So I’m sitting here and not sure what possessed me to think of this blog!  I actually totally forgot I had one!  (YES I FORGOT YOU!….my millions of followers!)

Wow…I would love to say that so much has happened, but it hasn’t.  Let’s start with the big mystery I left everyone hanging.  WHAT WAS I BREAKING OUT FROM!!!????

Turns out that it was Niacin.  So having spent all kinds of money doing tests and Drs. appointments I figured it out myself. (I knew I was brilliant!)

This was in August.  Wow…let’s see.  September Pete had his 40th birthday.  Had a party and then we spent a few days up in Steamboat.  It was fabulous!  But this is where I totally fell off the wagon.  A glass of wine turned into a pasta dinner and it was all downhill from there.  I went back and forth for the month of October until our Halloween party.  And then it was Thanksgiving and my birthday, then Christmas and New Years (which I was in bed by 9:30!).  I swore the first of January I was going to get my act together and stop this nonsense.  Well…Not so much.  I ended up gaining 20 pounds of the weight back.  Still below what I started…but I gained 20 pounds back!

Saturday (1/11) was my first day back.  I’m kind of starting over….not completely though.  I already know what foods have a negative affect on me so I’m jumping past all the trial and error stuff.  So I’m on Day 3 again.  The only difference is for breakfast I found this pretty awesome recipe.  And of course is uses the crock pot!  Throw a bunch of eggs, a shredded up sweet potato, peppers, onion, sausage, and any other vegetables you want to throw in (no sugar or weird stuff in the sausage of course!).  Yeah, so you mix all this gook together and let it ride for about 6-8 hours and then Vola! Breakfast!  I made this all day yesterday so I have it for breakfast this week.  Now I claimed to not like sweet potatoes.  (I had no idea they came in white!)  And to be honest, this way they really aren’t bad.

Another huge find today….I found the walking trail near work today!  I walked out my 2 miles so I can actually really start doing this over lunch! (as long as the weather is nice that is!)

OH!!!!  How can I forget this!  We have a new addition to the family!  Cleo!  We adopted her on November 2nd and her 1st birthday was December 6th.  She’s a Boxer mix.  She’s quite the handful. I’m sure I’ll have many Cleo stories!