The World According to Sass

Trying Something New

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:50:14 GMT

I love this my wellness360 account, so I am going to enter my food for a week and see how that goes! I mean... getting paid for being on a diet certainly is cool

BTW, I messed up this weekend, had a bout with some Newcastles that were just screaming at me to drink them while playing pool on a rare occasion of actually going out..... oh and some tasty tequila (but not before heading to Waffle House for a tasty burger to soak up my drunk). Since I messed up the next day we ordered pizza.... well to celebrate of course! Live hard.....die happy. LOL

I did not gain weight... i stayed at a 6 pound loss....... Weekends are just so hard!!!!

April 22, 2008

Breakast: English Muffin
Lunch: English Muffin
Snack: Handful of M&M Wild Cherry (yeah, I know.... I know)
Dinner: Lean Cuisine Tortilla Crusted Fish (this was pretty darn good actually!)

Remaining Calories to Maintain Current Weight 1164
Remaining Calories to Lose 1 lb. per week 664
Remaining Calories to Lose 2 lbs. per week 164

April 23, 2008

Breakast: Special K Strawberry Cereal and 1/3 cup milk
Lunch: Boca Burger on Whole Wheat bun with lettuce and a dab of ketchup
Snack: Pink Lady Apple
Dinner: Lean Cuisine Parmesan Crusted Fish (this was pretty yucky!)

Remaining Calories to Maintain Current Weight 1070
Remaining Calories to Lose 1 lb. per week 570
Remaining Calories to Lose 2 lbs. per week 70

April 24, 2008

The No Cook Supermarket Diet

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:47:57 GMT

In the 3/31/08 Woman’s World’s Stephanie Saible shares the cereal diet (basically the Special K challenge where you have two bowls of cereal and a healthy dinner) with the ABSOLUTE GENIUS LINE “The No-cook Supermarket Diet.”

Although the cover says loose 9 pounds in 5 days, the article states the average is about 10 pounds in one week. So for the next seven days I will stick to this diet and see what happens.

“Of course, we always like to give Woman’s World readers a little extra - so we asked our nutrition team to create the special version of the Special K Challenge….which not only eliminates guesswork, it eliminates cooking entirely.”

The Diet:

Breakfast (Choose one daily)
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1 Serving Cereal (any cereal with 150-160 calories per serving will work)

2/3 cup fat-free milk 1 Serving Fruit (I am following Weight Watchers Servings)
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2 low-fat waffles (up to 125 calories)
2 Tbs. low-fat syrup
2/3 cup fat-free milk
1 serving fruit

Lunch (enjoy daily)
1 serving cereal or 1 protein meal bar (up to 180 calories)
2/3 cup fat-free milk
1 serving fruit

Dinner (choose one daily)
6 ounce rotisserie chicken
1/2 cup coleslaw
1 ounce whole-wheat roll
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Any frozen entree (340 calories or less)
1 cup peas
1 tsp. butter
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1 Boca Burger; 2 slices of cheese; 1/2 cup mixed greens;
1 Tbsp. Mayo; 1\/2 whole-wheat pita
10 cherry tomatoes
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2 cups mixed salad greens
2 cups chopped veggies
1/2 cup chickpeas
1/3 cup cheese
balsamic vinaigrette
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1 cup hummus
1 cup cucumber slices
1/2 whole-wheat pita

Snack (choose two daily)
1 snack pouch such as Special K protein snack bites (up to 90 calories)
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1 package South Beach Diet Cookies (100 calories, 1 g protein)
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I piece string cheese
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1 hardboiled egg

Day One:

Breakfast: I missed breakfast so I guess I am off to a bad start, but I did not have Fat Free Skim Milk so I held out until lunch.

Lunch: 1 Special K protein bar, 1 Diet Pepsi , 1 Apple

This bar is so sweet I really wished I had not skipped breakfast! I scarfed it down on the way to pick Ty up from school. It felt as if I ate a Snickers Bar for lunch. But I went shopping and am prepared for the next 7 days!
Dinner: 6 ounces rotisserie chicken, 1/2 cup coleslaw and 1 ounce whole wheat roll.

