I'm Back!!

I know I previously said I was going to do better and post more often and I did not follow through. I do have plenty of good reasons...and they are numerous. Firstly at the beginning of every year. I will definitely slack off because I work in a Tax office so 4 months out of the year...I am just plain tired. But this year has been an especially hard year in my family as well. I lost an aunt to cancer, found out another aunt has cancer, my dad's health has been so bad that he had us very scared he was not going to make it for several months and he is still having a lot of health issues, both my grandmothers have had health issues and my grandfather broke his leg and had to have a steel rod put in. He is still in rehab trying to get strong enough to come home and not end up in a nursing home. There are other things that have been going on but I have already depressed you enough for one evening. Needless to say my diet and this blog have been the last things on my mind lately...I have at least not gained a lot of weight back.

I have several recipes that I have at least taken pics of and will slowly get them up. For now I am just going to give you some info on some new favorite things I have discovered.

The first is another blog. If I could write like this I would be working on my 15th best seller right now. I am so jealous and so in awe of her talent and the battle she has won with obesity.
Please go check out Can You Stay For Dinner. There are some great recipes and page after page of engrossing writing. It's like a book you can't put down. I plan on buying the ingedients for her Healthier Morning Glory Muffins (pictured above) possibly as early as tomorrow and trying them. I will let you know how they turn out.

Another new favorite thing I have found is Lostit.com and LostIt app for my Android phone (there is an app for all smart phones). You enter your basic info - height, weight, sex, goal weight and lbs you want to lose per week...and the app tells you how many calories you can have each day in order to reach your goal weight by a certain date. When you exercise you enter it as well and it tells you the calories burned and adjusts your calories eaten to reflect those burned. I like this app because I can add my own recipes, ingredients and calories and get a true calorie count on foods I made myself. You can also recommend foods that are not on their database be added with just 1 quick click of the mouse. I think it is a valuable tool and I am definitely putting it to good use.

Please check back I have some great recipes coming.