Hey everyone
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Just a little catchup and some nice things to report!!
The weekend was very nice and we didn't go nuts, but did enjoy several S's, which included cookies, coke flavored slurpees, and a little bit of ice cream...
I am most excited to announce that Richard and I have been eating about 75% more healthy foods than in the past, and that the other day, on an S day, I made a terrific spinach salad with eggs, red onion, carrots, tomatoes, some crumbled well done bacon, and honey mustard dressing, and Richard ate it all!!!!!!
This is a big triumph...
I have been encouraging him to try raw veggies/salad for quite some time..
He only liked celery and carrots in the past, which doesn't really make it in terms of variety and isn't quite what I'd consider a "Salad"...
But I never pushed him if he said no...
He has always liked cooked baby spinach, so I thought I'd give a raw spinach salad a try, and throw in the extras like boiled egg and bacon, to make it more "sellable" LOL..
It worked... Not only did he try it (and he has expressed distaste in most dressings too, which, let's face it, makes salad so much more yummy!) but he ate a very good plateful of it!!!
Woo hooo!!!!!!
I am very happy about this! We also bought fresh fruits and nice natural yogurts and he has been gobbling them up..
In the past, he would only eat those "Kids" yogurts which were some weird flavor, like cotton candy! LOL.. Or worse, the "Yocrunch" yogurt, which basically is basically yogurt with Nestles crunch chocolate to sprinkle on top...
So what's that???
Candy!
This time I said to myself, why not encourage him to pick out some healthy ones, like Brown Cow and Stoneyfield farm...
Well, it looks like he likes them.. And they aren't candy!
Thank goodness we are on NoS, as overall, in a very direct way, we are making much healthier choices these days and still enjoying the occasional treat, which, by the way, really does taste better on S days!!!
Yay!!!!!!
It feels very nice to be back on plan... The only funny stuff I've been doing is the occasional, late evening peach...
I had a very wonderful Yoga class yesterday with Larry, and got a really nice welcome back from the people in the class, who knew me from last year... one of them even said I looked like I lost weight!!! Which made me happy!
I told her that I lost about *2 lbs since last December, but have basically been maintaining my weight, but strangely enough, I felt very proud to say that!
Hope you are all having a great day,
Oh, and if you run into a little boy named Damien today.. Walk the other way!!!!!
LOL...
Peace and Love,
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Deb
*NB NoS newbies, don't worry about 2 lbs in 6 months... My total weight loss here since 2004 has been more like 26-30 lbs... I'm a slow loser...
But not gaining and losing slow will get me there eventually!!!