hummm – thanks to Lotta I had an interesting read over at Under The Mad Hat I think though that the ilk of what us we aspire to be FUTURE MILF's is exactly what The Mad Hat sort of pointed out - she mentioned that obviously we were a MILF to someone because we would not be Mommies if someone hadn't F'd Us...and while yes i agree - to my husband I am one sexy MILF...
For many of us we don’t aspire to be a Size 6 – I have no aspirations of that because quite frankly I have never been a size 6…I went right from the largest junior’s size (odd numbers…no 6) I could find into “Womens World”.
To me MILF takes on a lot of feelings…and words alone can’t express feelings…
To me being a FUTURE MILF is taking responsibility for MY life…putting ME first when it comes to my health and well-being.
When I got married I weighed 165 lbs…can I just tell you that is the lowest I have ever been in my adult life…I spent most of my high school life weighing over 200 lbs…I had friends but boyfriends were few and far between…before my senior year I lost about 50 lbs…I started my senior year weighing about 165-170…while not exactly skinny-minny and still outweighing most of my friends by a good 20-30 lbs I got noticed…for once in my life I had boys noticing me…Imagine the boost in my self-esteem…I wasn’t a Size 6.
I specifically choose a college where no one else from my high school was going…WHY? So I could effectively re-invent myself – I could be the outgoing party girl if I wanted to…and guess what I had the time of my life – I would not trade my experiences (well there are a few I would) for anything. Was I skinny…nope….was I a size 6 nope…but I FELT GOOD, WONDERFUL and had great SELF-ESTEEM.
After getting married and having kids (you don’t even want to know what twins do to your body – it ain’t a pretty picture) weight crept back on and while I have a very dear husband who loves me no matter what and I will always be a MILF to him…that doesn’t matter if you fall out of love with yourself…you lose some of that self-esteem because the body you see in the mirror isn’t that same one you saw 10 years ago…
Now I am not deluding myself – I don’t expect to have the same body I did 10 years ago…My skin is stretched in places and I have stretch marks…but to me for every lb. I lose is a victory to myself…a victory showing that I am starting to LOVE myself again – that I am putting myself first…with every lb. I lose I gain back a little more self esteem that I’ve slowly lost over the past few years…
So I guess to me I don’t care who would like to F’ me…I am in this to be a FUTURE MILF that I would Like to F*@# :)
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
I guess Justin Timberlake wasn't the first to think of this....
This is what I get for searching for something that is totally unrelated to anything this picture shows....I will never look at old people the same way again....
"You cut a hole in the box..."
If you would like to make your own box - easy to follow directions can be found HERE
Monday, January 29, 2007
Designers on Crack
Someone - please tell me this is a JOKE!!!
So I am sitting at my desk flipping through the latest issue of People and I come across the “StyleWatch” section…and then I see it
HIGH-WAISTED JEANS….
Apparently this is going to be all the rage in the Spring
HIGH F’n WAISTED JEANS –
So I am sitting at my desk flipping through the latest issue of People and I come across the “StyleWatch” section…and then I see it
HIGH-WAISTED JEANS….
Apparently this is going to be all the rage in the Spring
HIGH F’n WAISTED JEANS –
basically MOM JEANS!!!!
Think I or People am making this up – well looky HERE
Are these designers on crack…seriously
First they design BUTT-CRACK jeans that don’t look good on 96.7% of women....all the Thonger jeans does for people is push the flubber up and out so that most everyone walks around with a ring of flubber….and some of us (I am not including my flubber self because I don’t do this) wear shirts that don’t cover the flubber ring – therefore affronting the public’s eye…
NOW – they want to put us in HIGH WAISTED Jeans….they want to trap our flubber in a denim prison…so it pulls and stretches across the flubbery belly (Does that mean shirts are going to get even shorter because the jeans are higher?) – OH MY GAWD I just realized…HIGH WAISTED JEANS and CAMELTOE go hand in hand….I think I need to find a spoon and stat!!!! Start scooping out my eyeballs now...
Think I or People am making this up – well looky HERE
Are these designers on crack…seriously
First they design BUTT-CRACK jeans that don’t look good on 96.7% of women....all the Thonger jeans does for people is push the flubber up and out so that most everyone walks around with a ring of flubber….and some of us (I am not including my flubber self because I don’t do this) wear shirts that don’t cover the flubber ring – therefore affronting the public’s eye…
NOW – they want to put us in HIGH WAISTED Jeans….they want to trap our flubber in a denim prison…so it pulls and stretches across the flubbery belly (Does that mean shirts are going to get even shorter because the jeans are higher?) – OH MY GAWD I just realized…HIGH WAISTED JEANS and CAMELTOE go hand in hand….I think I need to find a spoon and stat!!!! Start scooping out my eyeballs now...
Friday, January 26, 2007
Friday Future MILF Update
Go me...it's my birthday (ok not really)
but I lost ANOTHER POUND!!!
so for those of you counting at home that is 5 lbs lost so far - if I was at a meeting I would get one of those Red Bookmark things....but this is all the WW site gave me
but I lost ANOTHER POUND!!!
so for those of you counting at home that is 5 lbs lost so far - if I was at a meeting I would get one of those Red Bookmark things....but this is all the WW site gave me
That's Ok I'll take it :)
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Am I really a Grown-up????
