Trials of a Long Haired Girl

Happy Tuesday friends!  Hope everyone had a great Father's day and is doing well.  We decided on a Make Your Own Nacho bar and pineapple cake for my sweet husband.  It was a good day overall.  While my meals are not 100% planned, I do have a general plan in my mind.  I was trying to think of a meal to go with rolls.  After the damage done by the storms a week ago this past Sunday and many people in our neighborhood were without power, a neighbor turned a negative into a positive by sharing her baked goods with the neighborhood.  I was able to try some of her baked goods and will definitely be making my way to a retailer to purchase some of her baked good.  They were delicious.  Last night's meal may not have been 100% on plan but it was delicious.  I fixed a salad mix, shells and cheese and we put some frozen "fried" okra in the air fryer.  It made for a tasty dinner.   This has been a difficult few weeks with my back ...

Happy Tuesday friends!  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend!  It was a busy weekend but I enjoyed it so much.  I ran around on Saturday getting groceries and necessity items for the house, then came home and made cookie bars.  Sunday, we got up had cinnamon rolls before church and we enjoyed church service together.  After church, we had macaroni and cheese and cherry cobbler with ice cream.  Probably not the most on plan day I've every had, but I enjoyed the day and was back on track come Monday.  Striving to stay on track this week, especially after I had a loss on Saturday of 1.2.  After having to be on Prednisone for 5 days, which manages to increase my appetite.  I truly hope I start feeling better soon because I feel like I've felt bad longer than I would care to be.  Meal planning is definitely a must for me to stay on plan this week.  How do you get back on plan after you have gotten off track?  

Happy Tuesday, friends!  It's been a week or two since I've done a Tuesday Talk, but things have been a little bit hectic in my world.  This week, let's talk about meal planning.  I struggled with this for many, many years.  After moving back to meetings a few years ago, when we were talking about meal planning, someone mentioned just tackle planning one meal.  I decided I would try and while every week is not fully planned and I still struggle with a strict plan for each day, each day has a plan of some sort that may change, but at least I have an idea of what we are having each week.  This also means that I have some idea of what I need to buy at the store each week.  I can also adjust my meal plan to focus on what is on sale at the store.  This also helps with the budget, as well as my SmartPoints budget also.  I can plan for high point meals.  I think initially I felt overwhelmed that I felt I needed to plan every meal and every sn...

Happy Tuesday, friends!  Hope your Monday went well.  For this week’s “talk”, let’s talk about eating out.  I don’t know about you but when I was still firmly in the “diet” mentality, I struggled with eating out.  Honestly, I cringed at the thought of going out to eat, especially if I couldn’t plan ahead.  There are still some days that I feel that way.  I am learning more and more what I can have that keeps me within my daily points allowance, what might take me into my weekly points allowance.  For me, one of the biggest parts of this journey has been learning how to do this for a lifetime.  My sweet friend, Heather, reminded me that I am not benefiting myself if I’m overthinking things while I was in the midst of my bad food week.  I was eating out at two different restaurants in the last couple of weeks.  My primary focus was to make good choices for myself to stay within my daily points in order to get my blue dot.  I was abl...

Happy Tuesday friends!  Some of you know that I am a fan of the audiobook and ebook.  I was randomly searching in the library catalogs that I have access to through Overdrive and I came upon a book entitled "Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love" by Nancy Dreyfus, Psy.D.   I realized after looking at this book that it is a book to help with failing marriages, but it prompted a whole train of thought with me.  This book reminded me of something that was said to me years ago.  A dear friend asked me when I was doing very well on this journey years ago if I would say something negative that I said about myself to a her or another friend.  I stopped and thought about it and responded no.  I wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.  She said then why do you keep saying to to yourself?  She reminded me that we do not see ourselves the way others see us.  The fact of the matter is that we often say things to ourselves in our struggle to c...

Happy Tuesday friends!  I hope everyone is having a great day!  28 years ago today, I was preparing to give birth to my 6 lb 14 oz baby boy.  Happy, happy birthday, Jarrod!  I can't believe it's been 28 years already!  I love you very much! Okay, we're going to get really transparent right now.  I had a really bad food day on Sunday.  Well, Saturday wasn't a great food day either.  Monday was the anniversary of my mother's passing.  It is not easy to lose someone so special in your life, but we are not promised tomorrow.  I am blessed that I had such a wonderful relationship with my Mom.  The thing that is different about this time around is that I know that I am not going to be perfect everyday for the rest of my life.  I am more accepting of myself and my imperfections. I know every weigh in is not going to be down, even though that is my goal.  I'm finding ways to cook for my family and myself without going crazy....