Wedding Season and a NSV

Hello fellow bloggers.  I hope the summer heat hasn't got you down!  It is finally not over 100 degrees in my neck of the woods and I couldn't be happier :)  I have been the energizer bunny for the past week and it will continue into September if you can believe it.  Sometimes I can't even believe it. 

On Friday night we had a wedding recpetion for our friends who got married in Jamaica in March.  It was a lot of fun!  We danced and did the photo booth (which I can't wait for at our wedding) and saw some old friends.  Saturday I had a garden party at a co-worker's house followed by a pub party at my future in-laws house.  They built and English pub in their backyard.  It is very lovely and everyone had a great time.  My family also came, so it was a nice time to have a mixing of teh two families.

This week Ron and I are interviewing wedding photographers.  There are some really talented people in the Twin Cities, so it has been hard narrowing down our list.  We met with someone yesterday whom we really like a lot, but I feel like I want to interview at least one more person to be sure.  Afterall, this is a large investment and is something that we will have and will look back on for the rest of our lives.

This weekend Ron and I are headed to Duluth for a very good friend's wedding.  I am very excited to get away on a mini trip and to spend time with friends that I haven't seen in far too long.  Wedding season is definitely in full swing and I am just trucking right along and dancing my way through each one.

Weight loss keeps coming!!  3.3 pounds down this week!  Woo-hoo.  I had a GREAT NSV moment this weekend when several people noticed my weight loss and commented that they can see my waist starting to get defined.  Haleluja!  This weight loss thing is starting to look good on me.  Literally! :)

Sorry the pictures have been sparse lately, I am fixing my camera, but it will be done this week and I promise I will give you some pictures to go along with all of my adventures!  Have a happy and healthy week! :)

Salads and two mini NSV's

I am obsessing over salads lately.  Something has me craving them non stop, which is a good thing of course!  I have been buying a lot of different salad toppings so that I can always be adding variety into my life.  Last night I made a Crunchy Garlic Sausage Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing.


Key players:


Garlic Sausage Links (Trader Joe's)
Romaine Lettuce
Baby Tomatoes
Broccoli Slaw
Green Onion
1 Tbs Boathouse Yogurt Honey Mustard Dressing

Some delish sauteed mushrooms

Trader Joe's Garlic Chicken Sausage Goodness

Yummy dressing!  (The best part is that is healthier for you and the flavor is intense in a good way so you only need a little bit of it!)

My beautiful creation!  It was so good I am having it again for lunch!

So, onto my NSV!  I have two of them to share and I am really excited about both of them.  The first one is that I walked to the bus yesterday past this restaurant that serves up hamburgers, french fries and other fried foods and for the first time this year (because it has been so cold)  I was able to smell the food cooking inside.  I can say for the first time in my life I was grossed out by the smell of greasy fried food being cooked.  I started to speed up my walking just to get away from the odor.  It is sort of a silly NSV, but it is meaningful for me because when I would smell food in the past it would trigger a craving and the next thing you know is that I am in the drive through or at a restaurant induldging my craving.  So, this was definitely a win for me since I went home and ate a salad.

The next little NSV is relating to riding the bus.  I am probably the only person in the world who has anxiety riding the bus because of her size/weight, but it's true... I don't like to ride the bus.  I always feel like people are looking at me strange or judging me (who knows, it might just be in my head).  Usually when I ride the bus I find this small chair that is by itself and doesn't require you to have someone sit next to you.  I was always so paranoid about encrouching on someone else's space or being squished next to someone.  Well, twice this week I decided to sit in a chair that has two very close seats next to each other.  I chose the window seat both times and waited to see if someone would come sit next to me.  It is not that I smell or that I am strange or scary that would make people chose another seat, but rather that I was bigger and there were other seats open that would allow them more space.  I had someone choose to sit next to me immediately both days and there was plenty of room for both of us.  It may be a small silly NSV, but it is something that has made me confident that I am not only doing that right thing, but that it is working.  I am losing weight and looking and feeling better already!