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And the times they are a changin’…..

I have always loved whole foods, I have always loved eating in a healthy manner but I have never acted on it 100% in my daily life…
I know that it is the best thing for me and my family so now I am giving up the convenience (well most of it) and going to make whole foods completely a part of our life and eating habits and I am starting today…
I no longer want the convienence foods in my house, I want to cook more from “scratch”, I want to eat more grains and seeds, Eat more veggies and fruit, I want to cook mostly vegetarian meals (though I am not planning on becoming a vegetarian), I want to eat more fish, I want to eat less products with refined sugars etc…
Most of all… I want to improve my health, my well being, I want to teach my kids how to eat… and another motivation…. I also want to save money!

Tonights Menu…
Homemade Vege-Pate on Whole Grain Organic Bread and a Salad with a roasted Sesame dressing… Sounds yummy huh?!!!!!

About weight part 2

This is a followup to my last post about my weight…
On my birthday I decided that I was going to really try to get back into shape and lose weight again.. I know I can do it because I did it before… So on Wednesday the 27th of July I weighed my self and was shocked to see 240…. about 10 pounds higher then I thought and about 15 pounds higher then my weight before I got pregnant with Colin.
I started to journal what I ate and watched my portions and counted my points… still confused on how many I really need because of the tandem nursing…. Anyways… in one week I lost 6 pounds! I love the first week because losing the water weight just makes you fell like you are actually doing something good and seing it on the scale just makes you want to continue….
However… I need support and I am counting on those who come read here once in a while or even on a regular basis… so I am going to be blogging my journey and I want as much feedback as I can get so I can keep it up!

Going Batty ;)

I was getting ready to go into the pool and just grabbing the towels that were on the line and then saw one that had fallen on the stairs… so I go to pick it up and I here a real high pitch sound that sounded like the beetles we have in the spring that try to get in out house so I thought one of them was in thereâ€¦ then the towel was moving… so I thinkâ€¦. Hmmmmmâ€¦. That must be a big bug!
So I move the towel to let the bug out and then I see some thing huddled in the corner of the towel… At first I thought it was a mouse or something but then it turned its head and screamed at me and I realized that it was a bat!! So I cover the thing back up again and start breathing again… I’m not scared of bats per-say I just wasn’t prepared to have one scream at me at that particular moment… ya know?
So I go swimming, breathe a bit and then went to open the towel again to see if it was OK.. It was already on the stairs at that point and I took a few pics… I went in the house for a few secs and when I came back out it had disappeared… so hopefully it was just stunned… I guess it had flown into the towel during the night and made it fall…