SB Diet-Day 4/Leap Year

Isn't it cool that today you can't say "One year ago today I was....". Ha ha, that's pretty cool!

Beakfast (don't worry, I am going to switch this up this weekend)
1 egg
2 slices turkey bacon

Snack
2 slices of turkey
3 small pickles
7 cheese cubes

Lunch
3 oz.eye of round steak
steamed squash

Snack
Jell-o cup
cucumber

Dinner
bunless burger
ash's salad

Snack (not sure yet)

Well hopefully I will do good this weekend. I have a feeling it will be harder plus Jason and Meredith are coming in to town so I know we will go out to eat one night. I will update again on Monday...have a great weekend and I hope you are enjoying your extra day. I'm just thinking of it as an extra day a work, blah!!!

SB Diet-Day 4

Are you getting bored yet? I kind of am...

Breakfast
1 egg
2 slices turkey bacon

Snack
celery with peanut butter
laughing cow swiss cheese wedge

Lunch
chicken from last night
green beans from last night

Snack
jell-o cup
7 cheese cubes

Dinner
sirloin patty
steamed broccoli

Snack
not sure yet??

I'm just asking God for the determination to make the right choices and stay strong by not giving into temptation! It's supposed to get easier but seems like it's getting harder :(

SB Diet-Day 3

I haven't given up yet, I was just actually working yesterday afternoon instead of blogging. Anyways, here is my menu from yesterday and a picture of my pitiful dinner plate (so you can see portion size-which is why you have to eat 6 meals a day). I tend to make a big deal out of things. This diet really isn't that bad but when I make it seem more dramatic I feel like I am accomplishing something more and that pushes me. Weird I know! It's still a big adjustment to be so restricted though!

Breakfast

1 egg (it's a good thing I LOVE eggs)
2 slices of turkey bacon (gag)

Snack

2 slices of turkey

7 cheese cubes

1 small cucumber

Lunch

leftover pork tenderloin from dinner

leftover steamed broccoli

Snack

small portion of Ash's salad (I mentioned it in day 1)

Dinner
grilled chicken (just plain ol' chicken?? as quoted by Josh)

steamed green beans (with out Bearnaise sauce, so sad!)

Snack (I guess you could call it dessert???)

1tbls of peanut butter

1 cup of milk

I went to Curves and weighed in for the 1st time since December. I gained one pound but no inches since then. That was pretty encouraging considering I didn't really watch what I ate throughout the holidays. I will update Monday with a weight loss total, well hopefully there will be one, I don't want to jinx myself!!

SB Diet -Day 2

I didn't care so much for my salmon last night, I mean I ate it but only because it didn't taste like much. If anyone has a good salmon recipe please let me know!

Here is my menu for today...

Breakfast
1 egg
2 slices turkey bacon

Snack
2 slices of turkey
7 cheese cubes
1 small cucumber

Lunch
roasted chicken-small portion (not even a whole breast)
3/4 cup of steamed broccoli

Snack
3 mini pickles
sugar free jell-o snack

Again, haven't had dinner yet but I am having
pork tenderloin
steamed zucchini

Did I mention Josh's excitement over this diet thing! He is being very supportive but I feel bad for him, he is eating Easy Mac every night for a little extra. Thanks for hanging in there with me babe!

Oh and by the way I had to get up at 4:45am this morning to be at the Westin at 6:00 for a conference that we staff for. We had to make sure all of our staff showed up on time, dressed appropriately that sort of thing. No sleep and no food, great day!

SB Diet-Day 1

Well I am sort of writing this to keep for myself but feel free to take a peek into my meager daily meals. Don't worry, I will prob only do this for a couple of weeks, before I get tired of it....not the diet but the daily entries. Anyways, this is what my day has consisted of so far (food wise)

Breakfast
1 poached egg
2 slices of bark, I mean turkey bacon (microwave)

Snack
4 sticks of celery with 2 tbs peanut butter
laughing cow light swiss cheese wedge

Lunch
made up a salad on my own which was actually pretty good.
5 varieties of lettuce (salad in a bag)
red onion
tyson chicken cubes
crumbled goat cheese
good seasoning italian dressing (made with EVOO and balsamic vinegar)
* I love my honey mustard but this dressing was really not that bad)

Snack
2 slices of deli turkey
Sugar free strawberry jell-o snack pac

I haven't had dinner yet but it's already bought and planned out
Salmon with 2tbs of SC diet BBQ sauce-grilled
steamed broccoli

Desert
Sugar free chocolate pudding

Going to curves tonight to burn all 500 calories! I ate more calories than that but I can be sarcastic about it :)

One of my favorite possessions!

