Halloween's past.....

Happy Halloween.....  Here is another trip down memory lane.  Halloween's past...  Mona you rock in this pic!  Loved looking up these pics, all you girls look great in em! Hope you enjoy them too!  Love to all my peeps!   Here is an awesome tool for those of you dieting with me...
http://www.calorieking.com/calories-in-alcohol.html

Zug Zug....

I missed Launa's Birthday it was October 22.  So Happy belated birthday, Zug Zug!  I have got to see Launa last few times I stopped by the Moonlight on a Wednesday for a couple drinks, and so last night we sat together for a short time and did a lil catching up.  For those of you that haven't seen her a while she looks as good as always.  For fun I am showing you pictures from some of our fun past times of Launa (Zug Zug)....  Mark still Zug Zugs Launa if you were wondering lol! Got to love Marks eyes, the reason they are like that is each picture had him with his eyes closed so now we got them open!  haha  We were laughing about the party we had at The 303, when Launa was Zug Zuggin Mark in his truck in the parking lot!  Tony a past friend had asked what she was doing, as we were standing outside during band break smoking, only to find out when she honked the truck horn with her knee they were going at it.  Tony was covering his eyes telling me OMG Vanilla! Vanilla!  she ruined it she isn't Vanilla anymore!  As if she ever was hahah you know the girls that are quiet and sweet are always the dirtiest of girls. Thanks to Tim remembering that story, we had a good laugh.  We have some amazing memories we have all made with each other, with that being said we all need to get back together for a reunion it has been a while for us all to get together!  Enjoy the old memories, and cheers to making many more! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

30 YEARS!

October 29, 1984 is the date of Tim and I's first date, now here we are 30 years later still going strong!  I always laugh and think I told my gf's that day in the lunch cafeteria I was gonna marry him and see I was right!  I guess you could say when I want something I do go for it until I get it!  psst he was easy though!  hahahha So I guess tonight I will take my lil love bug to dinner.  Try to find a picture of Tim where there is no finger!  IMPOSSIBLE!  hahaha!  Tim I love you! Forever and Always! 

 

 

 

 

Mike Mike Mike what day is it????

Haha!  it's Friday!!!!  Woot woot I am already envisioning me sleeping in tomorrow with no annoying alarm clock noise!!!  Next Friday is Halloween, had me thinking of Halloween's passed.  We have had some good ones but damn has it been a while since we have done a group outing on Halloween!  Of course we all know I am married to ummmm a bit of a fun sucker!  He will say that it is stupid lol.  I think a band I love is playing though at the Parkway Plaza lounge that I might possibly be able to talk Mr Grumpy Pants into!  Just a thought anyway.  Have 2 more people joining me on my diet and I am psyched about that!  Thanks Denise and Megan!  The more the merrier nice getting healthy and losing excess weight with friends.  Keeps me motivated and I love to motivate others.  If you want to check it out please do and like I said if you just want to be healthier there is that option too! 

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You know what it is time for?  Really we need a road trip!  Maybe we need to do Deadwood, nothing like partying at the Saloon 10!  Hmmmm I need to start planning I miss my peeps I haven't seen in a while and even though drinking isn't really a great thing on a diet it is a mandatory thing to be me! HA!  So let's hear it my friends who wants to think of a road trip? 

Happy Thursday!

Damn the wind sucks!!!!!  Last night I celebrated my 24 day mark with a couple slices of not diet worthy pizza!  Damn it was good...  haha I love my carbs sometimes but know to keep on track and lose the rest no more splurges.  One of my favorite products though with this new way I am going is Carb Ease for those of us that need our carbs!  Check this out.... You have to love a product that cuts down on the absorption of carbs and has other benefits.  I don't know one person that doesn't need this awesome product!  https://www.advocare.com/141015180/Store/ItemDetail.aspx?itemCode=T4462&id=TS  Anyone that buys this product from me this week off my website or direct from me I will throw in a couple Spark's in.  This is a energy drink mix that I can't live without now.  20 vitamins that give me get up and go and is sugar free and only 45 calories!  Can't beat that! 

HEY all my readers since you don't comment I don't know what I shall write about!  Come on I took a long hiatus who has some stories or adventures we did that I haven't written about you would like to see me blog about????  Drop me a line or a comment and let's get this blog back on crazy train track!

Day 23 of the 24 day challange!

