Detour in blogging :)

This morning weigh in was 249.4 >.< I thought what did I do different yesterday that would make me gain vs. staying put......made egg salad. And ate a big overflowing sandwich of it. Darn good foods and wanting to eat them when on a diet......

Has anyone heard about the man who lost weight eating baked beans? The article I found (original one) is here: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91251-1312594,00.html?f=rss This is the one I first read about the weight loss: http://www.thatsfit.com/2008/04/13/man-loses-140-pounds-on-baked-bean-diet/ Can you imagine eating 6 cans of baked beans a day and losing 140 lbs in 9 months? Interesting diet to say the least. The first article says that he isn't even breaking wind now that he stopped eating toast with his beans. What will they come up with next?

This morning is lovely. Its what I call a cabin morning. When I was growing up we always went up north to my grandparents cabin on Rice Lake in Lake Linden, MI for at least a week in the summer. My parents way of getting a break would be to send us up with my dad's parents and then come and get us and stay an extra week. Hmmmm maybe that's why I have no problem letting my in-laws take the girls for a week because we were sent away over the summer a lot. Interesting. Not that its a bad thing in either case - I love my girls but sometimes we just need a break from each other. Anyways, The weather would start out low in the 50s or 60s in the morning and would just smell great. How would it smell? I don't think I can describe it but I'll try......it would be crisp in the morning, a little on the cool side and you could smell the water even in the cabin with the windows open and little breeze. I guess its one of those things that gets burned into your brain. But later it would warm up and yes it does get hot up there - even in August. But the past two mornings have had that smell/feel to it that it was a cabin morning. Or at least for me it is. It's making me want to make the 13....well 14 from where I live now....hour drive up north to the trio of cabins (my aunt and uncle now have their own cabins up there too) and just relax for a week in the middle of nowhere and enjoy the weather, the lake, my family and being away from it all. Yes I just proved I am truely from Michigan by measuring distance in hours driven to get to your destination. :-D But convincing the hubby to make that trip again - prolly won't happen in this lifetime. It was too far up north for him - with nothing of interest around that is according to him. If I didn't need someone to drive over the bridge for me I'd prolly do it myself. I have this huge fear of open heights and the fact that one lane on the bridge is open grate freaks me out if I am driving. It also makes me no fun or a built in babysitter at amusement parks. I'll scan some cabin pics later to post so you all can see how beautiful it is up there.

Well I am going to attempt cleaning and then some exercise this morning. Hope everyone is well here in J-land. ~Hugs~Jen