Monday, September 7, 2009
I won another Giveaway!!
I won another giveaway!! This one was Sponsored by my blogging buddy Brandy @ The Buzz: My Coupon World. She is having a blogging party to celebrate the due date of her second little girl!! You really need to check these giveaway's out! Just click HERE to head over and enter....AND TELL HER MELLISA SENT YOU please!! I get extra bonus entries for that!
Here's what I won!! A very cute birthday set from Oh Baby Boutique...here is an example from her shop! I can't wait to get his for Miss M...I ordered it in a size larger and am going to put it up for next year since she just had her 2nd b-day! CLICK HERE to visit Oh Baby Boutique.
Are you entering blog giveaway's? I tell you there is nothing better!! I love them! You can't win if you don't enter!!
What I bought this Week
I am doing the Meal Planning Assignments from The Happy Housewife and wanted to keep track of my spending to see if I could reduce my monthly Wal-mart/Walgreen's/Staples bills. This is what I got from Wal-mart:
That stick? Oh that's a replacement broom...my youngest boy E broke the last one by standing on it!!
Not sure if you can see...but I got a Swiffer Wet Jet...going to give it a try...got my free refills.
I spent a total of $295.00 at Wal-mart for 2 weeks of groceries. I have to return 2 things. I bought dishwasher soap instead of dish washing soap and some strawberries that are a little to slimy for my taste. Plus the Cashier missed a $2.00 coupon for the bacon that I bought. I also forgot to get pizza dough and diet coke. See this is why my grocery bill is so high. I have to go to Wal-mart all the time. But this is going to be my last time in those doors for a week...then have to get milk and produce.
After I take care of these items and grab some kid's shampoo and the trash bags that I missed I will post a new total for this. I am going for $400.00 a month on groceries.
This is what I bought at Walgreen's:
I spent $11.98 oop and got back $8.00 in rr for next week. I used coupons/rr's/and my staples rebate visa for $5.48. Got $2.00 Walgreen's gift card (reach rr deal was still posted) that I used also! My goal for Walgreen's is $15.00 a week
I also have a picture of my food waste...it is gross and so wasteful. But I throw out about this much (sometimes more) every week.
So I am starting my meal plan tomorrow and going to be doing a food waste post on Friday! I follow The Frugal girl every week think that is amazing how little waste she has!
Total spent for September: $306.98
Total left in budget? $153.02
Plan: I am going to be watching the sales flyer's and trying to buy what is one sale. I am going to try and match up coupons to those sales if I can. I am going to be cooking every night to get rid of eating out(which is costing my family a ton!!) I am going to try and use every bit of what I have purchased instead of letting it go to waste.
Any tips? Suggestions? I could use them. I have been spending like this for far to long!!
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Friend Makin Monday #3
Welcome back for another week of Friend Makin Monday!!
If you would like to participate do a post about your favorite things about Fall, then CLICK HERE to join in the fun!!
This week's prompt:
What are some of your favorite things about fall?
I love love love fall...I love wearing jeans and jackets, making soups and stoups, thanksgiving, shopping for the holidays and I love love love the fall weather...cool and crisp.
Jackets and Jeans!!
How Cute is this from All You website?
Two of my favorite fall dishes
Turkey Chili This is not the same recipe that I use but it is still Rachael Ray...Random Fact about ME-- Rachael Ray taught me to cook with 30 min meals...I mean how to chop, cook, and improvise!! I love this lady. If you ever need a gift for a wedding I would suggest a set of her cookbooks or dvd's!
Stoup definition?
"Thicker than a soup, thinner than a stew." Rachael Ray
Spaghetti and Meatball Stoup ( this is one that you have got to try!!)
I made Thanksgiving dinner for the first time last year. I mean everything...not the corn or sweet potatoes, (which is what I am usually asked to make.) I mean turkey, dressing, rolls and all the sides and desserts...beside the slightly burned pie crust (I know now to cover with foil except for the last 10 min) I think everything turned out pretty good.
