Vacation!

Oh boy!  We have rented a cottage in Gold Beach Oregon, starting today until next Friday!  On the road!

My plans for being on the road, was to take a dressing with me.  I have my salad in a jar and soups in a jar, in our icebox.  We have a 10 hour drive.

Of course, we took the long way there…..we failed to stop to eat in Redding CA and 3 hours later still on the road without restaurants anywhere in site.  I was dying!  We finally came across a Burger King.  I should not have done this but have not ate for hours.  I had a veggie burger and sweet potatoes fries and water. 

13 Pounds down!

So far, so good!

 

I have been eating either oatmeal, steel cut with fresh or frozen fruit thrown in.  Cut my coffee down to 1 cup.  No diet soda’s at all!  Can you believe that? This is a girl that you never seen her without one!

For lunch I have been eating salads with homemade dressings.  I was finding it so hard to prepare for the week, so I started making a huge salad and putting in mason quart jars and throwing in the outside refrigerator.  I purchased some wonderful  containers for the dressings.  I have found that these make it so simple to throw in my purse, when eating out!  They do not leak!  Sometimes I do not even put a dressing on.  I go to our work cafeteria and get a cup of pinto beans and throw them on the salad.  This reminds me of Tostadas!

For dinners I have been eating soups that I have made.  I have lost 13 pounds eating ONLY this way. 

Shopping List–One Note

Have you ever gone to the store to pickup something, get home, bought everything else under the sun, but the one item you went for!

Here is my solution:

I have a IPad, Iphone, and a windows machine at home.  I use Microsoft One Note and Sky Drive.

Here is how simple it is!

Create a notebook in one note.  Save it to your Sky Drive.  Download one note for your phone and ipad.  Now, anywhere you go, you have your shopping list!  I share my Nutritarian notebook with my sister.   We have lots of fun pages. 

Here is a small bit of my shopping list.  Once I purchase the item I simply check it off in the store.  When I run out of the item, I simply uncheck it.  Every time I am in a store, I look at this list to see what I need!  I also use this for my paper crafting.  That way I do not buy more than one item.  Example, I might forget I have a cobalt blue ink pad, so in the store, when they run the cobalt inkpad on sale, I simply look at my craft inventory and see if I already have that color BEFORE buying!

 

If you have any questions, comment here, and I will help you.  This really organizes me!

Learning what NOT to do!

Had to laugh today!  I have not finished reading Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman.  Just jumped right in there!  My first day was yesterday.

 

I had oatmeal today, it was horrible, so I added bananas and apples and cinnamon and almonds.  Yumm.  I did not even miss the Brown Sugar!  HA.

Well, today for lunch I brought a huge sack of baby carrots and walnuts.

I also discovered a new chat room in Facebook, that looks good.  I learned here that, I am only to eat 1oz of nuts a day….woops!

I retyped this form.  It is saving me!  It named “Eat to Live Template.  I have put this on the side of my fridge!

 

My Journey

June 13, 2012, must have been a strange day for me.  My sister, mentioned something she has seen on Oz, so I decided to take a peek.  While looking at the article she suggested, I noticed another article about an Author named Joel Fuhrman.  This man was saying you could eat without measuring things.  Well that grabbed my attention.

February 2003, I fell and crushed both wrists.  From 2003 to June 13, 2012, I gained 105 pounds.  After many visits to the Doctor, he finally found I had a thyroid problem.  After starting thyroid medication, I quit gaining.  HOWEVER, I could not loose.

I tried everything…you know…up to this time in my life I had  probably found and lost 1000 lbs.  What was different since 2003, is I no longer could loose even 5 lbs.  I had given up long ago.

Back to Dr. Joel Fuhrman.  He wrote some book, named Eat to Live.  Since it was free for a few chapters on my Ipad or Amazon, I decided to read a few.  Well, I was willing to give this 6 weeks.

I am in my 7th week now, and have lost 21 lbs, over 13 inches.  Two weeks after starting I had my blood drawn.  Here is the result:

 

Date	Cholesterol	HDL	LDL	Triglyceride
12/12/09	139	50	64	125
6/28/12	127	43	54	150

 

Needless to say, I am impressed.  Onward with my journey…..