100 Ways To Cook A Chicken

So.... Yeah.... Today wasn't the best.  Went to the doctor about my foot.  Nothing major.  I got a cortisone shot in my foot, it wasn't pleasant.  It is feeling better now.  Anyways, I joined Women Can Run Monday.  I'm pretty excited about it.  I am really doing good with running and I'm proud of myself.  Maybe once I get this foot taken care of it will all be better. I made a kick butt recipe tonight.  I had asked Mama Laughlin for a "skinny" sweet recipe for potluck tomorrow via Keek (awesome app, you make a 36 second video and upload it).  She gave me a suggestion to look at her blog (link above) for Cheesecake Sopapillas.  OMG They are AMAZING!!  So simple.  2 cans of reduced fat Crescent Roles 2 packages of reduced fat Cream Cheese (8 oz) 1 cup of Splenda 1/2 cup cinnamon/splenda mix (I used mostly sugar more than 1/4 cup) 1 stuck unsalted butter. 2 teaspoons vanilla  Take one can of rolls and put...

So, it's been a struggle this past week.  Mainly because it's that magical time of year again.....GIRL SCOUT COOKIES!  They are the devil in disguise.  I have 2 Girl Scouts in my classroom this year.  So I ordered 2 boxes from both of them.  Yes, I know this wasn't the best idea I ever had.  Yes, I was dieting and exercising when I ordered four boxes of cookies, but I had willpower, you see, and I was not going to eat them.  Well, that changed when the boxes came in.  I didn't eat the whole sleeve of 16 cookies, that has 640 calories, but I did eat 8.  EIGHT COOKIES!  I felt like CRAP after eating cookies.  So I gave them to my kids for snack and gave another box to my mom to hide.  The other two boxes are hanging out at school.  So, now I understand, no matter how many times I saw it....I cannot turn down a Thin Mint. These are the DEVIL.  The DEVIL I tell you.  I think they have Crack in them I spent two...

Anyone who knows me, knows I am slightly obsessed with Sex and The City.  I have watched the complete series (along with the two movies) so many times I have lost count. Beyond my slight obsession with Sex and the City, I am obsessed with Carrie Bradshaw.  I pretend to be Carrie Bradshaw (especially when I blog).  I even have a friend that calls me Ms. Bradshaw when she talks to me. I have often referred to myself as the Carrie Bradshaw of Trumann, and even call my best friends my Samantha (and my other Samantha, I have two of them in my life), Miranda and Charlotte.  Since I often find so many similarities in my life with that of the fictitious Carrie Bradshaw (great style, great friends, lots of shoes, lots of mishaps dating) I try to find those similarities everywhere. In my last post I mentioned that there may or may not be something brewing in the "love" department. This was with my "Mr. Big".  The one that has hurt me sooooo many times I have los...

Before going to see Mary Poppins.  I was down 16.5 pounds here and feeling pretty awesome about myself.   I don't have a clever title, it happens. So, this is just a "round-up" of everything I want to say.  All jumbled together....annnnnnd go...... Diet/Exercise Life Even though I didn't want to, I got on the scale at the gym yesterday (I like the gym scale, it weighs me 3 pounds less than my home scale :) ).  After my fat girl weekend fast food dining this weekend I was scared to get on the scale.  I closed my eyes, held my breath, and stood REEEEAAALLLLLYYY still..... and..... I LOST A POUND!!   I know a pound doesn't sound like much, but I will celebrate EVERY pound and not be ashamed of it.  And this one pound, just shows how far I am going.  I ate a lot and still managed to shed a pound.  For a total of 17.4 pounds.  HOLY MOLY!  That's almost 20.  So that means I'm almost halfway to my first goal....

This weekend I completely failed slipped up.  I am an avid stalker , er reader of a few blogs.  One of my favorites is Mama Laughlin .  She will have what she calls "Fat Girl Fridays" where she goes out to eat when her coworkers. Friday I had a Fat Girl Friday. Well let's start with the whole week. I ate out a grand total of five days.  I went to the gym a total of twice.  EPIC EPIC EPIC FAIL! Last week I was feeling a little under the weather, I didn't sleep much Sunday night, so Monday when I got home I went to bed almost as soon as I got home. I started off good.  Tuesday I had dinner with the girls.  I ate really good the first part of the day.  I went to the gym and did my circuit.  After that I went to Zumba.  I burned a looooooot of calories.  Then we went to dinner.  I had 5 cheese bites.  I ordered a hamburger steak (not the best choice but it was tasty) and green beans.  (BTW I love my girls).  I...

I know I update my Facebook a lot.  Lately, I update a lot about my diet, exercise, progress and so on (and Gary Allan lyrics thrown in for good measure).  I do this for one reason....it keeps my motivated.  I have people tell me I am an inspiration and a motivator, which I love to hear, but truth is there are days I feel like anything but those things.  So, I know if I put it on Facebook, I will do it.  Like today this morning I posted that I planned to go to the gym and to zumba.  Will since I put it out there in the open, I would feel like a failure or that I let someone down if I didn't do both, so I did both. I post my accomplishments too.  Not to brag or to have someone say "Oh wow, you're doing great!" but because I am proud.  I'm a fat girl.  I didn't get this way because I like to eat healthy and exercise.  Truth is most days I hate it.  I hate to run.  I hate to run more than anything in this world... more than the ...

My first month of diet and exercise, or umm "lifestyle change", is over.  I logged a total of 25 days at the gym, and 2 zumba classes.  I ate a lot of chicken and fish.  I lost a total of 13.2 pounds.  I am proud of myself and the results I am seeing. I would be lying if I said it was easy and I didn't want to to quit everyday.  Especially when I would get on the scale and see no weightloss and I couldn't understand why.  I was doing everything right and it wasn't showing.  People would tell me they could really tell I was losing, and it would just make me angry, however I would smile and say thanks instead of telling them to quit trying to make me feel better. However, I can tell that I am losing weight.  I look in the mirror and sometimes I actually don't feel fat, not that I feel skinny, I just don't feel fat.  And today, at church when someone said "You're melting away" it made me feel good, and not angry. I am liking this person I ...