On a side note

This is a picture of my puppy. I love him and he wanted to model for me. So check him out, he is a Cockapoo, which I never knew until looking around online that they are referred to as a 'forever puppy' because they always look like a puppy ...How CUTE

Do you see what I mean?

Cuteness ...

Checking in again!

Okay so Thanksgiving just passed and I am now down to 195! Pretty awesome in my opinion, the results are slow for me but I have been sick so I have not been eating like I should and have skipped meals a couple times so that is probably the issue.
I am happy I have lost though, I can't tell you how many times I have tried to loose weight and never EVER see the scale budge. So this is impressive!
I have to drink a little more water, but that is so challenging for me and focus on eating my 3 square with a couple snacks. I bet that would really get things moving a little faster.
So almost a month and down 9 lbs!

One week Check in

Ok, so I didn't post everyday lol but this is my one week check in on Plexus slim. I went from 203 to 199. That is awesome, but I will say this about this diet so far. I am dying of thirst all day, and because of the accelerator I am steering clear of anything with caffeine so all I drink all day is water. The occasional soda but that is rare. So I am not sure if this powder is doing anything really or if it is the change in my diet, which I did not really want to do but felt I had to do because of being on this. Now, I get up have the drink, drink about 3 or 4 huge glasses of water ( I think 32 ounces each) I eat like normal so I am not cutting anything out but my appetite is definitely not there, probably cause of all the water lol or maybe this product.
So I am a little neutral yet., I feel like, yes it is due to this product but is it the actual product or what this product is changing in how I eat. Like I am not real hungry and actually I feel a little yucky sometimes so I don't want to eat. Not like sick but just the thought of eating or the taste of certain food just doesn't appeal to me. However to the credit of this product, I ate 3 cupcakes yesterday, and McDonalds once this week. So.. I was definitely still having what I wanted and lost weight anyway. I just didn't have any late snacks, and drank mostly water. Did not exercise at all.
So whichever is the cause, I am staying on this because one way or another I lost weight. It is helping me to make different choices.
The Biocleanse... I don't love because it just makes me kind of gassy like my stomach makes noises but nothing happens lol so weird.
Ok, see what next weigh in reveals.!

My New Journey

I have read some great things about this product Plexus Slim, so I decided to try it out. I don't jump from diet fad to diet fad because I am realistic and not rich lol so this one seemed to be pretty doable and the results seem amazing from what I read online.
Now I googled it and tried to see what 'real' people have to say about it and what I could find seemed to be about 80% good but there are alot of ambassadors out there who comment who used it and now sell it so it is hard to really take that as a pure opinion because they are selling it now.
That could mean it worked so well that they believe in it and want to sell it or they are just salesmen. I don't know so I am trying it myself and see what happens.
As much as I am a BIG talker in person, I tend to neglect my blog here so I thought I would document my journey with this new product so I can have a real record of how this works for me personally.
I have very stubborn weight, so when I do diet or do anything I never loose anything. I have trouble with exercise because of the extra weight on my joints so I would LOVE to loose some weight , like 10 or 20 lbs then start working out to kind of sculpt my body then, so I am doing this without exercise or at least that is the plan. I know there is a stimulant in this so I might bounce off the walls and maybe WANT to burn some energy lol but I do not plan to work out with this. I want to see how this does on it's own.
What I will do is avoid my typical drinks like Iced tea because I don't want to add caffeine in with this or I may never sleep again.
I will drink Orange juice, decaf soda and water.
Okay so I plan to just document my weight and how I feel on this.
I woke up this morning, Drank the Mix with the water and it was kind of sweet yet sour at the same time, I put it in too much water so that was a mistake cause I had so much of it drink, tomorrow I will measure it out and mix it with the right amount of water. I took 1 accelerator and about a half hour in I feel slightly jittery and a little anxious inside. I am a little sensitive to caffeine so this is a similar effect I have to when I drink a big glass of Turkey Hill Iced tea. I had to eat something though because I could tell I wasn't going feel good if I didn't so about a half hour after I took the pill and started to feel way energetic I ate a bagel with butter and a glass of OJ.
I am also going to take 2 of the bio cleanse pills but I am waiting til after my errands to try that in case it sends me to the bathroom lol
So the products I have are
Plexus slim drink mix
Accelerator
Biocleanse.
As of this morning I weigh 203 lbs. I measured myself but I will save that for my check in on weight next time as a comparison.
I will weigh myself and measure every Sunday.
The only thing I plan to change about how I diet is drinking more water. I will document how much I drink. I hate water so I will have to work up to this lol
Okay Day One is on !
PS- The woman I purchased from did tell me to take half the accelerator because of the caffeine but  I didn't want to really pry it open and spill it everywhere so I just took it ... bad idea? I don't know I will let you know tomorrow haha
Here we go!

