June 30, 2017

Weekly WI – .2

Weekly WI – .2
I had a great week.  I stayed pretty much on track, other than last Saturday night when we went to our neighbors and I had THREE glass of the delicious sangria my neighbor made.  Three days last week I had 18k steps or more.  I finished through Day 3 of Insanity, drank a lot of water, and only saw a dip in the scale of...
June 30, 2017

No excuses

No excuses
I wish I could bottle the days when I am in total control for the days when I need it later.  For some reason, this last week I’ve been focused, and nothing is tempting me.  Take for instance our catered work breakfast yesterday.  It was catered by Corner Bakery and they had cinnamon rolls the size of my head, their cinnamon crisps, bagels with fluffy...
June 29, 2017

Skinny Banana Cream Muffins

Skinny Banana Cream Muffins
It still boggles my mind how much I used to eat back in the day.  Fast food at least once, sometimes twice a day.  Buying snacks for the train ride to work, only to fix my breakfast as soon as I got to work around 9, then eating lunch by noon.  One of my go to muffins was from Oak Park Bakery – the banana...
June 28, 2017

As always, thank you!

Thank you so much for all your kind words on yesterday’s post – from long time readers who reached out to me, sending me text messages DM on Facebook, leaving comments here, you have no idea how much I appreciate your support! This was the temperature while I was waiting for the train yesterday morning.  #perfect Since I planned food for my neighbors get together on...
June 27, 2017

I Don’t Live There Anymore.

I Don’t Live There Anymore.
I was sitting on the train last week going to work.  I’d already finished writing my blog, I published it, put my laptop away, and switched on my new YouTube music app.  I will choose music over t.v. every day.  I realized I never turned on the t.v. once this whole weekend!  The great thing about the youtube app, is that it will custom build...
June 26, 2017

Weekly WI . . . -1.0

Weekly WI . . .  -1.0
See that +2.6 from last week?  That week I tracked everything, got a blue dot every day, and had no alcohol.  And was up 2.6. This week I had a snacky Father’s Day weekend, had wine, did a little bit of emotional eating with another holiday without Tony, and I lose a pound.  I did kill it on the steps, so I am assuming that...
June 23, 2017

Stuffed Mushrooms

Stuffed Mushrooms
Does anyone else walk down every aisle at the grocery store to get more steps in?  No?  It’s good and bad.  Good that you are getting more steps in, but bad because you tend to throw stuff in the cart that wasn’t on your list.  This Scramble though, was a good decision.  It was in the egg aisle (duh) – they had several different varieties...
June 22, 2017

Skinny Lasagna Soup

Skinny Lasagna Soup
I am pretty bad about putting stuff in the freezer and then never remembering what’s in there, or stuff gets buried to the bottom – the only thing I don’t like about my freezer being on the bottom, is that even with the drawers, inevitably stuff gets shoved to the bottom.  I used to have a list of things on the refrigerator of what was...
June 21, 2017

Greek Chickpea Salad

Greek Chickpea Salad
I know a lot of people would be upset at temps in the low 60s in the middle of June, but that is my favorite temperature.  Just cool enough to need a light jacket, but you aren’t sweating balls walking to work.  I really wished I could have worked outside yesterday!  Oh, but wait, when I did that, I worked farmers markets and had to...
June 20, 2017

Skinny French Toast Sticks

Skinny French Toast Sticks
Friday night was of course, Party Pizza Friday.  I normally pick up a frozen deep dish to cook at home, but the problem with that?  Leftovers.  And Lou Malnati’s is not that point friendly.  I looked up their menu on the train ride home Friday night, and realized they had a tiny personal deep dish pizza that serves 1!  It looks big in this picture,...
June 19, 2017