I really enjoy this time of the year...there are so many sales!! This quote is from a new blog that I am following...Click on the quote to check it out! She is doing a McLinky called Weigh In Wednesday (in case you need some support losing a few lbs) LOL. I joined last week.
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football.
Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
~ Erma Bombeck
Fall is my favorite of all seasons...it's not to hot....not to cold...just right for getting outside! The trees start to change and the pumpkins that are growing beside my drive way have started to sprout flowers! Thanks so much for stopping by!!
I won another Giveaway!!
Thanks to Confessions of a Psychotic Housewife for hosting this giveaway. I won a t-shirt from Pigtail Pals Designs...they are redefining girly!! I love these t-shirts and can't wait to get the scientist t-shirt that I picked out for Mrs. M!!
Click on the image above!!
Quotable Sunday #3
From A Daily Dose of Toni:
Welcome to Quotable Sunday's for any newbies. To join in simply, head over to your blog and post a new post with one or more quotes you love. Grab your posts link and add it to the Mr. Linky below. Check back and visit those fellow quoter's and see the quotes they are sharing with us.
My quotes this week are about perseverance. My husband and I have been trying to buy the house that we live in. We made a lot of mistakes with out credit and have tried so hard over the last couple of years to try and make it right. We thought that we had and were just turned down for a loan. Instead of giving up and saying that's that. We are going to Keep Calm and Move On. We will be trying again in 3 months.
Warning: There are a lot of quotes...but I need all the inspiration I can get!
My favorite:
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com
He conquers who endures. ~Persius
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something. ~From the television show Family Matters
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~Author Unknown
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. ~Charles F. Kettering
One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~William James
...I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes."...
~© Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Invitation, www.oriahmountaindreamer.com
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~Author Unknown
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis
Saturday, September 5, 2009
It Pays to Follows Blogs
This was another great week for freebies, samples and just good deals!
If you want to join in...just post a blog about all the free stuff you got this week then click on the image above and Link up @ A Frugal Friend. Make sure to visit the other blogs and see what they got too!
You see those grinning faces? They couldn't wait to get a hold of the REI Binoculars that came earlier in the week. They thought that this was a great freebie!! They also got Free Lego Magazines this week...J my oldest got a special birthday issue!! Hubby was also glad to get Golf Digest--but not so happy to be guilt tripped into taking a picture!! LOL. The kids really wanted to be in the picture and wanted him to join...thank goodness he is a good sport!
Reading Material
Horse Illustrated
Golf Digest
Business Week
Natural Home
2 issues of All You Magazine (one I pay for and one I won from a giveaway)
Cooking Light
Creative Ideas (great thing to sign up for at Lowe's)
2 copies of Donald Miller's "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years"
1 for me to review and one to give away on my blog (look for that soon)
Football Play book
Coupons
Nestle Planning Calender w/coupons inside
Crosse & Blackwell $1.00/1
Staples $10.00/$100.00
Nature Valley 75 cents/1
Free Lipton Valued at $4.00
Samples and Freebies
Healthy Beginnings Calender
Bragg seasoning samples
Omega-3 sample
Don't Bite Me Patches
Sundiwear Stickers
The Pork tenderloin recipe booklet
Lean Meals in Minutes booklet
The Other White Meat booklet
2 Talbot tea samples (Blueberry Peach Passion and Luscious Lemon Meringue)
Artistic Acrylic Paint Sample
Nature Valley Nut Clusters (not sure how I got 2?)
Giveaway winnings
2 shampoos and bar of soap from $25.00 ecostore giveaway
Scrapbooking grabbag-- this has the cutest post it note holders!!
Fiber One package - Lunch bag, plate w/lid, cup, forks and coupon for free Fiber One valued at $2.99
Thanks to The Buzz: My Coupon World, A Coupon Chik, and Mrs. Penny Pincher!!
