I love to cook! I have been a caterer and I am passionate about providing a comfortable atmosphere complete with excellent tasting food for those I love. The drawback: my yummy recipes are high in fat and don’t look good on me.

I want to try to compile great tasting food that is also healthy. Being accountable to you, the reader, will motivate me to continue my goals.

Here are my goals:

1. To be thin! OK, I am 56. Thin is out of my picture, but I want to be a comfortable size 10 or 12.

2. To enjoy the healthier recipes enough that they will remain a lifetime part of my cooking.

3. To reach out to others on a similar path.

Here is what I want to blog:
1. My road to a new and healthier body (weights and measurements).
2. Daily food and exercise along the way (pictures added).
3. The recipes and cost ($) of the food (calorie counts).

Beginning January 1, 2011, for one month I will try out a new low fat recipe everyday and blog my findings. Please share your thoughts. After 1 month, and I am successful, I would like to do a complete makeover on my yummy cook book.

Here I go!

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Friday, December 31, 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2011

Christmas Holidays are over and a new year and new life are beginning.

Thanks for joining me. I am so glad that you are here with me, because I already have thought, "Shelly, do you really want to do this?" and then I thought of the commitment that I have made with you and here I am. The answer is "YES"! I do want to make this life style change.

So, what am I going to start today? A body cleanse.

Not for any weight loss strategy, but because I want to start with a body clean on the inside. I feel so bloated from the Christmas holiday eating and want to start out clean.

I have been researching it and from the things that I have read, I feel that is the best way for me to start.

I want to do this naturally and I do not want to buy a kit somewhere, so after researching this, I have come up with the following 3 day cleanse:

First thing each morning:

1 cup warm water with several teaspoons of lemon juice and a pinch of cayenne pepper and a teaspoon of honey

Breakfast and mid morning:

8 ounces of juice blend made up from any combination of : apples, celery, pineapple, and berries (fresh or frozen), a pinch of ginger and cinnamon. A juice or high speed blender works well, water can be added to dilute.

Lunch and mid afternoon:

8 ounces of juice or broth made from any combination of several carrots, a cucumber, a few beets, 1/4 cabbage, spinach, kale, 3 apples, fresh parsley (important for cleansing) and several stalks of celery. (For broth, leave out the apple. Garlic and onion can be added for flavor).

There is really no limit to how much you can have, which is very satisfying and helps keep you full.
**I have added the link to the article where I got this information if you want to read the complete article.

I am going to the store and purchasing the stuff. I will let you know how much it all cost. I will also show the pictures of how I will make it.


So the 'Official" starting weight is 190. I will not cry about this and remember that I was 155 two years ago and 178 three weeks ago. I will just press forward.
I will not weigh again until next Saturday.
I was going to add my measurements, but then I thought, no one wants to read that so I will just keep track of the inches lost and my pant size. I am a comfortable size 16.


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