Recipes.

I love food.  Here are some good, healthy recipes I've tried or want to try.

Stuffed Mushrooms- AMAZING.  One of my all time favorites.
Roasted Butternut Squash- The husband and I both liked it a lot.
Whole Wheat Oatmeal Blueberry Muffins- I also substitute raspberries.  Maybe someday I'll use the base w/o the lemon and blueberries for dark chocolate.  It may be too dense though.
Pretty much every recipe I looked at here looks so good.  Especially the pasta with roasted broccoli.

What I need in my arsenal is good, healthier baked goods.  You know- cakes, cookies, the yummy stuff.  The stuff from Kalyn's Kitchen is good, but a little too Splenda-y for my tastebuds.  I want the real deal.  Butter, butter, sugar, flour.  Do you wonderful blog readers have any you'd care to share?  Any books, blogs, websites I should check out?

You all are great.  Thank you for all of your support thus far.  There's a long road ahead of me, but I know I can do it with your support.

December 15th.

I have a date with the nutritionist on December 15th.  I'm going to log my food and exercise starting on the 1st and take it in with me.  Is there anything else I should do?  I don't really have any questions.  Are there any questions that I should ask?

I'm hoping I can get a succinct diet and exercise plan that I can follow and that works.  That's not too much to ask, right?

My first goal- I want to lose at least 20lbs by our trip to San Francisco at the end of February.  I really want to be able to look at the pictures and like what I see.

First Pictures

Oh my word.  I really don't like how I look in these pictures.  I know that they're not the best pictures anyway, but wow.   I'll post my measurements once I get a tape measure.  But here you go.

Cravings.

Oh my word.  I have the biggest sweet tooth ever and I love to bake.  Both of which, I'm sure, have added a little more padding around my midsection and ass.  Right now- I want to bake an apple crisp.  It's so quick, so easy and so delicious.  But, since I know my eating won't be as well as I should be this week (especially with Thanksgiving), I shouldn't bake.  I won't bake.

But what do you do when a craving strikes?  How do you prepare yourself for moments when all you want to do is tear open and eat an entire package of Hershey Kisses?  Or stop yourself from baking the apple crisp and eating the entire dish?  Have you found that you're able to satisfy your cravings in other ways?

Help me, dear readers!  How do you do it?

Welcome.

::waves nervously and takes a deep breath::

It's no surprise (if you know me) that I'm overweight.  I've gained about 25lbs since getting married and have to lose some weight.  Now, I've never been a skinny person.  But I've definitely been in better shape.  Losing weight is quite difficult which is why I decided to blog about it.  Maybe someone out there has been in my shoes, has lost the weight or can give me some additional support.

In 2009, I was diagnosed with PCOS.  This was after gaining 15lbs after going off the birth control pill and not having any non-medically induced periods.  I was put on 1500mg of Metformin.  In April 2009, I found out I was pregnant.  In August, at just 23w3d, our daughter was born prematurely.  The doctors said I went into labor because of an infection.

Fast forward to May 2010, I found out I was pregnant again.  In September, I was placed on hospital bedrest due to an incompetent cervix that we caught too late.  A short 6 days later, our son was born.  He, like his sister, passed away shortly after birth.

This time they know I have an incompetent cervix and my doctor also told me something else about PCOS.  In some pregnant with PCOS, sugars damage the blood vessels in the placenta (but not the baby) causing hormones to be released that start labor.


Now, my doctors can't definitively tell me that's what happened to me, but it sounds highly likely dontcha think? 

So, I plan to kick its ass.  I'm getting my life back into my control.  I'm back on the birth control pill and am waiting for the nutritionist to give me a call back.  Regardless of if we ever want to get pregnant again or not, I need to get into better shape.  I need to do it for me.  And for my babies.