So, I lost 2.8 pounds this week! This is actually a bit of a miracle because I’ve been a cheaty little monkey in the diet department — at least toward the end of the week, when I got this BRUTAL COLD and was too lazy to tell my inner diet devil to SHUDDUUUUP!

This week, I’m going hard core, though. My plan, based on Lori’s sage advice, is to CLEAN OUT THE FRIDGE and MAKE ROOM FOR THE VEGGIES!

My problem with veggies is that I CAN’T BE BOTHERED. With two kids under 3, there’s no freaking time to chop chop chop. AND, I’m CRAZY — it takes me forever to wash a fruit. LORD HELP US ALL when I buy berries; I’m standing over the sink rinsing and soaking and re-rinsing those berries…. It’s ridiculous. And, it’s ridiculously time-consuming and exhausting.

SO, Lori gave me the best advice:

1) Buy as much as you can PRE-CHOPPED and PRE-WASHED. Pre-chopped green beans, pre-chopped carrots, etc., etc.. It may cost a WEE bit extra, but it’s worth it. “But,” I asked her, “Is that healthy? They’re sitting in the plastic bag, likely not organic, etc., etc.?” “It’s much better for you than not eating them at all, Haley,” she replied…. Point taken!

2) Chop chop chop all your vegetables asap after buying them so that you can just GRAB them out of the fridge. Lori says she does this on Sundays…. I think that’s a good habit to get in to. I’m there….

So, tomorrow we start. Clean fridge. Clean eating. Loading up on the veggies….

Now, to get some sleep so I can be strong and get FIT and HEALTHY!

What are YOUR secrets to getting your veggies in? Please share!

I made a body-lovin’ healthy dinner this eve, and it was scrumptious.

Eating healthy food is the ultimate sign of self-love, ultimate proof that you really do care for your body…. I learned that from writing in a journal this weekend….

It’s a chicken stir fry. And, since I totally felt like pita, I stuffed it inside pitas like so….

It was OK. Pita got a bit mushy.

The chicken’s yellowy because I use turmeric. Which is virtually tasteless, but SO healthy for you — so say the Ayurvedics…. (Ayurveda is the diet side of Yoga….) I put turmeric in everything.

Okay, the Gorgeous GOSSIPS await. Must dash and then heal from this pesky cold with MUCH SLEEP (rascal-permitting, of course). Come join us!

Love.

Guess what I have playing OVER AND OVER in my head?

Give up?

Well, I don’t blame you for not guessing it right because it’s not a song.

No. It’s a FREAKING SENTENCE. In a FREAKING FRENCH ACCENT:

“If you wish to see the chef, you will have to wait until all the other customer have gone.”

OVER AND OVER…and OVER my HEAD!

Of course, it’s from my monkey’s favourite movie, Ratatouille, WHICH we have watched almost every day since we got it. We got it some time in December.

“Anton Ego is just another customer. LEZ COOK!”

ARRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!

It won’t stop!

A-NY-WAY. I can still talk to you, even though I have Collette babbling away in my head….

So, this weekend? Some interesting things transpired.

I drank my first Starbucks Chai Tea Latte of 2008…. Yes I did. I had it with soy milk — mmmm….so creammmy and sweet! Why am I not freaking out at myself in my usual self-denigrating style? Because I’m happy about it.

Once a week, Gorgeouses. I’m allowing myself my favourite thing in the whole world once a week. Because this diet thing sucks. Yes, BECAUSE this diet thing sucks, I’m allowing myself one day a week to have my favourite things. And, that day would be Saturday.

So, this Saturday, I sipped my chai in a new way: savouring every single little sip! I enjoyed my favourite Italian grilled vegetable sandwich. And, I munched on my favourite Sunspire Sundrops (the all-natural edition of M&Ms). Mmmmm….

I also mixed all these treats with a healthy dose of speed walking (not the geeky kind), and a healthy, home-cooked dinner. Check it…CHILEH:

That looks a bit like vomit, doesn’t it…. Well, it tasted better than it looks. Josh-O and the monkey loved it. So there!

I also bought a pilates DVDV (as the monkey calls it…hee!). We’ll see how that goes.

And, in other news….

Today, at a 9:30am birthday party (thankyouverymuch), I resisted THIS:

And, instead had this:

How very, very boring of me.

Hmph…, cheaty little monkey….

“If you wish to see the chef, you will have to wait until all the other customer have gone.”