Shopping Woes

So I have recently lost a bit of weight so almost none of my clothing fits anymore. It either looks huge or just looks sloppy, either way no good for me. So I recently started looking for new clothes for work and for play. The problem is that I can't seem to find anything that I really really like. I have online shopped at J Crew, Banana and at Ann Taylor Loft. I liked a few things but everything that is a great "deal" right now is either the wrong size or really ugly and let's face it I am not paying full price for clothing.

So I widened my search to Target, Old Navy, Martin and Osa, and Anthro. Well still nothing all that stellar. I found a cute dress at Target for work. I got some other basics too, but again nothing too fab. I really need new basic black heals and new work pants and a black pencil skirt. I would love some new blouses for work and for my confrences as well. I dont want to pay an arm and a leg for these items as well, is that too much to ask for? I thought the economy was in the crapper and everything was on sale! From what I have seen everything that is on sale is crap! I think part of the problem is I always go shopping alone. I also have no idea what size I am anymore so I am pretty sure everything I try on is just not fitting right because its the wrong size.

I dont know what is wrong with me but I am definatly in a shopping funk. Anyone have any ideas?

Style Me Pretty

So in my search for inspiration for our wedding I have come across a great website for inspiration. "Style Me Pretty" is a blog/wedding planning/style site that gives brides a glimpse into real weddings and DIY projects. I have recently fell in love their inspiration board creator and thought I would share it with you all. Follow this link to start your board. I am still working on mine but I think I should be able to post what I come up with later on tonight.

Here is just one example of a girls board:



They have a huge gallery of pictures to choose from but they are also working on a feature for you to be able to upload pictures of your own as well as from other sites. I think this is a nifty tool even just for decorating your home or planning a party. Having a vision will help you convey your message to other people.

Also on the website I found a great coupon for wedding bands from Blue Nile. I am not sure if we will use the coupon but it is still a great find and I wanted to make sure to share the news with all the ladies out there that might be planning their wedding and looking for deals. It was for 10% off for wedding bands for Style Me Pretty users. There is a promotion code that you type in during the purchase.

Weekend Recap

This weekend was wonderful. I did NOTHING! I had the best weekend I have had in a long time, as far as relaxation goes. WF and I had movie night Friday night. For those of you that don't know us that well we love movies. My WF is a HUGE movie buff rents like 5 or 6 a week to watch. Its sad really. Anyway, we have Pei Wei and drink too much wine and watch a movie every Friday night. It is our favorite thing in the world to do and it has to take an act of god for us to cancel movie night. Recently movie night has turned into WHALE WARS night! Have any of you watched this amazing piece of reality TV goodness? It is on Friday nights on animal planet. A-MAZE-ING, they fight the Japanese whaling fleet all pirates style and this week the rammed their boat for heavens sake! I highly suggest this show.

Saturday WF and I slept until 1:30 PM, yes it is shameful and again totally wonderful. We got up did some errands and then I went to go see "District 9" with some friends of mine. I liked it even though I did not want to go see it all that much. A good social commentary and not really about aliens at all. I suggest that if you ladies want to look really cool on date night you go see it. It's not too gory or anything.

Sunday we went to breakfast with Kelly and her husband. There is a really amazing pancake house right by our houses and it was a real treat to have a nice Sunday breakfast with them. We then had pool time on Sunday afternoon. This is a tradition I have only recently been informed of. People get together, grill and drink beer in the pool for hours. WONDERFUL idea. We made yummy turkey sausages and munched on cherries. Then our friends Amelia and Jason showed up and brought some sort of champagne drink that we proceeded to drink straight from the bottle. Ballers, I know. Then we watched out Sunday wonderfulness, Tru Blood and Entourage an ending to a perfect weekend of nothing!

Baking

So I have had the urge to start baking again. Any of you that knows me well knows I stress bake. When ever I used to get really emotional or whatever I would bake. I would make things almost nightly at one point and then bring them into my office and have them test everything out. I have perfected my Chocolate Chip Cookies, by making them over and over again, so I wanted to challenge myself. I looked around and found a blog by "The Waspy Redhead" - a friend of mine who always has amazing food! She made these Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies - http://thewaspyredhead.com/?p=1122, and they looked wonderful so I tried them out!










