Hello sweet friends!! I hope you all have had a great week.

I recieved a little booklet in the mail this week from Kroger. Kroger is my primary grocery store. I frequently get sent coupons and booklets with helpful info. This weeks booklet was .....a healthier you, smart snacking and relaxing resolutions. What a perfect, timely booklet. It had several tips and coupons within the booklet. It had an article with healthy snacks listed. It stated things like: watch your portions, keep it under 200, don't go starving, pack in the nutrients, and set yourself up for sucess. These are all things I am sure you have heard before. It had 10 snack ideas....which I think are important that you think about your snack ahead of time. I am bad to plow through hundreds of calories in the afternoon when I get hungry and grumpy. My sugar tends to drop in the afternoon at 3pm. If I do not plan...well it is not pretty.

The snacks ideas were: *Low Fat String Cheese *1 Pita with 1 TBSP of Hummus *10-12 baked chips and 1/4 cup of salsa *Half bagel with 1 TBSP of peanut butter *2 Cups of Popcorn with chocolate shavings (aaaahhhh, that just sound heavenly) *Frozen whole wheat waffle with 1/2 cup applesauce *1 cup of whole wheat cereal wih low-fat milk * 1/2 cup cottage cheese with peaches or tomato slices *1/4 cup nuts and dried fruit (not sugar coated) *1 cup of low-fat chocolate milk

These were taken from Kroger mymagazine exclusive extras for our best customers!

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This week has been weird for me. (Weird is just the best way to describe it) My new schedule has no outside things included. I back to the basics, so to speak. School, church, groceries, household things, etc. My kids have no extra curricular activites this semester. So, I have no weekly running to do. I am making myself only go into town once every 2 weeks. The only other time I am leaving is for church. Sounds like heaven....and it will be when I get it all ironed out. With all this extra time, I could get more accomplished, you think, right?? Well this was the first official week with nothing extra and I wasted so much of it. I had my sleeping all messed up.........staying up WAY too late, thus getting up late. So schedule and plans are not perfect in times like this. I MUST do better next week, I have too, in order to be sucessful. School got done, kids fed, clothes washed, etc, but nothing extra. I WILL DO better.

As far as weightloss....I am not sure. I tried hard not to weigh everyday....it is habit, more than the need to know. My plan is to weigh on Tuesdays...in order to post this Tues night for Wednesday. I weighed a couple of days ago and I was down 0.5, but I did not weight this AM. As many of you read on my cbox, I lost a sweet friend last night. He died about 12MN Mon night (Tuesday morning). So, I was up until about 5am Tues am. When, I crawled out of bed Tues at 10am....I did not even go in the bathroom with the scales, just did not think about it. Also, we just got the call about 10 minutes ago, my husband's uncle passed away as well. My friend was a 37 year old battling pancreatic cancer. Tim's uncle was older, lived a full life, but had chronic lung issues due to cancer and lung removal a few years back. We will have to travel back home for these visitations and funerals.

Remember sweet friends....hug harder, laugh louder, dance, and live your life for God to the fullest. Both of these dear men were saved and are in heaven, but there are several here on this side missing them dearly.

LOVE YOU SWEET FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!! (I just may be saying that a little more these days)

Hope you all have had a great week!!!!! We will get there in a slow and healthy pace together!!!

Be blessed,

Chasity

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