The Sugar Doll Award!

Sweet Kimberly over at Terra del sole gave me another award! ;) The Sugar Doll award. Kimberly i a very smart and inspiring down to earth woman. I'm learning so much from her and just love reading her blog and her sweet comments too.

The rules are I have to tell you 10 fabulous things about me. I then give the award to 10 people.

Hmm 10 Fabulous things huh.

1. Zoe loves me! I know, call me crazy cat lady, but I only have 1 :) and she think I'm her mom soo she thinks I'm fabulous!

2. I love nature, parks and trails and Ocean and Sand...

3. I love my husband and very grateful for everything I have I thank God everyday

4. I have a loving family, we have been through tough situations and lost my dad when I was 21 but with time it only made us stronger. ;)

5. I find the cemetery a very peaceful place and is a place I can gather my thoughts (I swear the wind stops when I'm there and it's very soft and still)

6. I try my best to help others when I can, even if it's just lending an "ear".

7. I'm growing and learning so much every day.

8. I started working at 13 years old, I worked part time through high school and college. (not so fabulous ahhah) I have a WIDE range of experience. (Ice cream girl/Nail tech/Lab tech/Customer service/Qa analyst. Fun! ahah!

9. I love makeup, I always wear eyeliner and mascara :)

10. I love blogging and love all the amazing people I have met AND I introduced many of my friends to blogging and that makes me happy!!! :) So see below!

Some fabulous blogs!

Alessandra http://18stepstohappiness.blogspot.com/

create design inspire http://vxn3.blogspot.com/

Ant http://confessionsofadiet-aholic.blogspot.com/

Eyegirl http://www.lifeaseyeseeit.com/

Jessica http://farfallafiori3.blogspot.com/

Stephanie http://www.believinginserendipity.com/a

Amanda http://www.Amandascookies4hope.blogspot.com

Brittany http://brittsbeat.blogspot.com/

Nancy http://nancygrayce.blogspot.com/

Steph http://nottheoxygen.blogspot.com/

Found that pic on google and that is how I pretty much look and feel.

Last week I cut my calories by ALOT and started counting my calories in my Iphone app. Last week I did really well and this week I have been on track. However since Monday I have been grumpy and tired and totally not myself. I pretty much look sick too, people at work are asking me if I'm ok (ahah, no I'm NOT, I'm hungry! GRR) I even got not 1 but 2! cold sores, gross I know I get them when I'm overly stressed and now I guess when I'm overly hungry too ahaha.

From writing on my blog in the past I know I need to find that balance, I've talked about it before but It seems I keep trying new things and they end up flopping.

So today I decided to keep doing everything I'm doing just increase my calories a little bit more so I don't feel so starved!.

Next week I will start again with taking my measurements as well, that way I can track my total progress :)

Fun!

psst. I just had a cookie mmm mmm love my sweets!

Kimberly at Terra del sole gave me a bloggy award! I will post on that tonight.

And I'm still thinking of a giveaway that I want to do this weekend. I have some ideas ;)

Wordless Wednesday

Please don't be mad...

Just one of those days...

So I’m having one of those days, where the glass is half empty. Yesterday I was so tired and so cranky and today is not that much better. Today is a grump post, so feel free to skip it :p

My mood… Is Blahh! That is how I feel inside and out! Could it be that I’m cutting so many calories and my body is mad that it’s hungry. HUH light bulb just went off here, it could be because I am a little hungry and therefore irritable. Well either way I was on a downer and my head was going to explode with the whole woulda/shoulda/coulda still wanna do type stuff. Really this could drive a person crazy. I have that overwhelming feeling of boredom again and it seems it is only during the week, the repetitive day in and day out, Blahh! Everything in me is going against it.

Today as I tweeted my grumpiness I started thinking of things I enjoy... and I know I love blogging!

So I decided today to make things a little more fun. I love blogging and I love reading my blogger friends blogs so I decided I will start doing giveaways. I never did them before so I will peek at other blogs to see how it’s done. I'm excited for a giveaway!

So keep up with my blog posts one of them will have a giveaway very soon :)

**Diet update - 1pm and only 600 calories left for my day. Ugh oh.

Monday goals

Today was a tiring Monday! I woke up extremely tired and ended up drinking more coffee's than usual, actually more than I ever drink in one day!

But the work day is done with and it's time to look at my Monday goals :)

This week for lunch I'm switching to wraps :)



My weekly goals:

* 5 days a week of home cooking ;) (I;m doing really well with this goal)
* Limit carb intake
* Limit Sweets, use 3 bite rule
* No FRENCH FRIES
* Cut coffee as much as possible and replace with Green Tea
* 3 days a week basement work out (Jillian Michaels 30 day shred video)
* 3 days a week 10000 steps on the pedometer
* loofah body scrub to enhance circulation (my skin is becoming verrry soft :)

I'm happy that the new year has started off really well in relation to watching my calories and exercising. It's all becoming just a lifestyle change that is working well for me so far.

Tonight it's Oven baked wings, samosas and a big spinach salad!

Hope you all had a good Monday.... Is it Friday yet!?

30 day shred update

If you are like me you are sad the weekend is over :(. I had a really good weekend, I hope you did too!

