I started watching the Biggest Loser again to try to get my butt motivated. I am not sure that I love Bob (I do love Bob) as the hostess with the most-tess.. but, time will tell. As I watch the show, eating a bowl of ice cream, and hoping that by some miracle of heaven, the calories that I see the contestants burning on the big TV screens behind them, are somehow coming out of the bowl, dropping to the floor and scurrying off, before I put the spoon to my mouth... I then see in one of the contestants- myself... I am not special. God didn't design me different- in the area of how my body physically works, I have to drive myself, direct my path, motivate me. I like anyone on a weight loss journey, have and will continue to struggle with my.... addiction. I love food...
I was working on a project for a friend and was drawn in by the evil which is known by many to be called- dah, dah, duhn... Pinterest (JK- I love it!) for those of you who live under a rock.... Pinterest is virtual pin boards where you make your own profile and then your own boards and then start pinning ideas and pictures and websites and blogs and pages to them- the madness never ends as new pins show up minute by minute from people pinning all around the globe. In saying all that- I have way too many pins in my food section. Since, I am now at home the majority of the time- my food addiction has transformed into eating REAL food. In one way that is a very good thing, and in a couple of others it is "Danger, Will Rodger!" Fast food was my greatest friend and greatest enemy for too many years to count. In the past 2 years, I have lost about 40 lbs doing a mostly low-carb diet and trying to get some exercise. I have lost the same 10 lbs about 20 times...so I am good at losing- but, I am really good at gaining it back too. I was pretty good at Christmas time this past month... well, with the exception of all things chocolate. The danger of REAL food can be... 1. COST and 2. It's so good you over eat. and 3. You make it with REAL stuff. ie. Cream, BUTTER, eggs, milk... you get my drift. I just put in a pan of Leek and Potato Au-gratin with real cream in the oven- it looks yummy- found the recipe on Pinterest!
Off topic for a sec... I have a friend that loves doughnuts. I never loved them... they were good but, not something I craved. We would pick up doughnuts for church or Dan would get a couple on the way home for a treat sometime. I would eat one out of courtesy. Social eating. He likes fritters and fruit ones. As I stated above... CHOCOlate is my weakness... so if he didn't get chocolate or if he got the ones with the icing inside(way too sweet) I was really okay with not having one. Well, one to many Sunday's - since I was not the driver, I went in to do the picking out of the doughnuts. I have become a fan... I hate to admit it but, the Chocolate Cake Old fashioned with the glaze and the chocolate icing on top- OMG! it makes me weak. I live a mile or so from this doughnut shop and I will not drive that way on purpose- because I want one so bad. It's sad I know. Go ahead and weep for me. My name is Miki and I love doughnuts- not that you could not tell by looking at me.
Okay back to topic. I am going to do my best to start again blogging my journey and putting it out there. I have no idea where I was on the scale for my last confession but here is it the scale does not lie. I weigh 341.5 pounds. It's real. I am going forward and I will be walking and doing things to get that number down. My progress maybe slow and not 12-20 pounds a week like on the Biggest Loser. But, I will be going doing something about it again. So, for those of you who read this blog and want to join me on this journey... Let's do it. Let's do something for us and get REAL back in the game.
I love you and love me too... I want to be around longer.
**winks from me!
I was working on a project for a friend and was drawn in by the evil which is known by many to be called- dah, dah, duhn... Pinterest (JK- I love it!) for those of you who live under a rock.... Pinterest is virtual pin boards where you make your own profile and then your own boards and then start pinning ideas and pictures and websites and blogs and pages to them- the madness never ends as new pins show up minute by minute from people pinning all around the globe. In saying all that- I have way too many pins in my food section. Since, I am now at home the majority of the time- my food addiction has transformed into eating REAL food. In one way that is a very good thing, and in a couple of others it is "Danger, Will Rodger!" Fast food was my greatest friend and greatest enemy for too many years to count. In the past 2 years, I have lost about 40 lbs doing a mostly low-carb diet and trying to get some exercise. I have lost the same 10 lbs about 20 times...so I am good at losing- but, I am really good at gaining it back too. I was pretty good at Christmas time this past month... well, with the exception of all things chocolate. The danger of REAL food can be... 1. COST and 2. It's so good you over eat. and 3. You make it with REAL stuff. ie. Cream, BUTTER, eggs, milk... you get my drift. I just put in a pan of Leek and Potato Au-gratin with real cream in the oven- it looks yummy- found the recipe on Pinterest!
Off topic for a sec... I have a friend that loves doughnuts. I never loved them... they were good but, not something I craved. We would pick up doughnuts for church or Dan would get a couple on the way home for a treat sometime. I would eat one out of courtesy. Social eating. He likes fritters and fruit ones. As I stated above... CHOCOlate is my weakness... so if he didn't get chocolate or if he got the ones with the icing inside(way too sweet) I was really okay with not having one. Well, one to many Sunday's - since I was not the driver, I went in to do the picking out of the doughnuts. I have become a fan... I hate to admit it but, the Chocolate Cake Old fashioned with the glaze and the chocolate icing on top- OMG! it makes me weak. I live a mile or so from this doughnut shop and I will not drive that way on purpose- because I want one so bad. It's sad I know. Go ahead and weep for me. My name is Miki and I love doughnuts- not that you could not tell by looking at me.
Okay back to topic. I am going to do my best to start again blogging my journey and putting it out there. I have no idea where I was on the scale for my last confession but here is it the scale does not lie. I weigh 341.5 pounds. It's real. I am going forward and I will be walking and doing things to get that number down. My progress maybe slow and not 12-20 pounds a week like on the Biggest Loser. But, I will be going doing something about it again. So, for those of you who read this blog and want to join me on this journey... Let's do it. Let's do something for us and get REAL back in the game.
I love you and love me too... I want to be around longer.
**winks from me!
