Jiggly Butt

I'm linking to The Blue Zoo because she's funny and her blog '5 Tips To A Healthier You' just makes sense. I keep looking for that miracle pill, potion, water, mix-in, add-on (add-on?), you name it. Finally, someone with an ounce of sense who just makes sense. Yeah, be honest with yourself, totally watch portion sizes. I have a tendency freakish obsession   to make myself believe that I am doing OK on any given day and yet I know that I am lying to myself because why else would I have just pulled through McD's? Unless we're talking sugar coma, NOT, then I made that choice myself. You know, aside from feeling dreadfully ill after lunch, I realized that the people there at McD's are not even nice. So I can get sick and get treated like crap? Hoo Yeah, count me in again tomorrow.
So my lesson today is to be nice to myself. Take the extra time in the morning to actually plan food that will make me feel healthy. No extremes, no macrobiotic, unless I think that is the answer. (But truthfully, I just ate junk food-there's a big separation from fast food to macro!)
1) Be nice to myself, for one day, just try it.
2) Read portions on food and measure out ONE portion.
3) Look at what I'm eating (how very zen of me, I know, but I read during lunch and don't look up until I realize there is an empty fork going into my mouth!)
4) Be grateful for bloggers like Stephanie @ The Blue Zoo who make it real
5)It's called "setting myself free of the chub",

I copied this from Life Or Something Like It. Read it-you'll laugh and know you are not alone!
Love to All***

Things I have learned...

"Remembering to drink water. I can’t overstate how much of a MIND BOGGLING DIFFERENCE drinking heaps of water makes to my energy levels. It is such a basic thing that it’s easy to brush off as something that can’t possibly have that much affect, but it does!" from Lissa who seems to speak from the heart, especially when I am in my own dilemna with my weight. Hey, maybe I should try a glass of water! Like Dr Phil Says, "Obviously what you're doing now isn't working." Yeah, maybe I should just try a glass.

Day 6 Sugar Blues

OMG I started out so well this morning. I just don't have an eating plan. I think that I can get through the day without eating, then 10 am hits, I'm ravenous. I even think that I won't need lunch. Ha! When have I passed up a meal? Really Not eat lunch?
I must sit myself down and create the menu plan that works for me. Not something out of a magazine because while that sounds good, I just don't like that food. I'm very picky and picky eaters mean snackers.
So on to crafting. It's the only thing that calms me, since baseball as I know it is over until Spring Training. There's always Brian WIlson commercials. Hoo Ya!

Day 4 WTH?

I've done this before but sugar has taken over my life in the form of a Payday candy bar. Why am I eating candy again? I thought that was over. Grrrrr. Get a grip and get on with it. I think though it may have something to do with my thyroid imbalance. Or maybe too much stress (Gee ya think?) I am looking forward to Day 5. I will get this thing!

Day 3-Who Brought In the Cookies?

Honestly,  this sugar habit is getting harder and harder to break. In the morning meeting, freshly baked cookies. In the afternoon, one of the lovely ladies went home on her lunch hour. made cookies, and brought them back still warm from the oven! There is no way I'm passing that up. So I again look forward to another day dawning. (BTW, I might have sneaked a handful of candy corn from my dresser when I got home. Not saying I did, but the dish seems conspicuously empty. And since I'm the only one in the house who eats candy corn...)
Tomorrow, tomorrow Really, it feels like entrapment.

Day 2-Sugar Free

What? Did I just not decide to go sugar free. Is it the most impossible month to choose with all the Halloween candy staring at me? Okay, so starting on a weekend, a weekend spent doing Fall events and Home Shows and gift baskets for work... Tomorrow for sure. I even have a zero Powerade left over from Saturday. (Of course, I do. I drank soda all day!) Monday, yeah because Monday's aren't stressful at all at work, just my manager yelling at me, telling me I'm worthless and that if I don't act immediately...blah blah blah. Geez, Mondays are not fun. But no candy, no sugar, no soda. I can do this. Yes, yes yes. I do it for me. To be beautiful. To be graceful, to not buy my clothes in Husky Town!
Tomorrow will be a fabulously, wonderful day. And I'll tell you all about it then.

Sugar Free (Again)

Hey guess what? My birthday's coming up and I want to be healthy, look totally hot, and feel good, too. So I'm giving up sugar and sugar related products. Of course, I've  done this before, the last time was for 2 months. I felt really goodd, I lost a few pounds, clothes were looser and my blood pressure went down, not to mention the lack of heartburn for two months. Then I had a really bad day and went to McDonald's for lunch. Believe me when I tell you that the last place you want to eat when giving up sugar is McDonald's-read the nutrition label.
So anyway, today is day 1. And I started out with tea and sugar free creamer. Perfect. Then I moved on to my son's Hostess brumb cake! Super. I had an event to go to and packed some sugar free sports drink. Didn't eat all day. AND IT WAS FRICKIN' HOT!!! So much for the beautful fall weather WE ARE NOT HAVING. So I finally went to eat lunch and had a Pepsi, yeah, regular, And a refill. Then I came home and ate some candy corn I used for a raffle. Another plus.
Needless to say, I am not feeling so hot right now, meaning, totally gross! And my son wants to know what's for dinner. I say, "Whatever you're makin', dude". Yeah, that went over well. I try to get them to feed themselves, I really try. And they see me here and it's  Mom this and Mom that. Hey, I didn't sign up for the emal plan. There's no menu to choose from. So if you're hungry I suggest that nice grilled cheese calling to you, or quesadilla, or PPJ, or ramen, that's why I buy this stuff!