Please tell me I am not the only one…
Are there times in your life where you look around and everyone seems to be going in slow motion…where your life doesn’t seem real…doesn’t seem tangible.
Some days I feel like my life is a dream and that I am going to wake up- staring at my yellow-gingham canopy with the lace edging…roll over on my rainbow sheets and come face to face with my Cabbage Patch Doll.
AM I REALLY A GROWNUP?
I have a mortgage, 2 cars, 2 kids, 2 cats, a husband, a few credit companies and a dog that seem to think I am.
But I don’t feel like a grown-up – please tell me I am not the only one…
I see people in stores – other grown-ups like me, who seem to have it all going-on who seem confident in their grownup ness – where I feel that while I have this grown-up exterior that somewhere there is a zipper and when I pull that zipper down, out comes the REAL ME…the one with the crimped side ponytail, wearing an oversized ‘Frankie Says Relax” T-shirt and an armful of rubber bracelets, all teenage and gawky – not a grownup at all.
Some days life is so surreal – having to deal with Grownup things – paying bills, making sure my kids get their medicine, car repairs, consoling a friend who has a dumb-ass husband…all these GROWN-UP things…and then I have that moment…that moment where I feel it is not real - that…. I….Will…. Wake…. Up…. – only problem is I am not dreaming…this is really my life
I have this snapshot in my head – I am a pre-teen and I am standing in Angela Vegas basement – we just got done swimming in her pool and now we have the Jukebox playing “I Love Rock and Roll” while we have the towels wrapped around our head pretending that is our long hair…and we have toilet paper shoved in our bathing suit top pretending to have huge boobies…and we are standing on the raised brick hearth with the empty toilet paper rolls in our hand singing our little hearts out
I love rock 'n' roll
So put another dime
In the jukebox, baby
I love rock 'n' roll
So come and take your time
And dance with me
we were pretending we were grown-up…we couldn’t wait to be grown-ups…if we only knew…if we only knew…
Are there times in your life where you look around and everyone seems to be going in slow motion…where your life doesn’t seem real…doesn’t seem tangible.
Some days I feel like my life is a dream and that I am going to wake up- staring at my yellow-gingham canopy with the lace edging…roll over on my rainbow sheets and come face to face with my Cabbage Patch Doll.
AM I REALLY A GROWNUP?
I have a mortgage, 2 cars, 2 kids, 2 cats, a husband, a few credit companies and a dog that seem to think I am.
But I don’t feel like a grown-up – please tell me I am not the only one…
I see people in stores – other grown-ups like me, who seem to have it all going-on who seem confident in their grownup ness – where I feel that while I have this grown-up exterior that somewhere there is a zipper and when I pull that zipper down, out comes the REAL ME…the one with the crimped side ponytail, wearing an oversized ‘Frankie Says Relax” T-shirt and an armful of rubber bracelets, all teenage and gawky – not a grownup at all.
Some days life is so surreal – having to deal with Grownup things – paying bills, making sure my kids get their medicine, car repairs, consoling a friend who has a dumb-ass husband…all these GROWN-UP things…and then I have that moment…that moment where I feel it is not real - that…. I….Will…. Wake…. Up…. – only problem is I am not dreaming…this is really my life
I have this snapshot in my head – I am a pre-teen and I am standing in Angela Vegas basement – we just got done swimming in her pool and now we have the Jukebox playing “I Love Rock and Roll” while we have the towels wrapped around our head pretending that is our long hair…and we have toilet paper shoved in our bathing suit top pretending to have huge boobies…and we are standing on the raised brick hearth with the empty toilet paper rolls in our hand singing our little hearts out
I love rock 'n' roll
So put another dime
In the jukebox, baby
I love rock 'n' roll
So come and take your time
And dance with me
we were pretending we were grown-up…we couldn’t wait to be grown-ups…if we only knew…if we only knew…
Friday, January 19, 2007
A Friday Future MILF Quickie
Don't have much time to write - but it is Friday and time for another Future MILF check-in
Goal for this week - Exercise at least twice....
Meet Goal? Hella No....
BUT, I did lose another pound....
So for those who are counting....
Total weight loss.... 3 lbs
Goal for this week - Exercise at least twice....
Meet Goal? Hella No....
BUT, I did lose another pound....
So for those who are counting....
Total weight loss.... 3 lbs
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
A HO by any other name
Lotta gave a challenge…a challenge to give her little friend Bingalina
a food ho playmate…
Someone who is a slave to food….someone who can’t help herself….someone who would probably hock one of her children for a delicious, scrumptious Cadbury Crème Egg….
I thought long and hard….and hard and long…and long and hard (hold on that is another entry about my other ho….)
Anyway I would like to introduce to the world….
a food ho playmate…
Someone who is a slave to food….someone who can’t help herself….someone who would probably hock one of her children for a delicious, scrumptious Cadbury Crème Egg….
I thought long and hard….and hard and long…and long and hard (hold on that is another entry about my other ho….)
Anyway I would like to introduce to the world….
