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and the scale.  Thanks for stopping by.

My latest attempt at this is the walk by the clementines at the co-op.  I thought them too pricey, so I meandered toward the Dead Sea Salt instead.  I drowned my sorrows in a bath of salt and felt better.

I’m currently making shakes* with many ingredients to assuage my pains and low moods:  wild yam drops, hops drops, green tea/whey protein, psyllium, cinnamon, and last but not least, hemp milk.  Forgot ice cubes.  Blend well!

We’ll see if this impacts my not-plummeting weight.  Best to you in your efforts to join me at the other end of the scale.

Oh, and drink iced-tea.  Gotta run, there is my midnight snack…

* always check labels and know yourself before trying any ingredients you find in recipes here.

an apple a day?

Perhaps this might work for me a tad better, LOL.  How are you doing?  Long time, no talk to… but I count days till spring.  We’ll be on the map, then.

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It got so bad that I just never came by!  We were busy, we were life, we were struggling, surviving, hoping and now, “I’m here!”

Hopefully, I’ll be back tomorrow.  How are you doing?  Last I checked, I was 220. 
Again.

sicker than dogs…

I have to apologize for once again being MIA.  But that is how a lot of diets go, I have heard.  Start strong, end weak.  I will begin this again, after Labor Day and after school gets started.

I’ve been faithful to fresh fr.&veg, and as much exercise as possible.  The last few weeks we got out of the rhythm due to summer colds and flu.  Strange it lingered so  My ears were giving me terrible problems, too.

See you hopefully when school kicks off!

The Orange-A-Day Diet gone south

Well, I have to be honest… I’m eating fresh fruits and even enjoyed the fruit off my tomato vine, a little grape, juicy and wonderful 1 bite snack.  It was tasty, but, aside from that and working out on the run just about daily, I’ve been more mulling about my music and practicing for a program given last night.

The diet I’m discussing with my teen and we shall recommence shortly.  I hope.  Don’t despair, I hope our good intentions have motivated you toward healthy living and that you’ve achieved some weight loss.  I am please to weigh in at:

 

where is that blasted scale?!?!

Vacation Week

Or I’m tempted to say sabbatical!  I’m really weary of even trying to manage this diet!  Although, since it is mine, I can fail without too much apology.  However, I apologize and applaud you if it is making an impact for you.  Please let me know, in this case.

I have been consistent with my exercise.  For that, I can feel the reward, certainly.  Even in our incredibly HOT days in the midwest, I’ve found myself being faithful to many ‘runs’ per week.

I’m going to say this.  Take the week for relaxing and do what you can to drink your water, just stay hydrated and active.  Relish the time to eat as you like regarding veggie and fruit picks, keeping careful with unhealthy fats and too much refined sugars.  We have found it necessary to encourage our children to make their own ‘pop’.  Buy spritzer and 100% fruit juice, mix and there you have, and the kiddies are satisified.

We are attempting mulberry cobbler, hemming and hawing over whether or not to remove the stems.  I’ll post the recipe when we decide which one we are making.  I’ve never had mulberry anything that I can remember and last year discovered a nearby tree.  I love the book entitled, JAMBERRY by Bruce Degen. I will have to find it to read to the kids during dessert tomorrow night.

I have to confess also, too much DQ. Oh well, it is “summertime and the livin’ is easy…”

Say goodbye to strawberries?

photo from my garden, chamomile and basil

How could we?  They are so good right now.  Keep eating them, please.

The prescription this week (give or take a week, I know, I know) is maintaining broccoli, greens, raspberries… and we add a new fruit:  banana.  I’m doing this simply for ease and potassium.  Eat whatever veg/fruit you have on hand or in garden.  How about a local farmer’s market.  I haven’t been to one this year, yet, but my gardener (my lawn service provider who also agreed to build me a veggie box) has.  He picked up vegetables for my garden, several tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumber and a couple of herbs all for $11.  Can’t beat that.  I suggest you find someone who is willing to help you out in your garden.  If you haven’t the time, energy or general inertia (perhaps you can’t be in the sun) for it, find someone who is inexpensive to do this for you.  It’s most refreshing to cut some flowers, set them atop your table, then go pick some fresh herbs to bruise and put on top of a filet of salmon or to throw onto a chx fryer and bake while you sip your iced tea and enjoy the whiff your bouquet.

Try it, you’ll like it.  I have enjoyed taking photos of each bloom as it comes.  Blossom chasing is a pastime of mine and it’s been rewarding to chronicle my garden, AKA weed patch.

I’ll post some photos from my tours here, starting with one from my garden.  Enjoy!  And God bless your efforts at becoming healthier and more fit.