For the love of food!

Food is something I have always ran too. It has made feel full but never complete. It leaves me feeling like dirt and makes me feel uncomfortable. But yet it is something I think about when ever I am stressed or know that I have to eat breakfast , lunch, or dinner. Food is something I like to have when people are over. It is something that I like to make that relaxes me while making it either in the pan or on the stove top. But yet food is something that makes me feel tired after eating it and makes me not fit into cute things that I want to wear. Who is to blame for putting the food in my mouth... Me!!!

Today I think about all the reasons why we have this thing called food. It's supposed to make us have energy not make us tired. It's not supposed to be a big bag of chips but a hand full of chips. It's supposed to be fruit in moderation not a big bowl of ice cream. Its supposed to be green veggies not processed food. But yet this is why we gain weight!

Today's food thought of the day is good choices. I was taught a different way to eat and now I am going to teach myself a new way to eat.

The food I eat I want to have energy to go through the day, to sleep good at night and to wake up in the morning feeling as though I slept 15 hours.

New cooking app and following a new blog!

Today my family and i sat around looking at recipes on our new app on the iPad. This new app is called paprika. Now if you like to cook and you like to find recipes online this $4.99 app is worth the money. You can find a recipe on a web page and then post it to paprika which makes an list of all the ingredients and directions and even a picture off the web page you are looking at. Off of this app you can also make you a shopping list of the recipies you want to cook. For me who LOVES to cook lovesss this app! I am not the type of person who buys apps but this is one that was worth the money.

The blog i started to follow is the me and Jorge blog (http://www.meandjorge.com/search/label/fast track). Starting the new year my aunt, cousin, (maybe my mom) and i ar going to do the 14 day fast track diet by Jorge Cruise. Off the blog above she has some really good recipes that i have started to put into my new app paprika which i can email to my aunt and cousin after i put them in the paprika app. Amber is The author of the above blog and has been on Jorge's diet for about three years and has lost 53 pounds and is still dropping pounds. She is dropping pounds and is an inspiration to many who want to change how they fit into their clothes and about them selves.

In my blog before i told you I would be honest with you about my weight. I am going to be true to my word but i do not weigh in until i start the 14 day diet which will be January 1st.Sigh... Showing the web how much i really weigh is not something i want to do but i know it will help me and keep me accountable along this journey. Also by doing this with people i love makes me really excited. I know if others fall I still have to strive to my goal.

As said above i LOVE to cook and can not wait to start cooking healthy and making some recipes.:-) this might be a weakness because i love to cook for others and my sweet tooth is a killer. But on this 14 day diet you get to have TWO pieces of dark chocolate a day. ( never been a big dark chocolate eater!) i am hope this helps me not crave those yummy m&m's or ice-cream!(weakness!)

Hope you like the app as much as I do! :-)

Merry Christmas

Wow a year has gone by and i have only posted one post this year on my blog! I kow no onw is following me yet but let me tell you what kind of year i have had.

This year was my last year in college. I had my internship starting in January and ended in Aug of this year. I sure did learn a lot with adult protective services. Then this fall i had to take two classes and then i graduated in December in Social Work.I had a great time in college but now its time for a new chapter in my life. And to be honest i am very excited.

I usually don't do this but i am going to be really honest on my blog about my weight. January till now i have gained 25 pounds that i am not proud of. January till now i have had a lot of stress to where i turned to food. Food has been my comfort food in times when i could not express myself or in times when i wish i could hide my body and how I looked. I have never been a size 4 in my life time (with Gods help maybe this will come true). I do admire the ladies who are small. But i hsve figured out the secret to being "small" or fit. Drum role please..........eating healthy green little veggies that smell so bad when you cook them, drink a lot of water and eating about 6 times a day. You might be thinking how do you know this Mindi. Here is what i do know. Reading two books about eating better and talking to people who are healthy..thats what they do! ( I'll give book titles later to come).

The year to come here are my goals.
1a.make no excuses
1b.Be healthy
2. Lose weight to where i am more healthy
3. Love others more than i have in the past years
4. Be true to my word to others.
5. Drop 60 pounds in a year

These might seem like impossible goals but that's is why blogging every day and being honest with myself and others is where it starts. Two things I will hold on to during this next year is " I can do all things through him who gives me strength," Philippians 4:13 and "if there is no pain.. Then there is no gain!"

Merry Christmas y'all!