One of my best friends Hayley started this for me. Her stepmom, Marty, had one of her own (3x this size) and I just LOVED it. I thought it was so pretty! She had it on a planters stand in her room. It's all the roses she has received throughout the years. I believe she started it when she got married to Hayley's dad. Anyways, Hayley knew how much I loved it so she started a small one for me our sophomore year of college. It has grown significantly, thank you Josh, and I absolutely love it! It's a perfect decoration that I think is timeless, unless you have an ultra modern home, not to mention the sentimental value. All of the roses were given to me!!! Just thought I would share, I had it down putting all the roses from our anniversary in and thought I would take a pic. It really is one of my most favorite possessions. So if you want to send me roses I won't complain when they die, I now actually look forward to when they die so I can grow my beautiful rose basket. He he, just kidding on you sending me roses!

*Notice the one blue rose? Well when I was in high school blue was my favorite color. I don't know why but I always said I would marry the guy the gave me a blue rose. Josh found one in college and gave it to me, so you know what that means....

Our Weekend!

This picture pretty much sums up our weekend!

Josh and I didn't do much this weekend. We stayed in and ordered pizza on Friday and watched a movie. Josh actually got called into work for a little while on Saturday then we went out to watch the GREAT Tennessee basketball game, GO VOLS! A perfect relaxing weekend that is very much appreciated since we have visitors the next 2 weekends and then we are off to California for a long weekend!

Hope everyone has a great week!

South Beach Diet

I'm over making excuses and being so lazy. On Monday I am starting South Beach Diet. I have done this before but didn't follow the rules all that well. I know it works, I've seen people lose lots of weight on this. I am also going to get motivated to go back to Curves. Well maybe not motivated but I'm going to make myself go anyways! Well if anyone has done South Beach and has any tips or recipes they would like to share I would greatly appreciate it. I can't eat any carbs or sugars for the next 2 weeks (at least). I guess it's a good thing I already ate my girl scout cookies. If you want to know where to find me this weekend try any place that has pasta, french fries, molten chocolate cakes, and cokes! Have a great weekend!

Hmm, I wonder if Josh will take me to Real Chow Baby?? Ha ha...JUST KIDDING!

Recent Dozer Pics!

Bella says Hello!

Yay!

Josh is flying home as we speak! I am picking him up in one hour and I'm so excited! I have missed him so much! He had fun in Orlando, had to work quite a bit, but got to do some fun stuff. One night they rented the entire City Walk portion of Universal and they got to pick the resturant of their choice to eat at. He also went to SeaWorld last night for the last session and I am very jealous. Next years seminar is in Long Beach, CA. Just to put it into prespective there were about 4 thousand people there this year...that is a lot. All of corporate goes as well as all the operators of the store, you can bring your spouse but no children. CFA pays for it all!!! Amazing!

Mother/Daughter Weekend (and 2 weekdays)

Josh left early Saturday morning heading to Orlando for CFA's seminar so mom came down to stay with me and keep me company. Friday we just stayed in, ate fajitas and helped Josh get packed up. Saturday we did the traditional shopping which is always so much fun and we got great deals with the Presidents Day sales! That night I took mom to.....Real Chow Baby! Yes, I have been there 4 times in less than 2 months but who's counting, plus it's so yummy! Mom loved it and thankfully it was worth the hour and 20 minute wait. Sunday we went to see 27 dresses and LOVED it! We ordered pizza and watched more romantic comedies at home! Monday I did go to work but she came here around lunch and we went to America's Mart. In case you haven't heard of it, it's where buyers go and get stuff at wholesale prices. Oh WOW! It was so overwhelming, every accessory you can possibly imagine. You have to have a pass to get in but once you do you will never want to leave, it was amazing and we only saw a little piece of it. It would take days to REALLY shop there. Anyways that was great and after work mom made me chicken -n- dumplins and chicken salad for my lunches the rest of the week. Did I mention it is nice having your mom around. She also did my laundry and some cleaning! Very nice! Tuesday I did take the day off and we got facials in the morning and she left that afternoon. WE had so much fun and it was a perfect girls weekend! Thanks for everything Mom and I really enjoyed our time together!

Valentine's

Josh and I didn't want to spend lots of money for Valentines nor did we want to deal with the crowds at the resturants, not to mention you have to make a reservation with a credit card...that's just silly. So we went to a Thrashers hockey game, made cupcakes for my office, cooked dinner and made Valentine's for other people. We had fun and that's the whole point!


At the game
Go Thrashers!
Josh was in charge of the sprinkles-he looks so happy doesn't he!
Dozer with his colorful valentines gift from Daddy
Dozer's valentine to Granny (my mom)-he's so sweet isn't he!

New Addition

My best friend Erin has a new addition to her family!!

This is Dylan and she is a 41/2 month old boxer...so cute!

This is Hurley (Erin's other Boxer that is 1) and Dylan playing and getting used to each other.

Congrats Erin and Casey! I know you are so excited. Much braver than I am to have 2 big dogs to take care of but I am happy for you and can't wait to meet Dylan!