Hi Peeps, day 23 of my 24 day challenge.  I have lost 12 pounds and shed a lot of inches.  I am proud of what I achieved and will continue down the road until all I want gone is gone.  This is the best diet I have been on.  I feel great!  I read a lot now about healthy foods, healthy snacks, foods that help your metabolism, and foods that burn fat.  I ran across this article, what 200 calories look life with some of your favorite candy.  I thought I would pass it on. Great article when Halloween is just around the corner. 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/what-200-calories-worth-of-your-favorite-halloween-candy-looks-like/ss-AA6P3Cm?ocid=iehp

I was telling my husband I have lost a bag of potato's lol and while standing in the check out lane at the grocery store, I realized the cat litter was 10 lbs. so I handed the bag to Tim and I said hold this.  I told him that is a lil less then what I have lost so far.  In my mind at first I was like 10 lbs. isn't much but hold a bag of potato's or litter like I did and you will realize that weight you were carrying around it is more significant then you think. 

I hope everyone had a great weekend, I can't believe the weather has been so great.  I enjoyed lunch this Saturday with Denise, Gary, Michael, Kim and Mike.  We finally got a wedding gift to the newly weds.  I remember when Kim thought this would never happen for her so I silently lean back and smile and think life is good!  I told her it will happen when you least expect it.  As they say don't worry about tomorrow it shall worry about itself.  Funny lil story though the first time I met Mike, I leaned over to Kim and said you will marry him.  Sometimes I love my six sense!  I wish all the happiness in the world to Kim and Mike.  As I wish for all my friends, I hope you find your Tim. 

Wishing you all a good day! 

Since being healthy is drinking lotsa water!

Since I am now trying hard to drink 1/2 my body weight in ounces of water a day, I found these recipes great!  Thought I would pass them on.

http://www.prevention.com/food/cook/25-flat-belly-sassy-water-recipes

Scale was my friend today 1 1/2 lbs down more today!  Did my happy dance! Life is good! 

Have a great weekend all! 

 

I just knew pumpkin pie had to be good for you!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/superfoods/13-comfort-foods-that-burn-fat/ss-AA2fl0Y

I been reading a lot of articles about foods that burn belly fat, increase metabolism, and are low calorie, low fat, and are beneficial.  So I thought you might like to see comfort foods that actually burn fat.  I was excited to read one of my favs, Pumpkin pie made the list, oh yummm!  I am on day 18 of my healthy diet plan and have lost 10 lbs.  I lose weight slower then I lose the inches and I also lose weight slower then other women due to a very slow metabolism and being over 40!  Being over 40 slows down our metabolism even more!  I will lose it faster once I start my exercise routine, I think I am finally better from being so damn ill!  Hell I am tickled with my results thus far and I don't consider it a bad thing I can pull my jeans off or on without unbuttoning or unzipping them!  So even when I reach day 24 of the challenge, I will keep on going until every last drop of this weight is gone.  I love this diet because I know how to maintain my weight afterwards and how to eat properly.  So a win, win for me.  So an update on my weight loss journey, maybe tomorrow I will have something more entertaining to write about!  Later my peeps!

Wish I had the power to mend a broken heart....

The one thing I wished I could heal it a broken heart. I think that is truly one of the worst pains to go through and takes the longest to heal from and for some it never heals it hides beneath the surface and comes bubbling out now and then. They say the eyes are the window to the soul, I find that hauntingly true you can see when someone has eternal pain from looking into them.  A dear friend of mine is going through the broken heart, I can tell when I love a friend because I physically cry tears for them and ache inside as they do, not to the severity I am sure but I do feel it deeply.  Love is such a hard thing to figure out.  Some people feel it easily, deeply, completely and honestly and some just can hold back and not feel it at all.  I sometimes wonder after having your heart broken severely one time can you honestly maybe not feel it again?  Or some just really never grow to feel it for ones that love them.  That might be one of the hardest and truly one of the most painful things to deal with. Why as we age do we have such fear of saying it to someone and saying it loud and proud? Is it because we have so much fear that it won't be reciprocated?  Are we afraid of looking foolish because we might feel it sooner then warranted and inturn causes us to push away the one we love?  Is there really a perfect time it should be said so then we suffer no regret or what if's? I wonder as we age why does love become so complicated we think so hard about if we do or don't we talk ourselves out of feeling it? I know when a relationship ends the pain goes in thinking back what you could of done differently and wishing that one could of been bolder and just said it just risked it and maybe that would of been the only difference required for a different outcome.  I wish I knew these answers to lifes most elusive questions. The most important advice I have is be yourself don't change for anyone. Be proud of who you are, because being who your not just to please another won't  buy you happiness. A man worthy of your love should love you for who and what you are and appreciate everything about you quirks and all!  That is true love and brings true happiness. 

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Don't say I don't share :)

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The Nutty Dumpster Diver....

