Done Dieting

Let me start off by saying, “Yeah, Saints!”.  I love it when the underdog wins.  Peyton Manning is still an AWESOME QB and no one can take that away from him.  I’m just happy it turned out to be a good game.

Here is what I wore…

I’m still under the weather.  Wow!  This is really a bummer.  The congestion is awful.  All I can look forward to is the NyQuil I’m going to take.  Again.  For the 5th day in a row.

I felt cute.  I also felt cute today.  I really wanted to wear a vest, but I didn’t have one so I threw on this red shirt over a striped shirt.  It was comfy, and I got compliments on it.  See my smile?  It’s cuz I knew that…

This was going to happen.  She insists on not reading my blog, so I have to put her picture on it so that she’ll read.  Aren’t friends great.  Truth be told, I’m pretty sure she’s stalking me.

Breakfast today was a peach Chobani and some Multigrain Cheerios.  It was good.  Different, but good.  I usually am more of a savory person for brekkie.  Oh well, it hit the spot today.

I picked up some snacks today.  I hadn’t ever tried this until today, but it was delicious.  I love the sinfulness of them with the not so badness of them.  I’m sure I will try other flavors of this.

And, since I’ve heard so much about these babies I picked up a bag.  I haven’t tasted them, but I hope they are as good as they sound.

Here I come Big ‘N’, little ‘y’, Big F@%!ing ‘Q’….  That’s such a throwback.  Good night blogworld.

Oooooh, my ruffles have ruffles!  That’s what I thought as I got dressed this morning.  I put on my lovely Anthro birthday shirt.  I paired it with a black ruffled cardigan I have.  I think it looked pretty cute.  In honor of “Wear Red Day” I wore a red turtleneck underneath it all.  Splashes of color are my favorite things.

I’ve been fighting off a cold for the past couple of days.  Hubby brought me medicine.

Can I just say…”I love dark chocolate”.  LOVE!

I’ve always said that my mother is amazing.  She used to watch my son and his best friend when they were just babies.  They were both like 4 months old.  She would watch them all day, manage to do all of the laundry (both kids went home with clean clothes) and cook a four course dinner.  Not even kidding.  She made dinner at my house for us yesterday since I was sicky.  Yes, sicky.  Not sickly. That’s what I call myself when I’m sick.  I didn’t get a final pic but that is a broccoli and cauliflower quiche.  It was phenomenal.  I love my mom.

I’ve always said that I can’t run.  At least that I don’t do it well.  Usually running is reserved for chasing the little one or running from danger.  Thankfully the latter doesn’t happen much.  I decided though that it didn’t make sense for me to not even try.  Why accept failure before giving it a shot?  I downloaded an app for running called Couch to 5K onto the iPhone.  So far I’ve completed the first day.  I know that isn’t much but, truth be told, it’s more than I have ever done.  My goal is to run the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure that is being held here in May.  Theoretically, I have enough time to be able to do it.  Logically, my mind is ready for it.  Physically, I will be there by the deadline.  Emotionally, I can’t even wrap my head around it.  I’ve told myself for the past 3 years that I will run it the next year.  I never do.  I always end up walking it.  This year, I’m going to run it.  Ok.  So now it’s out there.  Let’s start the countdown.

So, the brownies from the Bakesale were sent on their way.  I took a picture of how much chocolate is in the brownies.  That is about 2 lbs. worth of chocolate.  These brownies are so rich and delicious.  I really hope that the winning bidder enjoys them.  I really want feedback on them.

Who knew that Chic-Fil-A had wraps with whole flaxseeds in them?  This was a pleasant surprise.  I went out for lunch the other day and ended up getting this wrap.  It had spicy chicken, tomatoes, lettuce, red cabbage, cheese and a whole wheat wrap with flaxseeds.  I don’t know about you guys, but this was really cool in my book.  It might have just made my day.

I had posted about several of the gifts I got for my birthday but I hadn’t gotten around to the biggest one I got.  I’m blaming the “lazy camera syndrome” for this one.  On my birthday I went shopping.  While I was out my husband had laminate flooring installed in our house.  I’m in love with this floor.  It looks beautiful and it is easy to clean.  So much better than the awful carpet that was there before.  I don’t think I will ever go back to carpet in a front room again.  All in all the installation took 5 hours.  It was a wonderful surprise.  I have the best husband in the world!

And this is my reason for being.  I don’t talk about him much because I tend to focus on other things in the blog, but I felt that I needed to put a pic of my little Bean on here.  He is lying on the kitchen floor waiting for the brownies to be done.  He really wanted one.  I let him know that he couldn’t have one because they were for the Haiti Bakesale.  He said, matter-of-factly, “I will wait for your next batch.”  And to the floor he went.  Needless to say I made him a mini batch.  He’s so spoiled.  Well, he is an only child after all.