Spice Up Sandwich Nite...

...minus the paperplate. I don't know about you all but Josh and I have sandwiches at least once a week. They are good and easy so why not? Well this week I thought I might try to spice them up a little instead of just white bread and oscar meyer meat. I got the original idea from Southern Living but altered it a little so you could pretty much use whatever you like.

I bought a round sourdough loaf (managers special for $1), deli turkey and ham, and provalone cheese. The recipe called for balsamic vinaigrette but I had Italian so I just used that.

You cut the top off the bread and scrape out the middle (you can save the inside for something else) as thick or thin as you want and cut into 4 wedges. Drizzle a little dressing on the bread, top and bottom. Layer your meats and cheeses (I drizzled a little more dressing in between some layers) and place the top back on. Bake it on 450 for about 10 minutes to heat it up and melt the cheese. Then I put lettuce, tomato, grey poupon and bacon on each one.

It was really tasty and again just a little variation from the typical sandwich, you've got to keep things interesting right?

Josh thinks I am a loser for blogging about sandwiches but at least I am blogging so you have something to look at and I have a reason to not do work this morning!

Beautiful Niece

Those of you that look at my families blogs have already seen this pic but the ones that don't I wanted to share this with you. This was taken on Kiley's first trip to the beach just last week. Lacy takes the most beautiful pictures and this one is just gorgeous! I am so blessed to have such beautiful nieces (see pics of Bella below).

Lazy weekend!

Josh got home from California on Friday so we just relaxed on Friday night and I made his favorite..."Chicken in the garden". Dozer got in some loving time since he missed Josh so much.


On Saturday I got my hair done and went to dinner with Brie. We became friends when I moved to Atlanta, she started working when I did so we became really close. She has since left and taken another job and I really miss seeing her at work everyday. We had a great time catching up with each other and I can't wait to do it again soon.

It was a nice relaxing weekend and I really enjoyed it. My mom will be coming to stay with me next weekend because Josh is off to Orlando for a week. He is going to CFA's annual seminar and I will miss him very much. Stayed tuned for hopefully a really funny picture of him...I'll explain later!

Where did my forehead go?

Sorry I look so terrible, this is Sunday evening without make-up!

Not a huge difference but I went to get my hair done Saturday and decided to go with some bangs and I got 2 inches cut off. She didn't do it exactly the way I wanted but they are growing on me and I have been playing with them. They are just bangs so if I don't like them I can grow them back out. Let me know what you think.

Thanks Chelsey

As I posted a few weeks ago, Josh made a Hole-in-One. His sister Chelsey was sweet enough to mail us the clipping out of the newspaper so it's now on the refridgerator. Congrats again Josh!!

Safe Travel

These pictures were taken a couple of years ago when Josh got to fly one of CFA's private planes. He doesn't take these every trip obviously but he did on one and even got to fly it. Look at his long hair...he looks so different!

Josh is on his way to California as we speak. I'm not sure if I've mentioned before but Chick-fil-a has opened an office there in Orange County so he has had to go a couple of times to help get IT stuff set up. He will be back tomorrow before I get off work but please pray for a safe and successful trip. Thank you!

Last weekend

This one is a little late but this past weekend tw0 of our high school best friends came to Atlanta. We took them to....Real Chow Baby! If you notice we have been to Real Chow Baby 3 weekends in a row. Needless to say Josh and I won't be going there this weekend. It's a great resturant and it's $11.95 for all you can eat stir fry that you create your self but everyone in Atlanta loves this place so it's always an ordeal when you go. I will be taking my Mom soon when she comes to visit but we will go on Sunday night or something. Anyways after dinner we went to Whole World Theater, they do improv comedy and we had a blast. They were really funny! It was a great weekend with the boys!

High Maintenance

Mommy putting a cold wet towel on his head last night to help the itching
(it really seemed to work)

Poor red face I hope Dozer doesn't mind that I am exposing him but this shows his bumps and redness the most- these bumps are all over his body. Poor guy!

And Josh thought I was high maintenance...well poor Dozer is having some sort of allergic reaction to something. It started on Tuesday with some hives (small red bumps) and a little hacking here and there. His face is all red and he has some scabs where he has itched so much. We took him to the vet this morning (I can't believe I actually went, for those of you that don't know I have anxiety issues with the vet from my experience with my last bulldog...but that is another post) to have him checked out. He is having an allergic reaction of some sort (duh) and the Dr said treating it is not the hard part it's figuring out what is causing it and eliminating that so it won't happen again is the hard part. So I am going to make some minor adjustments at home that the Dr suggested and we will go from there. He got a shot of cortizone and 3 different types of meds so should feel better soon but lets just hope this was a fluke. If he continues to react like this then we will have to move on testing for food allergies which can be very time consuming and potentially costly. Anyways yet another health issue, I guess that's part of having a bulldog right? Oh and he is def worth it!