Author: julesfarm@yahoo.com

I’m keeping this short today, but I’m glad I tracked yesterday, it felt good to get to my WW meeting, and I made another recipe from my new cookbook, SkinnyTaste. I am loving simply reading all of her recipes! Today’s agenda….. I’m headed out the door for a few errands. I’m excited to be picking up my niece at the airport this afternoon. Tonight I am taking my Little Sis Samone out for dinner to celebrate her birthday, then we are taking a Christmas Light Tour of the city……Tour Guide….Your’s Truly! Have a great Weekend!   Breakfast Un-Pictured Bowl of Raisin Bran Frothy Coffee 7 PPV   Lunch Nonfat Latte Salad Bar 12 PPV   Snack Hot Tea Un-Pictured Grapes and a Pear 0 PPV   Snack Tortilla, Hummus, Carrots 2 PPV Rolled this up! Great Snack!   Dinner SkinnyTaste Slow-Cooker White Bean Chicken Chili Verde Cheese Quesadilla 12 PPV […]

Hello Blog! I’ve missed you, but this girl has been super busy and unfortunately, you have suffered a bit of neglect. I’ve been busy decorating, shopping, wrapping and going to parties, but I’ve also been relaxing, watching movies in the evenings with the hubb’s, reading my book in the afternoons, and just soaking up the Christmas Spirit. Here is this past week in a somewhat short review. Last Thursday was all about Christmas shopping and then, a total girly party. It was the neighborhood “Ladies Gift Exchange – Wear Your PJ’s” party and I had a blast!   I drank enough wine for two, I was super cozy at the party, and I came home with this awesome gift!   Friday, Mike and I had a last minute, super small get together where photo props and beer pong were the center of attention.   Even the dogs had fun!   […]

Short and Sweet today. I worked at the Food Truck yesterday and I love that job! Afterwards, I came home to meet the mobile groomer at my house, whom I also love. Mishka has developed lots of anxiety in her old age, and never really liked car rides even when she was younger, so the whole idea of a mobile groomer, is awesome! (except the price) I got even MORE Christmas shopping done after the dogs got pretty. I haven’t made any time for exercise since my Hot Yoga class last Saturday! I’m getting in LOTS of walking doing all of this holiday shopping! I wish I would have kept track of the miles I’ve walked. Kinda kidding, kinda not. I will get in some exercise today, but I am in some sort of shopping crazy mood, I’m having fun doing it, and I’m on a mission to get it […]

It was a great day yesterday filled with Christmas Shopping and lunch with a friend, followed by more Christmas shopping on my own that lasted until 9:00 pm! My girlfriend helped me pick out all sorts of great things! Thanks to technology and camera phones, I was able to text one of my daughters pictures of gifts I was pondering for her family, and get immediate feedback! My shopping yesterday was super successful!  I spend a crazy amount of time each year shopping for stocking stuffers. Since our children are grown, the main focus here on Christmas is the grandkids, except for Christmas Stockings!  I LOVE shopping for stocking stuffers for the whole family! One of my favorite parts of Christmas is sitting in our living room with the floor covered in wrapping paper from our unwrapped gifts, and watching our kids and our grandkids go through their stockings! The family […]

I spent most of yesterday afternoon Christmas shopping and organizing it all when I got home.  I must say, when I keep busy, it’s a LOT easier to forget about food and stay out of the kitchen. I’m headed out the door to wrap up my Christmas shopping today! (Pun totally intended!)  🙂 Here are yesterday’s eats! Breakfast Egg White Omelet with Bell Pepper’s, Onions and 2% Sharp Cheddar  Fruit 2 PPV   Lunch Grilled Cheese and Apple Sandwich Hummus and Veggies Apple Slices with Almond Butter 8 PPV    Snack Two Corn Tortilla’s One Laughing Cow Cheese Wedge Carrot Sticks 4 PPV   Dinner Quinoa, Zucchini, Marinara 1/2 Chicken Sausage Buried in there Bread un-pictured Small Caesar Salad 12 PPV Weight Watcher’s Points Plus I can eat 26 PPV a day. I can earn Activity Points by doing exercise, and eat them if I choose. I have an allowance of […]

Grilled Cheese and Apple Sandwich 5 Weight Watcher PointsPlus 2 Slices of Trader Joe’s Sprouted 7 Grain Bread 2 Slices of 2% Sharp Cheddar Cheese Apple Slices 1 T. Light Spread   Slice an apple into really thin slices. You only need a few slices, so crunch on the rest while you make your sandwich, save them for later, or dip them in nut butter for dessert!   It’s a grilled cheese sandwich, you know what to do!   Top it off with the remaining slice of cheese to hold the apple slices in there and the second slice of bread.     l love the crunch and the sweetness of this sandwich! I also love that it is only 5 Weight Watcher PointsPlus! “love the life you live, live the life you love”

I got a lot off of my chest in yesterday’s post, and I’ve had a lot of great comments from people telling me how much they relate to my story and my struggles with food.  Those comments always mean so much to me. This blog was started as a public diary to help hold myself accountable, but it has become so much more than that. When people comment and tell me that they relate and that they understand, it reminds me how “normal” my abnormal is. Thank you for reading, thank you for commenting, and thank you for accepting my honesty without judgement. Now, here is how my Sunday went! Mike and I got in a great date day yesterday afternoon. After blogging about food struggles and drinking too much, would you believe we bellied ourselves up to a bar to watch the Chiefs game?? Well, we did. I started […]

I REALLY struggled to write this blog post. I’ve started it over and over and over again since Friday.  If Food Addiction is a real thing, (I haven’t done the research, so I really don’t know the answer), then I am a food addict.  I don’t have a weight problem, I have a FOOD problem. All the way to my WW meeting on Friday, I was in some deep thought. Deep thought about life, family, friends, relationships, current events, goals, lack of goals, food, exercise…….my thoughts were racing like crazy! I gave myself a headache from thinking. When I got to my meeting, I opened up my Weight Watcher book and I realized that it had been 4 weeks since I had been to a meeting! I knew about where my weight was, and after weighing in, I was correct. I’m back in the 170’s. I weigh 173. A little refresh […]

Tess was vomiting and had a fever all day on Saturday. Then we received a text from my son asking if anyone at our house was sick. Then we all started exchanging text and realized that at least 10 of the 21 people that were here for Thanksgiving had experienced some tummy issues and/or fever! Mike and I had somehow escaped the bug, I thought. Yesterday, around 3:00 in the afternoon, I realized that I had no appetite at all. Later, I felt nauseous. I ended up eating very little and sleeping a lot! I never actually did get sick, but I was extremely nauseous. Still am. I hope if I’ve seen you in the last few days, I didn’t pass on anything I might have! I thought I was safe! Breakfast I’ve tasted several of the Greek Yogurts out there that are Pumpkin, and this was a favorite. It […]

After talking it over with Tucker for a couple of weeks now, last night he and I created a Instagram Account for him. No. I am not kidding. He even posted some pic’s and got a few followers! He can be a real pain, but he can be super smart too! I hardly did any of this at all.     In other news, I got in a Yoga class, had lunch with a few Yoga friends, made a trip to Sprouts and Trader Joe’s, and did a little Christmas shopping! They were sampling this at Trader Joe’s, and I’m a HUGE hot drink person, so I picked up a box and sipped on it all night last night!   Here are yesterday’s eats!  Breakfast Scrambled Egg Whites, Salsa Light English Muffin with One Wedge of Cinnamon Laughing Cow Cheese 5 PPV   Lunch Chicken Tortilla Soup Blackened Salmon Caesar […]