IMA DOESN’T COUNT
who are guided by her three Hellish fairy winged friends – BITE, LICK and TASTE (which BTW….learn from my experience and DO NOT put “bite lick and taste” in Google image search….ohhhhhhh I need some bleach for my eyeballs)
You know after quite a number of years knowing about the Weight Watcher Way…I HAVE changed my eating habits…I eat whole grains…I buy the more expensive spaghetti sauces and soups because they have less fat and more fiber…
But somewhere deep inside me is little IMA….who is prodded along by her little friends…who whisper in her ear…”go ahead just take a BITE…” – “it won’t hurt to have a small LICK” – “a little TASTE, what can it hurt?” – IMA gets scared – she tried her best to resist…but there is only one of her and three of them….
So IMA gives in…and then tries to fool herself - it was only a BITE, a simple LICK, a small TASTE…so IMA DOESN’T COUNT
But you know….it does…sure a bit of a brownie every now and then is OK….but 4 bites within an hour….IMA ate the damn brownie….
So IMA is going to try and resist her little Hell fairies – Bite, Lick and Taste…
But all bets are off if Peter Rabbit comes hopping down the bunny trail with a basket of Crème Eggs….
Diet Product Review #3 - Dexatrim Max2O
So my latest and greatest Diet supplement is the Dexatrim Max2O – I figured I would give it a try because after all you dissolve 2 pills in water - so you get your water in while you are taking this stuff…
This is from the Dexatrim website
The shape of weight loss is about to change….
Introducing Dexatrim® Max20™ an exciting, new way to get maximum help for weight loss* by combining the POWER of Dexatrim with all the healthy benefits of water.
Dexatrim® Max20™ is an easy-to-use, take-anywhere package of effervescent tablets that turn water into a powerful weight loss ally. Dexatrim® Max20™ is packed with Real Green Tea, Chromium, Ginseng and a Vitamin B complex designed to provide maximum help in suppressing appetite and maximum energy* to give you the power to lose weight-all of which work together to help you feel satisfied, make good food choices and drink more water every day.
Dexatrim® Max20™ is designed in individual, foil wrapped packages that are perfect to take with you anywhere and fit perfectly in your gym bag, purse, car, pocket or briefcase. The POWER of Dexatrim® Max20™ is never far way!
Dexatrim® Max20™ is available in two great tasting varieties, Mixed Berry and Lemon Splash. Put the POWER of Dexatrim® Max20™ to work in your water for a healthy way to curb appetite*, feel deliciously full and boost energy*.
My Review:
I bought the Mixed Berry box of tablets…I was at my local Food Lion getting yet another bottle of Tylenol Flu medicine for my children (why oh freakin why can’t they make a jumbo bottle…I’ll fork over the $20 just give me more than 4 ounces in a friggin bottle – with 2 kids dosed 3 times a day 1 bottle lasts me oh about 36 hours) and saw they had the Dexatrim Max2O on sale for $10.99 and I just happened to have a $2 off coupon so I grabbed it .
I decided not to take any last week when I began my diet…so yesterday was the first day I tried it…I waited until lunch and filled up my 24 oz bottle of water and added the tablets….I must note here that according to the directions it says to place 2 tablets into 16 ounces of water…I figured it can’t hurt to dilute the taste a bit…
BOY am I glad that I put it in 24 ounces – the taste wellllllll – not as bad as the Protien Water but not exactly wonderful either – it sort of reminded me of flavored Alka-selzer – a funny bubbly weird taste…very sweet to my palette with a definite aftertaste….If you are one that likes flavored seltzer water then it probably would taste fine to you.
After I drank about half the cup (so about 12 ounces) I found myself a little jittery…then I drank more and found myself even more so jittery….I imagine jittery in a Meth whore way – not that I have been a Meth whore but from what I read….then again it is rare to see a fat Meth whore so maybe Dexatrim is on to something here - hummmm
After about an hour the jittery feeling was pretty much gone – so maybe it was just my body reacting to the foreignness of the supplement. However, when I went to use the bathroom (because after downing 24 ounces of a liquid it has to come out sometime) I noticed another effect of the supplement…it made my urine smell rather odd….not that I am in the habit of smelling my own pee…but being a mother of young children my nose has smelled a lot of pee over the past 5 ½ years…it wasn’t a rancid smell…just different….
Now…I will admit other then feeling like a jittery Meth whore with funky pee it did curb my appetite….I drank the 24 ounces at lunchtime and made it through the rest of the afternoon without feeling hungry…I didn’t even eat my afternoon snack - and when I got home I didn’t even feel the urge to eat dinner….I did however because I know one of the things to a balanced diet is eating…but I set out my portion and ate it and didn’t feel hungry afterwards….
I am pretty sure I will finish up the tablets…there are 20 tablets per box and you are suppose to use 2 per bottle of water – so that makes 10 servings…I think instead of doing 2 at a time I will just do 1 and see what that affect is…will it help me loose weight I don’t know…I did like the not feeling hungry affect it seemed to have…which could potentially get me through the bulk of my day.
I think after all the tablets are gone I might try the Dexatrim Max tablets…see if they might have the same hunger control effect without the jittery Meth whore feeling…I can live with the funky pee smell…
Dexatrim Max2O Sum-Up
Retail price $14.99
My Price $8.99
WW points – 0
Finish Up – yeah, but I will just do 1 tablet per 24 ounces of water
Buy Again – probably not unless I feel the need to feel like a Meth whore again
This is from the Dexatrim website
The shape of weight loss is about to change….