Yes I pulled out the diet scale and weighed the chicken and the wheat roll. The "1/2 cup coleslaw" seems vague, as coleslaw varies in fat content from healthy to cardiac arrest. Since this is the "supermarket" diet I decided not to make my own and opted for the deli's healthy slaw.

6 ounces of breast meat is a lot more then I thought it would be. Thank god for the coleslaw since the Chicken I got at Wally World is so dry I can hardly swallow it I piled the chicken and coleslaw on the bun and had a chicken sandwich for dinner. So far....so good!

Evening Snack: Mini Delights by Quaker - 90 Calorie Pack

After the evening snack I did want something else, probably since I skipped breakfast, but in order to keep this totally scientific (LOL) I refrained in the name of science! Eying the boys' left over pizza slices did NOT help.... but I mustered up the courage and pulled though, unscathed!

Day Two:
Today I found this totally cool website where you can keep track of your meals (and THEY PAY YOU!) for free and things like your measurements, health statistics, fitness goals and such. It will be interesting to see how many calories are in a days worth of meals on this plan. The website is really cool! It is called My Wellness 360

If you choose try it (I highly recommend it as a great diet tool) use enrollment code: ahm811457 Each person that signs up, gets dividends of other members. Every time you visit the site you earn reward points that convert to dollars - for example, updating your personal health record, tracking what you eat, or researching medical topics. Someone who consistently tracks what they eat every other day can earn $150 or more over one year. You can track your progress by clicking on "my points" after you log in. So what is better then loosing weight.... making money doing it!!! It really does PAY to be HEALTHY!
Breakfast: I had a bowl of Multigrain Cheerios, 2/3 cup milk and 1/4 cup fresh blueberries!
Totally satisfying breakfast!
Morning Snack: Mini Delights by Quaker - Mint Chocolate - 90 Calorie Pack

Lunch: I had a bowl of Life, Cinnamon (3/4 cup), 2/3 cup milk and 1/2 a Pink Lady apple!
Totally satisfied! (An the money in my wellness360 account is growing!)
Afternoon Snack: String Cheese
I am finding myself VERY hungry at this moment! My brain knows I have eaten but for some reason my stomach just doesn't think so!!! Ahhhh! Dinner may be early tonight LOL

Dinner: I had 1/2 cup chick peas, 1/3 cup cheese, 2 cups of salad greens, 1/2 cup carrots, 1 cup broccoli and 1/2 cup cauliflower with 3 Tablespoons of Balsamic vinegar.
The salad was huge! We ended up at my MIL's for dinner, so I packed the salad and ate it there while everyone else enjoyed Bubba Burgers and fried potatoes.

According to My wellness360 I had a total of 790 calories! Total fat: 2.9 ~ Carbs: 138.5 ~ Sat Fat: 2.9 and Protein: 33.

My "Remaining Calories to Lose 1 lb. per week" was: 490 ~ AND ~ My "Remaining Calories to Lose 2 lbs. per week" was: -10 (10 calories over). Interesting.

The best part of the day was to come home and enter my meal on wellness36 and found out that I earned 900 poins which was $13.50 just for logging my day!!!! I literally was paid $13.50 for dieting! How cool is that!!!!! I can't believe I can get paid to diet!

Day Three:

I have lost 2 pounds! So I am $13.50 richer and 2 pounds lighter! A win-win situation here!

Breakfast: I had a bowl of Special K, 2/3 cup milk and 1/4 cup fresh blueberries!
Totally satisfying breakfast!
Lunch: I had a bowl of Life, Cinnamon (3/4 cup), 2/3 cup milk and 1/2 a Pink Lady apple!
Totally satisfied! (And some more money in my wellness360 account! Can you tell I love this site! LOL~)
Afternoon Snack: 1 Protein Bar
Dinner: I had 1 Boca Burger, 1 flat wrap, 1/4 cup or so cherry tomatoes, 1/2 cup salad greens and some Fat Free Sun-Dried Tomato Vinegrette in lieu of mayo.
I am full and feeling great!!!

