Weigh in day

I lost 2.5 lbs this week, just have to keep on it. So since I first started this whole thing I have lost 35lbs. That sounds like so much and yet I still have 125lbs left to lose. I have a whole person left to lose. (Or three supermodels) I can do this and I will. When I stepped on the scale in my doctor's office and saw that I had gained back all of the weight I had lost when I was in my early 20s I was devestated, I just have to hold onto that feeling and focus on how much better I felt before I put all the weight back on. I had so much more energy. I hope by this time next year to be riding a bicycle on a regular basis. I think I can get there.

Where the heck have you been????!!!!

Here I am blogging away and you readers just don't show up for months?! What the heck?
Anyway, I have been very busy with work etc... and haven't been blogging I know. I am back on track now however and am so excited about my new cookbook I bought.
"Hungry Girl's 200 recipes under 200 calories" perfect for making snacks or getting to my 1500 calories a day on days where I just don't feel like having anything too heavy.
I just made 3 of the recipes today and they were all tasty. My favorite as far as ease and taste was the "Strawberry Shortcake Bites." I don't know why they are called bites when they are bigger than the "Strawberry Shortycakes" which I also made.
(Can you tell strawberries were on sale at Meijer?)
I am going to try to make the froze "Shortcake Bites" as a banana creme pie type thing. This could be really good, although it will have more calories as the sugar free strawberry preserves I used for the original recipe are only 10 calories per tablespoon and a whole banana is about 110. But it should still be very yummy, I might also try making them smaller so that it isn't as bad. We shall see.
I look forward to making the "guilt free" bloomin' onion recipe that she has in there.
Sunday night for dinner I am going to make that, and the "buffalo" chicken tenders (made with original Fiber One (tm) cereal crushed up as the breadcrumbs.... I love this cookbook.
Anyone who shows me how to make guilt free cupcakes, and better for you appetizers is wonderful in my book.
Well that's it for now. I have gained back a lot of the weight I had lost but we will see how Saturday goes. I still have two days to stay on the straight and narrow. I can do this, I just need to start doing my exercises regularly now.

I love veggie "burgers"

That is what I had for my dinner and they were yummy, just warmed up in the microwave with nothing on them.
It is so hard to be good when I am working because I get cravings for candy and stuff. I am however and that makes me feel much better.

Cleaning house may be the best workout yet

Bend to scrub the tub, bend to pick up socks, lift laundry basket, carry downstairs and across the street to the laundry room. Come back climb stairs bend to fill dishwasher, scrub sink.... You get the point, I wonder just how many calories I burned?
Lunch today was yummerific again, brown and wild rice with hawaiian style tofu. (trust me it was yummier than it sounds there.)
Tonight we are having chicken breast with salad. (Greg's idea, I may die of shock.)
Anyway, I have a new tea addiction which might even rival the last one and still no calories: Oolong, it is the tea they used to give you at Chinese restaraunts before all the Chinese restaraunts became Chinese buffets.
Either way it is wonderful and it is also really good iced with a little Splenda(tm).
Okay, that is it for today I still have cleaning to do...workout time.

I hope this makes Eileen happy

Okay, so I know I haven't been blogging. I had the flu for about a week and lost the 8lbs I had gained while cheating, unfortunately once I started feeling better I wanted mild foods so I was eating carbs to beat the band, potatoes, crackers, bread etc.
I am getting back on track though and had yogurt with apple and granola for breakfast today, and a small dish of pasta for lunch. My husband is supposed to be getting more supportive and working with me for us both to get healthy.
Step in the right direction he loves my Spaghetti squash with ground turkey sauce.(We both do) He thinks he might like some other kinds of squashes too. I haven't tried any since I was a teenager and still am not so sure. I do like summer squash and zuccini in things or raw on salad but, I am not sure as just a side dish. We shall see.