Introducing Dexatrim® Max20™ an exciting, new way to get maximum help for weight loss* by combining the POWER of Dexatrim with all the healthy benefits of water.
Dexatrim® Max20™ is an easy-to-use, take-anywhere package of effervescent tablets that turn water into a powerful weight loss ally. Dexatrim® Max20™ is packed with Real Green Tea, Chromium, Ginseng and a Vitamin B complex designed to provide maximum help in suppressing appetite and maximum energy* to give you the power to lose weight-all of which work together to help you feel satisfied, make good food choices and drink more water every day.
Dexatrim® Max20™ is designed in individual, foil wrapped packages that are perfect to take with you anywhere and fit perfectly in your gym bag, purse, car, pocket or briefcase. The POWER of Dexatrim® Max20™ is never far way!
Dexatrim® Max20™ is available in two great tasting varieties, Mixed Berry and Lemon Splash. Put the POWER of Dexatrim® Max20™ to work in your water for a healthy way to curb appetite*, feel deliciously full and boost energy*.
My Review:
I bought the Mixed Berry box of tablets…I was at my local Food Lion getting yet another bottle of Tylenol Flu medicine for my children (why oh freakin why can’t they make a jumbo bottle…I’ll fork over the $20 just give me more than 4 ounces in a friggin bottle – with 2 kids dosed 3 times a day 1 bottle lasts me oh about 36 hours) and saw they had the Dexatrim Max2O on sale for $10.99 and I just happened to have a $2 off coupon so I grabbed it .
I decided not to take any last week when I began my diet…so yesterday was the first day I tried it…I waited until lunch and filled up my 24 oz bottle of water and added the tablets….I must note here that according to the directions it says to place 2 tablets into 16 ounces of water…I figured it can’t hurt to dilute the taste a bit…
BOY am I glad that I put it in 24 ounces – the taste wellllllll – not as bad as the Protien Water but not exactly wonderful either – it sort of reminded me of flavored Alka-selzer – a funny bubbly weird taste…very sweet to my palette with a definite aftertaste….If you are one that likes flavored seltzer water then it probably would taste fine to you.
After I drank about half the cup (so about 12 ounces) I found myself a little jittery…then I drank more and found myself even more so jittery….I imagine jittery in a Meth whore way – not that I have been a Meth whore but from what I read….then again it is rare to see a fat Meth whore so maybe Dexatrim is on to something here - hummmm
After about an hour the jittery feeling was pretty much gone – so maybe it was just my body reacting to the foreignness of the supplement. However, when I went to use the bathroom (because after downing 24 ounces of a liquid it has to come out sometime) I noticed another effect of the supplement…it made my urine smell rather odd….not that I am in the habit of smelling my own pee…but being a mother of young children my nose has smelled a lot of pee over the past 5 ½ years…it wasn’t a rancid smell…just different….
Now…I will admit other then feeling like a jittery Meth whore with funky pee it did curb my appetite….I drank the 24 ounces at lunchtime and made it through the rest of the afternoon without feeling hungry…I didn’t even eat my afternoon snack - and when I got home I didn’t even feel the urge to eat dinner….I did however because I know one of the things to a balanced diet is eating…but I set out my portion and ate it and didn’t feel hungry afterwards….
I am pretty sure I will finish up the tablets…there are 20 tablets per box and you are suppose to use 2 per bottle of water – so that makes 10 servings…I think instead of doing 2 at a time I will just do 1 and see what that affect is…will it help me loose weight I don’t know…I did like the not feeling hungry affect it seemed to have…which could potentially get me through the bulk of my day.
I think after all the tablets are gone I might try the Dexatrim Max tablets…see if they might have the same hunger control effect without the jittery Meth whore feeling…I can live with the funky pee smell…
Dexatrim Max2O Sum-Up
Retail price $14.99
My Price $8.99
WW points – 0
Finish Up – yeah, but I will just do 1 tablet per 24 ounces of water
Buy Again – probably not unless I feel the need to feel like a Meth whore again
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Why they should not allow Kindergartners to borrow anything...
An e-mail I just wrote to TW's teacher...
Good Morning,
If you notice {TW} did not bring her library book back in to school – it is missing somewhere in our house…I had told her to put it back in her backpack after we read it and somehow (not really a surprise to me) it didn’t make it – I noticed it wasn’t in the backpack last night when we were packing her snack…it was late and we only looked half-heartily for the book in the all usual spots but failed to find it – after moving the couch to look and finding half of the lego collection and various already worn socks (apparently when we ask the girls to clean up it means shoving everything under the couch) I basically gave up for the night - I have a feeling that it might have gotten dumped into one of the toy bins during another round of clean-up…
{Third Child} and I decided this would make a good lesson for {TW} – that if she can’t take care of the things she borrows then maybe she is not ready to borrow things….maybe this incident will teach her something????…I will be doing a more detailed look for the book this week – I know it didn’t leave the house so it has to be somewhere…maybe searching for it will spur me to do my spring cleaning early???
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ha ha ha Spring Cleaning - yeah right....
Can you just imagine if they had a class pet that had to be taken home on the weekend by some poor unsuspecting parent...it would never survive coming to my home...
