Since I’ve been here, I’ve made it a practice most nights to have some sort of a refreshing drink ready in the evening. I’ve been keeping busy during the day and MamaInBlue works a full day at a stressy job, so it is nice to relax with a cool drink. And sometimes water just doesn’t [...]

Yep! I’m back in the Midwest. In this post, I detail my current projects and what I’ve been cooking lately.

I’ve been quiet these last few months because life has been a little mundane lately. We’re going through a lot of transitions at work, not all of them good. The last six months have, on a number of levels, mostly just been about holding on and keeping things going. It was tiresome enough to live [...]

Once again… I bombed out on a project. Project 365 just didn’t work out. I had a stretch of a few weeks when I just couldn’t get it done. Kind of a bummer but I do have some good news to balance it out. With regards to my Resolutions, I am 100% on the wagon! [...]

One of my resolutions this year was giving up fast food. It was not as hard as I thought it would be. Sure, sometimes I get the urge to pull into a drive-thru when I’m tired and on my way home. That habit wasn’t tough to break. I really have two motivations in giving up [...]

Today a question came up about fast food that I thought was interesting so I decided to put it in writing, if only for my own sake. The Boss Man bought lunch for everyone today. Originally he had suggested Subway, thinking that my Fast Food embargo was about eating healthier. It is about that… partially. [...]

I have, for the last 20 years of my life, been on and off diets. Even when not following any program whatsoever and eating all kinds of crazy things, the idea of dieting has camped out in corner of my mind.  And now… I’m done. For some reason, I was clinging to Weight Watchers but [...]

Breakfast – 7 pts Salad of fresh kiwi, strawberries and pineapple – 2 pts Fresh mozzarella – 5 pts Lunch – 11.5 points I’m kind of intrigued by these little individual size cups of cottage cheese from Rachel’s. They’re a break from a cup of yogurt and they have really interesting sounding flavors. I tried [...]

It is just too easy to fall back into bad patterns!  I’ve wandered off program and have been going for convenience over quality… but am getting myself back on track. More on this soon but in the meantime, I just finished a breakfast of fresh fruit and it was delicious!

Breakfast- 5 pts Strawberry yogurt – 3 pts Cut fruit – pineapple, kiwi and strawberries – 2 pts Lunch – 12 pts Turkey and Swiss cheese in a pita – 8 pts Cut fruit – pineapple, kiwi and strawberries – 2 pts crudités – 0 pts String cheese – 2 pts Dinner – 9 pts [...]