Does it do a body good?

Here's a little quiz:


What product does this nutrition label go to:

 Give up?  Skim milk!  I am not even kidding!!!!  Check out the sugar level!  Who on earth would add sugar to skim milk?

The dopey milk people that's who!  Apparently sugar is added to skim milk to make it taste better!  Okay, if I want sugar in my milk, I'll drink chocolate milk!

What brought this up?  Hubby was at work last night and one of his co-workers had a small carton of skim milk, one of the 8 oz ones that kids get in school.  Out of habit, hubby glanced at the nutrition content.

There it was in black and white, sugar in the milk!  I got on my favorite search engine and checked it out.  There it was again!

Surprisingly, I can't find anything on the Dairy Council's Website.  But I'm still looking . . .

Thursday

Do you know today is Thursday?  No, really, it is!  I woke up this monring thinking it was Tuesday or Wednesday!  That doesn't bode well for my day, does it?

I've been thinking about will power lately, and my lack of it.  I seem to be losing steam here and need to get back on t rack.  Anyone have any ideas?  I'm running out.

The Visit.

What an amazing two days!  I has been a long time since the three of us were able to go away together and relax a bit.  What an amazing time we had!  If the wind had been a bit less chilly, it would have been better, but we were in Chicago after all.

The college visit was wonderful.  I always thought that I would approach these things with some trepidation and melancholy.  That part of me would be sad that my child was going away.  That was so far from the way I felt and do feel about the experience!

I could see The Boy there.  I could see him among those buildings, in those classrooms, stretching his mind and soul.  I know that sounds weird, but that is the way I felt.  It looks and feels like somewhere my boy will be happy.

The Boy

Today marks another step along a path that will be our next year.  We are off to visit a college for The Boy.  While I am excited and over-joyed for the opportunities he will have, I am (as all mother's probably are) a bit wistful.

Where did the time go?  Wasn't I just changing diapers and running after a toddler just a week ago?  It seems that way!

The next year will be full of excitement, plans, hopes and dreams for our wonderful son.  He has turned into a fine young man, no longer a boy.

I am stepping onto this new path with joy and wonder at the prospects he has for himself.  I never thought I would be one of those "clingy" moms who would not let her child go.  While my fingers are itching to hold on tightly to my sweet child, my heart is singing at what an incredible person he is becoming.

Still . . . .

Googling (Bing-ing?)

Did you ever pull up your favorite search engine and just type something random in, just to see what would pop up?  (Please tell me that does not make me a big old geek!)

Anyway, hubby and I were discussing dinner and I was pulling up a couple of recipes to see what I could fine.  Hubby saw a recipe pop up for Oven-Baked Chicken.  Then he said, "I wonder how many recipes there are for Oven-Baked Chicken."

So, I decided to find out.  Google (Bing) here I come!

Google:  About 2,180,000 results 

Bing:  18,800,000 results.

Then my brain kicked in; how many of those results are actually low-fat, low-carb?  
Back to the search engines I went:

Google:  28,700 results

Bing:  8,270,000 results

 

What did I learn from this little exercise?  I'm not sure, other than there seems to be a lot of unhealthy chicken recipes out there!

My advice, beware, there are approximately 15 million more unhealthy chicken recipes than are are healthy ones!  Downloading a recipe could be very bad for the waistline!

Whatever

Grocery shopping - $100.00+ dollars

Menus for the week - Planned

Getting back on track - PRICELESS!

The other night, after reading my blog, wonderful hubby sat down with me to discuss what we were going to do.

Ironically, just a couple of days before, The Boy had a conversation with hubby about my blood sugar and testing.  He asked his dad if I had been testing like I was supposed to.

The answer at that precise moment was no, I hadn't been.

The recounting of that conversation was the final blow for me.  When the children are noticing something awry, you know you have really gone off the tracks!

So, this evening, while everyone else was chowing down on my signature wet burritos, I was delving into a spinach salad and this awesome quiche I make that had feta cheese and artichokes in it!  It was the bomb!

Yes, I could have had a burrito, but my burritos, are 609 calories.  That is okay once in awhile, but not today!  The boys got what they want and I got to feel very virtuous as I sat there eating my bunny food!

You would not believe how wonderful it feels to have meals for the week done and all the groceries in the house, so no one has to run out at the last minute and pick something up.

We are also avoiding that horrible conversation that happens almost daily lately.  "What do you want for dinner?"  Response, "I don't know, what ever you want is fine."  Yeah, right!  The minute it is cooked and food is on the table you get "the look".  Followed by an "Oh, this is what we are having, I didn't want this."

Sometimes that makes you want to scream and beat them about the ears with the spaghetti noodles had just placed on the table!

One of my favorite day dreams involves opening a restaurant.  I have the perfect name for it.  "WHATEVER".  It's perfect!  Think about this.  You are tooling down the road and you ask the passenger what they want to eat, which restaurant do they want to go to; and you get the normal response.  "I don't know, whatever."

Then you could actually pull into Whatever and order what you want!  This is an awesome plan!  We could serve "I don't know" burgers and a "You decide" salad bar.

Just think of the possibilities, it would be an overnight sensation!  Before long "Whatever" could replace McDonald's!  Watch out clown dude, you are about to be toast!  (Yes, we would serve toast too!)

Confession

I got up this morning, took a shower and pulled on my clothes on.  I stepped in front of the  mirror to check out the outfit and there it was, a bump has appeared in what was flattened a few weeks ago.  It was the final straw in what was a difficult week.  I stood there and looked at myself in the mirror and realized exactly how badly I had screwed up.  Not only that, I had let myself and all of you down.

I seem to have lost my way, diet wise of late.  With all the new changes, starting school and the stress that has become our daily life, some things seemed to have slipped.  Unfortunately, what I had let slip is the core of what I was becoming.

It happened so slowly, so quietly, that I never even noticed.  Until this morning.

We have all but stopped doing a big grocery shopping for the week, it just seemed too hard to fit it all in.  Having a menu for the week and the appropriate food on hand has become a thing of the past.

How on earth could I let this happen?  How could I have let myself down like this?

I've been feeling horrible lately and wondered why.  Sometimes I'm not the brightest bulb in the box!

I am angry at myself I don't even know what to do!

Wait, yes I do!  Beating myself up is not going to do any good.  That will just make me more depressed and then I'll start eating everything in sight again.

I can do this!  I know I can!  I HAVE to do this.

Where do I start?

• Buy a new scale.  I haven't been doing my weekly weigh in since it broke.  Guess we are back to Sunday morning weigh-ins.
• Menu.  It has become hard to make a solid menu for a family of three who seem to be on 8 different schedules.  I can't let that be an excuse.  I've never shrank from difficult before, and I won't now.
• Exercise, my big nemesis!    I need to get off my hiney and get to work.

I apologize for letting you all down.   But I can fix this.  So it looks like me and this wonderful blog are going back to basics!