Good Morning,
If you notice {TW} did not bring her library book back in to school – it is missing somewhere in our house…I had told her to put it back in her backpack after we read it and somehow (not really a surprise to me) it didn’t make it – I noticed it wasn’t in the backpack last night when we were packing her snack…it was late and we only looked half-heartily for the book in the all usual spots but failed to find it – after moving the couch to look and finding half of the lego collection and various already worn socks (apparently when we ask the girls to clean up it means shoving everything under the couch) I basically gave up for the night - I have a feeling that it might have gotten dumped into one of the toy bins during another round of clean-up…
{Third Child} and I decided this would make a good lesson for {TW} – that if she can’t take care of the things she borrows then maybe she is not ready to borrow things….maybe this incident will teach her something????…I will be doing a more detailed look for the book this week – I know it didn’t leave the house so it has to be somewhere…maybe searching for it will spur me to do my spring cleaning early???
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ha ha ha Spring Cleaning - yeah right....
Can you just imagine if they had a class pet that had to be taken home on the weekend by some poor unsuspecting parent...it would never survive coming to my home...
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Diet Product Review #2 - Special K Protien Snack Bar
yeah yeah yeah - I have a special affinity for Special K - so the first few product reviews will be Special K products...as we have all found out not everything Special K does tastes good...I was talking with a friend about the Special K Protien Water and she asked me to really describe what it tasted like because she couldn't quite understand...the best thing I could come up with was "imagine strawberries had penis's...and you got really drunk and well gave the strawberry a good time and said strawberry didn't tap you on the head when it was about to blow...." needless to say neither her nor I (nor probably you) will ever look at a strawberry in quite the same way...
The next in line for the Special K brand is the Special K Protien Snack Bar.
As I was waiting at the pharmacy getting the Tamiflu prescriptions for my daughters (oh yes lucky me...the flu has hit my house...sometimes being a mommy sucks ass - come all every mother at some point in her mommyhood just looks at her little darlings and says to herself - This sucks ass...don't deny it...) anyway as my darlings proceeded to touch every mini massager in the basket below the counter I wandered over to diet isle....They had the Special K protien bars "Buy 1 get 1" - so knowing my penchant for both diet foods and a bargin you can guess what i bought...
Special K Protein Snack Bars, 110 calories per bar, 4g of protein and a good source of nine vitamins and minerals. They are available in Chocolate Peanut and Chocolate Delight. I tried to get a picture from the Kellogg website but I kept getting a weird error message - so you can check them out here
I bought the Chocolate Peanut one because I love Hersey Peanut Butter Cups...The retail price on these were .89 cents each - so I paid .45 cents a piece for mine since it was BOGO...
I was a little hesitant because it is a rather small bar - it is about the size of one twix bar...not quite as long but *just* a little fatter...if you all had seen my ex-boyfriend naked I could be a little more descriptive (let me tell you ...sometimes you do need MORE than the motion of the Ocean...KWIM) - When calculated on my handy dandy WW slide - one bar = two points
By the time I got home and had a blow up with one of my daughters over not taking the nasty Tamiflu medicine (and yes while the medicine is sort of nasty...my house is a dictatorship...not a democracy the sooner she learns that the happier we all will be)- the bar was beckoning me...so I ate it...
IT WAS FANTASTIC...sometimes some of these chocolate snack bars can taste a little catty-wampus - like something is off with the ingrediants. NOT SO with this protien bar - it is very dense and chewy so it is not easy to eat it quickly - a plus in my book.
NOW...would I eat this all the time...nope, mainly because it is 2 points...if they added some more fiber to the bar and got it down to 1 point this little bar would probably be a staple of my day. But I think i would definately keep a stash around for those times when chocolate is a neccessity...like that time of the month, when your husband is being an ass, when your 5 year old pulls a 15 year olders attitude on you...
Special K Protien Snack Bar - Chocolate Peanut Sum-Up
Retail Price $0.89
My Price $0.45
WW Points 2
Buy Again YES, yes, yes!!!!!
The next in line for the Special K brand is the Special K Protien Snack Bar.
As I was waiting at the pharmacy getting the Tamiflu prescriptions for my daughters (oh yes lucky me...the flu has hit my house...sometimes being a mommy sucks ass - come all every mother at some point in her mommyhood just looks at her little darlings and says to herself - This sucks ass...don't deny it...) anyway as my darlings proceeded to touch every mini massager in the basket below the counter I wandered over to diet isle....They had the Special K protien bars "Buy 1 get 1" - so knowing my penchant for both diet foods and a bargin you can guess what i bought...
Special K Protein Snack Bars, 110 calories per bar, 4g of protein and a good source of nine vitamins and minerals. They are available in Chocolate Peanut and Chocolate Delight. I tried to get a picture from the Kellogg website but I kept getting a weird error message - so you can check them out here
I bought the Chocolate Peanut one because I love Hersey Peanut Butter Cups...The retail price on these were .89 cents each - so I paid .45 cents a piece for mine since it was BOGO...
I was a little hesitant because it is a rather small bar - it is about the size of one twix bar...not quite as long but *just* a little fatter...if you all had seen my ex-boyfriend naked I could be a little more descriptive (let me tell you ...sometimes you do need MORE than the motion of the Ocean...KWIM) - When calculated on my handy dandy WW slide - one bar = two points
By the time I got home and had a blow up with one of my daughters over not taking the nasty Tamiflu medicine (and yes while the medicine is sort of nasty...my house is a dictatorship...not a democracy the sooner she learns that the happier we all will be)- the bar was beckoning me...so I ate it...
