My Bags are packed, I'm ready to go! Leaving on a Jet plane!

Travelling songs are playing in my head.....
Going on vacation for 10 days.
Florida..........get ready, I am on my way!
Warm days, sand and surf..........
Blog will be silent until my return , hopefully with lots of stories and pictures to share ......

Weight

When I started blogging in 2007, I was on a mission to lose weight since I was feeling so unwell. At that point I had lost 29 pounds..... I had changed my eating habits.... my goal was to lose 21 more...
Have I lost the remaining 21 pounds ?
No! Darn it.
Totally I am down 32 pounds.
Always a struggle....
I was starting to get frustrated at the bouncing around my weight has done over the last year and lack of movement to lower numbers.
Seeming to battle the same 10 pounds over and over...........
My daughter Sherry sent me pictures to remind me of the difference from 2006 to now.
2006
and
2009


So my reality check is;
Keep going.
I have learned to eat healthier.......... Veggies are now my friends, I am exercising every day be it swimming , walking or weights , buying regular size clothes as opposed to the "24" I was in, so satisfying .... best of all I feel so much better.... All to the good...........
I won't be running any marathons soon but
still aiming to lose 20 more pounds ,main goal to stay with my healthy hard earned and learned habits..
Here are some of the web sites that have helped me...........
Real Age
Spark people
Kayln's Kitchen
south beach diet plan

Cabbage Apple Salad

Back in the Fridge again, what do I have to use up?
Cabbage, yogurt and apples.........
There are lots of cabbage apple salad recipes around.
Concocted this creation to avoid using oil.
4 cups shredded cabbage
1/4 tsp. salt
3 shredded apples ( Macs in mine, use whatever is at hand)
1/4-1/2 cup raisins
200 g. vanilla fat free yogurt(about 1/2 cup)
2-3 TBSP. lemon juice

Very simple and a touch sweeter than I usually like salad.........still is very yummy.

Serves 4 , approx. 50 calories per serving.