William and Kate...

I was up at 4pm to watch the royal wedding!  I LOVE Kate!!!!  Her dress was stunning and the ceremony was amazing, I think you could really tell they love eachother!

Tonight will probably be a disaster in terms of eating but I'll be good the rest of the day :)  Last night Livie and I did take a walk.  It was a great night for a walk and although she didn't enjoy it as much as I did...we may have to do it more often.  Today I have to leave work around 2p, then go shopping, then clean my house and get ready for the party.  If I get home by 3p, I'll have plenty of time.  The rep is coming over at 6p. 

The boys had a great night camping...I hope they have a great day too.  TTFN

Firecracker Chocolate

Mmmmmm, I just tied a new chocolate $4/bar.  It was amazing.  Dark Chocolate with chipotle, salt and popping candy.  AMAZING!  It was totally worth the $$ and delicious!

Today is kind of a crazy day, the boys are leaving to go camping...so Livie and I are going to "hang" with mom mom and poppy!  Tomorrow night is my pampered chef party.  These are not healthy recipes but I'm making pampered chef's baked brie and crab dip.  Then my mom is bringing a reese pie and we'll be making a Ring with chicken broccoli and cheese. 

Crab Dip
1/2 brick light cream cheese
4 oz lump crab
1/4 C. Cocktail sauce
Crackers

Take the cream cheese and spread it on a small rectangle platter.  Sprinkle unbroken lump crab on top of cream cheese and distribute cocktail sauce on top.  Serve with crackers yum (I'll post pictures later)


Pampered Chef Baked Brie

½ ¼ ¼ 1 ¼ 1 1

cup chopped apple (½ medium apple) cup sliced natural almonds cup dried cranberries tablespoon packed brown sugar teaspoon Pantry Korintje Cinnamon tablespoon butter or margarine, melted round (8 ounces) Brie cheese (about 4 inches in diameter) Crackers or cocktail bread slices

1. Preheat oven to 350° F. Coarsely chop apple with food chopper. Combine apple, almonds, cranberries, brown sugar and cinnamon in small batter bowl; mix gently. Stir in butter just until ingredients are moistened.
2. Cut Brie in half horizontally using utility knife. Place one half of Brie, rind side down, on small bar pan. Spoon half of the apple mixture onto bottom half of Brie, spreading evenly. Top with remaining half of Brie, rind side up. Spoon remaining apple mixture over top. Bake 12-15 minutes or until cheese is soft and just begins to melt. Serve with assorted crackers or cocktail bread slices.

I LOVE to cook so this will be fun!  Then of course I'll have some wine :)

I didn't run last night and I have no idea how I will be able to run tonight with Livie lou...maybe we'll just go for a walk, Yup, that is what we'll have to do.  I'll just put her in her stroller and we'll take a stroll! 

TTFN

Monsters make me shiver...

My Green Monster makes me cold :)  I'm sure it is the ice and frozen fruit but brrrrrrrrrr....I'm chilly this morning. 

Last night at Aerobics ROCKED!!!!  It was a great class with lots of core and upper body work.  I needed it.  Today for bfast, I have my coffee, GM, eng muffin sammie.  Then I have my mom's bean soup *yum* with a veggie burger.  Dinner tonight will be bourbon chicken from Poulet (being delivered to work this afternoon) and if the rain stops, we're going to head out for a snow ball later.  I LOVE my snow ball stand b/c they have sugar free flavors :)  I will also C25k tonight.  If I'm being honest, I've stopped the actual C25k program...I'll restart it but I'm trying to build up my running endurance right now.  I have a 1.5 mile path and I run 1/2 mile then walk 1/2 mile then run 1/2 mile, I like it alot.  I've also added a daily walk of a mile to the mix.  Grace and I and sometimes Amy take a 20 minute/1 mile walk around 10am.  It is a nice way to break up the morning. 

Random:  There is a spider or something that is attacking me regularly.  I find new bug bites every day.  Time to change the sheets! 

Oh and I'm back down 2lbs...so my weight is the same as last Tuesday (Oh well)...New goal is to be 210 by June 1st!!!

TTFN

feels like a Monday...Tuesday

Today definitely feels like a Monday...weird.  Demon scale was not my friend this morning (I'm up 2lbs).  I was pretty good all week/end, even with Easter in the mix.  Oh well, keep on truckin right?  I'm going to go with the blind belief that I'm losing inches instead of lbs...ignorance is bliss :)

Today food consisted of GM and english muffin sammie.  Then lunch was a salad and the rest of the chicken tikka with rice.  Dinner tonight is tacos (so over tacos, but the boys love them).  We also went for a walk this afternoon, felt GREAT!  78 is my favorite temperature!!!  Tonight is Aerobics - YAY, I am SO looking forward to it!  TTFN (222.5)

Unmotivated

Eeek, I've been unmotivated lately.  I didn't GM yesterday - yikes!  This is the first time in 3 months that I didn't GM.  I was only b/c it was Easter and I was inundated with a million other happenings.  I also didn't run last night...:( 

Today is a new leaf.  Bfast was GM and english muffin.  Lunch was some Chicken Tikka from Poulet and some jasmine rice.  Snacks were pretzels and cheese and an apple.  Dinner tonight will be?!?  not sure.  I'm so happy to be preparing chicken again.  due to my meatless diet over lent, we didn't prepare any chicken.  Back to it this week (which reminds me I need to pull chicken breast out of the freezer - maybe).  I'm just realizing that tonight will be something easy like pizza, tomorrow is taco night and Wednesday I ordered carryout from Poulet (bourbon chicken and roasted veggies).  Thursday night the boys are leaving for a camping trip until Saturday, so Livie and I will fend for ourselves and Friday is my pampered chef party.  Hmmm, sounds like a fun week to me :)

I think I'm going to go back to veggie burgers for lunch.  It is SO low in calories and really fills me up.  I need to jump start my weight loss again, I've been losing only about a lb a week and I want to lose a little more, a little more quickly.  I'm not sure what I'll add but something is going to change soon (I'll keep you posted)

Time to work, TTFN

Happy Easter!

Hippity Hoppity...Easter spells DISASTER in terms of trying to eat right.  This morning we went to mass at 8:30 and the poinsetta lily catholics must have been waiting for 10:30 mass b/c it wasn't too crazy - Thank GOD! 

I DIDN'T GREEN MONSTER TODAY!  Holy Moly...I just realized it :(  I'll have to GM tonight when I get home! 

So far today I've had DD coffee and egg white flat bread and some easter bread.  I hope to keep the candy to a minimum...I'll let ya'll know how I did!

Below is a pic of me with the fam :)

Positive Attitude

Today...I need to focus on a positive attitude.  I am very disappointed in some stuff that is happening here at work so I'm going to chin up and try to barrel through. 

Food this morning was a GM and english muffin sammie.  Lunch will be some soup and a little salad (greens, raspberry vinegrette, lf blue cheese, sunflower seeds).  Snacks will be triscuits and cheese and a kashi bar.  Running last night felt good and the boys had a great night at T-ball practice. 

Dinner tonight will probably be a piece of pizza and a salad. 

I'm gonna log off here and try to cheer up...TTFN