IT WAS FANTASTIC...sometimes some of these chocolate snack bars can taste a little catty-wampus - like something is off with the ingrediants. NOT SO with this protien bar - it is very dense and chewy so it is not easy to eat it quickly - a plus in my book.
NOW...would I eat this all the time...nope, mainly because it is 2 points...if they added some more fiber to the bar and got it down to 1 point this little bar would probably be a staple of my day. But I think i would definately keep a stash around for those times when chocolate is a neccessity...like that time of the month, when your husband is being an ass, when your 5 year old pulls a 15 year olders attitude on you...
Special K Protien Snack Bar - Chocolate Peanut Sum-Up
Retail Price $0.89
My Price $0.45
WW Points 2
Buy Again YES, yes, yes!!!!!
WEEK ONE - Friday Weigh-in
ok ok ok - so it isn't Friday - but thanks to Virginia lawmakers I had Friday off from work - Thank ye old Confederate Generals....Lee and Jackson - thanks to you I get a 4 day weekend...ba ha ha ha
Anyway....I lost TWO POUNDS...which when I went and logged it on WW on-line I lost nothing - because remember I Lied to Weight Watchers
Oh well - two pounds is two pounds and I will happily take it - last week I focused on just pacing myself and getting back into making the right choices as far as eating goes and the whole point system...I did pretty good with evening meals - actually cooked something other then Spagetti
So this week I plan on adding in exercise...now I am not going to say I will exercise every day because I know myself...but at least twice this coming week I will do something - be it go for a walk around the neighborhood for a half an hour or actually getting on my eliptical machine that is taking up a corner of my rec room - whispering "Oh Baby...Ride me...Ride me" {hold on that may not be the elipitcal machine whispering....}
So here is to two more lbs!!!!!!
Anyway....I lost TWO POUNDS...which when I went and logged it on WW on-line I lost nothing - because remember I Lied to Weight Watchers
Oh well - two pounds is two pounds and I will happily take it - last week I focused on just pacing myself and getting back into making the right choices as far as eating goes and the whole point system...I did pretty good with evening meals - actually cooked something other then Spagetti
So this week I plan on adding in exercise...now I am not going to say I will exercise every day because I know myself...but at least twice this coming week I will do something - be it go for a walk around the neighborhood for a half an hour or actually getting on my eliptical machine that is taking up a corner of my rec room - whispering "Oh Baby...Ride me...Ride me" {hold on that may not be the elipitcal machine whispering....}
So here is to two more lbs!!!!!!
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Diet Product Review #1 - Special K2O
Having been a member of Weight Watchers on and off for the past two+ years I am always interested to see what new (and old) "diet" items they have on the market...and being the glutton that I am I usually at least TRY items...so I figured I would share my reviews with all of you (all probably 3 people that read this blog) - so you can figure out where to spend your money...
SPECIAL K2O...
From Food Processing
Departing from its traditional products and most surprising, Kellogg also introduces Special K2O Protein Waters, which deliver 5g of protein per 16-oz. bottle with 50 calories. They are available in three flavors: Strawberry Kiwi, Lemon Twist and Tropical Blend.
”Drinking lots of water is important when dieting, but plain
water can get boring,” says Saletta. ”It’s great to have some new flavor choices.”
Suggested retail price for four 16-oz. bottles of SpecialK2O is $5.99.
SPECIAL K2O...
From Food Processing
Departing from its traditional products and most surprising, Kellogg also introduces Special K2O Protein Waters, which deliver 5g of protein per 16-oz. bottle with 50 calories. They are available in three flavors: Strawberry Kiwi, Lemon Twist and Tropical Blend.
”Drinking lots of water is important when dieting, but plain
water can get boring,” says Saletta. ”It’s great to have some new flavor choices.”
Suggested retail price for four 16-oz. bottles of SpecialK2O is $5.99.
MY REVIEW:
I found single bottle of this Protien Water at my local Food Lion - the price was about $1.89 but they had $1 off coupons...so for .89 cents I figured I would try it - I picked up the Strawberry-Kiwi flavor and the Lemon Twist flavor.
I consulted my handy dandy WW points slider and found that unlike basic water with 0 points this water did have a 1 point value - with all the stuff they add to the water it adds 50 calories - no fat, no fiber...
I figured it would taste similar to the flavored waters...like Propel fitness water...
ummmm no go....
Nasty - with a CAPITAL N - the best way I could descibe it is if you mixed a packet of Jello up with some water and proceeded to drink it...the flavor was to overly sweet and it seemed to coat my mouth - not something water should do.
Since I forgot an extra bottle of water I did drink the whole bottle on my ride into work...I could not wait to get to work to get some actual H2O to rinse out the layer of K2O...
I still have the Lemon Twist flavor at home and I am quite unsure of how to proceed...I don't want to waste it...but yet the idea of a layer of lemon coating my mouth leaves something to be desired....I think I might open it and add a small amount to a full bottle of water and see if it comes out to be something like Propel - water with just a hint of flavor...
SPECIAL K2O SUM-UP
Retail Price $1.89
My Price $0.89
WW Points 1
Buy Again NOPE
Monday, January 08, 2007
I lied to Weight Watchers
Appearently I have hit a new low....
