Exciting!

Sooo.. I made a facebook page for my cupcakes, and someone found it and hired me to make cupcakes for their wedding.  I'm pretty excited.  I get to learn how to make those little flowers that go on top, I've always wanted to but never really had the motivation.  I know there are videos all over the internet on how to do it, so it should be easy.  They're pretty simple cupcakes overall, so it should be fun.  I'm giving them a good price and they're giving me my first real cupcake job, it's great :)

 

These are the cupcakes I'm making for the wedding

in December.

Starting to look like fall

The bus stop by my house has a large tree right next to it, and it's the perfect sort of tree that shows the seasons. I've noticed lately it's been changing color and now it's dropping all its leaves onto the ground.

Yup, it's turning into fall.

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year. The weather is cool but usually not cold, and everything just seems clean. The sun still shines a fair bit here too, so we can easily forget that winter is right around the corner.

This fall may bring other good news as well. Only time will tell..


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So much for dieting!

Sooo.. I was supposed to be doing the soup diet (and have a fridge full of soup to prove it) but gave up after not even a whole day!

I was starving and frankly just didn't have the willpower or motivation to do it. Sad really..

In other news I did lose about 6 lbs recently. In the middle of September I weighed myself and was about 155, and this morning I was only 149. So I must be doing something right :)


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Soup Diet

A friend of mine recently found this Soup Diet and it sounds interesting so we've both decided to give it a go this week.

How it works is you make this soup (it gives a yummy broth based recipe but I imagine any sort of broth based vegetable soup would be fine), and you can eat as much of it throughout the week as you want. There's also different "rules" for each day of the week. For example, on day 1 in addition to the soup you can eat any fruit except bananas. The next day you can eat as many vegetables as you want. Each day is different. Apparently you're supposed to lose about 10lbs and it's a good "cleanser."

I figure even if I don't lose anything it's still a good way to clean out my system to start eating better. We'll see what happens.

Here's a picture of the soup:




I'm pretty excited to start it tomorrow.


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I'm a horrible blogger...

Yup... I definitely am. I pretend to be good at it for a while and then I lose interest or run out of things to talk about and then I'm gone. Maybe that's not so bad. Maybe I don't really have anything interesting to talk about anyway so why bother having a blog at all?

The strange part is I'm great at journaling. I've kept a journal for YEARS, and while it's true that sometimes I go a month or two without writing in it, most of the time I update it once or twice a week at least.

I've thought about transferring my journal entries into my blog, but that just seems wrong somehow. Not quite the same.

I want to have a blog with a theme, but I don't have a recurring theme in my life. I have my job, and I have my occasional vacation, and my home life. Nothing fantastic to report on any of those fronts.

Should I write about how "normal" my life is? Not normal in the sense that everything is as it should be, but normal as in there's really nothing extraordinary about me or my life in any way. I'm not memorable, and when people ask me "what's new?" I honestly can't think of anything worth responding with. It's not that I think this is a bad thing in any way, it's just painfully "normal."

I'm definitely not complaining. I would take my "normal" over "dramatic" any day.

I made peanut butter cookies at 11:30pm. Is that normal? They look good.

A few lifestyle changes...

Baked ham with asparagus and mashed cauliflower. A virtually carb free dinner :)

I keep expecting to see the results of my hard work every time I look in the mirror. This wouldn't be a big deal but I get disappointed when I don't. It's ridiculous, I know this isn't going to happen overnight. Like paying off my debt it's going to take a lot of work.

I've been reading a book about paying off consumer debt (credit cards, etc), and it's funny how many things I can take from that and apply to my weight loss journey as well. It's really all about willpower and changing bad habits into good ones, so I suppose it makes sense. It's just neat that it can help me with both the things I want to change about my life.

Today I couldn't go for my daily walk (that I've been doing for about a week, although I've skipped a day or two in there) because it was pouring rain after dinner, so I went to the gym instead. I'm glad I did because I managed to do 20 minutes on the elliptical! That doesn't sound like a lot but the last few times I've gone to the gym I've given up after about 5-10 minutes so 20 is amazing! I've had a ton of energy lately, which is great! I actually want to go out for a walk every day, it doesn't feel like something I HAVE to do anymore. I look forward to it.

My short term goal for now is to lose 10 lbs by April 15th (which brings me to 145). I leave for a vacation on the 16th so it's a good goal date! My ultimate goal is 120 but I'm trying to do it in smaller increments so I can see my hard work paying off (much the same reason I'm paying off one credit card at a time!)

Another thing I've learned from the financial self-help book is not to dwell on past mistakes. I was doing this with my debt, and it just got me more in debt because I became depressed about it and gave up! I can't do that about my weight loss either. Last time I really tried to lose weight I got down to 143! That's 12 lbs lighter than I am now! I gained back 12 lbs! But if I keep thinking about that and all the things I should or shouldn't have done, I'm just going to be sad and depressed and end up gaining even more. I have to look back on that as a lesson learned and move on.

That's all for today. I think I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow and see if my hard work IS paying off yet. But if it's not, I'm not going to give up because I know it'll take time and the changes I'm making are going to have a big positive impact overall. I can do this! 10 lbs at a time! :)

Time to get unfat!

I've been feeling so lazy lately. I've been BEING very lazy lately so that's probably why. It's time to get back to the gym.

I have a vacation coming up and I'd really like to lose at least 10 - 15 lbs by then and a couple inches. The inches are the main thing, I don't even care so much about weighing what I do, that's just a number.

I'm also trying to spend less wasteful money, so paying $15.75 every 2 weeks for a gym membership I'm not using is counter productive! I at least need to go a couple times a week. That would make it worth it. Winter is usually so hard to stay active because it's so cold out, but that excuse doesn't really apply this year since we haven't had any snow since shortly after Christmas! There's no reason I can't ride my bike to work every once in awhile, or at least around the block a couple times. Working full time makes it a bit more difficult as it gets dark so early.. but that's no excuse for the weekends.

I'm not going to make any promises to myself but I'm going to try harder.