Monday - Listless No More - What We Eat at Christmas

WHAT WE EAT AT CHRISTMAS!!!!

Christmas is usually a lot less complicated than Thanksgiving. Our tradition is to have Prime Rib with mashed potatoes a veggie and rolls. Then some kind of dessert.

New Year - New Me - New Blog Direction

Hi there! I am taking a little break from, well, everything over the next couple of weeks (well, 11 days, more or less)...

I have decided to change up the blog a little so I will just say this now...

HAPPY NEW YEAR and welcome to the new Plus Size to Downsized!!!

Well, it won't really be new. Its just a new direction. I will still be looking at my weight loss and downsizing me and my life, but I will also be looking at more about my life in general. I am sure that my like will take some interesting twists and turns, it ALWAYS does!!

I will have some new features... and keep some of the old ones... 

I will still be doing the Downsizing Me Log, but it will be on Saturday

I will still be doing the Monday - Listless No More weekly feature (most of the time)

I will be doing a 52 Week Gratitude Journal...not sure what day that will be on!

One of the new features will be the Oracle of the Week... I have several sets of Oracle Cards and will pick one every week to indicate where the week (may) take me.  

I am not really sure what direction this will take, but stay tuned and we will find out together!!!

Monday - Listless No More - Low Carb Dessert - Part 3 - (Brownies, Bars and Other Yummy Stuff)

Dessert, it brings to mind brownies and candy and all kinds of gooey, yummy goodness. Here is the final installment of my Recipe Roundup for Low Carb Desserts...

Brownies, Bars and Other Yumminess...

Monday - Listless No More - Low Carb Dessert - Part 2 - (Ice Cream, Fudge and Fat Bombs)

I love dessert - But eating low carb can make this meal pretty hard. But here are several more low carb desserts - this time ice cream, fudge and fat bombs!!!!

Monday - Listless No More - Low Carb Dessert - Part 1 (Cookies, Cakes and Pies)

LOW CARB DESSERT (part 1)

Is it sad that the recipe roundup that is the biggest (actually three parts) is dessert?...

Monday - Listless No More - Thanksgiving Day Food List!!

Our Thanksgiving Meal Plan!!!

So, my mother is coming for Thanksgiving. We are making Thanksgiving food. I would say dinner, but it is more like food plan, since we pretty much eat all day!!

Thanksgiving Day 2015

Monday - Listless No More - Low Carb Snack Recipe Roundup

SNACKS!!!!!!

Monday - Listless No More - Low Carb Side Dish Recipe Roundup

Here we go again, but this time, I can eat it ALL!!!! Since starting KETO (super low carb), I am looking for foods that will fit my new way of eating. Here are some side dishes that are in and of themselves really low carb or maybe with a few modifications would be perfect!

They all look so good!!!!

Check them out!

Monday - Listless No More - Favorite Candy - Halloween Special!!!

Its almost Halloween!!! I know that children LOVE to go trick or treating... I am not that thrilled with it, only because my dogs go NUTS... however, I do like candy (surprise!)...

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Here are my favorites, in NO particular order...

Monday - Listless No More - Low Carb Breakfast Recipe Roundup

This week we look at low carb breakfasts. I think that some people would think that this is the most boring meal, however, I could not STOP finding ideas. Here are some of the ones I want to try, like, right now...

Monday - Listless No More - Ways to Relax

Its almost my birthday and every year I tell myself that I am going to quit stressing as much and learn to relax and let things go... it never really happens.

Here are some of my favorite ways to relax, and a few new ways that I am going to try...

Monday - Listless No More - Low Carb Lunch Recipe Roundup

So, this week, we will be looking at some Low Carb Lunches for hubby and I...

Lunch is one of those things that seems really hard, I REALLY don't want to just have to have a salad everyday (talk about BORING).

So, here are a few ideas to make lunch, not so boring...

Monday - Listless No More - TV shows, then and now!

TV shows : What I watch now and my favorite TV shows, ever!!!!!!!!

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So, the Fall TV season has started and it is back to trying to decide what new shows I want to watch and how to organize my time to watch all the shows that i want to watch. So this is going to be a list of the shows that I watch NOW, but I will also be talking about some of my favorite shows (some really popular, some really obscure) in the past.

So, the ones that I watch now...

• The Walking Dead
• Fear The Walking Dead
• NCIS
• NCIS: Los Angeles
• NCIS: New Orleans
• How To Get Away With Murder
• Sleepy Hollow

New Shows that I want to check out...

• Blindspot - This is going into the rotation... the first episode was really good
• Quantico
• Scream Queens - This, however, is not, I could not even get through the first episode...

Shows I watched in the past (and REALLY miss)...

