#smilechallenge

Me again. Just popping in quickly with an idea. I’d love to share some of your smiling faces with our fellow weightoss journey-ers. Show me your best smile and what makes you happy and I’ll feature a collage of you here and share some stories. We all know we are […]

WW Holiday KISSes!

The holidays are upon us!  No matter how you celebrate, the 38 days between U.S. Thanksgiving and New Years are some of the most challenging for many of us.  Shorter days.  Darker nights.  Even the food seems to scream “it’s cold outside.  you need to snuggle.  snuggle with me…in your […]

Suzanne’s Kitchen Simply Filling Guest Recipe – Pumpkin French Toast

  In case you hadn’t looked at a calendar lately…Thanksgiving is upon us!  If you haven’t already made your holiday plans you miiiiiight want to get started on that.  Great ideas from our If You Have an Egg Facebook Support Group include: Wear clothes that fit and have a waistband […]

Pumpkin Bacon Apple Cinnamon Waffle: 8 Weight Watchers Smart Points / 7 Points Plus

“Lean to the left”. I love listening to our leader Gwen when she’s checking people in at the scales.  Always an encouraging word, a listening ear, not a judging bone in her now petite dairy farmer’s daughter body. One of my favorites is when one of us gets close to […]

Crack Slaw…WW Style!  4 Weight Watchers Smart Points / 5 Points Plus

I can’t even remember what started this conversation but before I knew it we were discussing crack.  And slaw.  And it was food.  And it sounded good.     My WW buddy Karan has shared some pretty interesting things that she has run across during her journey.  She introduced me to […]

Halloween Candy Smart Points Database

Trick or Treat…Smell my feet…Give me something good to eat!  I just need to make sure I know how many points it is next time ok? According to History.com Halloween traditions date back more than 100 years as ancient Celtic Festivals or Roman Catholic Holidays.  As a lover of this […]

Mac & No Cheese: 4 Weight Watchers Smart Points / 4 Points Plus (approximately 6 servings)

I’ve been awol.  Two of my reasons for beginning this journey have been in and out of the hospital.  And I am the medical power of attorney for both.  And the primary care taker.  And bonus…they couldn’t be anywhere near each other.  I’m so giddy to be at home sitting […]

Hard Boiled Perfection…it was a long time coming 

I could almost cry.  I have waited years for this moment.  Ruined dozens of eggs.  Tried dozens of methods.  Old eggs. New eggs. Brown ones. White ones.  Every boiling time, every cooling method,  nothing else in water, weird additions to water.  I even baked them. You name it, I’ve tried […]

I got my Saturday breakfast fix back…

Ladies.  If you are a Saturday morning Chick Fil A junkie like I am your day just got a little better.  When our daughter was little she played AYSO soccer.  And we all know what AYSO stands for….yep you guessed it.  All Your Saturdays Occupied.  All of them.  Forever.  And […]

Red, White & Blueberry Ricotta Pancakes: 9 Weight Watchers Smart Points / 9 Points Plus

Sunday, September 11th 2016 marked 15 years since that fateful morning when the America as we know it changed forever.  Since then, we spend the other 364 days a year enjoying our freedom.  Living normal lives.  Getting one more day closer to forgetting what happened on our soil, to our […]