Lola

St. Patrick- my kid's no fool

Dear St. Patrick, I think you're a nice enough guy, and really appreciate the fact that you're trying to get children to eat a more healthy fare but this is not the way.
My kid's no fool. You know that old saying ,' You can't bulls**t a bulls**tter?' No, I guess it wouldn't fit in this instance......um, we're no fools. Got it? Not take your green peppers and stop trying to pass them off as four leaf clovers. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice......you will NOT make a mockery of my children! Momma may have allowed it with me but now, older and wiser, I am on to the game brother!
LD
For those of you interested in trying this sham of a clover, it won't bring you luck, I ate a pot, about the size that would hold a hefty portion of gold too, full of them, and all I got was indigestion, but if you're bull headed them click through. The piccy will lead you strait to the recipe. Though should it work for you.....remember who loves you best and who showed you the way. ME baby! Me!

Dieting? Yummy, look away!

Or maybe not. I think that maybe this is the way to go. At first I was considering these delicious foods for Lola and Dahl. To play with. Now I think I will go shopping and buy me a pantry full! Stock my refridgerator with the goodies. And tout their goodness from the mountain tops!

'Soy-sage and Egg biscuit breakfast sanwich' by MermaidSparkle

Just think. They don't spoil and since I'm into this whole organic kick, what's more organic than felt wool? And imagine my waist. Reappearing! Now that's a thought to chew on.

'Protein dinner? Fish, mushrooms and all things healthy' for your dining pleasure by GOBUGGY

If you're looking for something sweet, something that can spoil, look no further. I recommend to you, Rowena's.

'Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleeeeeeluuuuuiahhhhhhhhhhhh!'

Apologies for the interruption, the heavens seem to open up and a chorus of angels begin singing when I mention... well  you know who's cakes.

She makes the best not made of felt cakes this side of a computer screen! I have purchased them for babyshowers, bridal showers, my daughters' first birthday party, and I send them every year, religiously, to my childrens' pediatricians, and other very special doctors that treated my risky pregnancy with Lola and Dahl. I love their cakes, like the Earth loves the Sun's warmth. Probably more with that whole hole in the ozone layer issue and all.... LD

Aging? Sluggish? Get Healthy.

Pocketbooks empty as the dozens of tubs, tubes, bottles and jars on the counters of your bathroom? Join the club. It seems we all know we're becoming a nation of unhealthy people yet most of us do nothing about it.

LD's not just anyone.

She recommends a book.

A book you say?

Yes.  A book. Read it and then if you'd like you can eat it, for it contains more nutrients, fiber in the form of tree bark I think, than most of the processed foods that many of us are consuming on a weekly, if not a daily basis.

"Death by Supermarket: The Fattening, Dumbing Down, and Poisoning of America " by Nancy Deville, addresses this issue and gives great insight on how making small changes can add up to big returns in your health investment.

Reading this practical advice and, here's the tough part for most, following it, you can begin to fairly quickly see the effects on your life and the lives of those around you.

We all should have started yesterday, make a promise to yourself to start today. And tell me how it goes. Heck, maybe I'll start if it goes well for you.  -LD

I am very good at noticing sublties.

Like these animals. They seem very cliquish to me.

The path to skeletal....er, health

Getting skinny healthy.

Drives me bananas.

I so want to be skinny healthy and  skinnier lose weight. Not a massive amount but still.....(Nicole Ritchie anyone? Anyone who says she didn't look good pre baby fat is just jealous)

I keep on telling Mr. Dahl that I am flummoxed by this- I have stopped eating a lot of crap I used to eat. I eat more fiber, I eat brown bread for heaven's sake!

I eat cereal, with skim milk because I hear that 24oz every 24 hours helps a woman lose weight. And I am glad because I like yogurt.

I gave up colas.

I took up diet colas. ( It's hard to give up something you love but replacing it, in other words, developing a new vice eases the process so...I highly recommend this to anyone. For any situation really. I think this is the reason men take up with a mistress. It's easier to leave a marriage if you still have someone to snuggle with at night. We should learn this and put it into practice. Of course as you know I already have with my colas.....)

I use Splenda.

I am walking more. 3 miles a night. The only issue is that I don't do it everynight. And sometimes it will be a week before I begin the 3 miles again yet I do get back on the wagon, er, sneaker and walk walk walk. (I actually walk and talk with my friend Anya. She can come close to out talking me. It's a competition on our walks to see who can talk the most. Oh we've never said that aloud, though I think I will tonight just to add to my talk....)

What is it?!

I think a lot of birthdays really screw me. During June alone I have five birthdays! Albeit 3 of them are on one day, still. That's a lot of cake. And I feel awful not eating a piece. It seems like a slap in the face of the celebrated person, or persons. Especially when they are your children....

In closing I believe my weight loss, or my weight hold, is directly attributed to having children. I just wonder what Mr.Dahl would say about that....