Feed a Cold...

So I woke up last morning feeling like c**p on toast... I had finally come down with the summer cold I'd been trying to avoid.... Allergy levels in Texas are at an all time high & while I refuse to acknowledge that I may have a problem, between the high pollen levels, being around sick people at work & play & helping our friends R & S clean out their house I was bound to come down with a slight case of the sniffles....

After sneezing & coughing my way through most of the work day I sneaked home a wee bit early for some much needed rest on the couch... A pot of hot tea, Vitamin C aplenty, a plateful of hummus & pita chips, a few oatmeal & raisin cookies, and a handful of almonds later I was feeling a teensy bit better.... I guess the adage does hold - Feed a cold, and starve a fever... of course I had to make sure the second part of the the hypotheseis held true too.... a few hours later I took my temperature and at a shade over a 100 it was back to hunger mode...

Given how sick I was feeling I decided it would be wiser not to venture into the kitchen & called the hubby to pick up some Taco Hell on the way home... Poor Appu - he came home early to find a cranky wife, an excitable dog, dishes piled high in the sink & tissue paper balls everywhere... For a split second I could see him wince before putting on a cheery smile....

The good news is that I woke up feeling a lot better this morning... my sexy, 'man' voice is almost gone & I can breathe through my nose like a regular person.... The house of course looks like a tornado hit... its in dire need of cleaning.... Maybe tonight...

Cookie Breakdown

It finally happened - my good intentions met an oatmeal raisin cookie (ok, several) and you can guess who won!! The irony of it is that I'm not even that fond of the aforementioned cookie. Give me a chocolate chip, or a chocolate macadamia nut, or a chocolate espresso (can anyone see a theme here) or even a black and white cookie and I'll be far happier....

It just happened to be one of those days - "that" time of the month, my need for something to munch with my coffee and the fact that the box of cookies just happened to be in the house. Ostensibly I had bought the cookies for my friends kids who had come over to swim last week but with all the fun we had in and outside of the pool I completely forgot to give them any....

To compound it all we went out for dinner to Brio's last night - a really amazing Italian restaurant with the fluffiest bread, olive oil and sun dried tomato dip and these mini desserts in espresso cups..... Did I manage to step away from all of that... what do you think?? The good news is that since these were really miniature servings divied up amongst several people it wasn't as bad as it could have been... Lets keep our fingers crossed and see what impact this has on my weekly weigh-in tomorrow....

Sunday evenings are usually about getting set for the rest of the week... since both Appu (the hubs) & I are in town this week I'll be cooking up a storm - or at least enough to last us thru Friday.... now lets go see what's in the fridge...

The realization.....

Have you ever had that moment where you step on your weighing scale and think - wait a minute, that just can't be right!! Occasionally you can blame it on "that time" of the month but more often than not it is what it is... too many treats, mindless snacks, and definitely not enough exercise...

I have been having that moment on a fairly recurring basis for the past year... The numbers go up, go down & come around.... While I'm not quite ready to divulge my tipping point yet - lets just that the hubby and I are now pretty much the same in weight and if I don't do something about it really soon there's going to be a whole lot more of me to love....

So welcome to my journey - its about weight loss for sure, but also about stepping back every so often to take a good hard look at life, finances and love - just remember you should never take any of those for granted....