about the grandkids, but I’ll just tell the story of the weekend, and likely you will figure out who belongs to who, or not. Or perhaps it doesn’t even matter.  I picked up these two cuties on Friday night. We had dinner, then some messy cup cakes for dessert. This picture was taken right before they both decided to bend over their plates and take bites of cup cakes without using their hands. Kids these days. You […]

I spent the entire morning in bed on Friday and I loved it! I slept super crappy the night before and I knew I had some ZZZZ’s to catch up on, so I did. Once awake, I made a yummy cup of Frothy Coffee and crawled right back into bed to enjoy it. I was on the computer all morning, but it was nice to stay in my pj’s for as long as possible. I ended up doing some housework in my pj’s too. I finally decided it was lunch time at around 1:30 and made myself a nice big plate of French Toast. It was rainy and blah out, Mike was working away from home today, and I was enjoying pj’s and bed head for as long as I could. I left in the pouring rain at about 4:30 to go pick up the two oldest grand daughters (not sisters, […]

This week in the Weight Watcher meeting room we are talking about Stress. I ended up filling in as a sub for two meetings this week and each meeting was completely different, which is just one of the things that I love about being able to be in different meetings throughout the week. These are the questions I asked that led to some great conversations.  What gives you stress? How does your body feel when you are stressed? What do you do when you are stressed? Do you turn to food when you feel stressed? What are some things that you can do when you feel stressed so that you do not turn to food (or punch someone in the face)? I heard some great feed back from members in all three meetings on how they deal with stress. Many members already have a plan in action for when they […]

Seriously, this food truck gig not only rocks because we just have fun while we’re working, we also have the tunes a playing (A customer asked me yesterday if I could turn the juke box down. He was old.) and the winds were crazy yesterday so we literally rocked in that truck all dang day! And……it was our busiest Wednesday I think maybe ever! We sold out of everything. Good day at the truck! Before heading out to the food truck, I made these Egg Cups for breakfast. I guess before making a recipe, you should check to make sure that you have all of the ingredients.   Okay, I didn’t actually have a recipe. Egg Cups are easy. Put your favorite filling ingredients into a muffin pan sprayed with Olive Oil, then top with an egg and bake. I lined each muffin tin with 1/2 slice of center cut bacon. The […]