Me vs. County and town taxes

   I want to scream!! I just spent maybe two hours trying to figure out what I owe for personal property taxes and I am tired!! My oatmean got cold, my laundry is waiting to be transferred from the washer to the dryer... it never ends... and to top it all off, it is raining.  Last night there was some serious lightning and thunder.  Even the car alarms were going off.  I saw a bright light. I thought it was my turn to join whom ever I will join once I go.  I think the ladies at the office were tired of me too.  oh well, we are both working to transfer the money, I pay, they receive.

Me vs the journey of this year

My sons SUNDAY breakfast... He was waiting for more pancakes... I am trying to undo all those habits... it takes time

This is Chia seeds in the oatmeal... hmmm I think I will have to get back to you on my liking this...

 

Always in love with this kind of picture...

 

From a cookbook I found at Savers found this easy chicken recipe for baked chicken. loved it!!

so like I said, I was on my way two a better breakfast..

 

I had not eaten liver in a long time!! and I did make a substitution, no rice, got a salad instead!!

 

This was a very interesting find

Making sure I have a well balanced dinner did I do it right?

 

a little perspective on the goals there..

 

 yeap, had a nice meal, and didn't count any carbs, wanted to enjoy

 and then dessert came along, and all bets were off...

a day at OUTBACK and all food broke loose!

This day, was running out of options, had pasta, and then I went to zumba.  it was great and my sugar was under control...

a nice quiet salad..

that turned into a salad later!
 

This is the denial phase of this journey, and I did enjoy it, but then I was asking myself WHY?? Was I at my hangover phase? like when drunk people call friends on the phone?

I had two of this, and regreted it, my belly ached..

 

 this was a very nice one


this was the flank steak with a recipe from a crushing tiger




when I thought life was a 35 carb limit...

Me vs The soup and the Book!

 

on my plate on my books, chicken is everywhere!!!

 

Me vs The Tree

 

I was very in love with this project... you never know what you can do, till you actually do it!!

Me vs Silver Dollar Pancakes

Even this cuties have a name hahaha this were for my son. I need to also watch what I make for them, and I have started to cut back on all this carbs for them too, because of the diabetes. He hasn't had any waffles either... My nutritionist says that's their name.

Me vs Oatmeal and ONE toast

Ok I did promised that I would cut down to 1 toast instead of two haha

Me vs. Crystal Light is a GO!

I finally figured out the water ratio to my liking.... Lemonade raspberry is also great.

Me vs. the chicken soup

Working on a better chicken soup... it was delicious!!

Me vs the protein challenge at the buffet

Im not sure I won this battle but by night time, my sugar was 93, so I think so...

Me vs the mistaken 35 carb breakfast

Yeap, that was my mistake... that day, I made eggs that way, but usually is scrambled the way I like them.

Me vs the Spaguetty squash!!

This was very good. I loved the sauce. Spaghetti squash was great, and chicken too!!

Me vs the case of the banana pancake!

Have you ever had Banana pancakes? they are good!! I saw the recipe in my fb newsfeed. and when I find the post, I will do credit where is due.. I promise...

Me Vs. Myself

My idea for this blog is to write down, the ups and down of a journey toward my goal weight of 150.  Is that still fat? who knows, I don't, but since a while back that number came into my head. Don't even know what size that is... I am currently at 221 and size 20. An XL... and I think to my self I want to get rid of that X... among other areas of my life as well. but that's another blog.

I started in February of 2013 motivated by a persons visit to get myself in shape, and I came across my first zumba class, that was very energetic, and amazing.  It was like clubbing.  Who doesn't like that?? well, I was 244 back then.  To my surprise, I lost about 17 pounds. But because I didn't know what to eat at times, I always felt that I didn't eat enough, so I would end up feeling hungry.

That was not helpful, so then I even stopped going to the studio, among other things I was crushing on some person that I thought would be a great motivational piece in my journey, but it wasn't... so in the end instead of making me happy, I made myself unhappy and for some reason I lost my motivation to dance, to want to get in a better shape.

I took a trip to see family and that was a haze, I can not recall anything memorable other than the fact that I met cute baby boy, and his mother was adorable too.  It was the brake I needed but for some reason I couldn't enjoy it.... It wasn't until months later that I realized that my sugar was high.  Yes I am diabetic, so all my crazy eating over the past summer had caugh up with me.

I got it under control and once again started going to the diabetic classes and at one session they had a woman come in and talk about food and how it affect us, and offered to get people nutritional classes.  I had one when I was diagnosed 5 years ago, but I thought maybe there is some new formula they might have for me to try.

It would be a few weeks before I would hear from them, but eventually I was given an appointment for april 17th, 2015, and that is a day I will remember for a long time.  It was a magical moment.  Robin, the nutritionist gave me some great advice, and I could not believe she was telling me that if I followed the guidelines I would not only control my diabetes but also drop some pounds.  Protein was to be my best friend, and carbs were something I would watch over...

It was what I needed.  I didn't really understand the numbers, and what was 45 grams of carbs, I thought it was 35! so the first few days were killing me.  I had headaches, stomach aches, even my sugar went as low as 85!!


 and for one second or too, I thought I was cured!! ha! I can dream right? and so, I was determined to eat less sugary of anything... but with all my aches and pain... I thought it was going to be a high road up ahead.

I had misplaced the paper where everything was written down, so when I found it, I realized my mistake and started counting carbs again to make sure I was near the allowed amount so that I could feel better.


And so far so good, I had a follow up on the 27th of may, and I had lost 3 pounds!! This time, she was making me see that the less carbs, the better and faster my fat would melt away, at a nice pace.. and so another goal came to be, where I would try my hand at less carbs, than the allowed, and I have managed to cut down to 1 slice of bread plus egg, plus oatmeal. and when I am working around the house it is nice and enough, but when I do nothing around, I feel I am missing something, so I always look for something to do around the house... decluttering my closet is my favorite thing to do, so I can donate to my local store... everybody wins!!!