Today's commitment to drinking all my water!
Not the prettiest breakfast, but was super yummy!! Egg white omelet with yellow and red peppers, zucchini, white and green onion, and baby tomatoes. OMG so good! With a dollop of salsa, which added the perfect flavour.

Off to the park with the kids shortly, going to wog a few laps around the field, and maybe do some races with the kids, that always gets me going!

Had a fabulous camping trip, lost 2lbs while we were there LOL, and got water logged during. Ah well, just the time with Joe and the kids is worth every second!

OH OH OH and an NSV!! Last night, went to a double header movie with Denise (the ex husbands wife), and saw The Naked Truth, and The Proposal. HI LA RI OUS!! Both were fabulous, laughed out loud through them. And, they were only $4 for the pair of movies, ANDDDDDDD I only had a diet coke, NO POPCORN!!

So YAY ME!

That is all for this morning :)

Delayed response

Whew what a couple of days! Have been crazy busy getting the house cleaned up, and dealing with a very sick 4 year old, hospital visits, doctor visits, sleepless nights, and tired days!

So we are hopefully getting back on track today, but b/c of all of this, I haven't taken any pics of foods. I have been pretty careful, eating chicken, lots of salad, corn on the cob (omg no butter or salt needed people!!), FF yogurt, Green Monsters, and stir frys!

I did want to post a pic of a couple of my favorite foods this week that I did have a chance to take a pic of, since weekly I'm trying to mix up my limited menu!
Favorite bread

Favorite yogurt


Favorite soup

So today is a new day, with healthier kids, getting things ready for camping next week, and hoping it doesn't pour all weekend!!

I'll take pictures over the camping week as much as I can, to randomly post when I get back. I fully intend to work hard, but know I won't be able to be quite as strict when I'm gone, and that's ok too!

Hope everyone is fabulous!

Oh, and tomorrow, something really awesome is going to happen to a friend. SOMETHING
REALLY
AWESOME!
Something I got to be a part of.

I can't wait to blog about it once it does happen!

That is all, come back and see what it is, you will be floored, it's frigging CRAZY AND AWESOME!

Here I go again....

New start, new program, new me!
Feeling amazing this first week, today was my WI, and I'm down 7lbs! Yes, that's a lot, but it's working for me, and I'm healthy, and doing fabulous.

This new program I'm following is VERY strict, VERY restrictive, VERY hard, and VERY successful. So right of the bat, I will say this. IF you are reading this, and having some negative feelings on what I'm following, or how I'm following it, click the X. I am not here to ask for opinions, this is a blog. If I post on WW.CA, then I expect anything. This is my "safe" zone, so buck up and enjoy, or buck off (WOOT!)

Now that the dirty work is done, here's to my fresh start *cheers*!

I'm posting a pic of my breakfast:

I adore my daycare Mom, she brought me Timmy's! Woot!
Now this Green Monster (my regular breakfast) is kind of a weird mix, b/c it's grocery day and I'm out of stuff! I haven't any flax left, I have NO BANANAS, and no blueberries. And I didn't have as much spinach as I normally like. It's still pretty good, but I am not as in love with it as usual.

Breakfast - XL Timmy's, milk and sweetener.
Green Monster - 2 cups baby spinach, half an apple, 1 cup strawberries, 1/3 cup frozen raspberries, and a splash of milk. I added a teeny bit of Splenda, as I didn't find this smoothie sweet enough.

This is what my Green Monsters are supposed to look like, this was yesterday's breaky!


So anywho, that's my start to my day! I'm grasping on with both hands, and flying with it! I'm also purging toxic people from my life, yet again, and realizing I don't have to like everyone, and I don't have to talk to them if I choose not to. I am doing this for me, my husband, and my kids. No one else. Well, maybe Angi, cause I adore her, and Dee cause I want to be her. But THAT'S it LOL!

I will most certainly add more to this blog today, as it goes, and take pictures of my lunch and dinner, food journalling is hugely beneficial to me!

♥ You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

—Wayne Gretzky♥

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UPDATING - LUNCH!

Loving this soup!
Ok so there aren't many soups I am "allowed", so I was trying to be creative about tomato soup, which is in the YES list.
In my search, I found V8 herbed vine-ripened tomato soup by Campbell's. I compared Nutritional Information, and was surprised to find out this was a healthier choice all around than regular tomato soup!

Here's the comparison:

Regular tomato soup V8 tomato soup
(per 250 ml)
Calories 220 100
Fat .2 g 0 g
Cholesterol 0 0
Sodium 2120 (!!!) mg 480 mg
Carbs 48 g 22 g
Sugars 26 g 15 g
Fibre 0 3 g

Crazy, hey??
So needless to say, I'll stick to purchasing the V8, even though it's a bit high in sodium, just means I'll have to get that much more water in! PS it tastes so much like the thicker, awesome Gardennay soups I love so much! Anddd it was on sale :)
Oh and of course, my BIG salad (a la Elaine from Seinfeld), which is spring mix, spinach, red peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, cucumber, 1 TBSP shredded cheese, FF italian dressing, a dash of salt and pepper.

And of course pictures, cause I'm a food picture whore:




So for those point counters, my breakfast was 3 points, and my lunch was 5 points (soup was 4, yup I had the whole box - 500 mls) and I counted 1pt for the cheese.

Holy crap, am I blogging??

Here I am. Blogging. Seriously have started to blog so many times, and then closed the screen.
I need to stop that.
So I've lost some weight. Not tons, but some. It's a start, so I'm going with that.
I am going to check out NutriMirror, inspired by Dee. I think if I track my calories more, and still attend my meetings, that will help me more. I love Dee, she is so me, and I am going to follow her lead. www.nutrimirror.com

So last week was a rough week. I didn't WI, b/c I knew it would be bad. Which in itself is bad. But I had a little yellow ticked, so I used it. I'm just going to let it go now, and stop stressing over it.
I'm also going to start doing what I had in the past, and take pictures of my food. If I do this, then I know I'm more accountable. I noticed Dee was doing this as well, and it reinspired me to go back to doing this. But I broke my camera on my birthday *sigh*, so once I track down my daughter's memory card, I'll start doing this again.

And that's it. All I am saying today. Even if it's just one sentence, I just post.
And please go see Dee's blog today, b/c she said everything I was thinking about BL last night....I was yelling at the screen!!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Tamie

It's a new year, and another go at meetings.
I am kicking myself for the past mistakes, which is ok, b/c I accept them as what I needed to do, to get here.
And here, is the lightbulb moment.
The aha.
The holy shit I really must finish this journey, this part of the journey, to get to where I need/want/crave to be.
Rejoined meetings yesterday. The only thing that works for me, is meetings. That is crystal clear to me.
I have a friend who needs to lose 15lbs, and her and I joined together. This is the first time I wasn't jealous or feeling annoyed that I was joining with someone who had so little to lose. She loves me for me, and is a great friend....and she feels as much conflict about those 15lbs as I do about my 50lbs.
I'm starting therapy/counselling next month. I know I need to fix ME, I need to put back together who I am, who I was. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. My well being is in jeopardy, and that's not right.

I have an amazing family, my kids , Joe, but it's not all going to remain that way, if I don't take the steps to my healing. It's MY responsibility.

I'm going to work VERY hard to blog daily. It may seem a lot of rambling, and I don't even expect anyone to read this. But it's important to me to blog, and record all my work. Very important.

I read many blogs (read Shaunna's for every step of the way, followed Dee's, and many other's), and this I can see, is a huge part of success.

And away we go........