Water

I am trying desperately to increase my water intake and I have found the solution! Flavor infused water. Don't get me wrong I like plain water. I could drink it out of the tap, I'm not picky. I just have a hard time actually grabbing a cup filling it and drinking it. So I decided to make infused water to motivate me to drink. I got the idea to make naturally infused water on a recent trip to Trader Joe's. By their sample station they had a big hug filled with orange and strawberry slices. I, of course, sampled it. It had a light orange flavor with a hint of strawberry aftertaste. So I ran back over to the fruit and grabbed an orange, I had just gotten strawberries from the farmer's market. The secret to making it look pretty when making fruit infused water is ice! Loads and loads of ice. In hindsight, I would have filled the whole container with ice.

Step one: Cut up orange and strawberries. At this point I realized I didn't have enough orange so I cut up a lemon as well.

Step two: Put a layer of ice in your container depending on the height of your container. I put about two inches because I used a big container. 

Step three: Add a layer of sliced strawberries around the outside of the container creating a circle with the slices flat against the glass, to make it pretty.  :)

Step four: Add more ice behind the layer of strawberries, just about an inch of ice. 

Step five: Add a layer of oranges or lemons in the same manner as step three, to make it pretty. I alternated lemons and oranges to give a little extra visual appeal. 

Step six: Add more ice to the top of the orange or lemon slices.

Step seven: Repeat steps 3-6 if you want to. I stopped here. 

Step eight: Fill the rest of the container with ice and then fill in with water. 

Step nine: Drink and enjoy!

I think the number one motivating factor to drink it all, for me, is to drink it all before the fruit goes bad. It's working! I drank half of the container which I believe is almost 2 gallons!

10%

It feels really good to say that 10% of my body weight is gone! And it's never coming back! I mean never! You might say, but wait what if you get pregnant again? Well I know that it is possible to get pregnant and gain only what the baby weighs. I've heard its been done before and as determined as I am to lose this weight I am determined to keep it off! I won't be having another baby for at least another year or more so I know I will lose a lot more weight and maybe even be at my goal weight before I go for another.
I was at the mall last week and decided to get my wedding and engagement rings resized since they are getting loose. I fully intend on losing a lot more and that will be one more motivation to not gain the weight back.

The key chain is a 10 to celebrate my 10% and the clapping hands with a 16 is my stay and succeed award for sticking with WW for 16 weeks

10%! It sounds so crazy it's like I just cut one tenth of myself off. This is 10% since I started back at weight watchers. If we go back to when I first started WW in 2009 I've lost a little over 20%! Then if you count all the way back to my heaviest I've lost 22.5% :-) If you are good at math and go back and read some of my older posts you can figure out what my past and current weights are.
I can't give all the credit to Weight Watchers, last time around, before babies I was using the original power 90. This time I've been working out with Shawn T and doing Insanity and Hip Hop Abs. I'm feeling good about my health and where I'm heading! Another super accomplishment is that I am now at my lightest since college! Woop Woop! Just wanted to give myself a little pat on the back there.

DIY Pumpkin Decorating

I had some fun with my little sister today decorating pumpkins.

Glam Pumpkin

This pumpkin was fun and easy. These are stickers that have the stones already on them. It was so easy to just line them up and stick them on. I had to adjust them a few times to make sure it was just the way I wanted it, but it took less than 10 minutes.

Our second pumpkin was a different story. We got the idea from tumblr/pinterest. The original pin was deleted.

Here are the pictures of our masterpiece!

Colorful Crayon Pumpkin

We started by putting a bit of glue on the crayons and lining them up in the order we wanted. We placed it on a cardboard box to help with the mess and hit it with a hairdryer. It helped to have the diffuser on the the dryer so it wouldn't blow the crayons straight off of the pumpkin. We did have some blow off still anyways. We also found that we needed more crayons and kept adding more. If I were to do this again I would buy more crayons and have more of the same colors.

All in all I think it was a smashing success and yay these pumpkins can be used year after year. Love it!

A little self pampering

Tonight I gave myself a little treat! I used my Mary Kay Satin Hands Pampering kit on myself. I love love love the Satin Hands hand softener. It is extra emollient and feels so good. My hands feel so soft and smooth now. Then I used Sally Hansen Salon Effects nail polish strips. So easy and such a cool effect! They are supposed to last up to 10 days and biggest perk is no dry time. Love it!

Craft insomnia

I just got some new ribbon and clips! Isn't the pink zebra print super cute! I've made dozens of the bows with the single prong clips and finally got a bunch of the snap clips. I love making bows because I get to craft even when I don't have a lot of time. I'm just gonna make one more and then I'll go to sleep! 

Apple cinnamon deliciousness

Found the recipes on Pinterest. All I can say is yum!


Cinnamon sugar tortilla chips, pie crust cookies, and apple pie dip. All made by me! It was like mini apple pies.

Conspiracy Theories

I have craft insomnia! I have the urge to learn how to crochet. Originally I woke up for the same reason that most parents of very young children do. One of them woke up and I had to coax them back to sleep. Now I'm awake and not falling back asleep. I blame pinterest, facebook, and youtube. I shouldn't have looked at the computer. They make me want to be crafty and look at all the amazing crafts I should be doing or want to be doing. They are insomnia enablers. I bet they get paid by the companies that make sleep aids or coffee. I bet the coffee companies are behind pinterest. They make you stay up late pinning and repinning and hoping one day you'll have the time or energy to do or make something fabulous that you saw on pinterest causing you to need a pick me up in the morning. I don't personally drink coffee because it has a weird effect on me. It makes me jittery and my heart feels like it's going to explode and I very quickly get sleepy. If it weren't for the heart exploding thing I'd drink some right now to help me get back to sleep. I just can't do caffeine. I'm a green tea kinda girl.

I just painted my nails. I tried to do the ombre nail design and failed horribly. I guess that's what happens when pinterest strikes in the middle of the night and you don't have all the necessary tools. I'm not discouraged, I will try again and succeed. Pictures to come!

All is quiet for now, let's hope it stays this way! Thank you for listening to my crazy insomnia induced rant. Wish me luck!