Starting Fresh

It has been so so very very long since I have written anything here. I think I have quite forgotten how this is done. And, surprisingly, boy how I miss it. There was something that made life more interesting and creative when always looking for something new to post or considering the perfect wording of a sentence.

Things have been a little sad and dull without my blog juices flowing over the year, but every time I have considered writing recently, its seemed like such a daunting task... and nothing to write about anyway. Plus, the longer I post pone (no pun intended), the more I felt I had to catch-up on when I sat down to try again. OVERWHELMING! But finaly, here goes...

There has definitely (I can NEVER spell this word) been a lot going on in my life over the past year-ish... I won't bore anyone with the details, and I'll save myself the headache of a re-cap. Let's just say its on to fresh starts and new beginnings.

Fresh Start #1 - Get back my healthy lifestyle

While I have not considered myself an un-healthy person in a long time, I have recently, for various reasons, most of which can be labeled under omnipotent umbrella Stress, been a less-healthy person, and I was beginning to feel rather like one large, fatty, jiggly, sluggish butter-ball. So, in the name of fresh starts, I joined the Snap Kitchen 21 day Commit program.

I met with a nutritionist at Snap Kitchen - which was rather  uninformative as I (not to toot my own horn or anything, but you know...) have relatively few bad health habits. I eat a good breakfast. I don't drink sodas. I usually exercise regularly. I don't gorge on candy bars every night before bed, I know what the food pyramid - or plate or whatever - looks like, I know the difference between a vegetable and a carbohydrate etc, etc. Anyway, at the end of our meeting, the nutritionist and I picked a meal plan that would help me lose 1 - 2 pounds per week, and I paid a fairly hefty price for all of the food I would be eating for the next three weeks. I left feeling excited but rather worried that this was going to be like the Jenny Craig diet my mother went on a few times when I was a kid. I don't actually remember anything about Jenny Craig, these days it may be a wonderful program, other than that my mother ate unappealing frozen meals and complained about it every time she went on their program.

Well, seven days later, I'm not feeling Jenny Craig-ed at all. Plus, I've already lost some weight and certainly some jiggle, and I'm feeling pretty ding-dang awesome. Life's not so bad the Snap Kitchen way.

Lentil Curry soup and Vegetable "lasagna"
Yum!
( I need to work on my photography skills 'cause this meal was not photogenic)

Admittedly, the lentil soup was a little heavy on the curry, but I so love this lasagna. Instead of noodles, its made with veggies sliced and layered like noodles. Its delish. And TOTALY something I can make!

Here's to Fresh Starts!