FINALLY a way to get someone OFF your Pinterest TIP

Okay okay so I had a person that was previously a (and i use the term very lightly) 'friend', we parted ways to say the least and I was able to block them from my Facebook and everything else BUT they remained a FOLLOWER of mine on PINTEREST, now Pinterest is my happy place, it is my little dream treasure chest where I store all my wishes.
Well I searched high and low looking for a way to remove someone from my 'Follower' list and couldn't find an answer until NOW!
I stumbled on it myself actually, now maybe this is a new feature, I don't know but I thought I would share the wealth!
Go to your 'Followers' list of people following you, find the creeper and go to their page by clicking on their name, in the center box under their name to the right side you will see a flag, It looks greyed out but you can click on it.
It will give you a drop down, it has all the reasons to report the person then at the bottom it gives you the option to Block the person ... (this is where I heard angels sing)
It verifies that you understand you cannot follow each other and you select HELL YES ... or 'Block' as it is, then you are done... FREE and you do the happy dance.
Your welcome! haha If this is old news, well ...sorry but it made my DAY

Ideas,Ideas and more ideas

So, I have been kicking around some ideas lately. I am stuck in the work field, I just cannot find a perfect fit for my kids and their schedule. So I keep coming back to trying to create a way to make money from home, I have my chocolate idea out there, though I have not pushed it too much because of the heat and if someone asked for it to be shipped that could get tricky.

I am contemplating expanding on my photography skills, but I am such a huge critic of myself that when it comes to anything I touch if it is not perfect I will just torture myself about it. I love photography, if there is one thing I am passionate about it would be this as far as a hobby/potential career goes. My issue is that there is a LOT out there I do not know about it, like how to use photoshop and if I got a better camera I would have to learn all about that so I get a little intimidated there. I know I have the talent or potential to have the talent lol but then equipment is a whole other story and I do not have the money to back this right now, so I would like to maybe just keep it a hobby and work my way into it. I created a blog to kind of keep all my favorite shots in one spot and see my growth. If you would like to check it out you can click here.

Now I have also been playing around with crafts and I found one I really enjoy, anyone who knows me, knows that I adore my kids. I like the idea of making things for kids and maybe selling them, such as tutus and tutu dresses. I found a great site on how to create them and of course with me, I will definitely have to go over the top and make everything to my standard. I can expand on this with little knitted hats, maybe even custom personalized baby/toddler jewelry eventually. 

I have spent months trying to figure out what I want to do, what I can see myself able to market, and what I would LIKE to do for the long run. 

I also do not have much to invest up front so I have to be selective. 

Of course I think to myself that it would be easier maybe to just get back into the work field so I have contemplated getting my insurance license back and seeing what I can do there, my problem is that I have been out of that field for a few years so I don't know how far that will get me. 

I guess I will just feel things out and see what I come up with .. 

If your interested in my candy blog you can click here.
I also just played around a little on zazzle, the advertisement above my title here is a link to that page, the store name is Raspberry street, if anyone would be interested to see what I have going on there.
Thanks for reading!!
Ok! I finally made a couple of TuTu's and I love them!! Can't wait to hopefully be able to make some for people or even to rent a table at a festival and see how they do. You can check them out there http://raspberrypixiedust.blogspot.com/

Doing my thing...

Well, I have a few varied interests and they are usually based around cooking or crafting or something along those lines.
So I decided that instead of being too afraid to try anything that I would take my chances and start on some things that interest me.
I have my 2nd blog here based around my chocolate lollipops, I have to make and photograph more to add to that page. I am selling those and hopefully people will enjoy them. I spent a pretty penny on the whole thing, the chocolate itself is far from cheap.
If the way my kids devour them are any indication of how good they are then they should have no trouble selling lol
My 2nd business venture is making a store on Zazzle, selling t-shirts and other items. I like the idea of this because I love photography and I feel like I can make some nice things on there. I just started this morning so I don't have much yet but I am attaching the link the bottom of this post if anyone comes across this blog and would like to check it out.
Even if I don't make a living off these things, I certainly find them a lot of fun and at least I can say I tried.
So here we go!
http://www.zazzle.com/raspberry_street