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Tomorrow morning, I leave for Dallas to finalize my Weight Watcher Leader Training. Finally! What a great way to end the year! I come home on Sunday, and although I don’t have a regular meeting of my own yet, Carol, my awesome trainer, is letting me lead one of her meetings on Tuesday! That’s like in FIVE days!! This begins another chapter (probably the most exciting chapter) for me in my weight loss journey. My weight loss journey has become so much more than just a number on the scale or the size of my clothes. I have discovered how good “healthy” feels, how to appreciate my body for all of the things that it can do when I take good care of it, and I’ve learned to focus on all of the positive changes that I have made in the last few years, instead of focusing on any negative […]

My plan over a busy and rather long Thanksgiving/Birthday holiday was to make the best choices possible, drink plenty of water and get in lots of activity. Seven of the eleven nights that Tess and Manuel were here visiting from Dallas, we had something on the calendar. I had a family birthday party one day, a small birthday party with some girlfriends another day, then dinner out on my actual birthday, we had two baby showers, one a party at night with couples, the other at a winery during the day, of course we had Thanksgiving Day, and we had a family sleepover the day after Thanksgiving. I did say “no” several times to food and beverage, but I also said “Yes” more times than I should have to food that I didn’t need, and of course to, beer. These last three days have been filled with clean eats and […]

The last 11 days have been full of family, friends and fun. We took Tess and Manuel to the airport last night and it felt like our Thanksgiving break was officially over. You know when I haven’t blogged in a while, I always feel the need to write a novel and catch the blog up on every single day. I don’t have time for that right now, but plan to do so tomorrow. For today, I will say that my birthday was great, Thanksgiving was great, coffee chats by the fire were great, the baby showers that we attended were great and our first annual family sleepover the day after Thanksgiving was great. I ate like crap, and now my body feels like crap. The last two days I’ve gotten back on track with a long walk on Saturday and a hot yoga class on Sunday, The last two days […]

I picked up my daughter and her boyfriend at the airport at midnight on Wednesday. I’m not really sure how they both were able to pull this off, but they are going to be here until the 27th! That’s 11 days with me!! Besides working the food truck and a few WW meetings, here is what is going on for the next 11 days. Two Baby Showers for one of our friends. Tess was in her wedding, so I am really happy that she is able to be here for the showers. My 50th! (You know that I’m taking full advantage of as many days to celebrate as possible) One birthday celebration is a family day at Top Golf with all the kids and grandkids. I have a birthday breakfast planned with a few close loved ones, another birthday get together with a very small group of close friends. On my birthday night, dinner […]

We planted two maple trees in the backyard just a few years ago (five?) and I absolutely love them. We planted them for privacy, but I’m so glad that we did because I am really enjoying them in the fall. Soon, the leaves will fall, and we will again be aware of the fact that we can almost reach out and touch our next door neighbor. I think that this one is called a Brandywine? It is much more purple than it appears in this picture. I seriously just stand there and look at it. It makes getting up in the morning to let the dogs out just a tad easier. Love….     I can’t remember the name of this maple, but this is my view while sitting on the deck. It’s a good place for morning coffee, and maybe even a blog post. Fall trees, that is all. Here are […]

When it’s been a few days since I’ve blogged, I never really know if to blog about what I did, or what I ate! I’ll blog a little about what I did, and if it doesn’t seem to be turning into a novel, I’ll throw in some food pics too! Friday day was a Food Truck work day. Friday night was a quiet night at home with a girlfriend chatting over wine while I did some food prep in the kitchen. Saturday was a full on play day with that same friend. Everybody needs a good Saturday play day once in a while! I picked her up in the convertible, with the top down, (it was a tad chilly) and off we went to the City Market. We walked, shopped and bought just a few items. I bought this. I can not, for the life of me, remember what kind of squash it is, but […]

Tuesday night I went to the tasting party that I told you that I would share more info about this weekend, and I will. Wednesday night I had book club. Aka…Wine Club. (( stared at, but did not eat ONE Peanut M&M!) Thursday night, we had a birthday dinner for my dad. Happy Birthday today, Pops! I took him an individual size cake. No temptation there for me! I worked WW meetings on Tuesday and Thursday, and the Food Truck Wednesday and Thursday, and again today, so a busier than usual week. Loving the busy week and the beautiful weather that has accompanied it! I’ve missed being able to go to my Friday morning WW meetings, so I’m going to sneak in there for just a bit this morning before heading off to work at the food truck. I hope you all have a great weekend planned and that the […]

I will be finishing up my Weight Watcher Leader training in Dallas in December. For the meantime, I have been lucky enough to be working as a receptionist at a few meetings during the week. I am doing a bit of a “job share” with a coworker on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s, and we are quickly becoming friends. We both attended a Job Fair back in June where we introduced ourselves to one another, then realized that we had at one time attended the same WW meeting. We were both hired after attending that job fair. We have been texting and calling each other throughout our training with questions ever since. We are discovering that we have quite a bit in common, but more interesting than that? We have daughters that are the same age and they know each other from college! We went to lunch last week, and after even more […]

Occasionally, there’s nothing better than a day at home in your pj’s. Anybody else think so? All of that organizing over the weekend made me think of a few more things that I could organize! lol. So, I did! In my PJ’s. I drank lots of coffee, I drank lots of water, and I didn’t even think about getting dressed until well after 3:00 pm. I loved it! I had decided to get outside, so I walked the dogs, then I took a walk with a friend. After my walk, I started dinner. I had plenty of leftover Meatballs, but I had a weird craving for Beef Stroganoff? What the heck? I’m sure I saw it on an Instagram feed or Facebook. Anyhow, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Turkey, onions, celery, seasoning, broth, mushrooms and just a little sour cream. I had roasted some potatoes and carrots to eat along […]

I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend! It was a beautiful weekend here! The mornings and evenings were cool, and I was loving it! I took a few walks with the dogs and a few walks without the dogs. I sipped on a lot of coffee, some on the deck and some while running my errands with the windows down.  We spent Saturday at a friends house sitting around the fire pit sharing stories that we hadn’t shared in a long time. Lots of laughs and it was my favorite part of the weekend! I did do a little work too. I worked on Friday at the food truck and I worked two meetings at Weight Watchers on Saturday morning.  Yesterday? I spent all day yesterday regrouping. I had several things that I needed to address ranging from my schedule/calendar, my desk, the checkbook, a food plan for the week, […]