Checks
Staples Rewards $6.00
Tyson Skillet Creations Rebate $5.00
Great Deals
I got this blanket which fit perfectly on Miss M's toddler bed and got this sewing machine for free! Total paid? $12.48!
My mailbox made me $17.99 this week!
Thanks to all the blogs that I follow. Special thanks to Free Sample Freak and It's Hip 2 Save (these are the blogs where I get most of the freebies out there!)
What did you get in your Mailbox this week?
Friday, September 4, 2009
Six Word Saturday
Enter My Very First Giveaway Please!
I am so excited to be hosting my very first giveaway! Melissa @ Brag About It has offered up a $30.00 gift certificate to one of my readers? Will it be you? Or you? It can't be you unless you enter!! Check it out here!!
Just a taste of what Melissa has to offer in her Etsy Shop:
For those of you who don't enter giveaway's here is a Six Word Saturday for you!
My house suffers because from bloggeritis!
I know that's not a real word. But it is a real thing in my house. My house is starting to suffer since I found the world of blogs. I am going to take tomorrow off and get this place in order. You won't catch me at this computer til my house is in top shape. Company ready if you will. I might just invite some company over too!! Not that I don't love all you blogging friends out there but I think it's time to venture out into the real world again...don't worry though -- you know that I will be right back here...hungrily checking my e-mail and comment moderation page as if it holds a Thanksgiving turkey and I haven't eaten in weeks! I know that the Thanksgiving turkey is kind of a weird reference in September...but I have already started buying Christmas presents and the holiday's are on my mind! Thanks for stopping by!!
All that's necessary to participate is to post your own six words. You can post an explanation if you wish but it's certainly not required. If you play along in your blog, please add a link here!!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Aloha Friday # 3
From Kailani at An Island Life: In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that we take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So on Fridays let's take it easy on posting, too. Ask a simple question...nothing that requires a lengthy response. It’s a great way to make new blogging friends!
If you’d like to participate, just post your own question on your blog and leave your link here! Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!
I think that this is a great idea and it's such a nice way to find new blogs to follow and make blogging friends.
What's the best thing thing that you have won from a blog giveaway?
My first item was the best! I am not sure if it was just because it was the first or if it is because Miss M loves it so much!! Here she is with our winnings! Thanks Free Sample Freak!! The bad thing about this tot clock that does story time...is that it goes through batteries very quickly. Miss M has gotten so accustomed to listening to it as a part of her bed time routine that she gets really upset when the batteries are to low to run it. Like tonight, thank goodness Greg was there to read "Alice the Fairy." If you have a young daughter check out this book...We love it!!
Thanks so much for stopping by...check out my giveaway...you can win if you don't enter!
Meal Planning Assignment # 3
The Happy Housewife is going to help us all get started with meal planning. I am hoping that with her help I will always know the answer to the old what's for dinner question.For this week's assignment we are supposed to put together our menu plan. I have decided to shop for 2 weeks. Here is our list of meals.
Breakfast
Cereal,(can you say Kashi coupons)Oatmeal, Pancakes
Lunch
The kids eat at school during the week and Greg and I eat that the Restaurant after our shifts, so the only lunch meals that we have to plan for are the weekends.
Hot dogs
Sandwich's
Frozen Pizza (please don't judge...lol)
PB&J
Left overs
Dinners
Veggie Lasagna, salad, garlic toast
40 clove garlic chicken, baked potato's, salad
Applesauce meatloaf and mashed potato
Spicy Chicken Skillet
Bf and bean soft tacos, chips and salsa, wholly guacamole
Mexican casserole, chips and salsa, wholly guacamole
Breakfast for Dinner (pancakes)
Turkey chili, jiffy muffins
Soup and sandwich's
Taco Salad
Round Steak, veggies, rolls
Obama chili
Shrimp, fries, salad
Make your own pizza night
Want to Win? Giveaway CLOSED--Winner to be Announced!!
