Hello, 2015!

It's day two of 2015. Unfortunately, it is a Friday and thus my wonderful husband is at work. However, the first day of 2015 was spent with my delightful family. My husband, obviously, my dad, my mom, and my sister. As well as her boyfriend, Kyle, who is quite a wonderful guy. :)

Thinking about the past year, a lot has things have happened! Tanner and I have lived in our wonderful house for a year, we got our adorable, sometimes frustrating, puppy, Ruby. Our house has a couple of new bookshelves, and a new table, as well as carpet upstairs. I got a job and then a new job, which I start Monday! (I'm super excited about it, if you couldn't tell.)

Another thing I did this past year was get my blood tested with the ALCAT test which tells you which foods your body is reacting to. For example, some foods (different for everyone) will make your white blood cells react in the same way that they would to Ebola. Crazy right? Anyway, I have gotten my results back and thankfully there are only a few things that I can't have. Unfortunately, one of those things in gluten. :P

While I was waiting for the results, however, I had been counting calories and taking a supplement to help suppress my appetite. Just doing that I lost 6 pounds in 3 weeks! It was great! Though I ignored everything for the past two weeks, I only gained back 3.

But now it's back to it. And once all the leftovers are gone and I can find more gluten free, potato free, dairy free, and all the other stuff I can't have free recipes, I will purge those as well!

So, hello, 2015! I think this is going to be a good year. :)

Keep on keeping on.

I Want to Eat.

So, I've been counting calories. Again. This time my goal is 1100 calories a day. If I keep it up, it shouldn't be too long before I hit my goal weight.

However, I really just want to eat. Cupcakes and pizza and nachos and hot dogs... Do y'all know how many calories those are?! A hot dog with nothing on it is 297 calories. An OUNCE of spaghetti is 100 calories! Honestly, why are they so high in calories?! Couldn't losing weight be simpler?

Granted I haven't done a whole lot of research and I've only been doing this a week, but come on! Thankfully, I will be getting my list of food intolerances pretty soon. That will help a LOT! Then I will have a different reason for not being able to eat certain foods than they just come with an enormous amount of calories.

Of course, then I will have to work around all of that to figure out what to buy at the grocery store and what meals we can eat.

I am just ready for Christmas. I've decided that is my one day (perhaps days) that I will not concern myself with calories or intolerances! All I shall concern myself with is spending time with my family. Even if it's snowing and insanely cold outside. Did I mention we are going to Ohio this year? Yeah. I'll be shipped back as a human ice cube.

Stay warm! ;)

(Also, if y'all have any low calorie recipes, I'd love to know about them! Thanks! :D )

Update 12/9:

I have lost 3 pounds in two weeks as of today! I'm out of the 180s! Needless to say, I am doing my happy dance. Woo hoo!!