Oh Farewell Old AOL Journal

Oh Farewell Old AOL Journal. You were my first experiment which carried on for over a year, 171 entries and 1445 views. Farewell old journal. I will miss you.

Well I just received the email from AOL that AOL Journals are being discontinued. So I zoomed over here to blogger spot and started a new one. Same old person writing, just a new site and layout, Woohoo!

Please join me at  http://rmslil.blogspot.com/..... Now I have to remember a password. The AOL Journal was so easy. Oh well. Life changes and one must adjust.

Toodles......

 

 

Tags: life, farewell

Still trying

I went for weigh-in and I had lost 3 pounds this week. Yayyy! I was very depressed last week when they said I had gained 2 pounds. I was flabbergasted. I did get down but I pulled myself up and continued on my journey. Now I am at a total of 16 pounds lost , getting closer to the 28 I was at before May. I will succeed.

Tags: life, week 2

Grocery Sale!!!!

We are on this new kick of saving money and clipping coupons. Last week ice cream was BOGO. My mom asked what kind she should get and I said Pumpkin and Peanut Butter Cup but I was really wanting the Butter Pecan. My thoughts on these two flavors....  I would only be tempted by the Peanut Butter flavor because I do not like Pumpkin at all , except seeds. My mom asked why did I do that and I told her if I don't like it I wont eat it. She understood but wondered why I still chose peanut butter cup being that it was a temptation. Voila it would only be one temptation not two.

Well guess what, I tried a quarter cup of the peanut butter cup and to me it was not worth the calories. I have not touched it all week. It has disappeared but not because I have eaten it. Now had we bought the butter pecan that would have been a whole different story.

Praise the Lord that I now think about my health and not about my tastes and whims and I think ahead of what may hurt me.

Tags: life, ice cream

Hungry Girl Blog ...

I  have to share this blog from WW. Some of you may have heard of hungrygirl.com. Well she does a weekly blog for WW.

This time she is in search of Guilt-Free chips. How ironic that was after my last post of my trigger food of chips. I don't think she gets it that for me it is not the chip but the salt!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy the read.

http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=6&art_id=59621&sc=3420

Tags: life, chips

Trigger Foods

I have been hearing and thinking alot about trigger foods. Foods that you can not just eat one serving or foods that cause you to binge. For a long time I did not think I really had one trigger food. All food was a trigger food for me.

This past week or two of getting back on track, I have discovered a trigger food. The salt on potato chips, cheetos, tortilla chips, etc. It does not matter if they are baked, light or full fat. Once I have the saltiness , I not only can not stop eating them but then the saltiness leads me to crave my most precious Pepsi that I try to limit to one can a day. Unfortunately if I add any kind of chip to the mix, my Pepsi intake increases which in turn my calories for the day increase. Oh my !

On the journey of life and weight loss, we learn lessons. Even though it will be hard, I will have to stay clear of my trigger food,  chips. I need to remember in my junior year of high school , I dropped chips and soda and lost 40 pounds. Hmmh, can I do it again?

What are your trigger foods? Have you really thought about it?

Tags: life, weight loss, trigger foods

Back on track times two, three, four, ....etc

I went back to Weight Watchers today. It was a good day after several weeks of bad numbers. I lost 3.6 pounds, yayyy! Now I am back at a total of 16 pounds lost. So I have twelve pounds to lose to be back where I was before I fell off the wagon. But at least I didn't gain all 28 pounds back.

Keep me encouraged.

 

Tags: life, ww

Summer's Last hoorah

My mom splashing and having fun with her grandson on grandparent's day.

Munchkin posing for the camera. He is not fishing. His great-aunt bought him a popeye

poseable figure and he wanted to put a string around it and drag it around with him everywhere all day, ummmh, all day.

It was a great day though. The weather here will remain warm for awhile but this was probably the last day for the beach for us. This was my first time ever going to Buckroe Beach here off the Chesapeake Bay. I have lived here all my life and have never been there. Well I grew up in Newport News even though part of my backyard is Hampton, I don't venture far in Hampton.  

Tags: life, summer

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