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I love when readers send comments and emails. Those small exchanges over time have allowed me to build relationships here on the blog with people that I otherwise would never have known anything about. Although I may never meet some of you in person, I feel like I know many of you. Occasionally, I have the honor of meeting some of you in person! I recently received an email from a reader that found my blog and discovered that we had a LOT in common. Not only did we have the same breast reconstruction surgery in December, but she lives close to me and is with the same group of doctors! Crazy, right? Yesterday we met for coffee at 10:00 a.m. and chatted into the afternoon. I got home well after 2:00 p.m.! It was so great to talk to someone that is experiencing exactly what I am feeling physically and […]

Simple post for my accountability and maybe you’ll see something you like? Breakfast – 5 SP Eggs are Zero SmartPoints and I love eggs, but every once in a while, I go with just the egg whites. One Egg has 6 grams of protein. One Egg White has 4 grams of protein. If I know I will be going several hours in between meals, then I try to get in extra protein. That’s what I did here. Cook 3 Egg Whites and Wrap in a warm Tortilla, two times.   These are really hearty and don’t fall apart. These are 2 SmartPoints each.   This also taste great with Cheese or Canadian bacon. I just went with egg whites and a little smashed Avocado (25 g)   That’s a Cara Cara Orange. They are SO sweet!   Lunch – 3 SP Tuna Salad (the only points are the Mayo) on a bed […]

It feels great to sit down and write a simple post about what I ate yesterday. I started tracking two weeks ago today. I’m going to go to my WW meeting next Friday. It has been too long since I have attended a meeting as a member. I’m anxious to work that back into my weekly routine. It was a snow/ice day yesterday, so I pretended like I still had kids in school and spent the entire day in my pj’s. Not really unlike many of my past several days. I’m still working on a Blog Post about 2017. It’s like this really depressing drama that I’m trying to turn into a dark sitcom. Or something like that. I’m trying to focus on all of the great things that happened, but lets be honest, 2017 brought a lot of shit with it and I’m sorting through it all. Let me just say […]

I’m happy to be back at Weight Watchering! (it’s a word.) A VERY sweet friend of mine (Thank you Niki!) organized a Meal Train for my surgery in August and for this most recent surgery. I so appreciate my friends singing up and bringing us meals. One less thing to worry about and so very kind! The Meal Train was organized through the month of January, but since I’ve felt pretty good these last two weeks, I decided to cancel the remainder of the Meal Train. I love that friends want to help, but I feel bad having someone bring us a meal when I now feel good enough to throw something simple together. That being said, I got back to tracking and making a few simple things in the kitchen. Basically, soup, tuna salad and any kind of breakfast food that you can think of that is easy. If […]

This steak soup really isn’t streak soup at all, but while playing in the kitchen one afternoon, I made this soup and it totally reminded me of a Steak Soup that I love at one of our locally owned restaurants. I used ground turkey and vegetable broth the day that I first made it, then I thickened it up a bit with a puree made from potatoes and broth. Mike and I both loved it but of course I was just playing around and I didn’t write anything down. Now I’ve played with this recipe a few times and I finally came up with a recipe that I could write down. Some friends came by for a visit on Saturday, and I had a pot of my soup on the stove. With the fireplace going and the crazy single digit temps we are having here in Kansas City, (and the fact […]

Happy Sunday to You All! I am working on a novel right now (Okay, really just a super long blog post!) about my recent surgery, but I wanted to say good morning and write a quick post! My breast reconstruction surgery has me absolutely fascinated and I want to share all the details. Pictures will be included, so reader beware.  I am 16 days post op and I am feeling great! I’ve had two post op appointments that have gone really well. My next appointment is on Friday and I have so many questions for my plastic surgeon about the next steps. Surgery is Phase I. I still have Phase II and III to go. Mike and I went to Walmart yesterday and it was like a date! It felt so good to get dressed, do my hair and get out of the house. It is single digits here, so hat […]

Good Afternoon All! It has been a full few days here at the Farmer house. I picked up Tess and Manuel and Tucker at the airport on Wednesday night and we’ve been going full speed ahead ever since in preparation for our Holiday Weekend. On Friday night the four of us went to a party at a friends house and we had a great night. It was fun to have Tess and Manuel along to spend an evening with our friends. I was also reminded that me and my friends have very inappropriate conversations when we get together and I did have to keep reminding them that my daughter was in the room! Nobody listened. lol. It was a really fun night. On Saturday our kids and grandkids came over around noon for our family Christmas. After gifts and stockings, our parents, aunts and uncles and cousins joined us. We […]

I’m super excited to introduce the Weight Watcher Freestyle plan that rolls out today! Some of you may have heard a few rumors floating around on WW Connect or Instagram. As a WW Leader and WW Ambassador, I have been sworn to secrecy! Today I get to share the new plan with you! If you are not a WW member, and you’d like to go into 2018 feeling more in control, have more energy, feel healthier and shed some pounds, this is a great time to join Weight Watchers! To the current WW members…..Embrace the Change! Weight Watchers Freestyle has added more Zero SmartPoints foods to the already amazing list of Zero SmartPoints foods. This will offer members more flexibility and freedom on the Weight Watcher plan. I love the new list of foods! Not only are there more Zero SmartPoints foods to choose from, but the list has been […]

FEEL IT ON THE FIRST Happy Saturday! Thankfully I am feeling much better. Thursday and Friday I felt like myself again. Lab work all came back fine. I truly think that last week I had a bug or food poisoning, then my body hadn’t quite recovered from that before I started a liquid diet to prep for my colonoscopy. I think I was just super dehydrated and that was the reason for my nausea and light headed feeling. Dodged a bullet there! Phew. I feel much better now and my goal is to take good care of myself and stay healthy for the next 12 days so surgery will go as scheduled. To stay healthy and avoid any type of cold or cough, we will be spending as much time at home as possible. Before “cancer”, the blog was all about me learning to live my life in a much healthier […]

Hi Friends! While I have not been blogging or posting much on Instagram, I have been enjoying family and friends and staying focused on feeling Thankful & Grateful. One year ago today I turned 50. I loved turning 50. I was feeling good about my health and my life and I was so happy to be headed to Dallas for Weight Watcher Leader Training. Everything in life was feeling really good. Yesterday, as I went into the last day of my 50th year, I didn’t like that my memory of 50 would now be associated with my breast cancer diagnosis and all of the things that came for our family following my diagnosis.  I wanted my memory of 50 to be all about how great I was feeling in life and the goals that I had achieved. I decided to make my memory of 50 about overcoming obstacles. I decided to make yesterday, […]