I have found the cutest Etsy shop!! What? You don't know what Etsy is? Well I have been recently introduced to Etsy. Thanks Brandy!! It's a lot like Ebay but everything listed there is homemade. There are so many great shops. I have found one that I thought you might like to check out!
Melissa at Brag About It makes the cutest jewelry you have ever seen. I knew as soon as I visited her shop I had to have one of her mini works of art that you can wear. They are so beautiful! I have put in an order to have a custom necklace made. It will look like this one but with 4 cups of love. One for each of my kids. An amethyst will hang from the center. I can't wait to get this and start wearing it!
I want to add too...that she was oh so nice to customize my necklace!!
The shop owner Melissa ( I know cute that we have the same name) has generously offered up a $30.00 gift certificate to one of my lucky readers!! This could be you!! All you have to do is enter! You know how often I win these giveaway's!!
One of these items would make a terrific and special present for your loved ones at Christmas time! There are only 121 days left you know?
Melissa has so many great things in her shop. Here are just a few and a little bit about her shop.
Mellisa says on her site:
Welcome to Brag About It! Where One of A Kind Hand Stamped Jewelry is Created for YOU.
Creating UNIQUE, DISTINCT and ONE OF A KIND Jewelry for YOU! Each piece is stamped by hand (mine), using hand stamping tools. NO two pieces created are exactly the same. Each piece is UNIQUE, DISTINCT and ONE OF A KIND :)
If you are looking for a EXCLUSIVE PERSONALIZED gift for someone special in your life or a little treat for yourself, then this is the jewelry for you.
Here is one I am thinking about ordering for Miss Maddy!
And her pieces are not just for Moms and Grandma's-- here is one that would make a perfect gift for that special someone in your life!!
So let's get down to the fine print...want to win?
First entry and most important.
Visit Melissa's shop, look around and then come back here and leave me a message about what you would use the gift certificate for! Make sure to include your e-mail address (like this to avoid spam bots)
mellisarock at yahoo dot com
so that I can contact you if you win!
Bonus Entries
1. Follow me through Google Friend Connect on my left sidebar...you will see either your picture appear as a follower or a generic blue man...depending on your settings. (leave me a separate comment)
or let me know that you already do.
2. Subscribe to my e-mail updates (you will have to put in your e-mail address and then confirm updates in your e-mail account. (leave me a separate comment)
or let me know that you already do.
3. Post about this giveaway on your blog and leave me a link letting me know where to view it! (leave me a separate comment) 2 BONUS COMMENTS!!
4. Subscribe to Brag About It's Shop feed (leave me a separate comment)
5. Buy anything from Brag About It (leave me a separate comment) 3 BONUS ENTRIES!!
That is a total of 9 possible entries!!
This giveaway will end on 9-13-09 @ about noonish (I will post a comment announcing that the giveaway is closed...until then you can still enter! I will announce the winner on Monday! Thanks so much to Melissa @ Brag About It for making this giveaway possible!
Click on the image below to enter more giveaway's!!
Throwback Thursday
Kell over @ Unnecessary Drama posted this on her blog. I thought that I would give it a try.* Throwback Thursday *
Name a moment from your childhood that you, to this day, can recall like it just happened yesterday. We all have them - so whether it's funny, embarrassing, touching, or unbelievable .. SPILL!
I can still remember being forced to smoke cigarette after cigarette after being caught smoking by Grandma Jean. I thought that this was really cool at first...now I can do it without having to hide. I still to this day remember the thinking right before I puked that I would never do this again! Had to do this again when I was 16 or 17 when caught by my parents. Thought the same thing then too! I would not recommend this as a way to get kids to stop smoking. I had it done to me twice and still smoked after. I think that you have to teach kids to say no. Once you start it is so hard to quit. I spent all of my adult life thinking that I wanted to smoke, only now finding out that I addicted. Now before you start with the comments about why I should stop, I know why. I am trying. I stopped for a month a couple of months ago. I am thinking about trying again but not telling anyone. The pressure was hard to deal with. Everyone asking about it. I did the patches before and these combined with gum were great at getting through cravings.