According to My wellness360 I had a total of 896 calories! Total fat: 7.7 ~ Carbs: 157.3 ~ Sat Fat: 1.5 and Protein: 51.5

My "Remaining Calories to Lose 1 lb. per week" was: 390 ~ AND ~ My "Remaining Calories to Lose 2 lbs. per week" was: -110 (110 calories over).

And my favorite part..... Today my point total is 1324 and I have made $19.86 to date!

Day Four:

Today I jumped aboard the Weight Loss Wonders Thread on Recipezaar. Hopefully this will help me loose my diet ADD issues. So now the world knows I am dieting, I am getting paid to diet, AND I have a group of fabulous people for support ~ this is going to work!!!! Oh by the way I have lost 4 pounds total as of this morning!

Breakfast: I had a bowl of Multigrain Cheerios, 1/3 cup milk and 1/4 cup fresh blueberries!
Totally satisfying breakfast!
Lunch: I had a bowl of Life, Cinnamon (3/4 cup), 1/3 cup milk and a Pink Lady apple!
Afternoon Sncak: 90 Calorie Snack pack
Dinner: I had a Lean Cuisine Butternut Squash Ravioli - Yum!

I went to bed early with a pounding headache! UGh!

According to My wellness360 I had a total of 962 calories! Total fat: 10.4 ~ Carbs: 154.6 ~ Sat Fat: 6.5 and Protein: 25.1

My "Remaining Calories to Lose 1 lb. per week" was: 462 ~ AND ~ My "Remaining Calories to Lose 2 lbs. per week" was: -38 (38 calories over).

And my favorite part..... Today my point total is 1520 and I have made $22.80 to date! Hmmm the points are slowing down! I did notice you get more points for adding items to your menu one at a time instead of in groups..... I will have to go back to doing it the old way today. Anyone else making money yet?

Day Five:

I have lost a total of 6 pounds so far and have made 22.80 cents....I am certainly not rich, but I can feel a difference today. The cover indicates tha you could loose 9 pound in five days.... I am three pounds shy, lucky me.... I did not have any of that positive "results will vary" luck on my side. Maybe I will loose 4 pounds in the next two days......

Breakfast: I had two Special K Red Berries Waffles with Smucker's Sugar Free Breakfast Syrup.
I could eat about 2 or 3 more LOL! But for the sake of science.... I will refrain! There is nothing delicious about sugar free syrup. It is not bad.....but even Smucker's can't make it good. Some things were just not meant to go sugar free I guess!
Lunch: I had a bowl of Life, Cinnamon (3/4 cup), 1/3 cup milk
Afternoon Sncak: i hardboiled egg
Dinner: I had hummus on my FlatOut bread with cukes and greens.
Something is a bit off here..... or else my Hummus is higher in calories then the normal hummus.... mine is 50 calories in 2 tablespoons - ah ladies and gents that would be about 400 calories???? Strangely unscientific for a group of nutritionists to expect that - unless it has super fat burning properties I am totally unaware of!! So I had 4 Tbls. (a 1/4 cup and 100 calories)

I am miserable. Aunt Flo came to visit without warning. I am tired, and irritable and would kill for a shot of tequila.... but noooooooo. ... that would be too kind LOL

So I am going to bed before I slip up and stuff the rest of the chocolate that is left over from Eater in my mouth......

According to My wellness360 I had a total of 621 calories! Total fat: 10.4 ~ Carbs: 89.5 ~ Sat Fat: 11.5 and Protein: 27.2

My "Remaining Calories to Lose 1 lb. per week" was: 665 ~ AND ~ My "Remaining Calories to Lose 2 lbs. per week" was: 165 (Finally, a positive number!).

And my favorite part..... Today my point total is 1738 and I have made $26.07 to date! Anyone else making money yet? Am I here all alone???? Heelllooooo!!! Tequila anyone?

