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Yesterday was a good day spent with family. We went out for brunch with some family early in the day, then they came over and hung out for a  bit. A little while after they had left, a few other family members stopped by for a quick visit. It was good to spend the day getting caught up with some of the fam. Mike spent the rest of the evening waxing my car! I didn’t even know people did that any more! We bought his car and my car 10 years ago. We knew that when we bought them, we would drive them until they died, and I guess that’s really what we are going to do. They are both super shiny and look brand new now! Thanks for all of your sweet comments yesterday. I’m sure that hormones may have a large part in my mood swings. I will […]

Oh my gosh, my mood is all over the place lately. I don’t know what the heck is going on, but Monday through Thursday went really well, and I was feeling like Julie. Friday? Crazy lady. Look at me and my eyes instantly filled up with tears. I went to WW on Friday morning. It was an awesome meeting! We talked about Food, Fitness and Fulfillment with putting Fulfillment first. It was such a great meeting and so many people had so many great things to say. Sometimes those meetings can be kind of deep for me and really hit on some emotions. It can be great therapy for me at times. I chatted with a few of my WW buddies after the meeting, and basically cried while speaking to whomever I was speaking to. I had a Dr. appointment scheduled for Friday afternoon because my back is still sore. No […]

This past Spring, I picked up this free magazine at one of our local grocery stores. I knew that eventually I would be making both of these recipes. I made the Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Grapes and Prosciutto shortly after picking up the magazine, and we loved them. I’ve had the magazine on my kitchen counter top opened to this page for several weeks now. Yesterday was the day. This was super easy to make and I have no idea why in the heck I waited so long to cook this up!  Bake the crust. Add cooked veggies. Add cooked meat. Add eggs. Bake. I tweaked things a bit. I removed the cream and the cheese from the original recipe. I used different veggies and I added in cooked pork sausage.  You could use a variety of veggies and a variety of meats to give this all sorts of different flavors. Mushrooms, […]

Yesterday was another HOT one here in Kansas City! It was extra hot in the food truck. I get to stand at the window and take orders, so occasionally, I get a bit of a breeze, but the girls at the grill were dying! When I came home, the last thing that I wanted to do was any kind of exercise, but I’ve had a good week getting back on track, so I didn’t want to skip a workout completely. My daughter sent me the link to a couple of workouts the other day, so I gave one of them a try. I did this video, 1 Mile Fast Walk Video, and I expected it to be fairly simple. I was surprised at how this got my heart rate up! There were a lot of arm movements, knee lifts and side steps. For a quick workout, I recommend it! We had dinner […]

It felt good to get back to work at the Food Truck yesterday. Two weeks is a long time away! It was just a tad hot outside yesterday, but that didn’t seem to keep any customers away. We were super busy, and even though it was HOT HOT HOT outside, people were ordering burgers like crazy! Yesterday…. Breakfast, Blog, Laundry, Food Truck, 3 miles on the Treadmill and then a little down time with Netflix. For dinner, I made this Shepherd’s Pie that was DELISH!! I don’t think you can really mess up a Shepherd’s Pie. Sauté lots of veggies, add a little broth and maybe some tomato paste and simmer, add some seasoned cooked meat, stir. Place in a casserole dish, top with mashed potatoes and bake. For my veggies, I used celery, carrots, onions and green beans. Broth? I used Trader Joe’s Organic Vegetable Broth. Meat? Ground Beef. […]

Yesterday life felt like it was back to normal. Yay! We ate three great meals. I drank all of my water. I knocked several things off of my “To Do List” and I walked 3 miles on the treadmill at an incline. After the treadmill, I showered and dressed as though I was leaving the house. I never do that. After a workout, I typically spend the rest of the day in my workout clothes, or if I have no plans, I shower and put on PJ’s. It felt good to get dressed. I feel like when I’m trying to pull myself out of a slump, getting dressed as though I’m going out can help. It did. I put some music on outside, made myself an Iced glass of LaCroix and sat under the umbrella while I grilled a Flank Steak.   The steak was amazing! 6 minutes on each side. […]

Between not blogging, very little cooking, no activity and not working at the food truck, I’ve had no routine whatsoever for the last two weeks. As much as I do like to change things up a bit to keep life exciting, I really do appreciate a routine. Having a routine puts structure and organization in my life, and those two things help to keep me in my happy place. Getting out of my routine for a long period of time starts to make me feel overwhelmed, then I kind of lose myself. Yesterday I got myself back into a routine, and at the end of the day, I was feeling more like Julie. I focused on my “To Do List” and avoided any TV news. I got out of the house and ran a few errands. I spent the afternoon doing food prep for the week. I walked 2 miles on the […]

  These last couple of weeks have pretty much sucked. Sure, there have been good moments in the last several days, but my general optimistic mood has been tough for me to maintain. Update My back is no longer having any spasms, but it is still really sore in the same area. I went to the chiropractor 4 times last week, and he really did help stretch out the area where the spasm was. When I went to the doctor’s office last week, they prescribed a muscle relaxer and suggested that I come back if it was still bothering me after 10 days or so. They discussed lab work to make sure there isn’t an issue with my kidneys or any other problem that may be revealed with lab work. The chiropractor also said that the area that is sore is where my kidneys are and that a trip back to the […]

This has not been the best last few days and I really miss my daily routine. If you read my blog regularly, you know that I’ve had a muscle spasm in my back for several days. Each time the muscle spasms, it only last about 3 or 4 seconds, but on a scale of 1-10 in the pain department, I give it a 10. It’s intense! I think that back pain is the worst. It’s such a debilitating feeling.  Thursday – Muscle spasms start while getting dressed and continue throughout the day. Ice and Advil. Friday – Spasms all day. Iced 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off and as much Advil as allowed. Saturday – Chiropractor. He told me that I had a dislocated rib. He relocated it. It wasn’t fun. Spasms. Ice and Advil. Sunday – The absolute worst day of all. Spasm every 20 minutes or so. More ice and Advil. Monday – The hubs took me […]

We’ve had to take a little Time Out from the Whole30, and it really stinks. Thursday morning, I was stepping into a pair of pants when my back cramped up. Not lower back stuff, but right in the middle of my back, on the right side. It feels like there is a knot the size of a grapefruit and it has continued to seize up/cramp/contract since then. After some coaxing from my girlfriends on Friday, I went to see the chiropractor on Saturday morning. Going to the chiropractor scares the living daylights out of me, and after an exam, he told me that I had a rib out of place, which freaked me out. He put my rib back where it is supposed to be, he gave me an all over adjustment, which I despise, and he told me to ice on, ice off every 20 minutes for the next few days. […]