Refreshing and Oh So Good

Berry Smoothie

Super easy to make. 

1  cup frozen mixed berries

1/2 cup frozen chopped spinach 

1 banana peeled

1/2 cup nonfat Greek yogurt

1 cup nonfat milk

1 tablespoon of honey

Toss everything into the blender container and blend until smooth.

This is basic smoothie. You can add more berries, less spinach, or you can use vanilla yogurt. This is pretty sweet IMHO, so I don’t always add the honey. If you want it thicker you can use a frozen peeled banana.  I rarely measure, I just add what looks good.

** Note**  Safeway sells a nice big bag of frozen mixed berries and the bag sells for under $3.00 a pound in my local market. 

Stair Climbing Goal Is In View

Remember my goal to climb a huge long set of stairs? I’m not quite there yet. But I have no doubt I will be ready by Sept 22. Here are the stairs I walked down and then back up yesterday… 

These stairs go on and on.I didn’t go down and back up immediately.
I stopped for a few to enjoy the view.

It was a beautiful day to be out and about exploring Washington State.

Vine Ripe and Oh So Juicy

I love summer! But I really love late summer when harvest time rolls around. One of my aunts has a  farm and orchard in Eastern Washington. She came to visit this past week, and she brought us a bounty of fruits and vegetables picked early in the morning, ripe from the vine.

She brought these to us a few days ago. We’ve been eating pears, sweet corn, cucumbers, grapes, yellow plums, red beefy tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes, and yellow tomatoes,  I didn’t take photos of all of it, but she brought us fresh from the tree peaches, and let me tell you what, they are so good and juicy!

Oh my goodness… can you imagine such goodness, all fresh from the farm!  I love weight watchers at this moment! Why you may ask? Because most of these fruits and vegetables are zero points per serving.

Oh yes! 

WW Points Plus

I have been doing the weight watchers points plus program using info I found online. Well,  after a couple of months on the program I figured out it works for me. I know. This all sounds kind of backwards doesn’t it? But I didn’t want to put out money for something I may not be willing to follow through on.

I have all the info or the old weight watchers program. I know it worked for me too. I was thinking I could always go back to that if the new points plus program didn’t work out. Well, now I have tried it. I love it. Maybe if I wasn’t a big fan of fresh fruits and vegetables I wouldn’t be as excited as I have been about the PP program.

Today I made the time to go to the city and stop into the Weight Watchers’ office. It has been a long time since I was in their building. Simply walking in the door was so motivating! I am thankful for the leader who spent so much time with me today. After gathering a ton of information, I purchased this…

I know because of my circumstances at this stage of my life, I won’t have the time to make it out to the meetings, so I am doing Weight Watchers online. 

I’m excited! This is like a fresh start all over again!