The Chicken Lady

The Chicken Lady

Sunday, March 10, 2013

I love Sundays

Sunday. I love Sundays. I plan my grocery list looking for bargains ready to fight the crowds of people also looking for the same bargains. Living in Michigan can be challenging to find variety in fresh fruits and vegetables in our winter months. I would rather pay a bit more than pay for prescriptions or doctors visits down the road. The fun I get out of shopping is looking in other people carts. You glance but you don't stare, it's like eye contact with a homeless person, you just don't do it. You always see one person that has 8 packs of soda pop lined up around the cart and frozen boxes of prepared food and snacks in the middle. Reminds me of a castle and the pop bottles poking up are the security fence keeping the bad guys out, or in.

Food is really exciting to me. I've been in the business for over 25 years one way or other around food.I  have learned how to make it for me and you can make it work for you. For years, I thought I was eating "healthy" & "clean". Only eating egg whites, lean meats, low fat dressing, fat free this or sugar free that. I had to learn how to like diet pop because I was told in commercials that it was ok. I read health magazines, I bought a nutrition book to learn more and followed the food pyramid thinking the government had to know what they are talking about. Um yeah. I even got a part time job at a gym so I could make friends with personal trainers and not pay the monthly membership fees. What a load of crap.  My tore up knees will tell you all about it as I was running 4 miles a day to lose weight and I so hate running.

I had worked up into a size 20 I weighed around 260 and then after walking down stairs my knees hurt and I had to grasp the hand rail. I need to make a change. I bought a house, I had a job I was doing ok as a single women in her mid 30's Now I needed to get my weight under control.  I worked it hard and tirelessly I got my weight down long enough to get my husband to marry me. When I met him was wearing a size 16 around 215 I'm 5'10 so I thought that was good. But man, did I have to work hard to keep it in control.

Below are some pictures of me and dog Bear in 1998 when the roller coaster picked up speed and some pretty big hills. Also one on my wedding day 212 lbs.