I joined Weight Watchers on line on Friday...I had to imput my weight...I could have waited until Monday to set everything up but the food whore I am wanted my "offical" weigh-in day to be Friday...that way if I blow my diet on Friday by say drinking a few to many glasses of wine or pigging out on a slice or two of oh so delicious Pizza Hut pizza I have all week to adjust (A.K.A eat bowls of the 0 point Cabbage soup to make up for my gluttony)
So it asked me to imput my weight - so I typed in a number that i thought was correct...ha ha ha - when I got on the scale on Saturday morning I realized I was wrong...not by much, only 2 lbs over what I typed in...but still I LIED TO AN ONLINE PROGRAM....
I found it interesting that based on my height that I should be between 115 and 135 lbs...OMG are they freakin insane...If I weighed 115 I would probably look like this....
I joined Weight Watchers on line on Friday...I had to imput my weight...I could have waited until Monday to set everything up but the food whore I am wanted my "offical" weigh-in day to be Friday...that way if I blow my diet on Friday by say drinking a few to many glasses of wine or pigging out on a slice or two of oh so delicious Pizza Hut pizza I have all week to adjust (A.K.A eat bowls of the 0 point Cabbage soup to make up for my gluttony)
So it asked me to imput my weight - so I typed in a number that i thought was correct...ha ha ha - when I got on the scale on Saturday morning I realized I was wrong...not by much, only 2 lbs over what I typed in...but still I LIED TO AN ONLINE PROGRAM....
I found it interesting that based on my height that I should be between 115 and 135 lbs...OMG are they freakin insane...If I weighed 115 I would probably look like this....
and I don't know about you - but skin and bones just doesn't appeal to me...A woman needs curves....a woman needs a little flesh....an woman needs to look like she isn't going to break in half if a stiff wind comes her way...
Even 135 Lbs is a little mind-blowing for me...I have always been heavy - all through my childhood - even with being very active in sports - heck every summer I rode my bike 2 miles to the swimming pool, swam all day and then rode 2 miles back home and yet I was still heavy...granted I wasn't exactly eating the most healthy things...but I wasn't sitting on my butt watching TV or playing video games either...
The summer between my Junior and Senior year in High School I weighed over 200 lbs and thought enough was enough and joined Physicans Weight Loss Center - I did Ok and lost over 50lbs which put me at about 160 lbs or so and I looked good!!!! - to me I looked skinny and with my body shape (short and curvy) the lbs set well with me
I managed to keep most of it off throughout college...mainly the walking all over campus to get anywhere canceled out the copious amounts of alcohol I drank...even after college though I gained back about 10-15 lbs I was still fairly happy with my body...
Then I got married....then I worked awful jobs at awful times (2nd shift while going to grad school full-time)...then I had babies....
My body fell apart...I have a nice huge twin skin sack of a belly...I have these two flabs of back fat...and my ass, well I am starting to think I need to get those little "beep...beep" things for when I back up...
So anyway after laughing after the 115 - 135 lb range I am "suppose" to be at - I overrid the goal weight and put in the weight that I felt I could obtain and KEEP (the most important of all - a weight to KEEP)...I don't care what the scale says per se...what I really want to do is walk into a store and buy a pair of size 8 Levi jeans...is that too much to ask...a size 8....To let everyone in on what I wear now....a Size 14/16 - depending on Brand/Type and % of stretch material in said item - far more 16's then 14's....
I don't have delusions...I don't care to ever be a Size 2 or a Size 4...quite frankly I think I would look ridiculous...but I do want a single digit number - SIZE 8 ...
so that is my goal....a Size 8 pair of Levi's Jeans.....
What's Yours?....
Lick-a-stick
nooooooo not that stick...
This weekend I let TW and PWG go in their candy jar for a treat - PWG found a Lick a stick Fun Dip packet and proceeded to tear into it.
For those of you were Fun Dip deprived in the 80's let me tell you all about this treat - first it comes with a short white oblong object - about the size of my thumb - and anywhere from 1 to 3 packets of flavored sugar crap. The object is to lick the stick - Dip it into the sugar mixture and then Lick or suck it off. This was one of my favorite candies as a child - which is apparent in the size of my ass and the fact that many of years of licking and sucking practice of the Fun Dip I became the champion Jello sucker of York college (such a proud moment)...
anyway as my child was greedly getting all hyped up on sugar I thought to myself why can't they make a diet Fun Dip...
Hear me out here...
The stick could be made of Dark Chocolate - which you are suppose to eat everyday anyway - think I am kidding - check this news out...A Dark Chocolate A Day...
and the powdered sugar stuff could be made out of some type of flavored Fibersure product...
So not only are you getting a treat without 1000 calories- your heart and colon will thank you for it....
Friday, January 05, 2007
OH the humanity....
and so it begins....
it is THE DAY - for more information so you don't think I am totally nuts - Prepare Your Fridges the day to start the Future MILF diet and what did I forget to do - weigh myself...am I worried - nope I'll just be a day or two later than everyone else...besides tonights Pizza night and I am planning on taking the girls to the movies tommorrow and sorry I just can't get through a movie involving chirpy little cartoon characters (especially when one is voiced by Andy Dick) without a big vat of buttered popcorn...
