The Weight of My Weight

Tess has been wanting Mike and I to come visit her in Dallas ever since she got hired and moved into her apartment! I have been able to go a couple of times, but Mike hadn’t been able to get away. We finally got it on the calendar and Tess got busy planning all sorts of things for us to do.  Before leaving town……I kinda needed a pair of jeans, but I didn’t want to get more than one pair, and I didn’t want to spend a lot, so I headed into Kohl’s immediately after my WW meeting on Friday, and tried on a few pairs. Everything there is always on sale, and I just wanted a simple pair of Levi’s. I grabbed a few 10’s, then just for the heck of it, I grabbed a whole armful of 8’s. WHAT???? I know. I totally freaked out when I realized […]

Tomorrow’s Weigh-In The Scale was very kind to me this morning, and I’m feeling fairly confident about weighing in at 154 tomorrow! Whoo Whoo! You guy’s, that’s the LOWER side of the 150’s!!! When I talked to “coach” last week about going to weigh-in after enjoying too much cheese at Happy Hour the night before, she suggested I go for a 30 minute hard core walk/run before I went to my meeting.  I was like…..”Um, no thank you. If my weigh-in isn’t great due to the salt and fat intake of the cheese, I’m sure it’ll be fine in a couple of days.” Well, my weigh-in wasn’t great, but after lots of water over the next 2 days, I was where I thought I should have been last Friday morning, but it would have been nice to see my “Happy Number” at the actual meeting instead of at home by […]

I do have plans to get out of the house today, and it’s a good thing. I’m honestly on some kind of cleaning frenzy, and I can’t seem to stop myself. I’ve basically been cleaning since Friday, and making list of “projects” that either NEED to be done, or things that I WANT to do at some point during this Fall and Winter. I still haven’t even stepped into the basement to clean it, and I’m on day FIVE! It seems as though, not only am I obsessed with Pumpkin, but I am currently obsessed with cleaning as well!! I feel like I’m nesting. No. I am not pregnant. I think the closer I get to my goal weight, I feel like now that that part of my life is finally in order, I need to make sure the rest of my life is in order too? Not sure, but that’s […]

I literally spent most of the weekend in my p.j.’s cleaning and organizing and rearranging. It felt so good to have the windows open and fill up the house with all that fresh air! I must admit, I can’t seem to stop the Pumpkin Madness. I opened up a can of Pumpkin to add to whatever it was I made first, and now I can’t seem to stop until all of the pumpkin from that can is gone!! I’m soooo close. Saturday Breakfast – Pumpkin Butter Oatmeal Saturday Lunch – I have eaten almost all off my Butternut Squash Chili   Saturday Dinner I never actually ate dinner. The day literally got away from me and I was so busy, I simply wasn’t hungry. Not something I would advise, and I did find enough room for a few glasses of wine while sitting around a Fire-Pit with friends, but I […]

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Pumpkin Butter Oatmeal I was going to post this Monday morning, but it was so delicious, I ate it yesterday AND today, and couldn’t wait to share! The secret to really making this Oatmeal taste like the best bowl of Fall you could ever have on a cool morning, is the little jar of deliciousness that I buy each year at Louisburg Cider Mill!   They have pumpkins galore!   I had a hard time picking out just the right one, but I finally found it!     Not only do they make Apple Cider and Apple Butter, but they make all sorts of butters and jelly’s here, and as much as I do love the apple butter, the Pumpkin Butter is by far my favorite! If you take a trip out there this Fall, you can ask for a tasting, and they will bring out all sorts of butters […]

I’m Living in a Land of Pumpkin!!!! Literally! I’m not even kidding. This happened to me last Fall as well, and I just went Pumpkin Cray Cray!! I want pumpkins all over the house, I want pumpkins in the yard, on the deck, in the kitchen, in my food and in my latte’s!! I am dreaming Pumpkin! It’s just through early December people, then I’m all cinnamon, and I’m good until the following Fall……I think. I’ll Pumpkin Ponder that. Okay, let me go back to Thursday. Wait, really Wednesday. Wednesday when I stepped on the scale at home, it said 154. I bout fainted. Must be a fluke. 155 just knocked at my door LAST Friday, so I knew that it couldn’t be real. Thursday morning, 154 at home again. I put on this pair of shorts that fits, but fits snug at 157. They felt really good and I had […]

I’m now on a quest to see how many variations of Protein Shakes I can come up with using Protein Powder and Greek yogurt in ALL of them! The only problem I have found so far, is that the Greek Yogurt adds lots of bulk, and I can’t blend the whole thing in my little individual sized blender, so I need to use the regular blender, or blend in two batches, but they are so good, its completely worth the extra step! This Protein Shake is 42 grams of Protein. That includes the protein in the Chia Seeds. My Big Beer Mug was the only thing I could find that would hold it all! I suppose if you were in a sharing mood, you could do that too! 🙂 “love the life you live, live the life you love”