Here is the list of Go-To foods as of today. Send me more and we'll keep adding to our list! We can never have enough go-to foods, right?
- Frozen grapes
- dark chocolate kisses kept in the freezer (you can't OD on these puppies)
- FF (fat free) yogurt and fruit (especially blueberries or pineapple or pears or all three together!)
- any vegetable / any fruit
- Kroger CarbMaster yogurt - 4 gm of carbs and only 80 calories for 6 oz carton
- Simply Jif (low sodium, 33% less sugar) - 7 carbs and 180 calories in 2 Tbsp. Good with low sugar marmalade.
- Snapea
Crisps (Peaches says: "LOVE these") - 15 gm carbs (including 3 fiber) and 12 calories
per serving. Great when you crave something crunchy.
- great big bowl of leafy green salad with loads of veggies
- all natural crunchy peanut butter
Last night I stayed up till after midnight watching a goofy sitcom called "Psych!" The lead actor is similar in goofy-ness to early flicks of Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) but not quite as hooked on steroids (if that makes sense!). Give me a break: I just turned in my final paper for class and my brain is still in shock- is the paper "A" worthy or a piece of crap that will line her parrot cage?
Back to the original story.... while waiting for 11 p.m. (the time the network replays the new episode...thank you, USA network, for realizing not everyone owns a DVR!) Hubby and I got into a Batman marathon on another channel. In this Batman movie, Michael Keaton is Batman and Michelle Pfeiffer is Cat Woman. Since it was filmed in 1992 I'm giving away some details (don't blame me, you've had plenty of time to see it if you wanted!)....so spoiler alert!!!!!
The mousy human female (Pfeiffer) is pushed out a window and falls to her death or is she just stunned? Any who, she is flat on her back in the alley and cats from e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e. flock around her and....give her life? Maybe they share one of their nine lives with her? One cat in particular starts nibbling on her fingers. There is blood. There are teeth. Her eyes shoot to the back of her head. Her head starts convulsing. You gotta love Hollywood and comics! Next thing you know she is up and making herself a cat costume.
Why do I mention this, you ask? When my kids were younger, we limited influential movies and/or TV shows. We stopped watching certain questionable shows all together when the eldest started repeating some very choice words. What did she just say?????
This morning at 6 a.m. (after about 5 hours of sleep and a goofy episode of Psych and a dark movie of Batman--- I mean this movie is really dark) I felt a rough tongue licking my fingers. Chomp. A little nibble. My eyes didn't shoot to the back of my head; no, they shot WIDE OPEN!!!
Uh oh!!!! Looks like we will have to limit TV again.
Who knew cats were impressionable too? Note to self: no TV shows where cats rule the world or bite owners while they sleep.
Sorry I've been away so long, Grainiacs. So much has and is happening. It seemed I got through the holidays and now January is booking up. I don't mind telling you I've been overwhelmed and the last thing I've thought about is cutting out carbs. They are my comfort food and they are also my poison. I know this.
For years I made New Year's Resolutions. You know I break them. You know they make me feel bad about myself. You know I've chosen to refer to anything I do this year as my New Year Goals.
The other day, Peaches sent in a list of her new healthy choice "go to" foods. I guess you could call them her new comfort foods. The great thing about this is she is redefining what will go into her body and she chooses well. You probably have a list of your own. Why not share them with me and I'll compile a list for us and post it at the end of the week. A New Year Strawberry Goal is to NOT go it alone.
Let's choose well, Grainiacs. 2014 is our year.
Oh my gosh I can barely move! What was I thinking when I popped in that Denise Austin burn the buns video???? LOL All I can do is laugh at myself. I think the last time I attempted Denise Austin was back in the late 80's/early 90's. You want to know how to tell if you are REALLY out of shape? Pop in an exercise video from the 80's because it's been that long since you last attempted to work out to it!
I decided today was a yoga type of day. Soft....gentle....moves. What's that I hear? Smack smack. Oh brother, the dog was bringing his food into the room. Isn't that sweet? He wants to be near me. Smack, lick....chomp. Um, that doesn't sound like his food. I craned my neck in an unhealthy type of yoga move to see a big black clump. Oh yuck, he's probably thrown up and is now cleaning up his mess. I'm not wearing my glasses so it's good I do not see this. Problem was it was not regurgitated food. It was chocolates from his Daddy's Christmas box and not just any ole chocolates- no it's the dark chocolate variety! The cat knocked it off the table and it landed "just right" for the dog to muzzle his way in to! So much for relaxed ch'i today.
Hope your ch'i is in check and you have a wonderful Tuesday, Grainiacs. namaste
Can you believe it is already 2014? I was talking with Boy the other day telling him how when I was a kid I thought the year 2000 was.just.like.WOW.man!!! Totally far out.in the distant future and now all kidding aside, it is a decade after that far off notion of Y2K (which we didn't call it in the 60's, by the way). So now I guess we are Y2KPlus (as retail mongols like to differentiate their stores one from the other). Why shop at HEB when you can shop at HEB Plus? Why just settle for Walmart when you can tickle your pocketbook (am I still showing my age?) at SUPER Walmart? Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse fast car plowing down people and stepping on children....HEY! Jingle Bells.
My Y2K Plus will be to slow down. Smell the flowers...or plant them (they've been sitting in their original pots since before Thanksgiving). Cook more and eat out less. Use what I have and not spend on more. Don't save items until the perfect day or perfect situation. I received cute hand towels for Christmas. They are new. Christmas is over. Therefore the hand towels get stored away in a box (maybe I'll remember that box next Christmas or more than likely not). Hand lotions. Beautiful soaps. Wonderful smelling candles. All get saved or put away for that special time. That meaningful occasion. Guess what? They get lost. They expire. They mold or wear out or smell out or just don't get out of the box and wind up in a garage sale or at Goodwill or in the garbage. Well, not this year, sister! This is my user year.
So if you come over and see a snowman on my hand towels that means I am keeping the Christmas season alive throughout the year. If I have a fall aroma in the house-- Great! I love thinking about the changing of the leaves and my mind's eye sees the beautiful fall foliage. I am also bringing out those old 80's videos I used to exercise to. I'll use them till the VCR gives out or the tape snaps because that will be my motto-- use it till it snaps. Hopefully it won't be my knees snapping!
I refused to make any "new year's resolutions;" it's too sad when I break one or five on January 2. Instead I'm making a list of new year's goals. This is my Y2K Plus. How about you?