The other day we got to have a free lunch for some work that was done.  It was quite tasty.  I had a small serving of green garlic mashed potatoes, some beef tenderloin in a raspberry chipotle sauce and the best salad ever.  The salad had mixed greens, avocado, tomatoes, pumpkin seeds and the most delicious ranch-y dressing ever.  I’m sure it was high low fat.  All in all it was well-received and deserved.

Lately for breakfast I have been craving the Protein Plate from Starbucks.  Frankly, I’m not willing to spend $5 bucks on breakfast so I compromised.  I put together a mini bagel, a hard boiled egg, an individual serving of cheese, a banana and in the small container is some PB2.  I wasn’t sure about the PB2 until I finally tried it.  I caved the other day and got it and I don’t regret it.  This is a great guilt free substitute for the real stuff.  All in all the calories were less than the Starbucks version and the price was soooooo much better.  I did however feel like I wasn’t going to make it through the day without coffee so I picked up a Venti Skinny Cinnamon Dolce Latte.  Worth the cost.

This lunch was phenomenal.  Mom, Bean and I went out to eat over the weekend and stopped in for Mexican.  Here we have a roasted veggie taco with queso fresco, borracho beans, yuca fries, salad and in the back a fish taco.  Yummy!  The fish tacos from this place have been rated #1 for years.  If you’re ever in San Antonio, TX, you have to stop into Beto’s.  I haven’t found anything there I didn’t like.  Everything is so fresh and wonderful.  Make sure you ask for their chimichurri and order the hibiscus tea to drink.

For my birthday lunch I got invited to a great Mediterranean place in town.  It’s called Pasha.  I love the food there.  I always get the vegetarian plate because it is more of a sampler platter.  I got the baba ghannouj, pasha potatoes (garlicky potatoes with parsley), shirazi salad (tomatoes, cucumber and onion), dolmas and tabbouleh.  I loved most everything, but the tabbouleh was way too parsley heavy.  I probably won’t get it again.  The rest was, well…Heaven!

The weather here in this desert hasn’t been very dry lately.  Lots of rain, lots of yuck.  I needed a boost of spring so I wore a yellow shirt.  I really like this shirt.  Love the ruffles.  With a cardigan over it I felt just dressed up enough to pass as an adult, but informal enough to feel comfortable about taking my shoes off under the desk.  I know that you can’t see the shoes in this picture but I swear they’re on!  Ignore the Tampon box.

That’s all I have for today.  I plan on posting tonight about a new goal I have.  Stay with me blogworld, I promise to keep it interesting!

So, just a quickie to let everyone know that I am doing well. Things are never as bad as we make them out to be. I’m going to write a real post this evening. With pictures and everything. Thanks for the well wishes!

That’s my new word.  I’m fretting.  Not scared, not anxious.  Fretting.  See, I’m in constant pain.  By constant I mean 25 out of 30 days I’m in pain.  Some days are worse than others.  I went to see my doctor.  He said that there is a “procedure” that he is going to do that should help my pain.  Ok.

Here is my dilemma.  Should is not that comforting.  He says that this “procedure” will help me in many ways.  However, it isn’t a sure thing.  I’m actually concerned that it will cause me more pain.  It’s a possibility after all.

I guess I just wanted to put out there that I’m worried about this and that I don’t know what to do.  I just want to be pain free and I would do almost anything for that.  I’m fretting about this a lot.  A LOT.  I’ve had two similar things done to me and they didn’t go as smoothly as they should have.  This is where all of the apprehension comes from.  Scary, bad things that can happen.

It’s happening on Monday.  Eek.  Expect the next post to be more chipper.

Today is the day to bid on the brownies that I plan on baking for Haiti.  I’m really excited to participate in this because it is for a great cause.  Please stop over to bid on any of the items that you think look good.

By the way, the brownies are super rich, chocolately, dense, and delicious.  I can make them with nuts or without.  Whatever your preference.  If you like chocolate you will love these.

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Even if you don’t bid on my item you should still stop in and take a look at the wonderful items that are there to get.  If you have any questions you can email me at imdonedieting at gmail dot com.

Hope everyone has a great day!

For about 3 months or so I’ve been reading the beautiful Anthroholic blog, but I never bought anything at Anthropologie until my birthday.  This wonderful blogger is an inspiration and I’m so glad that I found the blog.  It helps me to live outside of the boring day to day box.  Anywho, I think you may remember this and this.  Well, I went Anthro wild.  This is what I ended up getting when I went to the ONLY store in San Antonio, TX.

I’ll post pics later.  I’m a happy girl.  Seeing all of the different ways that these clothes can be worn has really inspired me to live outside of the box.  I always make a mini resolution for my birthday.  This year’s is to dress better.  I’m so excited.  I love all of these clothes.   I’ll post pics when I wear them.

I’m sorry I have been so out of touch for the past few days. I’ve been busy and haven’t had a minute. I promise tomorrow I will have a real post for everyone. My birthday was great by the way.