Finally, an update after a week of feeling miserable.

Okay, okay... I know... I haven't given you an update in a couple of weeks.  Last week I felt awful! I thought it was a bad cold but it got worse when the wind picked up so I believe it was a severe allergy attack.  I felt like my head was going to explode.  Allergy medicine such as Claritin doesn't work well on me.  A friend gave me some Allegra and that seemed to help a bit.  But I finally got relief when the weather changed.  It seems my allergies have come back full force.  When I was a child I was always sick from my allergies.  My parents took me to an allergist and I went through the shot treatments for years.  It seemed to work for a long time.  It seems that only a few years ago they have decided to come back.  I wonder if my body has changed or if the air and allergens have changed.  Probably both.

Anyway, about my journey.  I lost a total of 5 pounds in January.  Yeah!! I am grateful for those pounds to be gone forever.  The next week, three more went away, but not forever.  Two of them crept back this week.  I weighed myself Monday morning instead of Sunday, like I usually do.  That was a big mistake because we had a super bowl party and lots of food.  My wonderful daughter made cupcakes, three kinds of cupcakes!  She gave half to my mother for some of her friends but three dozen stayed here.  She made raspberry cupcakes with whipped cream raspberry frosting, chocolate peanut butter cupcakes with a peanut butter cup inside and a margarita cupcake with lime glaze!  They were all fantastic, I know, I tried them all! (not at one time, of course).

So anyway I'm back on track today and struggling with my diet.  I'm looking for a diet plan to follow.  You know how the ladies magazines sometimes have a monthly diet plan.... eat 1 1/2 cups cherrios with 1 cup milk for breakfast with a banana;  Eat carrots and hummus for snack... etc.  I want to try to follow something like that for a week.  I found a great one on the Eating Well website but it had some elaborate recipes that I wouldn't make just for myself and I'm not sure my family would like it.  Meals such as sweet potato-turkey hash, and grilled smoky eggplant salad.  I thought it would be great if I could just buy the meals because most of them sounded great to me.  But it was not realistic in this household.  I know that I would not prepare a great gourmet dinner for myself then make hamburgers for my family.  So I am still searching for a good plan that I know I can follow and my family can participate in.  Let me know if you know of any.

Peace

Karen