Thank Goodness For My Girlfriends!

Just want to say thank you to all my female friends and family members! I love you all! After watching a couple episodes of Housewives of Beverly Hills....
I realize this is a reality show...and maybe its staged, maybe its not, I really have no idea. I watched it out of curiosity and boredom. OMG! NEVER in a million years would anyone I know treat me the way they treat each other! It is crazy, disgusting, and very sad. So, just had to say thank you and thank God for all the girls in my life, I am one lucky girl! I truly have the classiest, smartest, most loving bunch of women I can call friends. Yippee!!!!

Okay Dr. Oz...Top This Shake!

Okay, since the beginning of the year I have been trying to live a "Dr. OZ" life. Actually following many of the things he recommends for a healthy life.
He recommends eating yogurt daily...I don't like yogurt. So I put it in a protein shake in the morning for breakfast-delicious! I add berries, and flax seed, all Dr. Oz recommendations. It is yummy and a great way to start the day.
If your interested (I make this in my bullet blender).
1/2 cup ice
1/2 cup water
1 berry yoplait light
1/2 cup frozen mixed berries
1 emergen-C packet (raspberry flavor)
1/2 scoop protein powder (I use spirotein/strawberry flavor)
1 tbs. flax-seed
1/2 tsp. bone meal (powder/for calcium)
This totals only 210 calories! If you add juice or a banana you have to adjust the calories. I find that the flavored emergen-C is only 25 calories and adds the flavor of juice, juice can be up to 200 calories!
Enjoy!

Get Your Colonoscopy!

Colonoscopies Save Lives!
The procedure is a breeze....it's the nasty stuff you have to drink for 24 hours before this deal. But suck it up, you can do it. Mike and I had our first Colonoscopy a few weeks ago...we were a little late in having them. They say you should have your first one at 50. Anyway, we did it, survived it, and now can go on our merry way for another 5 years! Yippee! If you have not done it, DO IT! If I can do it, anyone can do it. :) HAPPY CLEAN AND HEALTHY COLON TO YOU!

Wanted: Beautiful Skin

Ok...at some point in time a girl should not have to worry about break-outs, like 50 something! I get that I have to handle wrinkles, lines, age-spots, etc. but this is too much. So I did a little research and to go along with my eat healthy, be healthy thing, I looked into foods that help make my skin healthy.
Here's what I found:
Water-drink more of it
avacados-yum
mangos, berries, cherries
almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds
cottage cheese
yogurt
flaxseed oil, wheat germ
canola oil, olive oil
and of course, more green veggies, fruit, and less fat, carbs, sugar....
I know all this...and have done a better job with it.
So, now maybe this 20 frickin' lbs. will start to go away as well....

Food for Thought....:)

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Contentment

"I encourage you to be content with who you are. That does not mean that you cannot make progress and continually improve, but when you allow other people to become a law (rule or regulation), you are continually disappointed. God will never help you be someone else. Remember that being "different" is good; it is not a bad thing. Celebrate your uniqueness and rejoice in the future God has planned for you. Be confident and start enjoying you!" Joyce Meyer
I have been reading a lot about being content these days...I am so guilty of looking ahead, being hurried, wanting tomorrow, or next week, month, year to get here for whatever reason. When you live like that the next thing you know is that time has arrived, and then you look back and say where did all that time go?
CONTENT, I will be content with this season of my life now. I will give thanks everyday for what I have, with all that I have been blessed with, not whine about what I don't have or want. I have been trying to say this to myself every morning. I say it and mean it...however by noon I am once again jumping ahead...wish I....maybe I...think I should...can't wait for...Oh well, I'm trying, at least I'm content for a few hours each day, that's a start. :)

Happy New Year!

Cannot believe it is late January 2012!
The holidays have come and gone, and by now many people have failed at their attempt for some kind of New Year's Resolution. I try not to make those anymore...however this year I told myself I am just going to try to make healthier choices. Food, fitness, TV, movies, books, friends, life! I want to live a healthy life.
As I embark on this "empty-nest" life...I realize that it is so easy or maybe just lazy to let the bad stuff in. Depressing news, violent movies, french fries, carbs, whatever the culprit is, I am going to work on cutting those bad things out! If I can eliminate even half of them I will have succeeded in my resolution.
So if any of you out there are sticking to your New Year's Resolution, congrat's! If not, join me! Eliminate one negative unhealthy thing today, turn off the news, drink water instead of that coke, make brown rice instead of white, stop and thank God for your blessings instead of whining about something you don't have.
Happy New Year, let's make 2012 a healthy, happy one! :)