Happy Monday!  Well this weekend was a quick one I want to shout a thanks to Brigit for joining me and Michael on the 24 day challenge

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, she has very minimal to lose but she likes the health benefits of it.  Thanks Brigit for your support you are an awesome friend and lady!  I finally went to the Dr. for those of you that know I was on a 3 1/2 week journey of being ill.  After spending 2 1/2 hours in Urgent care I found out I had acute bronchitis and got antibiotics, a steroid, codeine cough syrup, and a inhaler.  Wow do I feel better, but being sick has not deterred me from my diet plan. So still on tract!  Ready for a laugh.....  Here we go!!!

Everyone I am sure has heard of me talking about one of my bff's Kat from Boston.  What you might not know is how much we are alike.  All of you that know me know how if some funny shit is gonna happen it will happen to me.  Well Kat shares in that blessing or curse however you would like to view that.  With that being said I have a story for you.....

The art of dumpster diving is nothing new. I have heard of many doing so from all walks of life.  Some for aluminum to recycle for money or some that like to find treasures others throw away and consider trash.  My Aunt has found many beautiful antique treasures this way and believe me looking at her you would never think she would take ones trash.   As they say one man's trash can be another man's treasure. Or in this following case one woman's trash can become one nutty Man's treasures.

Kat decided to clean out her closet, which I am sure it is quite a chore because the one thing we don't have in common is this girl likes to shop!  So she loaded up all her don't wants into trash bags and quickly deposited them in her trash bin at home.  Since she filled up her trash bin she decided the rest she would throw in the trash bin at her work.  Now if I haven't told you where Kat works it would be helpful to this story to inform you she works at a nut farm.  Have you seen that movie Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio?  That is what Kat's nut house looks like beautiful and spooky, that is beside the point but thought it was fun facts to share.  LOL.  So Kat throws the bags in her trash at work and thinks not another thing about it until her boss calls her and asked if she lost her pocketbook. (hope the facts are accurate) Pocketbook in Boston talk is a purse, to me it would be a name for a wallet but lol I am not from Boston. She said no she indeed had her pocketbook, that is when she was informed there was a nut walking around with her old pocketbook with old paystubs bearing her name. Kat is mortified that now the nut knows she is the person that has deposited his new treasures into the trash.  Even better yet he is walking around in her old pajamas.  I am picturing this crazy man walking around with a purse and pink flannel jammies right now aren't you?  Even the thought of that isn't even the best part of this story.  As Kat sits there thinking of all she threw away in that bag she tossed at her work she remembers that particular item that was on top of her closet shelf she had purchased from one of those sex parties, that she quickly tossed in the bag also.  Now I got your minds working huh?  Remember those parties girls that we use to have and remember that one dildo that stuck to a shower wall or other places so that you can indulge in the fantasy it is a sexy hot man and not a dildo stuck to a wall.  So do you think that nut has the dildo in his newly acquired jammies while he walks around or just maybe in his newly acquired pocket book or is it on his wall in his room?  I can imagine hearing the nut at night when he is alone saying in a high pitched voice BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, while he is backin up to take Kat's discarded toy to his secret place.....  This shared story made me laugh and laugh and I am glad she let me share it with you all....  Sometimes I wonder who is the nut or did she just become a nut from working with the nuts?  If you can't laugh at yourself then who will right?  There is a very important lesson to this story. Before you toss anything out of your closet go through it and make sure nothing bares your name on it, especially when you are like Kat and throw away kinky sex toys! 

Some one murdered Peter Cottontail!

Before I get to who murdered Peter I wanted to share a recipe with you.  I love this time of year because Perkins has their Pumpkin Oatmeal Pancakes!  OMG they are to die for!  I did gobble some up before I started my diet, and was pleased to come across the recipe and thought I should share it.
 http://www.examiner.com/article/fall-recipe-pumpkin-oatmeal-pancakes Enjoy!

Who murdered Peter???? Peter Cottontail frolics out in my work parking lot everyday and has for quite some time now.  He seems to love to sit by my car and when I go out on a break during the day he just likes to sit and watch me.  I have become fond of Peter so you can imagine the horror when I came back from lunch yesterday to see his grotesquely twisted lil body lying lifeless in the parking lot.  I came in quickly and asked down the hall who killed Peter!?! So everyone comes out in the parking lot to glance down at lil Peter's body and the Shipping Manager sweetly picks him up with a shovel and places him in a bag for burial.  So now the investigation begins on who murdered Peter.  Did anyone come apply when I was gone?  Did we have any vistors?  Peter is laying in my parking spot so was trying to figure out who parked there when I was gone or who is trying to frame me!  After a lot of thought the guys all came to the sad conclusion maybe I hit him backing up that morning?  NO that isn't so Peter was happily hopping around after I arrived yesterday.  The guys then point out Peter is laying in what appears to be my tire tracks. (we have a dirt lot)  I asked them wouldn't Peter run hearing me open and shut my door and start my car when I left?  Wouldn't I hear thump thump if I indeed ran over Peter?  So the Mystery is still a question for CSI because I think I am being framed and if not then I think Peter committed suicide using me. Sighs..... I asked the shipping manager if he buried him this morning and if he made a lil cross for his grave, and he says nope threw him right in the dumpster!  OH MY!  Poor Peter!  So I think Tim the Shipping Manager might be on the top of the list of suspects!  Peter you will be missed!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!  Love all around! 