The other day the Third Child decided to try his hand at making venison jerky...I merely rolled my eyes and said "that's nice dear" - so he sets out and grabs a chunk of his nasty-ass deer meat from the freezer and proceeds to let it thaw...when it is all thawed out the next day he comes to me...all dolled up in his flannel shirt and ripped sweatpants - holding a big bag of thawed meat and asked me "how much do you think this weighs"
ummm yeah - appearently he thinks that the mere fact I have ovaries gives me some special power to deduce the weight of meat in a plastic bag - I told him he should go upstairs hop on the scale without the meat - then with the meat - and subtract
Five minutes later he comes back downstairs all dejected looking and says "the only thing the scale told me was that I am fat"
SOOOOOOOO not only am I doing this so I can be a Future MILF - but I am pretty sure my third child would like to become a Future DILF.
So to start off I am going to try and set some realistic goals and go 1 week at a time...
Overall my goal is to loose at least the 15 lbs I have gained since the last WW meeting I went to...at least then hopefully I won't have to keep unbuttoning my pants everytime I sit down. Ultimately I would like to go for 30 lbs....but I am keeping it realistic here
So for next week
and happy dance...happy dance....clap for me - my first HTML thingy....
it is THE DAY - for more information so you don't think I am totally nuts - Prepare Your Fridges the day to start the Future MILF diet and what did I forget to do - weigh myself...am I worried - nope I'll just be a day or two later than everyone else...besides tonights Pizza night and I am planning on taking the girls to the movies tommorrow and sorry I just can't get through a movie involving chirpy little cartoon characters (especially when one is voiced by Andy Dick) without a big vat of buttered popcorn...
The other day the Third Child decided to try his hand at making venison jerky...I merely rolled my eyes and said "that's nice dear" - so he sets out and grabs a chunk of his nasty-ass deer meat from the freezer and proceeds to let it thaw...when it is all thawed out the next day he comes to me...all dolled up in his flannel shirt and ripped sweatpants - holding a big bag of thawed meat and asked me "how much do you think this weighs"
ummm yeah - appearently he thinks that the mere fact I have ovaries gives me some special power to deduce the weight of meat in a plastic bag - I told him he should go upstairs hop on the scale without the meat - then with the meat - and subtract
Five minutes later he comes back downstairs all dejected looking and says "the only thing the scale told me was that I am fat"
SOOOOOOOO not only am I doing this so I can be a Future MILF - but I am pretty sure my third child would like to become a Future DILF.
So to start off I am going to try and set some realistic goals and go 1 week at a time...
Overall my goal is to loose at least the 15 lbs I have gained since the last WW meeting I went to...at least then hopefully I won't have to keep unbuttoning my pants everytime I sit down. Ultimately I would like to go for 30 lbs....but I am keeping it realistic here
So for next week
- Set up a good meal plan for the whole week - actually plan out healthy and nutritious dinners that take less then 30 minutes to prepare
- Drink my water - 6 20 ounce glasses/bottles a day
- Actually eat some form of nutrious breakfast so I am not circling the vending machine like a rabid wolf at 9am in the morning and choosing thing like ring dings
- Get on my elliptical machine at least 3 times - now notice I am not putting a time limit - if I can get up and do it for 10 minutes...then at least I am doing it right...
and happy dance...happy dance....clap for me - my first HTML thingy....
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Tick-Tock...Tick-Tock
the day is getting closer....the day I begin THE DIET!!!!
I have joined in on a challege per-se...to become a Future MILF... and am I current MILF but only to my hubby and while that is nice I would like someone other than the dregs of humanity asking me if I "want fries with my shake..."
and shake i have which is why I decided to go for it...
For more information check out the blog that started it all http://mom-o-matic.blogspot.com/
(note one of my resolutions is to learn about HTML crap - anyone got a good website with easy instructions???)
It won't be easy and many days I'll be cranky (how that differs from now is anyones guess) - but my hubby is behind me (get yer minds out of the gutter...) and is willing to go back to eating healthier and giving me space to exercise (hold on...that laughing in my head is at it again)...
So if anyone has had any good luck with simple, cheap and easy exercise plans let me hear them...I have an ellipitcal machine at home and *hope* to use it 3 x's per week - because of a bad ankle prolonged running (once again that laughing in my head) and walking is out...but what about some form of Yoga or Pilates??? Whatever they are....
I have joined in on a challege per-se...to become a Future MILF... and am I current MILF but only to my hubby and while that is nice I would like someone other than the dregs of humanity asking me if I "want fries with my shake..."
and shake i have which is why I decided to go for it...
For more information check out the blog that started it all http://mom-o-matic.blogspot.com/
(note one of my resolutions is to learn about HTML crap - anyone got a good website with easy instructions???)
It won't be easy and many days I'll be cranky (how that differs from now is anyones guess) - but my hubby is behind me (get yer minds out of the gutter...) and is willing to go back to eating healthier and giving me space to exercise (hold on...that laughing in my head is at it again)...
So if anyone has had any good luck with simple, cheap and easy exercise plans let me hear them...I have an ellipitcal machine at home and *hope* to use it 3 x's per week - because of a bad ankle prolonged running (once again that laughing in my head) and walking is out...but what about some form of Yoga or Pilates??? Whatever they are....
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