COMING SOON...

This blog is yet again becoming something else. The plan is that it will be another place where I can talk about my creative explorations and explosions. I'm hoping it will be a place where I can keep track of what I have done, what I have been working on, what I forgot I was dreaming of working on and such. 

Up next... many art projects BUT first, as requested by my husband, a few posts on the 12 days of Christmas. We started a tradition in our home of giving each other a gift for each day of Christmas in accordance with the theme of that day. It was really exciting and helped me reconnect to the season like I did when I was a kid. I hope I can share that with more people by posting it here. It may be more than a few posts we'll see how it goes. Stay tuned...

p.s. I know it's a bit early. Believe me it took a while to come up with ideas for 12 days so I want to get a head start, especially if I'm going to blog about it. 

The Fork in the Road: Parenting the Fat Child Within

I had to choose today, between letting the fat child have a tantrum or putting my foot down and learning to discipline with love. I chose to put my foot down. Starting with figuring out the Weight Watchers points for the items I impulsively bought at Panera after finding out I gained 0.6lbs. WOW! 

I had to talk loving to the child within, with positives words. It went something like this:

"It's okay that you bought these. Let's not beat ourselves up about it. Now what do we do with them. Throwing them out would be silly. You can have them but not all in one sitting. Let's break them into smaller portions. We can save the rest for later. How does that sound? We'll throw in our daily banana too." 

I think I handled this well. I enjoyed my breakfast with the coffee I bought (another habit I have to get over). The souffle was DELICIOUS and the scone was yummy too. I think I satisfied the fat kids desire for an exciting breakfast. Not the best breakfast, but better than consuming nearly 2 days worth of daily WW points in one sitting like I have been doing. Baby steps. Don't want to push my obese inner child or it might have a heart attack/stroke. Baby steps.

Before and Now pictures

  So do I see changes? I think so. Hard to tell when I'm wearing different clothing in each photo. But I think I'm seeing my non-baby bump disappear. It's hard to feel like I'm making progress when the scale HOVERS at the same weight. Need to get 40 more lbs off this frame. Really hoping these pictures will help motivate me to keep KEEPING ON! 

A GRAND IDEA

They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
I guess what that means is that to stay healthy you need to eat healthy food. Duh? You are what you eat!
So for the next couple, who knows how many, days I will be BANANAS!
Attempting to take one day at a time and to make myself healthier everyday...one mile...one banana at a time! First mile down, many to go. Gotta get me some bananas! DAY ONE, nice to meet you!