I hope you all have had a great starter week. I have been so touched by the comments and messages. It blesses my heart that someone is actually reading this and gaining courage to take their first steps. It’s like learning to ride a bike, your going to fall, get scraped, get mad (At seeing …
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Numbers
Now that you have stepped on the scales, what was your reaction? Mine, girl I don’t remember anything except alligator tears and snot. My first goal was to hit 200 which meant I had a long ways to go… 50 pounds! The one thing that I really tried to engrain in my thick noggin was …
Prep Work
Pick a day, any day…. Now chop, bake, cut, freeze, whatever you need to do to make life easier. For instance my grocery trip from the other day. I used what green pepper and onion I needed so I chopped, diced and froze. I’ve used them twice this week just to make our weekly egg …
The Dreaded Grocery Store
People always ask me how can you afford to eat healthy? Let me tell you the first few months were hard! Every aisle reminded me of something that I once enjoyed. The bulk of my budget is spent on produce and meat (Oh yeah and Sugar-Free Pumpkin Spice Creamer that just hit the shelf this …
Real
As much as yesterday’s photo mortified me to share with you all…. it was real! Not the kind you see on t.v. that has been enhanced. It’s the kind of real that means I have birthed children, I have ate cake and I have done nothing in the world about it…until now. Those were my …
Sweet Tea
Where I come from it’s like Bubba off of Forest Gump. Their is chopped bbq, sliced bbq, coarse chopped bbq,white meat, dark meat, bbq slaw(That red vinegar goodness that most of ya’ll turn your nose at) and then there is bbq tea. Yes, that’s a real thing. It’s 2 cups of sugar per glass with …
Attention Span
I have a feeling this blog is going to be like an episode of This is Us, if you didn’t start with me from the beginning you’re gonna be lost. I guess you will be binge “reading” before it’s all over with. Just a little about myself, I have a hard time staying on topic. …
About Me
Born and raised in small town USA Lexington, North Carolina more famously known for our BBQ, where our tea is sweet and our accents are sweeter (Oh yeah and you get that good ice, you know the hospital kind) at all our restaurants. If I was a travel agent I would be sure to disclose …
What Am I Getting Myself Into???
Oh geez… I have no idea where to begin, yet their is so much I want to say. My fingers can’t keep up with everything my brain is trying to process. Well you ladies have asked and here I am. I decided on a blog where if you choose to read any further you will …