Day Six:

I worked today from morning until way way way into the darkness of night. I finally got to bed around 2 AM. So I am going to fill in yesterdays food and then head off to work again. I was on the road all day yesterday and that really screwed me up. I tried to stick to the diet, but well..... you will see......
Breakfast: I had Special K Bar ~ Blueberry and Diet Pepsi ~ From Gas Station
Morning Snack: I had a Balance Gold Protein Bar from Gas Station
Lunch: Chicken Jr. Wrap from Sonic (bad bad bad girl) @ 270 calories
Dinner: I had 2 Tbls hummus on my FlatOut bread with cukes and greens.

I was thoroughly exhausted today...... so much for that "power" from the protein bar.

According to My wellness360 I had a total of 761 calories! Total fat: 20 ~ Carbs: 94.4 ~ Sat Fat: 9 and Protein: 42.4

My "Remaining Calories to Lose 1 lb. per week" was: 525 ~ AND ~ My "Remaining Calories to Lose 2 lbs. per week" was: 25 ( a positive number!).

And my favorite part..... Today my point total is 1802 and I have made $27.03 to date!

Day Seven:

I am working again today but will do much better and bring food...... The scale has not budged at all. I am hoping it is b/c of my period.... and that when it is open I will drop some incredible amount..... yeah.... well that is wishful thinking for you LOl!

Breakfast: I had a bowl of Multigrain Cheerios, 1/3 cup milk and 1/4 cup fresh blueberries!

The Fad Diet Experiment Unfolds.....

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:30:51 GMT

I have been having a lot of trouble sticking to diets and I really need to get rid of this extra weight that I put on after becoming sedentary after the accident a couple years ago.

So it would appear that I have developed some sort of Diet ADD. After a week or so I get bored and give up.

While standing in line at grocery stores I glance over magazine diets that proclaim that you can loose 10 pounds in a week, 5 pounds in 9 days, 20 pounds by a certain time.... blah blah.

So I have decided that I am going to start an experimental Fad Diet - Magazine Diet. I promise to stick to the diet without wavering and report in and let you, the reader, know whether or not the diet is working or does what it claims. After one diet is over I will immediately begin the next diet with no days off until I reach my goal or determine the whole thing is a waste of time.

Wish me luck!

I'm on a quest..... to be the best!!!

Live Broadcast of Our Wedding

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:48:34 GMT

I cannot believe that in 4 days I will be flying to Costa Rica and getting married! This day seemed like it would never get here, and now it is fast approaching and I feel so unprepared!

I cannot wait to meet up with my fabulous friends!! This trip is going to be the best vacation ever!
And, I sure need that after these last few months!

The last few days have been spent shopping, packing, cleaning and organizing. I am sure I will forget something..... but if I forget it... I am sure I can do without it.

We will be doing a live broadcast of the wedding - Feb 16, 2008. The broadcast will start shortly before the wedding. Guests are welcomed at 3:45 PM (which is 4:45 PM Eastern). The groom is welcomed at 3:50. The wedding ceremony will begin at 4:00PM (which is 5:00 PM eastern time).

Here is where you can leave a message (If you click on play (button in between rewind and fast forward) you will hear me give an intro):

Entry for April 23, 2007

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:27:34 GMT

My Cork'd Journal

Entry for March 25, 2007

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:58:45 GMT

The Zaar World Tour is a fun game that my friend Leslie and I started in the summer of 2005.

The Zaar World Tour is a fun cooking game/competition where chefs are placed on a team and virtually travel the world in their kitchens. The teams visited the 13 Regionals Forums on RecipeZaar ( Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Jewish, Mexico and Scandinavia) at specific times and picked recipes from other players or their teammates for each region. The regions changed periodically and as a large group we would flock to the forum and learn about the different cuisines and cook their various dishes. The original intention of the game was to familiarize Zaar members with the different forums and introduce players to new cuisines while meeting new people and above all, having fun.

