Foodie

I have a problem. I take pictures of food. I can't help it. Usually, I am so excited that I made something, it turned out, or it looks pretty, that before my mind even knows what my hands are doing, I have taken a photo and if by chance I am not scarfing down the creation in the photo, I am uploading it to facebook or twitter.
One day I ran across this 15 things annoy girls on facebook do- one of which was post photos of food! And it hit me- I am that annoying girl! If you have noticed a lacking of food photos on my social media pages facebook and twitter it is not because I have stopped eating, trust me, I could never do that. If I were Catholic, I couldn't give up food for Lent, if I wanted to prove a point about starving children, I couldn't do that, I love food. The food photos have been cut down quite considerably, but please know, I can never stop!

Here are a few things I have made and want to share with you. Because if it is on a blog, then it's TOTALLY different than facebook, right?

Buffalo wings- I can't take credit for this- Ahmad makes them and then I look like a child covered from nose to fingers in sauce.

Eggs Benedict. I cannot express hollandaise sauce with words.

Chicken pot pie. OMG! One time, I made potatoes and put them on top because I didn't want to see the middle and because I LOVE carbs.

I did NOT make this. Oklahoma Joe's.

Got a Chicago dog for the first time- in KC and bacon mac and cheese- Frank's

Lorax cupcakes- of course, I didn't make these either- Cupcake a la Mode- but so cute and probably delicious!

 Now don't go reading last time's post about weight loss after seeing all these posts about food. I don't need any more judgement than I have already :)

Now what's for dinner?

Motivation

Christmas was rough. I ate sugar. I drank. I had more carbs than ham, and my mom bought 2 hams! I didn't make a new year's resolution and definitely NOT one to lose weight, but I am trying to make changes. I am giving up sugar... again. I am cutting back- carbs, pop, candy, you name it. I am pushing myself. I don't have specific goals, such as losing 10 pounds, but I still have goals. I want to be more dedicated to exercising. I want to eat better- all the time. I want to be challenged.

This is something I have been thinking about- NOT acting on-oops! What got me motivated was Christmas- not the ham or the carbs- but my family. It was great, and self-centered and rude, but I enjoyed hearing my family tell me how good I looked and how they can tell I have lost weight. I have heard this from my mom, the boy and more derby girls than I can count, but it finally clicked. Maybe it was the combination of the sugar high and the compliments, but I no longer felt like I was in a slump.

I thought I had plateaued. And I had in the sense of slipping into eating sugar and skipping morning walks, but it hadn't changed the fact that I had already accomplished something. I had lost a good bit of weight. I went from a size 18 jeans to 12- that is a size I hadn't seen since before high school! It felt good to clean out my closet and get rid of things that didn't fit. It felt awesome to zip up a pair of pants that have always been too tight. That is motivation. It makes me want to go to the gym, go for a walk, do a few sit ups. The new shoes also motivated me, but that is another day.

Christmas 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week- January 2012