If the title gives you any indication on how I’ve been doing….yeah. Let’s just say that OCBG is on a break. Not to worry, I will be back in full force beginning next week, new picture and all. The kids are sick, we are travelling, packing for 3 people is like packing for 20 so I’ve been kinda busy. Not a lot of time to exercise or cook and prepare healthy snacks and meals. I actually...

Ever since my friend, Hannah, stepped into the gym with her cool looking  MBT Shoes and raved about their health and body-toning benefits, I have been obsessed. If it weren’t for the steep price tag and the fact that I had just gotten a brand new pair of orange pumas, I would have been sporting those puppies months ago. Then came FitFlops, the flip flop derivative from a different company, with a very...

It’s pointless to share the past few days with you, but since you’re following, I will. Yesterday was my rest day. It was the first day in seven days that I didn’t exercise. I had told myself that if I wasn’t exhausted by 8 pm, I would go to a yoga class, but by 7:45, both of my kids were sleeping and all I wanted to do was get into bed. I made a delicious pasta dish for dinner (using...

So this diet thing just isn’t working out too well for me. I am all about the exercising, which is way more important in my opinion, than some fad diet, but it sucks that I haven’t lost any weight yet. I actually do feel stronger and firmer and my stomach doesn’t look quite so big and bloated as it did a week ago, but the numbers haven’t changed. And you know, us women kinda really like...

Looking out from where I stand, it is so big, so new, so curious. Look at the blue sky and all those puffy white clouds. Oh wow, an airplane just flew by.  Look at the tall green trees with all their leaves dancing in the wind. Ohhh and the birds. There’s a bird. And another. Tweet tweet tweet. Oh look, some lizards. Hi Mr. Lizard. Bang, bang, bang go my hands on the glass door. Can you see me? Can you...

I keep talking about how tired I am and I finally realized why in addition to the exercise and limited food intake, I feel like I am going to collapse from exhaustion several times throughout the day. Jett has been teething and I didn’t even know it. What kind of lame mom am I to not realize that my baby just had THREE molars come in? No wonder his sleep has been so sucky lately. On top of teething, he...

Today’s entry is going to be short. I had a long day and I’m totally exhausted. Breakfast: slice of ezekiel toast with almond butter Lunch: “good grains” bagel with eggwhite and turkey sausage from Einstein’s Bros Dinner: I did not even keep track tonight as we were at a big family dinner, but I know my portion sizes were pretty small and I had a piece of apple cake and a piece...