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I Love Auntie Day!

My Family: From left to right: Morgan, Jason (aka Sweetie), Myself, Megan (down below) and Nette!

Wednesday night is the night when my sis-in-law brings her two kiddos over to have dinner and to go swimming. We usually always have a fun time, and tonight was no different!

My niece Megan has gotten to the point that she is swimming like a fish, and she is just dying to perfect her ability to do tricks underwater! I think at this point if she could be a water ballerina, she most definitely would!

Now for my nephew, Morgan, he is a typical 4 year old little boy who has NO FEAR!! He is also swimming like a fish, maybe he is more likened to a little Tasmanian devil who has the ability to swim!!! He is sooo cute to watch because he has almost NO BODY FAT on his little self, so he doesn’t float very well. He really just kicks and flails to keep himself above water, and even though he splashes like there is no tomorrow he manages to get himself around the pool like a little pro!!! Soooo much fun!!!

I just LOVE my Wednesday nights!!!! 😉

As for what I ate today:

Today is day 6 of my 30-Day-Self-Created-Visual-Nutrition-Plan!! I can eat whatever I want, but I have to take a picture of ANYTHING and EVERYTHING I eat and post it on this blog – and have to be willing to take any criticism I might incur!!! The knowledge that I have to take pics and post everything that I have eaten has really curbed a couple of poor choices!! Although, an occasional treat can sometimes be DIVINE!!!

I think I did pretty well today but seeing that I am sitting here typing, thinking, “Hmmmm…I am hungry!” I probably should’ve eaten a little more today, but that is alright – I will keep that in mind for tomorrow.  I did weigh myself today, and found that I have lost 2.2 pounds since I started 5 days ago (I don’t count today, because I weighed first thing this morning!) I can tell that my pants are a little looser, and I seem to have a lot more energy than I had even a week ago! That has probably been my BIGGEST SHOCK!!! I LOVE IT!!!! I think what is making the biggest difference for me is all of the cheerleading that I am receiving through this blog! I am sooooo thankful to all of you for that!!! THANK YOU, TRULY!!!

With that said, here is the pic of all I ate today:

Breakfast: Fat free, sugar free, iced mocha, with a bagel and light cream cheese (I was having a rough morning, I really NEEDED that caffeine!!!)

Snack: None

Lunch: Salad made with spinach and mixed lettuce, rotisserie chicken, diced green bell pepper, and light Dijon dressing

Snack: Yogurt

Snack 2: Grapes with string cheese

Dinner: Sandwich made with spinach, miracle whip, honey ham, and whole wheat bread, and a serving of Sun Chips. I also had 1/2 a glass of Hawaiian tea (only 1/2 of what is shown), it was good, but a little too lemony – me and lemons have never really gotten along so well! 🙂

Snack: A pear, which by the way was SUPER sweet and juicy!!!! YUM!!

Anyway, how are all of you doing? Have you been inspired to make any eating changes in your own life? I would love to hear about it in the comments above.

Have a FABULOUS evening!

Laughter is the Best Medicine!

Christina: “Jennifer, You are the wind beneath my wings!”

Jennifer: “Maybe that is why you keep flying around in circles.”

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I just got off the phone with one of my little sisters, Jennifer!!! She is such a hoot!!!Ok, so maybe she isn’t quite a little girl anymore – matter of fact she is almost 25, but she is still the hilarious comedian of the family!!!! I think she came out of our mother’s womb with a witty remark that could’ve made the doctor laugh so hard, that she was in serious danger of being dropped!!!

Jennifer is recovering from surgery that she had his past week, and although she is still in some pain, she is just as busy as ever making the world laugh around her!!! What a blessing that woman is!!! 😉

When Jennifer was about 9, her and my youngest sister, Trina, who was 4 at the time, used to spend every Summer with my husband and I. I would pretend they were my little girls and we would take them with us everywhere to go do all sorts of fun stuff, well, at least that was our goal!!! You see, during one EXTREMELY HOT Summer, when my Sweetie and I were living in Idaho, we thought it would be fun for the girls to sleep in a little tent that we had set up in the finished basement just for them – it was the coolest part of the house, and during that heat wave, a cool place was MANDATORY!!! I mean HOW AWESOME IS THAT!?!?!?! Well, ok, apparently they HATED IT!! I didn’t realize, probably because I had never slept in the basement, that there was an extremely noisy furnace which scared the bajeezus out of them every time it turned on!! Plus, because they were so scared, they kept the tent completely zipped up and it became a swealtering sauna!!! I never could figure out why they go to bed in there pjs and they would get up in the morning in just there underclothess. OK, now I get it, it was super hot!!! But they just went along with everything because they didn’t want to cause any problems!! ISN’T THAT FUNNY???? Everytime I hear this story, I just feel soooo bad that I didn’t realize that the little tent was sooooo not fun!!! I am sure I owe them a small fortune in therapy costs!!! Thankfully, we all just laugh about it now!! I still LOVE THOSE GIRLS!!! ;- )

Ok, so down to business:

Today is day 4 of my 30-Day-Self-Created-Visual-Nutrition-Plan!! Feeling great!!! I can eat whatever I want, but I have to take a picture of ANYTHING and EVERYTHING I eat and post it on this blog – and have to be willing to take any criticism I might incur!!! The key word being ACCOUNTABILITY!! In addition, I am incorporating more fruits and veggies into my day to help me eat a more BALANCED diet, and get healthy!!

I have to admit, that the knowledge that I have to take pics and post everything that I have eaten has really curbed a couple of poor choices!! Although, I did treat myself to a real New York style hot dog tonight, which was DIVINE!!!

Anyway, here is the pics of all my eats for today!!

Breakfast: Yogurt with granola

Snack: Sliced orange with 3 mini blueberry muffins

Lunch: Salad with chopped rotisserie chicken, raisins, Dijon dressing, and cherry tomatoes

Snack: Some carrots cut like chips

Snack: Grapes and string cheese

Dinner: A whole wheat hot dog bun, a foot long hot dog, caramelized onions (I am totally addicted!!!), and super healthy baked beans!!! YUM!!

Snack: Fresh strawberries (I decided that because I splurged on a hot dog for dinner, I had better save the chocolate for my strawberries on another day!!) 🙂

How are all of you doing? Getting any ideas for yourself? I would love to hear some of them, please free to comment up above!!!

Have a FABULOUS evening!

Today’s Eats!

I have invented and am trying a new nutrition plan for the next 30 days, and today is day #3!! The idea is that I can eat whatever I want, but I have to take a picture of ANYTHING and EVERYTHING I eat and post it on this blog – and have to be willing to take any criticism I might incur!!! They key word being ACCOUNTABILITY!! In addition, I am incorporating more fruits and veggies into my day to help me eat a more BALANCED diet, and get healthy!!

Here is the pics of all my eats for today!!

Breakfast: Chocolate silk with added fiber, sliced banana, and 3 mini blueberry muffins with whipped butter

Snack: None

Lunch: HUGE salad with mixed greens, black beans, 2 leftover crisped bacon slices from dinner last night sliced, cherry tomatoes, and light Dijon dressing

Snack: A cup of read grapes with a string cheese

Dinner: Rotisserie chicken wing, mashed cauliflower with leeks and chives, and steamed brocolli

Dinner 2: Rotisserie chicken breast – I know it looks like a WHOLE LOT more on the plate, but this is actually one chicken breast all broken up on the plate

Snack: 5 chocolate covered strawberries; I am convinced that this may be the dessert that the good God Himself eats!! YUM!!! 😉

Have a FABULOUS evening!!!