Changing Background

Yep, again, I changed my background. I really need something more cheerful to look at when I open my blog. Something to remind me that sunshine is around the next bend bringing warmer weather with it.

I am so, so behind on my housework from all my health issues. All my household routines and schedule has been blown completely right out of my Household notebook! Need to remind myself to take it one step at a time. Maybe I need to go back and read my Flylady reminders. My goal today is to catch up on all this mess as much as possible. Starting with getting off this computer! lol

Have a great weekend everyone!

Cinco De Mayo Skillet

Edited February 12th.

This recipe come from the Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross from the cookbook Cheap, Fast, Good! It was very easy, quick and, cheap!

Salt for cooking rice
1 c. long-grain rice
1 lb. hamburger
1 pkg. Taco Seasoning
1 large onion, chopped
2 cloves fresh garlic
2 cans (14 oz. each) Mexican-style stewed tomatoes
Juice of 1 lime
1 can (15 oz.) black beans, rinsed and drained
1 large ripe tomato, chopped
Shredded lettuce, shredded
3/4 c. shredded Mexican-blend or Cheddar cheese
Sour cream, optional

Bring 2 cups lightly salted water to a boil in a covered medium-size saucepan. Add the rice, stir, and reduce the heat to low. Cover the pan and simmer until the rice is tender, about 20 minutes.

Brown hamburger with onion in a 12-inch skillet. Drain. Return hamburger and onion mixture back to skillet. Add taco seasoning and cook according to pkg. directions.

Meanwhile, make a Mexican tomato sauce by peeling the garlic cloves. Turn a blender to high and drop the garlic cloves through the hole in the lid. Process until finely chopped. Turn off the motor and add the tomatoes with their juice and the lime juice. Cover and pulse to finely chop the tomatoes. Add about half of the tomato sauce to the hamburger mixture; stir well and simmer 10 minutes. Add the cooked rice to the skillet and stir well.

For each serving, top 1 c. of the hamburger mixture with 2 T. of the cheese, 1/2 c. of the lettuce, 1/3 c. of the diced tomato, 3 T. of the reserved tomato sauce and sour cream.

We ate this with tortilla chips. My husband loved it which surprised me since he is not a fan of black beans.

Enjoy!

Side Tracked

Well looks like I am going to have to put Weight Watchers to the side somewhat for a little while. I have a lot of health problems to begin with and just have had a rough time here lately.
Last year when I began WW and exercising I just started feeling so good! I had so much energy, my sugar levels didn't drop, my thryoid levels were stable and so on. Then I discovered that I had a ruptured disc at the top of my spin (being in my neck), so I had to stop all exercising until I was able to get that fixed. By the time I had healed (after surgery) I was out of the mood to exercise, let alone diet.

In October I started just feeling so draggy again and tired all of the time so I figured if I got back on WW I would not only loose some extra pounds but it would help me to start eating better again and exercise and I would start feeling better again. Well, that idea sounded good but it just didn't work. I have just kept on going down hill so I finally broke down and went to the doctor yesterday. This was my report, iron and blood pressure too low, and thryoid medicine too strong for me right now. I knew something had to be wrong more than what I had originally thought because everytime I exercised It left me so weak I could hardly move!

Got to eat lots of beans and liver and take iron medicine! I am on Toprol for a heart condition but this medicine is alos used to lower blood pressure. The doctor is wanting to cut me back on this to see if my blood pressure will increase some but, I really dread this because then my heart rate will be out of control again. But, here I go!

Weigh In Went Well

I lost 1.8 lbs. Happy for myself! I exercised for 30 minutes for 5 nights last week. I guess it payed off. Maybe this will encourage me this week as I am going to up my time some. Oh how I hate exercising!! I have lost a total of 5.8 lbs. Week 3, here I come!

Weigh In

Well, just as I thought, I didn't loose very much at the weigh in last night. But I did loose .4 lbs. Better than gaining but I had just expected at to loose at least a lb.! Like I said in a previous post, I didn't exercise much that week so I didn't loose much. Starting over today. This is a new week!

Really Nervous

I am really nervous about weighing in this Monday. I have only exercised 2 days this week so far and I cannot loose weight if I don't exercise. Darn it!! And to think, I used to pray to the Lord when I was growing up to be able to gain weight!! I was always underweight and everyone always made fun of me. I just didn't know how lucky I was! Now I pray to the Lord to take it away! lol I bet he wishes I would make up my mind. lol

Here I Go Again!

In December 2009 I made lifetime doing Weight Watchers. You'd think after all that hard work that I would not want to have to do all that again wouldn't you? Well, as of January 3, 2011 I again find myself back at WW. I only needed to loose about 7 more lbs. (I have already lost 3.6) to get back to my goal that I set in 2009 but I would like to loose more this time so....I need to loose 14.4 more lbs. to be at a new goal.

I will be posting each week the amount of weight I have lost so you can help me be accountable!

Wish me luck!