[photo credit:  Scott Kallin]

Favorite night of the week -Friday.

Favorite place to have dinner out right now -Milagros Mexican Restaurant in Fairhaven.

Favorite food- Fajita taco salad

Favorite park- Boulevard.

Favorite person- Cam.

Taking risks, being brave, believing God, waking up early, dreaming bigger (and sometimes crazy) dreams and trying to learn how to be comfortable in my own skin…

[photos by: Sean Watters]

• Betsy’s page: http://bellinghamjbr.kintera.org/betsywatters
• Cam’s page: http://bellinghamjbr.kintera.org/cameronwatters

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Jingle Bell Run 2005

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Our crazy-awesome 7am Jogo class (well most of them)!  What a fun group!

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• Faux Mashed Potatoes (steamed Cauliflower and then put through a food processor to give the mashed texture). Add in garlic, chives  or rosemary for flavor and then bake for 15 minutes at 325.
• Pot Roast

  The Hard Easy

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  – SO good!

• Baked Apples (we didn’t have a vanilla bean or currents so we subbed with fresh cranberries and vanilla). Seriously the yummiest thing I have ever smelled and they tasted amazing! We are loving Elana’s Pantry
  
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  for dairy-free, sugar free and gluten free recipes. We just need to order some almond flour and then we can try all sorts of yummy goodies.

And I made up a little dairy-free, sugar free alternative to Hot Cocoa this afternoon:

Organic Hot Cocoa

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• 4 Cups Organic Almond Milk (Pacific Original)
• 4 Tbs of  Trader Joe’s Organic Cocoa Powder
• 3 Tbs Organic Blue Agave Sweetner
  

This one is just a treat- not much great about this nutritionally but it was yummy and satisfied a chocolate craving without compromising my “No dairy and no refined sugar” eating plan.

Do you have any yummy, fall recipe recommendations?

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If I wasn’t already working out there- this video would make me want to!Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil full movieThe Last Days of Disco hd

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• The Betrayed film

• A Night at the Roxbury movie

Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin with the Godmother

What was once “Cam’s gym” is now Sean, Caleb and Betsy’s gym too. We are all there and we LOVE it! The boys and I go 3 days each week. I go to the 7am class with Cam and the boys go to the Jogo Kids class on MWF from 1-2pm.

Starting Monday, October 12th, our family is doing our own little 6 week Paleo food challenge. This challenge will take us right up to the week of Thanksgiving. The food pyramid for Paleo eating looks like this:

You’ll notice there are no grains, dairy, or legumes on this pyramid. The goal is to eat REAL food- as close to how it naturally comes as possible. Many people have had amazing results in implementing this way of eating (one woman at the gym experienced 15% or more of fat loss in 60 days). Cam and I are going with an approach that maximizes fat loss (to differing degrees) and the boys will be eating to maintain their “ideal leanness”. One nice thing about consuming larger quantities of fat and protein while restricting carb intake is that we won’t feel like we are starving! If you are curious and want to know more about exactly what it is that we are doing- just ask! We’d also love to have others join us on our journey. I’m looking forward to reporting BIG -or should I say, smaller results over the next 6 weeks!

** You can check out what Cam has written in more detail about his food/exercise regime on his blog.

Check out their programs here.

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First, I didn’t update Friday or over the weekend. I’ve got a new way of handling the food and exercise, and I’ll post more info in the next couple of days.

Second, I’ve “fixed” it so these on the front page, instead of just on the “fitness” page as before.

As for an actual update, the scale reads 244 lbs. That’s the conservative reading, because, as I’ve written before, I don’t have a digital scale, and the needle wiggles a little. Last week, I mentioned that the scale read 244, but that was after a 5 mile run, which is deceiving as I tend to drop measurable weight when I run distances greater than 3 miles. All of that weight dropped is, of course, water.

I’m quite pleased. Although I didn’t start recording my weight here until January 16th, I weighed 256 lbs on January 2nd, which was when I started eating differently and seriously working out. Since then, I’ve lost 12 pounds. I’m also only 19 pounds away from my initial goal weight now, which is great. If I keep losing weight at this pace (I know I’ll plateau at some point), I’ll meet my goal on April 10th. If I get there, I may increase my calorie intake a bit, but I’ll probably try to keep losing weight until at least May 28th. I’ll stop then no matter what my weight, as I’ll need to focus on training for the 2006 Portland Marathon. I may still lose some weight, but I won’t be actively trying to do so. Just eating a normal amount of calories and exercising.

Anyway, I’ll update more in the coming days…The Molly Maguires trailer