The Little Free Library

This is a warm and fuzzy idea... "Little Free Library."  If it does not put a smile on your face, there is a good chance that it will put a smile on someone elses face.  They are adorable little book boxes housing a home until the next visitor comes along to take and read.  What a great way to build a sense of community and a love of reading!  

The Little Free Library is basically an easy and fun way to share books with neighbors. Take a book, leave a book. It’s that simple. You can even leave a little note too if you want to. And there’s no rule about age categories.  Do you have some books cluttering the house? Drop them in "The Little Free Library" box for the next visitor to enjoy.  Your visitor will possibly have tons of fun discovering books that you once enjoyed.  These little libraries are popping up everywhere and if your luck is good, there may be one near you!  If not, why not start one of your own?  Little Free Library sells mini libraries or will show you how to build one of your very own!  Better yet, you can add your own personal touch if you feel inspired.  This great little idea is bound to be a page turner.

credit: littlefreelibrary.org

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

hCG - Loading for two days

Okay, I am at the starting gate and ready to take of on this adventure of hCG two days of loading.    I amazingly did not gain a ton of weight on my trip.  I think it was in the ball park of 3-5 pounds gained.  Which I would say is pretty typical for weight gain while on vacation eating out a lot.  Pretty much up to where my heaviest weight was before the Dr. Oz diet.  I decided to take some "before" pictures of myself.  I have yet to get the guts to publish them.  I feel so self concious of my weight.  We will see, maybe just maybe, when this is all said and done, I may publish.  I am not going to commit though at this point.  

hCG Activator

My weight has gotten so out of control that I am kicking around doing the hCG capsule form  and diet.  The diets that I have been dabbling in, have of course not worked.  I am a little hesitant of these hCG capsules, as it is kind of new on the market and I am not a big fan of putting foreign stuff in my body but I have read articles and books about hCG and think the theory kind of makes sense.  I am working up my courage to at least try the capsules.  There has been mixed reviews that are saying that the capsules are not as effective as the injections.  And then more comments of well, heck, if you were to do a 500 cal a day diet, you would loose weight with or with out the pills.  Part of me wants to disagree with that comment just for the fact that I have experienced the fad diets and deffinately have pretty much done the low calories and have been miserable because I am constantly hungry or it seems that my body says "hey, you are starving me, so I am going to buck you every which way to conserve so you don't loose pounds."  Typically it ends up that I end up getting sick or something stupid in the end and when I finally go back to eating normal, my body is like "FOOD....NEED FOOD TO SURVIVE" and then the pounds I lost just magically appear right back and then eventually go even higher from where I started.  It's been a fighting battle, I tell you.


This is kind of off the subject of hCG but earlier this year I watched a movie/video on youtube that was called "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead."  If you have not seen it, I recomend watching it.  It is inspirational and changed the way I approach getting "greens" in my system.   I like a good salad every now and then but I don't care for them every day.  So juicing has become a great way for me to incorporate this need into my way of eating.  Of course, I watched the video and thought the gentleman was strictly doing leafy greens, veggies and some fruits to combat his health issues.  He must of been sneaking a few beans, nuts or lentils into his diet, because I just don't know how one can survive as many days as he did without them.  Never the less, I tried juicing for about 5 days.  I made it through and lost probably about 6 pounds but deep done felt like my body was screeming for a large steak or some kind of protien.  


Then just recently before I went on vacation, I tried the Dr. OZ's approved 7 day crash diet.  I think I did it for 7 days and lost  I maybe five pounds.  But once I got back to eating normal, the weight snuck right back on again.   


So, I have it up to here (picture me throwing my hands and arms above my head!).... and now I am looking at this bottle of hCG capsules.

I'm going on vacation soon to New Orleans, so I figured since I won't have a scale to weigh myself and with the plethora of food that is available, that will be my excuse to begin the "Pre-Diet Phase" prior to starting the diet.  It says to resist from dieting prior and eat as normally as possible until full, regardless of weight that is gained in the process. This helps the normal fat reserves to become reasonbly stocked.  Reason being that you won't be able to subsist comfortably on the 500 calories a day unless the normal fat reserves are well stocked. This process will be easy for me to do on vacation as I would have done that anyway!  I'll keep you posted.  

Somebody That I Used to Know

I've got a new fav "summer song".... yeah, no "Pumped Up Kicks" or bullet lyrics this year.  Gotta like those songs with the special lyrics, the ones you can kind of relate to.....this song theme seems to be about a relationship gone wrong which is something that I can relate to.  This first video is pretty cool, creative and different....right up my alley. The second video is simply interesting and entertaining.  There seems to be two different versions, and I am not too sure who the original artist is.  Gotye, maybe, or Kimbra? Walk Off The Earth?  But here you go, enjoy...
SIDE NOTE:
OMG, I stumbled onto this parody of the song ..... you've got to watch the first two though before you watch the parody in the third video or you won't understand it! It is hilarious!  I laughed so hard, my eyes were watering!
SIDE NOTE #2:
Anyone familiar with Fred from the youtube channel?  The guy in the first video reminds me of him!  No?