My So Called Life

2011 Goals – January Progress

Sew one new thing a month – Finished His Highness of the Mists Orange under tunic. It’s 100% hand finished. Read a book a month – Finished The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells Cook my way through a cookbook – No progress on this yet. Need to pick a cookbook and go with it. Complete the C25K program…

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My So Called Life, Progress

February Goals

January Achievements: Goal: Lose 10 lbs. Outcome: I started the month at 286.8 and end the month at 285.0. That’s a loss of 1.8 lbs. It’s not 10 lbs.. but it is a loss. The first half of the month I hovered high.. and the last week or so I hovered low. I think I’m heading lower I just need…

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Progress

Week 25: January 25-31, 2011

This week I: – Gained 1 lb (285.0) (Boo Pizza) – Drank all my water everyday(66oz/day). – Didn’t go to the farmer’s market(busy in meetings). – New recipe this week: Chilli with kidney beans and brown rice I still need to: – Finish cleaning out the fridge(srsly.. need to just do this) – Clean the kitchen floor (started but not…

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Moving More

C25K Day 1

This morning I did my first day of C25K. It actually wasn’t that bad. I’m glad I did straight walking and then walking interspersed by jogging last week as a warm up for this. But even then doing 1 minute of jogging followed by 1.5 minutes of recovery wasn’t -too- bad. I’m listening to a podcast of music where the…

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My So Called Life

“Finally decided”

I keep wanting to say “I finally decided I was tired of being fat” but that’s not totally true.. I decided I was tired of being fat a long time ago. When I was size 18 in college. When I couldn’t put the tray table down on the airplane flight. When I had to ask for a seat belt extender…

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Food Musings, My So Called Life

Daily Blahg

I think I have problems daily bogging here because I have so much to say and so many topics to talk about that I’m just stumped about where to start. I’m not a nutritianist or a doctor so I hate to start posting health facts that someone else might see and take as gospel.. but still.. I’m reading things that…

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Progress

Week 24: January 18-24, 2010

This week I: – Lost 1.6 lbs (284.0) – Drank all my water everyday(66oz/day). – Didn’t go to the farmer’s market(busy in meetings). – New recipe this week: Clean Eating Mag: Baked Shrimp and Veggie Tempora (It wasn’t total fail.. but I’ll have to try it again.. maybe if the batter was thicker…) This week was better wrt weight. I…

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Progress

Week 23: January 11-17, 2010

This week I: – Gained 1 lb (285.6) – Drank all my water everyday(66oz/day). – Didn’t go to farmer’s market(raining and had meetings). – New recipe this week: Pappardelle with Chicken I still need to: – Finish cleaning out the fridge – Clean the kitchen floor (started but not done yet) I know what’s going on. It’s a nibble here…

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Worknight Dinners

Pappardelle with Chicken

Last week at the farmer’s market I bought Herb Pappardelle. They looked interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever made a dish with Pappardelle so it seemed like an interesting change. Knowing that I had lots of chicken in the fridge to use up I grepped the Internet for Pappardelle and chicken. I found this recipe among others: Presto Pasta Nights:…

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Progress

Week 22: January 5-11, 2010

This week I: – Lost 0.2 lbs (284.6) – Drank all my water everyday(66oz/day). – Went to the farmer’s market(leeks, onions, wheat shell pasta, parppadeli). – New recipe this week: Venison with Penne (yummy) I still need to: – Finish cleaning out the fridge – Clean the kitchen floor (started but not done yet) – Clean off the front porch…

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