If you want to join in the McLinky fun...post about a childhood memory and link up here!!
Writer's Workshop
Mama Kat has this "Writer's Workshop" theme each Thursday. I thought that I would give this a try.So you choose a prompt, write, and then link up here
Here are the prompts to choose from:
The Prompts:
1.) Write about a time when you were wrongly wronged.
(inspired by myself.)
2.) Geriatric peeping Tom neighbors? Do tell.
3.) Mommy play dates? What's your experience with mom dating?
4.) The first day of...
5.) Share your friendly advice for someone you think needs it (ie your mother-in-law, other drivers, cell phone users, etc.)
I am going to choose #5!
I have some friendly advice from me your waitress. These are just a few tips to make your dining experience all the more pleasant for both of us.
#1 Please do not snap your fingers at us...we are not dogs but we do bristle like them if you do this.
#2 Please do call us Flo, Alice, Babe, Darlin or Hey You!
#3 Please do not get angry when you ask for more lemon and we bring you one more when you wanted 7. We know you are making your own lemonade and think you should order it from the menu.
#4 Please don't change you order once it has been given to the kitchen. It is a big deal (it's wasted food) (it will cause the kitchen crew to get angry with us) (this includes saying as we are putting the food on your table "There are any ? in this right?)
#5 While it is our job to wait tables - this does not include being a messenger to other tables, watching your kids to make sure they are not bothering others, and singing Happy Birthday ( this is not the policy of most restaurants.)
#6 Please do not give your baby crackers and then dismiss them. It sucks to clean this up.
#7 Please do not use your cell phone when you first sit down, i.e. when it is time to order drinks and food. While you can order while holding your hand over the phone, you usually get angry if we have questions about your order.
#8. Please don't be rude. Even if you are a regular customer we are human and do make mistakes. This includes but is not limited to sighing when we interupt to fill drinks, talking to us as if we are stupid, ignoring us completely, getting upset if we don't know what your regular order is, leaving a huge mess on table and floor but no tip, being rude about food being delivered before yours and dissing the food that your ordered.
#9. If you come in with a large group, you will take your waitress away from other tables, please tip accordingly. There is no way to avoid this as it takes more time to fill 8 drinks as it does to fill 2. It takes more time to pass out 8 dishes than it does to pass out 2. We will be at your table more than others in our section. While waiting on your table even the most experienced waitress might have a hard time giving all their tables more service.
#10. Please compliment a good server. This job can be very thankless at times. If you have an extraordinary waitress...say so.
#11 I was only going to do 10...but thought of another...Please place your glass near the edge of table when refill is needed. There is no need to shake the ice, slurp when empty, or raise your glass above your head most of the time. We are usually doing something equally as important and know you need a refill.
Thanks ya'll!! We'll see ya next time!!
I was hoping by saying please before each item of my list -- this would seem more friendly. :)
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Late night Walgreen's Run
After watching my stories (i.e. Jon and Kate Plus 8 (makes me sad now & almost seems like an invasion of privacy to watch) and 18 kids and counting(very inspirational--gotta love the Duggar's!)(I love parentheses can you tell?)) I was getting my coupons together for a Walgreen's trip tomorrow and realized that I had $5.00 worth of Register Rewards that expired today!! So I ran to Walgreen's with no coupons! :( I had no choice...still got a pretty sweet deal though. All of this for2 natural Skippy peanut butter
1 Reach Total care toothbrush
1 Rembrandt Toothpaste
1 Carefree panty liners
1 pencil (my filler item of choice!)
$4.12 oop!
used $10.00 in register rewards and 2 $2.00 skippy coupons.
Would have been a little less, but I had 2 $2.00 catalina coupons from Walgreen's that wouldn't work (said item not sold when clearly it was) So cashier price modified for each peanut butter to $1.29. Should have been $1.00. But the best part? I got $9.00 in Register Rewards back!! I love Walgreen's.