• The X Files
• CSI (Really only the original, I never really watched the others (Miami or Cyber)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Angel
• Beverly Hills 90210 
• Law and Order
• Crossing Jordan
• Castle (For some reason I stopped watching this...)
• Bones (This one too...)
• Once Upon A Time (and this one...)
• Firefly
• The West Wing
• Freaky Links - hard to find anything about this one, but it starred Ethan Embry...
• Medium
• Remote Control (MTV game show)
• The Others
• Invasion
• Surface
• Lost
• You Can't Do That On Television
• Many, Many others...

What are some of your favorites now or of the past...

Did I miss any? Let me know in the comments...

Monday - Listless No More - Low Carb Main Meal Recipe Roundup

Low Carb...

The last recipe roundup was so much fun, that I decided to make it a regular feature. So for the rest of the year, I will be making this part of my Monday - Listless No More feature... every other week, at least!

I am diabetic and hubby is borderline so we really should be eating low carb meals. So I scoured Pinterest (yes, my favorite place on the web) and picked out some of my favorite main dish recipes. They all look so good!

Here they are:

So I think that I have mentioned how much I LOVE sushi...

Monday - Listless No More - Favorite Snacks

I have been looking at LOTS of food recently, trying to plan our lives after Nutrisystem. One of the things that gets boring are the snacks. I have 2 to 3 snacks a day (between breakfast and lunch, between lunch and dinner and then, usually a snack after dinner, also known as dessert).

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Right now, we are on Nutrisystem and my snacks usually consist of a carbohydrate and a protein...here are some of the snacks that I eat NOW (stay tuned for a Monday Recipe Roundup of low carb snacks for after Nutrisystem)...

• Yogurt and Fruit (the yogurt is the protein and the fruit is the carb)
• Hard boiled Eggs and crackers
• Jerky and fruit
• Cottage cheese and fruit
• Tuna salad and crackers
• Cheesesticks and fruit
• Meat and fruit (usually ham and apple/turkey and orange)
• Nuts and fruit
• Atkins Protein drink

So, you see, I have been doing Nutrisystem for 8 months, and this is usually the things that I eat for snack, no wonder I am bored with snacks, this is not a very big list!!!

Monday - Listless No More - Crockpot Recipe Roundup

Hubby and I have decided that we are not ordering from Nutrisystem anymore (YIKES!!!!). We are going to try to do it ourselves. We talked about doing some easy crock pot meals. So, for this Monday List, I thought that I would take a look at Pinterest (oh, I love Pinterest), and choose several crock pot recipes that I would like to try... I tried to pick ones that were on the healthy side (or could be made more healthy). I am surprised at some of what I chose... there are several vegetarian options on the list!!

So here they are:

Monday - Listless No More - Jobs I'd Like

I recently did a post about the jobs that I have had in my life. I think for this weeks Moday List I will do a post about the jobs I think that I would like to have...

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I started my (adult) life thinking that I would be a Psychologist, but that changed in a hurry when I thought about having to sit behind a desk, every day, 8 hours a day!!! So I changed to Social Work. It is a very rewarding field, but there are some days that I just want to go work at a retail store (or something). If I was able to change jobs right now, what would I like to do...

Hmm...

• Librarian - I would LOVE to be a librarian (no not the TV show), but someone who takes care of books all day and helps people find information... Have I mentioned I love to read...

Monday - Listless No More - Shopping List

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Things that are always on my shopping list…

Ok, so after the diet disaster that was this weekend, I have a renewed focus…my health and eating habits. I am also starting to pay more attention to my blood sugars, which you will notice on the daily Downsizing Me log (which will be back tomorrow). I ate nothing but junk this weekend and the scale showed it this morning… we need to go grocery shopping so I figured I would give a Monday List of what is always on my grocery list…


Lettuce

Tomatoes

Cucumbers

Sweet Peppers

Monday - Listless No More - Salad Stuff

What I like on my salad...

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I love salad, if I don't have to make it...

I need to start eating more salad, we had salad for dinner last night. I really HATE making salad though. All the chopping and preparation. When we go to a buffet or to a place with a salad bar, I usually get really excited. I can make a really good salad with all my favorite toppings. 

This is usually what is on my salad...

Lettuce

Monday - Listless No More - Jobs

So, this week, I thought that I would talk about the jobs I've Had...

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I started working when I was 16 years old. I did not start with a great job for a teenager. Well, it would have been, had it been in a different department. You see, my first job was at Sears. "Retail, that's perfect for a teenager" you might be saying to yourself. And you would be correct, if I had not been assigned to the furniture department. FURNITURE!!! At 16. YEARS. OLD!!! Along with furniture I was also in the linens and bedding department, again, not the best for a teenager. I did not last very long at Sears.

My second job was at a craft store, again, retail. But I LOVED this job. I worked there for several years, throughout the later part of my high school and early college. I would have continued there but I started my bachelor's degree and had to do a internship.