Great Forecast for the Week

It is another beautiful sunny day today and a wonderful feeling to start a new week. I love those kinds of Mondays :-)

The weekend was a busy one and it looks like the house is listed! At least we've done our part, so now it's up to the realtor to get it up and on MLS. Although I will say I haven't seen the pictures she took yet, but it didn't look to me like she was being that "choosy" about her angles etc., so I think I am going to email her some pictures I took to give her more to choose from for the listing. I think the initial listing pics are pretty important, don't you think? I can't figure out why she wouldn't have been a little more careful about them. Those are the pictures that make people decide whether or not they want to take the time to view the house, right?

We went to a couple of open houses yesterday and one of them was a beautiful home. I don't think it was the one for us, but it feels good getting in to see some of the ones on the market in our price range.

So I cracked and did a WI this morning. I couldn't help it, because I haven't been counting and I was feeling kind of anxious about the affect on the scale. Goes to show you that this Intuitive Eating thing is a process and can't be acheived just by reading the book - it takes work to change your thoughts and feelings about eating and the scale. Although I was happy and relieved that I had a stay the same on the scale. At least I know that I haven't gained any weight by not counting and while my exercise has been next to nil this last little while. Especially since I'm in the process of "Stage 2" of Intuitive Eating take its course which I haven't yet posted about. I will try to get the details on that posted soon.

It's a bit of a scarry process to change the way you have learned to approach eating especially since I am still in a weight loss mind frame. I'm not done yet!

I have plans of taking Lucy for a nice long power walk after work with Brooke and/or tackling the 30 Day Shred before supper this evening. Brooke was talking in terms of a "Vera Cruise Red Snapper" recipe that she was thinking of making for supper which sounds great! It's great having her around the house because there's another healthy eater in my corner :-) She's been looooving the meals that we've made lately which were all healthy. She's worked really hard to lose over 50 lbs over the years being a diligent Weight Watcher, although she admits she's been a victim of the processed frozen dinners and pre-packaged foods. She's about 5' 2" and is about 125 lbs and already feels a difference in how she feels eating more clean and unprocessed foods. I've introduced her to my "greens sautees" and my oatmeal mixes which she now craves! Our side dishes have been varieties of peppers and zucchini sauteed with EVOO, garlic and big handfulls of combinations of collard greens, swiss chard, kale or whatever with some salt and pepper and she loved it! It's nice to know I'm not the only one who "aint 'fraid a no veggies" :-D And the girl loves the oatmeal so much, she makes the time to make it in the morning before her 7a.m. shifts which requires her to have it made before leaving the house at around 6:00 a.m. She said she warms it up when she gets to work to eat it and everyone's sniffing about wondering what kind of delicious breakfast she's got on the go!


I haven't been photographing and posting our meals which I kind of feel bad about, but it has been a much needed break. I do however have a few that I am going to post which include these incredibly healthy Cosmic Cookies that you can by at Planet Organic which I fell in love with. They are sold individually at Planet Organic for about $2 each and I had some luck googling the recipe, so I gave it a try and bought all of the incredients basically from the bulk section there (which is great because who needs a big bag of spelt flour, right? okay maybe some people, but still) and the cookies turned out perfect and exactly the same as the ones you buy. I have some pictures and a post to come on those, so stay tuned on that! I'll try and post it tonight!

Have a great day ya'll and my body is actually "craving" exercise and I'm looking forward to it in some form tonight!