Just. Breathe.

Over the last month, I've reread most of my blog postings (I'm hilarious, btw), especially for 2012. That's when I was most successful at weight loss and exercised most consistently. I was reading to try to figure out what I did right, and of course, when it started not working for me. I've debated the pros and cons of Weight Watchers, Paleo, counting calories, workouts, etc.  It's been a while in the making, but tomorrow it begins -- Whole 30. For real. There will be one day off -- our anniversary is in a couple of weeks -- but otherwise, I'm in this until February 25th (31 days, to make up for the day off).  There's a bit of prep involved, even when I know what I'm doing, so I've spent the week trying to figure out menus, plan what's most important for me to do this successfully, and just get my head in the right place.  This weekend has been pretty busy... I don't care what anyone says. Meal planning is not  easy. I feel like I ...

Yep, I take two months off blogging and then I jump on the New Year bandwagon and here I am. Let's see where this goes.  The Good: Prom  No more high school!  Another dog... Just realized I never did a Jamaica vacation post! I'll get right on that.  I met Bobby Flay! We talked about grills. Then he cooked Thanksgiving dinner for me and 1600 of my closest friends. It smelled great! I got my new appliances, countertops, and backsplash... another blog post I neglected to write. This was my first Cowboys game ever...they lost, but they're winning now! That screen is just as huge as you've heard.  The Food I didn't take that many pictures of food this year...and I didn't do a lot of new recipes. But these pics still make me hungry... Anniversary dinner at Classic Cafe in Roanoke - bacon wrapped quail, beef tenderloin medallions, garlic mashed potatoes, polenta cake and sugar snap peas... ...followed by this AH-mazing peach p...