Well it's a gloomy Monday but I am in a good mood. Looking forward to getting back to where I was earlier this year.

Time to break the bad habits and continue to add good habits.

Off to the woods with my furry girl, Rita!

Fall is here in upstate New York and I look around and wonder where did our summer go? I think people do that with their lives every day. They keep saying I will do this when I have more money. I will do this when I get married. I will do this when I have children. I will do this when I am older, when I am thinner, when I am _________ whatever.

I know I am guilty of this myself. You cannot put things off that you want to do because you just might never do them. I make goal lists...

Well, I am back! Missed you all.
First of all I had the worst flu I have had in YEARS. I don't think it was swine flu, or whatever they are calling it right now, lol. But it was almost as bad. Back in the 70's I had the Swine flu and it was AWWWFUL! One morning I was 16 years old, strong and healthy, if nuts, and jumping off my roof to practice "tuck and rolls" for the skydive I was planning to make later in the evening when it started to cool off. I was wearing a coverall and...

I've slacked. Majorly. ...there I've admitted to it. After getting back on track this week I've finally mustered up the courage to log back in. After poking around a bit, I ended up editing my profile. I am happy to report that, even though I've slacked, I've kept off a decent amount of weight. So I've updated my current weight and even knocked off 5 lbs off of my original goal weight (extra motivation).

Here's to happy (healthy) eating low carbers!

Having access to all the recipe websites such as recipezaar, allrecipes and cdkitchen, etc, just to name a few and that is not listing all the lowcarb sites and blogs where there is a wealth of recipes, it is not difficult at all to find whatever recipe you need. I go to the recipe sites and put "low carb" into their search box and usually get pages. Sometimes I find recipes that are not really low carb but can make the changes to them to make them acceptable to me.

Using...