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I loooooooove yogurt. And not just any yogurt - GREEK yogurt!  For me, food is all about texture and the thicker a yogurt can be, the better!

If you've got a Kroger store near you (for me it's the local Smith's), you've GOT to check out their Kroger brand yogurts. I used to be all about their Carb Master yogurts, but lately I've been into their Greek yogurts for the amount of protein they have in them!

This was part of my lunch yesterday....I usually have my yogurt as an afternoon snack really. I've been dipping all kinds of graham crackers into my yogurt and it's AMAZING!  I only had the regular Greek yogurt's left in my fridge and they run about 130 calories. They also have a Light Greek that runs 90 calories. I'm going to make sure I get the Light version from now on - so that I can eat more grahams with it!

This morning for breakfast I had an old stand-by:

I looooove these things and they're easy to either eat in the car on the way to work OR just take them to work and pop it in the microwave for a few minutes.

So I ate that this morning.....and then....I wanted something baked. Sometimes you just gotta have a baked good dangit!!!

I found this in my lunchbag and ate it!

I only had one...and it was goooood  - it's better than having a donut right?!?!?! :)

Happy Friday!!

5K Pictures

While I was on hiatus - I DID actually run another 5k....but I never even posted pictures from my first one!!

So here I am with my best friend (also Jenn) on August 11th during my FIRST 5k!!

Note to self: ALWAYS go potty before the race, even if you don't have to go!! 

Two weeks later in September, I ran another 5K (actually more like walked) with my friend Tanner. This one really kicked my butt because it was mostly uphill. I finished it in 49 minutes! 

It was called the Sundae Run and we got ice cream sundaes afterward. As you can see from my pic - I didn't even eat mine until 15 minutes or so after the race because I was literally THAT BEAT! When I DON'T want ice cream, you know I'm in pain. 

Anyway, I did the runs and then I stopped running, especially after I went on my "hiatus". I started to get the feeling that I was pushing my body too hard with the running and therefore it impacted my "cycles". I'm not sure if that was true or not but things are supposedly back to normal and I'm sticking with tried and true exercise that I know won't impact my body as much.

The Global Fat Scale

I was reading one of my usual blogs and came across The Global Fat Scale....I'd never heard of this before but it was surely an eye opener (to say the least!)

Basically, you can compare your current BMI to the rest of the world population, including the population within your own country.

Here are my results:

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............

I don't even have words for this right now. All I can think of is "at least I'm not as fat as SOME women in this country!"  BUT DAMN!!!!!!

If you want to check it out for yourself - visit The Global Fat Scale

Back on the Wagon!

Yep - I'm on it.

I went through a rough patch emotionally through the months of August and September. My whole TTC (Trying to Conceive) journey has been rough and emotionally taxing on me....but in the end I've come out stronger and I've realized that I just need to be healthy for it's own sake and not for other extraneous reasons.

Things will happen when they are supposed to happen.

All I can control in this world is myself and what I choose to do and think. The choices I make are the only things I can control and I actually feel empowered by that. So much is out of your control when you are TTC and as someone who's been in control of most of her life (and been very successful at that!) I've found that my TTC trials have been the most stressful.

So I've found some new found inspiration in the fact that I ACTUALLY HAVE A CHOICE to be healthy!! I never thought of it that way before.

With my newly found zest and zeal I'm already down 3 lbs!

This morning I weighed in at 216.6! I was hovering around the 220 mark just last week!

I'm back to counting my calories and exercising throughout the week.

I plan to make a NEW goal list - one that I can refer to often.

Thanks to any of you that stuck around and wished me well - it's been helpful :)