Healthy is feeling good.

So 8 lbs down in 10 days and I am tickled with that!  So the next 14 days of my 24 challenge is when they say the lbs really come off so here we go day one to that!!!!  I love these products so much and how good I feel I signed up today to be a distributor.  If you want to check out what I am doing you can go here https://www.advocare.com/141015180/Store/24Wizard/default.aspx and then call me and I can explain the program...  Getting healthy and losing weight is a challenge, but with great support and back up it can be a great experience.  So anyone want to join me? 

Day 10!

Day 10 of my new adventure in the dieting world!  Well forgot to weigh myself so will report that tomorrow but I feel great! I have more energy and I feel just really good.  I have had a on and off again struggle with this like cold/cough for the last 3 weeks and it gripped me hard for the past 8 days, but I am on the mend.  DD has been such a support for me, thank you DD!  She sends me sweet passages some days and remembered it was day 10 of this diet. You are the Best Dorthea Darlene! I really love the way this diet has made me feel, and knowing the inches are quickly coming off by the feel of my pants is a great feeling.  Michael says now 11-24 day of this diet the weight will come off quickly.  woot! woot! I honestly think with the amount of water I am drinking that I am literally peeing out calories, and for exercise sure I increased exercise I walk to the bathroom 50 million times a day!  The new work out I tell ya...  Seriously though when I get this cough totally gone I will be back on my elliptical and join my water aerobics again, and hopefully my clogging class will get a much wanted come back!  But when I do near my day 24 I must confess the way I want to reward myself on day 25 is with a pizza, I know after I scarf that pizza down the next day  I will then continue the program and get rid of all the weight I need too.  They say never to reward yourself with high calorie treats but rather with something like a new outfit etc.  I say well bleep that I want some damn pizza!  LOL After I get to my goal weight I will go to one day of the week being my free day, I will not live my life saying no to the things I love.  I can't and will not live without ice cream, pizza, Mexican food, greasy hamburgers with the damn bun, or French fries!  :) Who in the hell can really, except those super skinny super models that either say no to it, eat it and puke it, or take drugs so they don't desire it. Ya I will stick with my womanly body and once and a while say yes and not guilt myself over enjoying lives fattening treasures or pleasures!  Oh and I will never give up booze!  hehe I just picked a light calorie kind of booze....  Well peeps enjoy the rest of your week and remember, I love you! 

When you become a Star do you lose your sense?

So when you become rich and famous you name a beautiful baby girl, North?  WTF kind of name is NORTH?  So when Kim K pops out her next child will it be South?  Makes more sense, since she is having it out of her South end!  I guess if I was Star would I be wanting to name my child ummm carpet or desk or something stupid as that or stapler at least that is a semi interesting word.  North; it isn't even a word I ever thought was pretty in any sense. Then I hear the new name for the baby girl of The 70's Show stars and they name a baby girl Wyatt?  WTF Wyatt?  Come on Wyatt Earp was a tough cowboy how do you feminize a name like Wyatt?  Just Sayin!  LOL  Have a great weekend all! 

Battle of the buldge continued...

Whooopie!  Got on the scale and 4 1/2 lbs vanished!  Thought I should weigh myself every other day to put my progress down in my booklet.  So far I don't feel deprived and my energy is up.  I think the only thing that is going to cause me trouble is NO drinking for 24 days!  Holy Shit, am I capable of not going out for 24 days?  If I find great success with this diet,  that is healthy I am going to become a distributor.  Thus far I am thoroughly impressed with it except that grotesque fiber drink.  Thank goodness for me I have 1/2 a closet of my thinner clothes and 1/2 a closet of ooops I am chubby again clothes.  LOL  Nice thing about this new approach to diet I am trying this will be easy to maintain and the added health benefits are a great addition.  My goal is to get off at least one of my two blood pressure pills. I truly should quit smoking too and I know that will be the next thing I will strive to do. Like Dorie said it is time to get healthy woman!   I am sure I will find more exciting things to tell tomorrow, lol hmmmm maybe I should tell about my accidental high....  If anyone wants to join Michael and I on our journey of losing weight give me a holler.  If you seen Michael of late you will know how well this works!  He looks fantastic!  Hugs my peeps!