I think they came out pretty wonderful. Mine of course don't look anywhere near as beautiful as my friend's do but oh well it was a first attempt! The grating of the zucchini was a little taxing so I will have to find a better way to do this. I think the cookies came out a bit like zucchini bread but they are so moist and yummy that does not matter. I baked them alone in my house with some streaming jazz piano from Pandora on and had a wonderful night to myself. It was really fun to get my feet wet and I hope to continue this trend through the holidays. If you have any treats you want me to try out let me know! I love to bake and am always up for a fun new thing to try.

On a side note, I brought these cookies into my office and did not tell anyone that they were any different. A lot of people looked at them and were like why do they have green in them. One lady even refused to eat my cookies because she thought I was feeding them rancid food, COME ON! I am not weird and I would never do that, and I am just a little hurt that she did not like my cookies.

Cravings

So I have been craving something for about 3 weeks now. I want it so bad it hurts to think about it. I know it will be so delicious and wonderful. I know it will totally be worth like a weeks worth of points but I might just have to give in and have it. I want it bad! Wanna know what it is?


Yes the Whataburger Chop House Burger. There is a billboard on I-35 on my way home that I see 5 days a week. The picture calls to me every day on my way home, "Eat me, you know you want to... it will be so good!" and every day I get home and cook something else for dinner. Nothing ever satisfiys the craving. Nothing ever makes it go away. I think I am going to have to have it. I dont know what else to do. Last night I made baked chicken and still was not happy so I had desert, still nothing, so then I had popcorn, nope still wanted the darn burger. Three weeks of "eating around" my craving has not worked. Weight Watchers says to feed your cravings sometimes, maybe thats what I should do.

Seriously though, how amazing does a big burger with greasy bacon and cheese sound right now?

Weight Watchers Plateau

Last night I went to my weekly Weight Watchers meeting. I weighed in and weight exactly what I did last week. I have been working on getting to my final goal weight for the last month and have been withing 2 pounds of it for the last month. It is getting very frustrating.

Last night's meeting was actually all about plateaus and how to get over them. I really want to but I am getting very tired of this whole not loosing any weight thing and sometimes lack motivation. For the first three or four months I have been on WW I lost about a pound to two pounds a week. Now it is like I hit this huge wall and get get past it.

So last night I made a very weight watcher's friendly meal and had a glass of wine with dinner. It was perfect. I just took everything I had left in the fridge, tomatoes, onions, asparagus, garlic, zucchini and threw it all in a little fat free low sodium chicken broth. I grilled all of that while cooking some whole wheat penne pasta to taste. Then mixed it all together and baked it with some fat free shredded mozzarella cheese on top of it for about 5 minutes. It was super yummy and about 6 points give or take for a cup and a 1/4. With the glass of wine it came out to be a 9 point dinner. Not to shabby considering I had 11 left for dinner.

Well then the wine kicked in and I wanted something bad to eat. I live right by a Sonic, dangerous I know. I usually run over there and get a diet cherry lime aid, and that does the trick. Not this time. I got a Sonic Blast with Oreos!


So yummy, so wonderful, so 15 points. Oh gosh what have I done!? It was so yummy on the way down but I totally regretted it for the rest of the night. Maybe this is why I am stuck on my plateau?

Booked My Photographer

Ladies and Gentleman we have booked our photographer! We are going to be using InkedFingers and I am so excited. I think she is going to really be able to capture our day. I look at my friends pictures who have used her and I just know if she can make Wonderful Fiance and I look half that good I will be so happy.

She was my first big splurge of the wedding shopping process but I am sure she will not be the last. I am already thinking about doing a really awesome boudoir shoot with her! I got to see some of the pictures she took that she cant post on the site and they are amazing. Oh my! I don't think I will ever be this skinny and this well kept again, might as well immortalize it right!? We will see I am thinking about it though.

Yeah for me! I am happy!

(The picture is courtesy of the InkedFingers blog. Thanks Carli for all you do!)