Polk-A-Dottie!

Happy Sunday everyone:)  I hope you had a fabulous Friday and Saturday! I did! I ran in my 2nd 5K this year, and I did my best time:)  I will share some photos with you all in another post about this weekend!  For now, I wanted to share with you my fun nails that I did:)

This past week, I wanted to try something different with my finger nails, so I decided to make this fun creation!

Polka dot nails!

Day 17: Use Your Resources!!!

We're a little over half way through the 31 Days post...it's crazy how fast this is going!

I'm going to use my "teacher voice" for this, "Make sure you use your resources for your weight loss."  There are so many different types of technology that you can use to help you with counting your calories, keeping track of your workouts, or even having workouts with the touch of a button on your phone!  This truly has made losing weight that much easier because it makes it so much more convenient!  You have these tools with a snap of a finger, so there is no reason not to record what you eat or when you exercised!  The app that I use on my phones is:  Calorie Count! 

Via

You can keep track of your workouts and your calories!  It's a must-have for me right now:)

Slinky!!!!

Every year at my school, the teachers get to participate in a pumpkin decorating contest!!  I absolutely love this contest, probably because I LOVE crafty things:)  Well, last year I decorated my pumpkin like this...check out this post!!!  This year I wanted to try something a little different.  I did some research and what I mean by that is I searched already decorated pumpkins and found an idea of Slinky from Toy Story:)  Mine didn't turn out like the other ones I saw, but I must have done something because I got 2nd place in our pumpkin decorating contest!!!  I was pretty stoked about coming in 2nd!!  I even get to be in our local newspaper..cool, right?  So, here is my beloved pumpkin:

Head!

That was when it was a work in progress!

Slinky

It didn't turn out the way I wanted it to, but I must have done something right since I did get 2nd place:)  How do you all decorate your pumpkins?  Have you started yet?

Thanks for stopping by:):):)

Until next time!!!!!

Day 17: Nutella Cookies!

Happy Wednesday everyone!!!  I'm so happy we're half way through the week because this weekend, I'm running my 2nd 5K in over 6 years...woohoo!!!  I can't wait:):):)  Lately, I will go for my run no matter how cold it is because having a goal keeps me on track!

In my last post, I told you how busy I was with baking and cooking over the weekend and how I tried some new recipes that I wanted to share with you all and share for my:

Overall, I think that I will make these cookies again.  The hubby didn't like these as much as my Healthy Banana Muffins, but you can't win them all, right?!?!  I did like these cookies and the good thing is that there isn't any extra sugar other than what is in Nutella, which I'm sure is quite a bit.  For a cookie they, they really are a little skinnier than most:)

It's really simple, quick, and easy to make these!  I mean anyone could do this within a matter of 3 minutes to get your ingredients together and then of course time for baking.

Day 16: Healthy Banana Muffins:)

Alright everyone, this weekend I was one baking and cooking woman!!!  I made banana bread, banana cupcakes, Nutella cookies, AND manicotti!!  Normally, I barely make 2 things out of the week and to make all of those within 2 days is unheard of!  What can I say, I'm on a roll:)

I'm definitely going to be sharing with you all, the above recipes and how they turned out, but today I just wanted to share with you all a recipe for some healthy banana cupcakes for my:

31 Days...

In order to be successful with your weight loss goal, you need some lighter, healthier, and more nutritious recipes to add to your cookbook and this would be one of them(if you like banana muffins!)

Here they are in all of their deliciousness:)

Yummy!

Day 15: Vocab No, No's

 Words really do have quite the impact on the progress that you have made and how you will continue to make progress.  It seems almost silly how only a few words can change the way you think and feel about yourself and your life in general!

So True!

I do believe that you have to believe in YOURSELF and never say that you "can't" because you CAN do what you think that you can't!  You can change your habits to healthy ones:)  If I can do this then just about anyone can because I was in a pretty dark place before!

I would cry for no reason at all, on a weekly basis. 

I would worry about things that I couldn't control!

I would be so negative about myself and others.

I never gave myself credit for any positive things that I did for others!

I would become anxious for more than a couple hours!

I would beat myself up for eating out ALL weekend!

In the Spirit of Halloween!

Since Halloween is right around the corner and I was kind of bored one night, I tried out Pic Monkey's Halloween extras!!!  If you haven't tried it out yet then you should because they have some pretty neat effects.  I just tried it out on two of my pics and here are the creepy pictures:

Me as a vampire!

Us as zombies!

Yah...the second one is a little gory and it isn't as real looking!  My favorite one is the vampire one:)

These pictures remind me, today the hubby and I were relaxing and watching TV, flipping through the channels.  We came to AMC and there was a series called "The Walking Dead", and it is actually pretty good.  You might want to check it out, if you like movies/series about zombies!

Thanks for stopping by:):):)

Until next time!!!!