November 14, 2012
I'm Josie,
Mom, daughter, sister, friend, business owner, and sugar addicted stress eater..
I was 38 when I got pregnant with my daughter. The same week I got pregnant I had a skiing accident which led to a total ACL reconstruction of my left knee. The rigorous exercise program and healthy eating habits that I had followed for ten years was put on hold. In the years that followed, my fairy tale life of love, marriage, family, health and fitness, began to unravel around me. With that, I became a stress eater and sugar my culprit.
Fast forward … My daughter is 14 and I am 80 pounds over weight, I have tried every diet including the “Raw” diet without success. Today I am challenging myself to change; change my eating habits, change the way I feel about myself, CHANGE.... I will be blogging daily, starting with today, my 53rd birthday. I will share with you my challenges, some solutions I come up with, photos, recipes and each success. It is my hope and desire to make a difference in my life as well as the lives of everyone that visits me here. Thank you for supporting me. I am now publicly accountable to myself and each of my readers. Come back often to read and see how I evolve. My goal for this year is weight loss and wellness. My diet is simple, whole foods and nothing artificial! I am using experience, logic and you to keep me going.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu
The reasons why I think I should win the 4 Lara bars:
1. They are the only snack bars that I can eat because they are gluten free, sugar free, artificial sweetener free and chemical free.
2. I can’t always afford to buy them for myself
3. I will have just one half of one in the afternoon and it picks me right up again.
4. When I have those around, I don’t crave other snacks that sabotage my program.
5. Ever since I switched to Lara bars I find weight control to be so much easier to manage.
6. I have serious physical reasons why I need to lose 50 or 60 pounds and Lara bars have really made a difference on that journey.
Thanks.
Josie, your gardens are wonderful. I enjoy seeing the pictures.
Thank you Betsy! I remember when you cheered me on with my doomed gardens in Austria. The flowers did well there but I couldn’t get those vegetables to produce for anything. I always enjoy it, whatever the outcome.