new day.

Well, Its monday. And I am sad to see the weekend leave with it's glorious weather. But hopefully this will be close to the last dose of winter we have for a while!

I have a few updates...

1. I have been wanting to try butternut squash fries. Sadly, they don't sell these frozen at the store. SO, I purchased my very first butternut squash. My husband was disgusted by it from the start. I love www.hungry-girl.com and she has a recipe for these things. The thing that is awesome about them is they are ZERO points plus on WW. So, I really wanted to try to make them. Yesterday I set out on this quest. First off, a butternut squash is not easy to cut up or peel. Honestly, I broke a sweat just doing that. I don't have the best knives and so that makes it even more difficult. But if anyone has any tips for cutting a BNS (butternut squash...its too long to keep writing.)- let me know! After peeling it, I decided to leave half of it whole and cook it in the microwave and to chop the other half for fries. They looked like orange slices. Then I sprinkled them with sea salt and some paprika and put them in a 425 degree oven for 20 minutes and then after that flipped them and let them go another 20 minutes. The above picture is how they came out. They were really ugly. Andrew thought I had burnt orange slices. They were soft and mushy, but also, kinda burnt. Truthfully, they tasted ok-but were not what I was expecting. Just look at Hungry girls pic and then you will understand how sad I was...

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I will probably try again. But they looked yucky and were a LOT more work then what they were worth!

Update 2.

I went to weight watchers yesterday and had gained. I knew I had. I was up 2.4 lbs. It was so sad and frustrating for me. And, now they have the scale where you can see your number-meaning so can the people around you and I noticed a lady next to me looking at my number and she kinda shook her head. She was skinny and was a lifetime member. I wanted to punch her. I didn't. I didn't even want to go to the meeting, but I did and I'm glad I did. It was on setbacks. Of course. Our leader talked about how to handle setbacks. She talked about what our anchor is. She was saying our anchor cannot be the scale. Although our goal is shown on the scale, sometimes the scale might or might not reflect our hard work. All depending on all kinds of things- water retention, if you ate that day, hormones, exercise, even the clothes you wear. She talked about how our anchor has to be something else. For me, If I don't lose another ounce, I am still going to pursue health because It makes me feel better. I am more confident when I am living a healthy and active life style. I am more relaxed when I am living a healthy and active life style. I sleep better, I am in a better mood, I have less stress and anxiety. All of these things have to be our anchor for this life style choice. Not the scale. We cannot let that number determine our failures and success. She talked about letting this week be a new week. So it is. I'm not beating myself up. I'm just starting new today. I got up and ran and then had a great healthy breakfast and feel so great today. New day. New beginning. New grace.