Now you may be asking yourself why is their $10.00 in the picture. I found this while searching for coupons! Can you believe that? What kind of state must my coupons be in to have lost that kind of money in there?
I am going to spend some time clipping, sorting, and getting these in order tomorrow.
Want to see more Drugstore Savings? Visit the "Cent"sible Sawyer's Drugstore Divas!
Weigh-In Wednesday
I am going to participate in Life as a CEO's Weigh-In Wednesday. Click on the image above to take a blog button and participate!!
From her site:
Today I am kicking off Weigh- In Wednesday and I hope you'll join me. Do you have some weight you'd like to lose? Maybe the last 10-15 pounds from your last pregnancy? Or just a few extra you packed on this summer? Let's be each others inspiration.
If you are a blogger, grab my Weigh-In Wednesday button and blog about your new efforts every Wednesday. I will have a challenge for each week - such as to post your favorite diet-friendly recipe, or snack tip. Each week, you can let your readers and myself know how many pounds you are down (don't worry, no need to disclose your starting off weight!), too.
If you are not a blogger, simply post a comment every Wednesday under my post to let me know how you are doing, and to share in the challenge for the week, too.
My Weigh in Wednesday Update #1
I have recently lost 15-20ish lbs by following the Biggest Loser Diet. It was a good diet...but it was very structured which in my book is grounds for failure. I just know that I can stick with something for maybe a month...but I get bored and lazy after at about a month's time. I want to lose 15-20ish more lbs so I am going to make a list of things that I can do to achieve this goal.
1. Drink more water...less diet coke and coffee. I just won a Fiber One Giveaway that has a large water cup included. So everyday...I am going to drink one of those! UGHHH. I hate to even type that out. I love love love my Diet Coke.
2. Get more sleep...so that I will have more energy to exercise. I will be in bed by 11:00 p.m. ( we will see how this goes as that is blog time.)
3. I will start running in the morning's again. Starting tomorrow. (good thing my iphone is an ipod.) Music makes running a little easier. When I think I want to give up...I think to myself -- I will keep going until this song is over!! It works.
4. I will stop snacking on crackers and peanut butter when playing winster at midnight. This should be easy to accomplish as I will already be in bed! This may seem easy for you since it is just crackers...but they are my Kryptonite!! I have no trouble saying not to cheesecake or sweets, but if I bring cheese it's into the house...they are goners! I am not sure what it is about carbs...but I love them!!
5. I will eat breakfast...this is really important as it starts your metabolism after fasting while sleeping. I know that when I have a good breakfast I don't pig out at lunch. Can you say Kashi $1.50 Q's?
6. I will start snacking better between said breakfast, lunch and dinner.
OK that is all that I can think of -- starting weight 141 hopeful weight 120ish.
Kelly Mac Snack Attack
(this is one of my favorite recipes from the Biggest Loser Club)
11 almonds- seems stupid to count them out-- but trust me it's plenty!
1 table spoon chocolate chips
2 table spoon raisins
It's really good. I usually get smoked almonds and milk chocolate chips. It's filling with an apple!!
If you would like to join...please visit The CEO!!
While you are there don't forget to enter her giveaway for $10.00 Stop and Shop gift card!!
I won 2 more giveaways!!
I won a Sunsweet reusable shopping bag along with a VIP coupon which is good for any Sunsweet product, up to a value of $5.50 @ Buck Daddy Blog!!
You have got to check out this blog. I love to read all his posts!!
And I won the book "Blue Star" @ Frugal Plus!!
Check out this blog and enter all the great giveaways that they have going on!!
** also look for a couple of giveaways from your truly soon **
Remember if you don't enter -- you can't win!!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
I won another giveaway!!
Can I just say how much I love blog giveaway's? I won this one over at Frugal & Fabulous!!
I am working on my first 2 giveaway's -- so be ready to enter!!
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