17 Day Diet

So Joe and I have decided to diet together. I'm pretty sick of this whole gained so much weight. "they say" that keeping a food blog would help the process in succeeding. I'm pretty confident in this one. I have been practicing in way for awhile now trying to eat healthier. So i'm getting better. The diet will be the test. With Joe being with me on this, i'm hoping we will be good support for each other. So what's the diet? It's the big diet thats going on right now that Dr. Phill and the t.v show The Doctors, called The 17 Day Diet. In other words its 4 cycles of 17 days. So all i have to think about is i can do this for 17 days. Not thinking i have to do this forever! I have had a hard time being ok with dieting and this one i have found i agree with the most so this is why i picked it out. So basically this cycle is all about no carobs and sugar. Which i though was going to be hard. But i know I need to do talking to different doctors, so i have been cutting down a lot. So lots of protein and good veggies. So far it's been one day and a half and I haven't been hungry at all after meals and feel satisfied. Surprisingly i have not been feeling cravings for sugar or pasta which i though would happen since i love the stuff. But feel like i have more energy. So i think this cycle is going to be easier than i thought. I have pretty much planned out this weeks meals for the whole day with snacks so i don't have to think about it and can prepare stuff ahead of time so when i am lazy, i don't resort to eating something from Isabel's shelf.. ha. Any-who.. thats my story. here is a picture of the dinner i prepared for us tonight. Which i though was very good and i didn't even finish it all. i never knew turkey sausage could taste so good but i liked it more than pork sausage and didn't gross me out. so that was amazing to me. I ended up eating 1 1/2 of them.

I am interested in how many calories and carobs I am taking in so i am entering my meals in myfitnesspal.com which is free. For its diet for me technically i can only have 1200 cal everyday. which now its the end of the day and i have 623 calories and 140 carobs left today. And with the the 17 day program i can still have a yogurt later which i think i will have for dessert. So i feel pretty good about today.

my dinner alone was cal-388

carbs-11 - good job!

protein- 29g - good job!

fat- 25

(including another half of sausage)

so not bad at all!

End of March

So as march comes to an end here are some photos I have took of Bells.

We got some pillows and Isabel loves to take them off and jump on them and cuddle. It's cute until your in the kitchen so she thinks she should bring them into the kitchen and lay in the middle of the floor

Joe got Isabel ready this day and did her hair. This happens maybe once a month and he did a pretty good job this time. She's a cutie with her big ears and all.

Joe got an Ipod touch for his (early) birthday present. Joe put some of Pocoyo t.v shows on it for Bells. It's a toddler that has different animal friends and he learns about things. It's about 7mins long. So Isabel calls it "again" because she knows she has to say, again, to watch another episode. Funny girl.

Sun Dress

So I did the banndana dress like I wanted to as I posted before. Luckly I had a little money on a gift card so I only needed to spend 73cents on it. Sweet! So I was going to do the bandana reg. pattern but I love this hawiian print and I was afraid it would look weird since i had to changed the pattern to fit Isabel since she is a 18months not a 2T. But yeah would change some things on it but its still cute and a fun play dress for Bells and fun to learn a new skill in sewing. Plus i ended up with some extra maerial after altering it and so i made some cute fabric flowers out of them for her hair just need to buy some clips. Which I need to get anyways because I have been wanting to try out some ideas on making differnt types of hair bows. Fun fun!

Big Smile. Peek-a-boo, Running away

Cookie!!

Isabel finally said the word "Cookie" after wanting to try the Fudge Crinkel cookies. I got the recipie from Cafe Sister's blog (sisterscafe.blogspot.com). But added butter instead of oil. Oh so yummy! Isabel even grabed the cookie while I wasn't looking. Sneaky girl.

New Dress

Well I told Isabel to clean her room and she she runs into her rooms and starts playing with her toys. So I decided to take some pics of her since she was in a good mood.

A hint of Spring

Spring is coming! It was so warm and sunny the other day, so we decided to let Isabel play outside which she was excited about. Also took her to the park while Joe went across the street to the Library. She is back to being scared of the grass and has to have me hold her hand but once she can go outside all the time that fear will be gone fast I'm sure.

She is so cute sporting her joggers outfit which we got at the DI for $4.00 a while ago waiting for it to fit her, cause i had to have it for Isabel. It was well worth it.

Here are a couple of pics, its hard to choose, Joe took 100pics and most of them are so cute!

New Car

Finally tomorrow we will be finalizing buying our new 2005 Honda Odyssey. Which were excited about. We had a brief moment where we thought we couldn't have it but now it's final and we got a better deal out of the mess. =) Can't wait till we can go on a Road trip in this baby!

Play Tent

http://3punkmom.blogspot.com/2010/06/childrens-play-tent.html

In aww at this play tent. I have been thinking of making Isabel one for the basement or room with a tree on the wall and hanging a cute tent with her stuff animals or something. Then I wont feel guilty for taking her boxes away. Plus it would be so cute. Gonna have to go shopping at Ross for some cute sheets... Who would have thought sheets and a hula hope would make something so cute!

Also i found this way cute little girl dress that I want to attempt to try. Don't know if i will do green but it looks fun.

http://www.momtastic.com/home-and-living/features/128314-diy-st-pattys-bandana-dres

A day in Isabel's life

2 videos together. once day Isabel kept wanting to go into the hamper and lay down she wouldn't let me take the clothes out. So i had to wait till she took a nap to clean up. She is too funny.

A glimpse of Isabel. When she is talking with the penguin i think she is mimicking what Joe does. When i said "say cat," she was looking at the window because lately foggy has been on the window seal. It's funny how she remembered things like that. Well enjoy family!

**this video did not upload right so waiting till Joe and have time to figure out whats wrong.

Chocolate Face

Isabel came up to me giving me a bag of Dove chocolates that she got out of the Diaper bag. She was saying "more, more." She had half a piece foil and all. I don't know why she would think i would let her have the chocolate and ask. I guess thats why she started without asking and realized she needed help.With her messy face I had to try and video her. She was so hyper she wouldn't stay still.