I Suck At This

I can't keep on a blogging schedule. Apparently I can't make time to do it. I mean I can, I just love sleep way more than blogging right now.

A few things.

The weight loss thing. I'm still at it. If you follow me on Instagram (althompson1) you already know I got this-

It took me three weeks to lose the first 5.2 pounds. It's working! Slowly but surely. 

Pray. My grandma is scaring the youknowwhat out of me these days. She's got a lump on the side of her neck. Hoping it was an infection, the Dr. put her on antibiotics, but they didn't touch it. More Dr. visits/testing to come. Ugh.

We're planning a trip up to see my brothers. We leave in 10 days! I can't wait. My brother is graduating from high school. He's making me feel old. 

C is also taking me on a trip for my birthday this year. More on that later.

I still hate my job. Let me rephrase that-I love my job. I hate the people. And no, I don't care if the internet knows. Boom.

I'm almost finished with Fifty Shades Darker, only one more book to go. What in the hell am I doing with all of my free time that I don't have time to blog OR finish a book within two days? 

C's two year appointments are coming up this next week. Praying for continued health! 

I haven't baked since I started WW and I'm about to die. So? I have a craving for this and that's exactly what I'm making this weekend to take to a birthday party. This way, I can eat a piece and give the rest away. If it sat in my house, I'd eat the whole thing.

Is it the weekend yet?

I've had a headache basically since Wednesday. It mostly bothers me when I stand up. My blood pressure is a bit low (for me) but other than that nothing has changed. Headaches make me nervous.

That's all for now...

Another Pre WW Recipe

I found another recipe floating around here that I never got to post. Just looking at it I think I gained 5 pounds. If you've bought this, yet then you may have already made it! If you haven't bought it, go buy it now. It is currently my coffee table book. Oh yes I did. 

If I can't eat it, I might as well look at the pictures, right? 

Food P@rn.

Anyway, the recipe you're looking for is on page 226-227. And for those of you that don't have the book? I'll do you a favor.

Perfect Potatoes Au Gratin

What you need-

2 tbs butter, softened

4 large potatoes, cleaned

1/4 c whole milk

1 1/2 c heavy cream (hang with me ya'll it's not something you'd eat every day anyway!)

2 tbs AP flour

3 garlic cloves, minced

1 tsp salt

Pepper

1 c grated sharp Cheddar cheese

2 green onions, thinly sliced

Variation-Dice/warm up some ham (in this case, it was the day after Easter, so we had the good stuff) and throw it in with the potatoes. 

I die.

Oh, Hi horrible awful bad kitchen lighting!

What you do-

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Butter a baking dish with the butter. Dice up the potatoes into bite sized pieces. Combine the milk and cream in a bowl. Add in the flour, minced garlic, and the salt and some pepper. Whisk together until well incorporated. Throw the diced up potatoes (and ham!) into the buttered baking dish and pour this mixture over top. Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake 20 more minutes. Just before serving, throw the cheese on top and stick it in the oven under the broiler for a couple of minutes. Garnish with green onions. 

Thank you Pioneer Woman for adding 23,734 pounds to my thighs.

Losing.

Losing. Well, sort of. And by sort of, I mean, I WISH.

It's Thursday. That means tonight I have my WW meeting and weigh in. Last week (my first week) I'd only dropped .2 lbs. Pfft. At least I didn't gain. I guess.

Moving on. Without getting into all kinds of details (if you follow me on FB or even Twitter you already know the gist) on here let me just say that I'm giving my meeting leader one more week. If she doesn't treat me with a little more respect then I'll be looking for another meeting.

I thought that the meetings would help me be accountable and all that, more than online WW. I don't know. I feel like I'm getting my money's worth and all that but I'm not getting the "support" I thought I'd get from meetings. 

Honestly? They're kinda lame. The first meeting I went to was awkward and she kept putting people on the spot and asking probing questions. The second meeting she did the same thing, to ME! Not okay lady, I'm still too new at this. 

Anyway.

In addition to not eating anything creamy, fried, or Mexican delicious the last week (my Tuesday kolache binge doesn't count!), I also exercised a couple of times. 

There better be some weight loss of at least a pound or I might lose my shit. 

Regardless, I'm sure you'll hear all about it soon enough.

I've made a few of the WW recipes that I found online and one or two are actually post-worthy! I'll get on that eventually.

Here's to losing...or maybe I should focus on not gaining with all the fruit I've been cramming...

Drivin' In The Rain

Dude. I didn't realize how shitty my old tires were until I drove in the pouring rain with my new tires. Holy cow. I wasn't floating on top of the water anymore! I could drive the speed limit! Without thinking I was going to land in the ditch! 

It was amazing.

And now? This is what $750 looks like-

Oh my gosh. I just posted about tires. 

Can you tell how boring my life is right now?

German Chocolate Cake Bars

I was going through my photos earlier looking for some blog post inspiration and stumbled upon this. I made these a while back. Lord knows I can't eat them these days. They'd surely be 17 WW points for a nibble.

German Chocolate Cake Bars

What you need-

Crust-

1 box devil's food cake mix (the kind that doesn't have pudding added)
1 stick unsalted butter, melted
1 large egg

Filling-
1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup sweetened! shredded coconut 

1/2 cup milk chocolate chips

What you do-

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan. In a medium bowl, mix together the cake mix, butter and egg, and press into the bottom of the prepared pan. The crust won't come up the sides. Bake for 7 minutes and remove from the oven. The crust isn't fully cooked! While the crust is baking, mix together the sweetened condensed milk, vanilla, egg, pecans and coconut. Pour the mixture over the warm crust and sprinkle evenly with the chocolate chips. Bake for 30ish minutes, until the top is a light golden brown. Remove from the oven and cool before cutting into squares.

Enjoy with a huge glass of milk. 

And eat one for me too!

A List

So much has been happening since I last posted. It's been nearly a month. What?!

Let me break it down for you.

I haven't had many photo shoots lately. I had a few booked but then they had to cancel at the last minute. That was lame.

I got my Pirelli's.

I bought Fifty Shades of Grey. That might be some of the reason for my lack of posting. I've been stuck in those trashy entertaining books.

I joined Weight Watchers. Things are slow and go right now but we'll see what happens. I'm in the middle of my second week right now.

Chris is currently outside on our patio trying to talk life back into watering our flowers that are all dying from the heat. 

We worked out for the first time today since March 12th. Slackers, I know. And we didn't do our usual 3 miles. It was too damn hot. A mile and a half had to do.

I haven't baked anything in a while. I miss it. I know if I bake it, I'll eat it. So I don't do it. 

We're counting down the days until our mini vacation at the end of the month to watch my little brother graduate from high school.

I feel like more has been happening but I can't think right now!