Rebooting

Can you re-boot your brain, or really, your taste buds? Dr. Oz says you can and Bob Greene says you can.

Here is what Bob actually had to say..

Each person has the power to adapt their taste to healthier foods, Bob says. "Your tastes adjust. We habituate and we do it both ways," he says. "If you start cutting out the sugars, cutting out the sodium, you will taste the natural flavors of the foods."

I'm a firm believer that you can really change your tastes. We have given up white rice, white pasta, white bread and as much high fructose corn syrup that we can. We started doing this about 5 years ago and it worked, or maybe whole wheat products have gone way tastier. But we have done it. I also was a non-tomatoe eater for many, many, many years. But now I love tomatoes. Maybe our taste buds change as we get older too.

If I only knew then (in my 20's) what I know now. But this is a process, a sometimes very slow process, but a forward moving process none the less.

I am thinking about trying and giving up my sweetner. I don't use sugar, mainly splenda, but that is like 700 times sweeter that sugar, so my taste buds have gotten used to it. I say thinking about it because I can't quite talk myself into it yet. I am on the verge, but not over the line yet.

So who know, that might be my next goal. I have actually done really well at giving up the diet sodas.

Weigh in day

Today was weigh in day. I weighed in at 176.2. I have to say I was suprised....HAPPY but surprised! And I finally get what I have been wanting for a while. A NEW NUMBER.

So depending on which weight I start from as of my last weigh in . I am either 1.3 lbs down, or .8 lbs down or .3 lbs down....but any way you look at it the numbers went down.

Helping Hands

Ecclesiastes 4:10
10 If one falls down,
his friend can help him up.
But pity the man who falls
and has no one to help him up!

So this was my message in bible study tonight. I thought it spoke a lot about what we all want to get out of our blogging. We are hear to help each other out.

So much of what other say (blog about) helps me out. I hope something I am going through (blogging about) can make just one person realize they are not alone.

Hi there!

Hi there!!! I'm super busy and I have a case of the funk again...but I wanted to say HI there!
Hope everyone is doing well. I'm am hoping to be back soon with more posts after work slows down.
Have a good week.

Let's get out of the funk

Seems like there is an illness going around. It is the "In a funk flu". Seems like it has spread to some of us in our little blogging worlds. Lady T mentioned being tired the other days. Twix was has been out of sort, Chubby chix was stressed out and I wasn't too happy myself on Wednesday.

So here is to a good weekend for all of us. I hope you ladies (and any gents that might be reading) have a great weekend.

I will envy no more..well about this anyway ; )

I no longer have scale envy. I stopped by my favorite Target store today and bought this beauty. It weighs in .2lbs increments. I also calculates body fat and water %...but not sure I'm ready for all that yet. I gave it a test drive...which I would normally NEVER weigh myself in the afternoon. That breaks fat girl rule #101 which says you can only weight yourself in the morning and you have to be buck nekked.

But even weighing myself this afternoon I weight 177...which rocks since that is what I weighed at 6:30 am this morning!!!!! So I am already liking my new scale better.

Scale Envy ~ Weigh in day

I have scale envy. I envy the scales of my blogger buddies. My scale only weights in 1/2 lbs increments. I never really noticed it too much before but now I do...when ever little 1/10th of a lbs would make me smile just a little.



I stepped on the scale today and it said 177.5. I stepped off in a huff! geez..you have to be kidding me. Then I stepped on again 176.5. Okay, a little better...but Seriously, did I just lose a lbs with that step...I think not!. Then just to get an average I step on again 177. I was getting a little peeved at this point so I stopped obsessing. That is when the scale envy hit me. I notice lots of others weigh-ins are in smaller increments. So I will be looking around at Target for a new scale.

I wasn't expecting a huge loss, but I felt like I did a good job this week. I walked 3 days last week and 2 this week so far. I ate well, not perfect but not horrible. So I was hoping for some progress, but I guess unless it is over .5lb then I just won't be able to see it on the scale.

I told hubby this morning we needed a new scale and he said it was only .5 lb. That is when I told him I need a more accurate scale. He just kind of laughed a me.