To end a good weekend my husband and I went for a ride north to the apple farm to buy apple pie :) I'm doing really well with my calories sooooooo a piece of apple pie is well deserved. ahah! :)

Ok I know many of you are also doing the 30 day shred... What a workout! and I'm still only on level 1!!! If you are considering getting the DVD, I say what are you waiting for!!?? Go get it! And all you need is a mat and weights :) as the DVD says ahah!
For those of you just beginning, one tip I can give, is to really pay attention to Jillian, she gives really good tips on technique and boy when you follow her words you feel it! Especially the last Ab workout... you know what I'm talking about :)

Do any of you know how many calories are burned in the 30day shred levels? I guess it would depend on our individual body weight as well hmm I'll be googling that now.

For lunch this week I'm switching back to wraps, I want to switch it up weekly so I don't get bored :) I'll post on that tomorrow.

Have a great week everyone.

Snack time!

Love my weekends. I get to catch up on so many things. Today my husband and I cleaned the whole house and took down the Christmas tree, ran some errands and just spent some quality time together.

I cooked every meal at home today and it was great.

Watching my calories with my Iphone App, is amazing. I love seeing how many calories I'm taking in and it helps me choose foods that are less calories.

Tonight for dinner I made Beef with mushrooms and onions with zucchini and sweet potato fries. Water to drink and a Spinach Salad to eat first!


Tonight we decided to stay in and make it a movie night. We went for a ride to Starbucks for a Latte and rented some movies for the night. I had about 300 calories left for my daily intake and I wanted to snack but wanted to make sure I did not go over.

So I popped some Samosas in the oven, 50 cals each

And put out some pistachios. (Not too many, there are hidden calories in these little nuts)
What are some of your evening snacks??

(Just one last note. I was watching a cat show and Zoe was just as excited ahaha!)

Love my Iphone!

My week has been great. I have been tracking my daily calories with an Iphone App called "my fitness pal" i have a 1330 calorie intake and as I add what I eat it tell me my remaining amount. It also allows me to add my cardio, and it will minus calories lost and add extra calories to intake etc you get the point. Well I love it! It is working really well for me.

Today we decided to go out for dinner to red lobster with my sister and her boyfriend. We haven't been there for a while, so I was looking forward to it. Soooo I added my calories to my app... not the best idea haha! Can't even bare to tell you the calorie intake for a dinner blah! It was good tho haha! Eating out adds much to much calories :(

We just had to get dessert :) We only got 1, and we shared :)

During the week I have been eating a sort of 2 course meal. A new thing I do is add a bowl of salad on it's own. Eat that first then eat my dinner. That way I fill up on my greens before I get to my dinner ;)

Weekend is here! Hope you all have a great weekend! :)

2lbs down!

Today I am home - I'm not feeling too good so took the day off. Not as fun ha!

I did my weigh in today and I lost 2lbs! Whoohoo I have been closely watching my cals and I also only had a salad for dinner last night because I was already feeling under the weather. ( I think that helped)

So far my Breakfast and Lunches have been going really well for me.

Breakfast 235 Calories:
Spelt Flax Organic Bread 100 Cal
1/2 tablespoon peanut butter 45 cal
1 tablespoon of jam 30 cal

I started making my own coffee, adding 1 tbs of raw sugar 20 cals and 2 tbs of half and half cream 40 cals. (saving 55 cals from coffee shop coffee)

Lunch 200 Calories:

1 cup of plain brown rice. 170 Cals.
(I boiled lots of brown rice on Sunday to have for the whole week)

I also bought a bunch of packaged seasoned veggies. The one below is 50 cals for 1 cup. You can use 1 package for 2 lunches.

Put 1 cup of brown rice in a container top with 1/2 a package of the above veggies. You can add more seasoning like Tabasco or even lemon on the rice and add as many different veggies too if you want. The below pic I had added cilantro, tomato and garlic to my packaged veggies.

Snacks:
2 tbs of walnuts 82 Cals

2 Clementines 80 cals

9 baby carrots 35 cals

Also, going back to Breakfast. Since we started making our own coffee we bought cute cups and lids at a wholesale place and estimated about $12/month if we make our own coffee, compared to $65 sometimes more in buying coffee monthly.



Counting cals and money, so far so good!

Back to work after the holidays!

Back to work! Oh was it hard to get up today!

I brought my lunch today, I had brown rice and veggies. Yummy and healthy.

My snacks today were 2 clementines and a handful of walnuts.

I think I will do all right with my new eating plan ;)

I downloaded a new calorie counter App for my iphone and it is great in counting the cals in everything I eat!!!

Another area I have been watching is my budget. Last week husband and I tracked our spending and we were AMAZED on how much we totalled at the end of the week. Heck, we never paid any attention to that. So with a new budget app we are tracking our budget too and so far so good! Our goal is to save more and spend less to reach our new 2010 goals.

With yesterday's winnings I donated a little to a charity and the rest I deposited to my account and instead of running out and spending it quick , I will be responsible and use it for my needs not wants ;)

It's time to put our attention to counting! .....calories and money! ;)

Hope you had a good Monday!