2006 brought about Zaar World Tour II. With more then double the players of the first tours the game was expanded to include some of the other forums that are on Zaar. Due to the large number of participants, Mama's Kitchen and kzbhansen were brought on board to co-host the event. To add to the excitement, RecipeZaar donated $1,000 dollars to a charity chosen by the winning team. It was a neck to neck race to the finish that ended in a tie between two teams. The $1,000 prize was split between the winning teams' charities: Doctors without Borders (Quisine Queens) and Second Harvest (Cavorting Chefs).

Over a thousand, maybe even thousands, of recipes and photographs were added to Recipezaar's database and these recipes are seen on countless websites attributed to both RecipeZaar and the Zaar World Tour.

2007 will see a Zaar World Tour III! The new game is currently under construction and has brought on even more hosts.

I have put together a video of the Zaar World Tour as a teaser to the Zaar World Tour III. The images of the recipes were all taken by the Chefs that were participating.
Click on Photo to Start Video

Zaar World Tour II

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:43:47 GMT

Zaar World Tour Two ~ Images

The Single Most Romantic Moment of My Entire Life......

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:24:13 GMT

December 23rd began as a pretty typical lazy Saturday mountain morning. Warm blankets and quite coziness was soon replaced with loud laughter and giggles as Ty and his dog, Harley, joined us for the family morning tickling ritual. A quick breakfast of hot chocolate and cinnamon toast was followed by our usual rushing (due to Saturday lazy procrastination) to get Ty to Grandmom Lois's house so we could do some last minute Christmas shopping.

I was pretty chipper and my usual chatty happy-go-lucky self and was really looking forward to going to the toy store (I think I was more excited about Santa coming then Ty!). KC turned the wrong way to go to Toy's R Us (and of course I let him know he was going the wrong way ). He said he needed to grab something at the mall and ... well.... soon I found myself in front of the engagement ring counter at Kay's! I was nervous, excited, self conscious, flustered, happy and about a thousand other emotions all balled up into one. I knew we were getting married but getting the ring was just such a surprise. Sort of a "seal the deal."

For the girlfriends that want to see the 360 degree rotating image of my new ring click here and then click on the image of the ring - then click on 360 Rotation under ring on next page. I love this ring. It is so beautiful.

KC asked me to marry him again and I started to cry. Women! LOL!
We were on the Sunset Terrace of the Grove Park Inn overlooking the mountains right at sunset. It just doesn't get any more romantic then that!

I was so excited I barley even glanced at the annual Gingerbread House Competition! We walked hand in hand around the Inn.... I was so giddy! We were unable to get a table at any of the six restaurants at the Grove Park so we went to eat at a restaurant I really love (and have not been to in years) called the Greenery. We had a wonderful dinner and KC even had escargot! The staff was so excited for us and the manager brought over a bottle of delicious Louis Roederer Champagne! (this is a beverage blog after all!

It was one of the most romantic evenings of my entire life... with the man I love more then anything & with whom I will spend the rest of my days.

Our Wedding Quilt - A Stitch in Time

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:17:32 GMT

This is the best gift I have ever received. My wonderfully talented Australian friend, Jodie, made this beautiful quilt for our wedding gift. The individual squares were made by awesome friends all over the world and Jodie combined their works of love with hers. I am totally awestruck and tear up each time I look at this glorious quilt. It is a gift that is full of such love..... I am overwhelmed.
I will cherish this gift for the rest of my life and I am sure our children will do the same. This is the nicest thing anyone has ever done ....and I feel so loved .

"Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along - whether it be through words, music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality."

- Thomas Jefferson

     Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers 
   learn the art of sewing shreds together and 
   of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of 
   patches.

Weekend Puzzle

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:53:15 GMT

We had a pretty non-eventful lazy weekend. On Saturday KC, Ty and I went to KC's mom house to visit and have dinner. I spent hours putting together a very difficult puzzel of labrador retriever puppies amid a blue sky with blue waters and more ducks then I care to remember.

I was happy to find out that Micheladas, although Mexican, go very well with Polish Keilbasa Dogs! Sort of like a Margarita but without the kick of the tequilla. I wonder if Michelada is related to Margarita.