We are always moving...

In the right direction I hope. I am still struggling but I feel that I am getting my head out of the fog... The slightly cooler weather has helped tremendously. I will keep on keeping on in the meantime. I know things will look up. They have to look up. I have a number of things in the works and hopefully we will know how they will pan out in the near future. Right now, I am looking forward to a wonderful week after having a pretty good weekend. It was relaxing (mentally and physically). Hopefully as this week shapes up I will have more goodness to share and to spread. I just want to end this posting on a positive note. Love is great and it does make the world go around or at least it can keep you warmer on a chilly day!

The Saga of Blue

If it was not already apparent from my last post, I am blue and have been this way for about a month now. I have vehemently tried to shake the blues but I just cannot seem to do so successfully. So my cure for the blues is not a cure for my waist line: which is to bake. Being a baker all sorts of recipes and ideas come to mind when I think of comfort foods, foods that I have been taught are cure-alls for the blues, especially winter-blues. The crook on the right-hand side of my neck is probably not helping my want-to-feel-good-cause either! I cannot seem to shake it either, it (the crook in my neck) has been with me all day :-(

I have not weighed-in as often over the last few weeks but I have held my ground at 40 pounds of weight lost. I need to figure out how to get my head back in the game. The sooner I can do that (get back into gear) to sooner more weight will begin to come off. I have also kept my exercise routine moving in the right direction with 5 to 6 workouts a week. Am I happy where I am (with my weight and short term and long term goals)? Absolutely not!! But I am trying to show gratitude and humbleness to keep me from slipping all the way down to the beginning (and gaining back 40 pounds).

Below are some of the recent pics of items I have created (to help overcome the blues or to feed it one in hopes it will become full and go away)!   Enjoy!

Spicy Chocolate Cupcakes with Coconut Shavings

Hasselback Potatoes

July is finally here

July is finally here and so is the heat. In my neck of the woods we had triple digit temperature over the weekend. I decided not to weigh in last Saturday (June 23rd) as I had been feeling a little blue. I did not want a bad reading to effect short term nor long term goals. Sometimes it is okay to take a day off from exercising (especially when my knees tell me too). I have sense had a chance to begin the regrouping process (just emotionally and mentally). The task at hand still seems daunting (to loose between 60 to 80 additional pounds) but I have also some success (I have lost exactly 40 pounds) under my belt that should comfort me in this great endeavor. 


Current weight: 294
Previous weight: 295


We will talk about short term goals and recipes later in the week. Til then, I hope you will stay cool and out of any extreme heat.