Happy New Year

Hi Everyone and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas, we sure did.  It was a wonderful holiday and I look forward to getting back on schedule witheverything starting the new year off right.  I indulged a bit this holiday season, and its not even over yet!  But I admit it, I gained 6 pounds during the holidays and I started back yesterday (the 26th) with trying to get back on track and staying away from the carbs and sugars.  It is hard!  Its funny, I think my body processed the bad things better but it sure is craving it again since I have let my diet take a backseat to my hunger and getting the cravings kicked is going to be a struggle again.  But I am committed to doing it!  We have plans to go to Naperville for New Years Eve.  We go every year and spend it in a hotel there and they have a fabulous dinner and a few different rooms for dancing and listening to different bands.  Im not going to go crazy on my eating on that night.  I really want to lose these 6 pounds I gained in about 10 days I hope.  In the past I know once I get back on the water and start the higher protein and cut out the carbs I can lose pretty fast and get back down to where I was and beyond.  I am not beating myself up though.  I believe in enjoying the holidays, and I did. I know it cannot be a lifestyle though because I will climb aback up to where I was ...and beyond!  So I let myself enjoy it, ate pretty much whatever I wanted and now, I know its time to get back on track.  But I am happy to get on track again, because while I enjoyed eating the cookies and drinking the kaluha, I have not felt as good as I did when the carbs where less.  Im tired, my energy level has dropped and I just don't feel 100 percent.  But I can tell a huge difference in just these past 2 days of getting back on track and I seriously am feeling better!  Its amazing how what we pt into our body affects us in every aspect!  I do have a great recipe to share, We made this great Chicken salad using the Walden Farms Mayo and it was DELISH!!!  I hope you enjoy it and I promise, as soon as the New Year hits, regular emails and recipes will be coming your way again!  Hang in there and get back on track as soon as you can, and forgive yourself for everything you ate and feel good about it.

Happy New Year!!!  Heres to a great 2014!!!!

Chicken Salad

2-3 Chicken Breasts Cooked and Cubed

2-3 Dill or Garlic Pickles Chopped

1 onion (small) Chopped

1 Teaspoon Deli Mustard

1 Teaspoon Worcheshire Sauce

Salt and Pepper to taste

Tablespoon chopped Pecans (optional)

2-3 Tablespoons Walden Farms Mayonaise

Mix all ingredients together and serve on Lettuce leaves or wrap in Lettuce leaves for a lettuce wrap.  

Yum-O