Working on a rose

Unfinished Rose

This is my latest painting. It has three panels. I am close to being finished.

My husband and kids have been encouraging me to paint more. I have worked with pencils, charcoal, acrylics and watercolor.

I want to work with oils too.

Love and Peace

Weigh in Wednesday

I weighed in @ 167.5 pounds.

I forgot to weigh myself this morning. I usually weigh in first thing in the morning on weigh in day.

For my birthday my family gave me the book, "Flat Belly Diet" by Liz Vaccariello. The book is from the editors of Prevention Magazine.

I am going to incorporate the plan into what I am currently doing...minuscule.

The book claims "not a single crunch required", well I am going to see. There is a 4 day anti-bloat jumpstart. Some of the foods to avoid during the 4 days are salt, high carbohydrate foods, bulky raw foods, gassy foods, chewing gum, sugar alcohols, fried foods, spicy foods, carbonated drinks, alcohol, tea, coffee, hot cocoa, and acid fruit juice. There is a shopping list of foods to eat on the 4 days.

After completing the first 4 days the plan continues with another 28 days.

Well I will see if this works. After I get the items on the shopping list I will start the plan.

I lost 1.5 pounds...

Peace

Wednesday weigh in

Okay, I weighed in at 169 pounds this week.

I am still doing the Sparkpeople.com New You Bootcamp.

I am shoveling a lot of snow and doing the Bootcamp workouts.

It is a slow start but at least it is a start.

My goal for this month is to weigh in at 162 pounds by the end of January.

I have not had any wheat this month, I feel good and getting better.

Love and Peace

Sparkpeople Bootcamp

I started the Sparkpeople.com Bootcamp today and here is my before picture.

I am still weighing in at 169 pounds.

This Bootcamp starts today January 4 and ends on January 31. There are exercises everyday for 10 minutes or less. I think this will be a good jump start, since I have not been working out regularly.

I hope to lose 8 to 10 pound in the next 28 days.

Peace

Wednesday weigh-in

Happy New Year!

169 pounds for yesterday's weigh in.
No picture of scale/weigh-in.
A 3 pound gain.
I over-ate.
I did not eat wheat.

Happy New Year!