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Weighing In -2015

April 12, 2015 | By Heidi | Filed Under: health, Weighing In, weight watchers | Leave a Comment

Weighing In 2015

Hello… so, my last post in this series – for lack of a better word – was in November, 2014.

At that point, I had lost over 50 by eating healthier, following Weight Watchers, exercising, and really living healthier.

I could go into 1000 excuses or reasons as to why I stopped. But I won’t.

I am beginning again.

I didn’t gain all the weight back that I had lost. I did gain some back and honestly, right now I don’t know what the number is.

It doesn’t matter what the number is.

All that matters is that I am starting again. Anew.

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My journey begins again.

This time, I am planning on also writing my feelings during the week as well as my eating/food/weight watchers part. I think I focused on that moreso last time, and this time I want “weighing in” to mean more than just weighing in at the scale.

I want it to mean weighing in on my self, my emotional state, my well being as well as what the scale says.

It all goes hand in hand, ya know.

My loose plans are:

  • Start back at Weight Watchers – this week we start over. Thursdays will still be my day…and now I have no conflicts to keep me from going and staying for the meetings.
  • Exercise – start walking again! I was so committed to walking on a daily basis and I completely stopped. I need to get back to it.
  • Check out a gym – Doing this soon…hopefully before the month is over.
  • Walk this puppy – he has a lot of puppy energy and needs to learn to behave on a leash and I need to walk. 2 birds, 1 stone.

So that is where I am at. New beginnings… even in the 4th month of the year.

How about you? Are you on a healthy journey as well? Link up your blog, instagram, twitter, tumblr, whatever! in the comments so I can follow you and your journey. Have some tips for me? Leave them in the comments as well.

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5 Random Facts – Michigan

April 8, 2015 | By Heidi | Filed Under: michigan | Leave a Comment

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I listen to a local radio station out of Detroit in the mornings while I drive to work. It’s called 96.3 WDVD. I really like the morning show, Blaine and Allyson. It’s a Top 40 station and they play pop music. I enjoy it, what can I say?

But the DJs make the station. They are hilarious and get along great and I love their banter.

Listening to them doesn’t make my ride seem as hellish as it is every morning.

They have a short segment of the show where they list “5 random facts”. I believe that they are just facts in general about random things…hence the name, right?

But..I thought I could list 5 random facts about Michigan and then keep this going about different cities here or just keep it all about Michigan…since my blog is about living in the Mitten!

So I bring you, 5 Random Facts about Michigan:

1. The state stone is the Petoskey Stone! For people living in Michigan, this is a given…we all should know this, but if you don’t live here you may not know. But they are really cool. It’s a stone and a fossil in one. We always looked for them on the beaches and sometimes we even found them! It’s been a really long time since I’ve found one though. Photo below from Flickr…click for credit.

Chuck's Petoskey Stone

2. Indian River, Michigan is home to the largest crucifix in the world. It’s called the Cross in the Woods and it is seriously HUGE! We went there this past summer on the way home from my sister’s house and omg I forgot how big it was! We used to go there a lot when I was younger and my mom and her family when there when they were young as well. Photo below I took!

Cross in the Woods

3. Michigan is called the Wolverine State, however, there are not any wild wolverines living in Michigan any more. Just in the zoo!

4. I read this one on BuzzFeed today, but I know it to be true: You have to travel South from Detroit to get to Canada via the Ambassador Bridge. Not everywhere in Detroit I’m sure, but downtown…crazy, huh?

5. The “World’s Largest Stove” was located at the Michigan state fair grounds in Detroit and in 2011 it was thought to be hit by lightening and went up in flames! Definitely sad to lose that monument. I remember seeing it when we went to the state fair when I was younger.

World's Largest Stove

So there are 5 random facts about Michigan…

Do you have any random facts about Michigan to share? Leave one in the comments!

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Meet Dasher #dasherthepup

April 5, 2015 | By Heidi | Filed Under: zoo | Leave a Comment

dasherthepupIntroducing…. <drumroll> Dasher!

Dasher came into our lives on Christmas eve. He’s a rescue who has worked his way into our heart and homes.

Let me tell you though…having a puppy is a lot of WORK!! I had forgotten everything that is involved.

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He was basically potty trained when we got him, although we have had a lot of accidents in the house.

Winter is not an ideal time to get a puppy in Michigan!

Plus he is a short haired dog and we are used to longer fluffier dogs, so he spent the first couple months in sweaters. Poor thing. The photo below is a younger Dash.

Baby Dasher - Photo by Pet Beastro

Because of his breed – which we don’t know of for sure, but suspect him to have some Pit Bull and/or Boxer in him- we have been trying to take him to pet stores frequently to socialize him with people, other dogs, etc. I am pretty sure he falls in the Bully breed spectrum and we want to make sure he is a good, friendly dog. He needs formal training, or WE actually need the training, and he’s teething like a mother effer! He gets so mad when you say, “No!” to him…it’s too funny.

But puppies…. a LOT of work!

Expect many tales of Dasher to come… see what I did there? LOL  I expect this experience to be an adventure.

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Happy Easter from the Mitten and Dasher!!

Search #dasherthepup on Instagram to see Dash’s latest photos. I need to get some videos of him as well!

If you have any training advice, or advice for a first time mom of a Bully breed…please leave me a comment!

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