Low Carb Redeux, Day 1

Breakfast of Champions!!

Coffee, water & a protein shake!

If we're not facebook friends, you probably missed my learning that the blender blade thing fits on a mason jar.  

So instead of lugging out the blender base & the HUGE glass thingy (pitcher?) you can put all your mixin's in a mason jar & blend away!  I suggest holding down the mason jar when you put it on the blender because it's much lighter then the pitcher, but it works.  AND you're only making 1 thing dirty!

Really it's like having a magic bullet!

I used it on NYE to blend up some coconut rum, frozen pineapple & some ice and it was pure perfection.  Except it was coooold so I dug out my ice cream cozy. That is the black fuzzy thing on the right.  My friend Kami makes them.

Get your own here

KamzKoozies

She calls them Ice Cream Koozies, but they fit perfectly around a mason jar too!

I do have one problem.. Someone, I won't mention any names, but he's the other adult in the house, some how managed to do this to the seal for the blender.

Where do I get a new one?

Full Disclosure

I haven't talked about my weight loss recently... and it's because I've been gaining some of it back. 


It all started when the symptoms of what I now know is a herniated disc in my neck, started show it's self.  In July I went through a period of time where I thought was either having a heart attack or a panic attack.  I still feel that way sometimes but now I know it's all side affects of the herniated disc. It was a scary time. 


I quit smoking too in early July, and was put on steroids for a week, so that added to the initial gain. And I would have been fine with that initial 5 to 7lb gain.  But I think now I'm somewhere up to around 15 or 20lbs gained. I won't weigh myself, at least not yet (waiting until I feel like I'm losing again).  But I have measured and I've gained at least an inch in each the 4 major areas.  Some of it is due to the gain, some of it is due to being unable to exercise. 


On Friday January 6th I'm having a steroid injected into the herniated disc.  I'm hoping that will alleviate the symptoms enough so that I can at least start walking again.  


So today, after a trip to so see Chipwrecked, I will start my food prep for the week and grab my copy of DANDR and get this fat burning machine back into gear!

Happy Dance

Forgive me while I do my happy dance

Why am I dancing?

Because if you go to Google.com

and do a search on 

Jersey Girl Necklace

My link comes up FIRST!!!!!!

Yeah me!

Today's blog

is on my other blog.  There is a picture of me in rollers, go check it out!

Confessions of a Beach Writer

Cheap Christmas Pillow

My 10 yo son is home from school with walking pneumonia so I couldn't go to the beach today to fill my beach writing orders.

So I saw on I am a Lazy Mom's Blog the idea making a cheap Christmas pillow.

When I was at Target last night I picked up this cloth place mat for $4

Today I grabbed a bag of Polyfil at AC Moore for like $4 or $5

I only opened the place mat stitching enough to get my hand in with some stuffing. I figured the less sewing to close it, the better!

All stuffed and ready to be sew shut. 

 

I just stitched it by hand to close it.  I'm far from a great seamstress, but I am lazy and it was easier to just hand stitch the 6 inches then to drag out the dusty sewing machine that I probably shouldn't be lifting anyway due to the herniated disc in my neck!

Now to give it to the kid to make it all nice  & evenly fluffy!

Saturday Dec 17th

I will be at East Brunswick High School from 10 to 5 for their craft show!  Come out & see the items I offer in my online shop as well as things I don't list, like framed 8x10 photos and much more! 

(excuse the bad photo of the great photo, no natural light today)

DIRECTIONS

Confessions of a Beach Writer

Today's post is over on my other blog.  There is a picture, & it's worth clicking the link below to see it :D

Confessions of a Beach Writer