Friday, April 2, 2010

Egg coloring fun

Today my family colored eggs for the first time. Our Five year old and four year old loved the event. They were happy dropping eggs in the color, and then pulling them out minutes later to see the results.

I was surprised my five year old enjoyed eating a hard boiled egg, with nothing on it. I am pretty sure it was the color which made it taste better :-)


Monday, March 29, 2010

Can't drown in the tub

I have been overweight for much of my life, but that all changed for me about seven years ago because I became morbidly obese :-) Everytime I have tried to lose weight, I gain more, which appears to be the trend across the U.S. ; so, I tried something new last year. I did not focus on weight at all for the first six months, and this proved to be the fastest weight gain I have experienced. I went from 360 to 389 in four months, and I knew something had to change, but what???
My new focus - to heck with weight, I want to be healthy. I have made some groung rules for getting through the day and week. First, I need to eat at least six pounds of veggies every week. I also need to walk at least two hours a week. This two hours can be all at one time (so, I can still hit my goal in a bad week), or it could be stretched out over multiple days. Usually I eat about 9 pounds a week, and get about three hours of walking in...
How are things today? I weigh 374, and have more energy than I have had in years. I am starting to see a transformation in my personal taste. No longer is Mc Donald's food really good, and no longer is eathing Cream Cheese straight out of the package desirable.
I plan on posting here about once a month for my own records. If anyone starts responding I will probably post more often