9 Years

Our Wedding Day, May 25, 2002Yesterday my husband and I celebrated our 9th Anniversary.Todd and I sometime last year.I can't believe it has been 9 years since that wonderful and amazing day. My parents went all out and made my wedding the wedding of my dreams. It was amazing! Then we spent the next two weeks in Hawaii. I have such wonderful memories. I wish I could relive them. :)To celebrate

Eating Healthy On A Budget

I'm sure a lot of you know how hard it is to eat healthy on a budget. Now that I have my motivation back I am finding it just as hard as it used to be to stay on my budget and still eat healthy. It's hard to remember many of the little things I used to do to eat healthy inexpensively. I plan to go back to some of my older posts and find some ideas that will help me out. Maybe I should check out

And The Number Is.....

I have been so excited to write this post! It is the first time in months that I have actually lost weight. I had planned to write it on Thursday morning but my sister asked me to come over and help her bake and decorate cookies and make dinosaur shaped Rice Krispie treats with her. They turned out so cute!Then yesterday I spent the day catching up on house work that I had been putting off all

Excited About Tomorrow's Weigh In!

Tomorrow will be my first official weigh in since I have been feeling better and I am so excited! Last Wednesday I wrote that I weighed 188 pounds. I can tell you that tomorrow I will weigh less then that. :) I can't wait!Usually I dread weighing myself but the past week has just been amazing. I am not saying it hasn't been hard to get back into eating healthy. It really has been hard and has

Please Vote For Me

Please click here and vote for my blog (click on recently added tab to find me), Pudget: Losing Weight On A Budget, on Circle Of Moms Top 25 Health and Fitness Mom Blogs.Thanks! :)

I Have My Life Back!!!

I am realizing that all of my problems this past 9 or 10 months have been caused by one of my medicines. I am so excited to have figured it out. I wish it wouldn't have taken me this long but I am so grateful to feel like me again.About 9 or 10 months ago I lost my ambition to lose weight and pretty much any ambition at all. I thought it was just part of the Fibromyalgia until it was getting to

And The Winner Is....

And the winner of the Big G cereal contest is .... AngieG2000!!! Congrats, Angie! Please email me your name and address and I will forward it on.A big thanks to everyone who entered the Big G cereal contest!

Paying But Not Using!

I'm sitting here thinking about the fact that I am paying for Weight Watchers online and not using it. Why? I'm not quite sure. Of course I know that I should be using it but I honestly haven't touched it in weeks.I'm not ready to cancel it because that would be like giving up to me. I know I still need to lose this extra weight I gained this winter. An extra 20 pounds makes a huge difference in

3 Weeks Without Splenda!

Don't forget to enter my General Mills Cereal Giveaway!!! The winner will receive free cereal and a great book on weight loss. Click here to check it out!Can you believe that I have not touched Splenda since I wrote this post a few weeks ago? It still amazes me. I am so thrilled that it was so easy to stop using Splenda and that I was able to find a great natural substitute.In the past few weeks

Big G Cereal and Giveaway!

A few weeks ago General Mills asked me to review their cereal. They sent me a coupon for a free box of cereal and also a book,“The Belly Fat Prescription,” by Dr. Travis Stork, MD.I was very excited when I received both gifts in the mail. I love General Mills cereal and the coupon was for MultiGrain Cheerios. I find them the most filling of all of the Big G cereals. I am not much of a cereal