About ME
I am a Boy Mom, a Grown and Almost Flown Parent, a Dog Mom, a Cat Mom, a wife, a Romance Author, and a couch potato. I love hockey. I hate to cook but love to eat. I love hard rock and hair bands.
My husband and I have a young adult son trying to find his place in this world, a Siberian Husky, and two cats.
I watch more tv than I should, but...oh well. I love RomComs, Hallmark movies, SitComs,
and dramas.
My Favorite tv shows to binge: Gilmore Girls, General Hospital, Chicago Fire, NCIS, Friends,
and the Resident
I love the beach, pizza, and coffee.
Yes, I am a romance author. I currently write a hockey romance series and a sweet college romance series. Being an author you spend a lot of time sitting behind a computer. Before 2020 I worked hard to get my steps in daily. Once everything shut down, I grabbed some snacks and hunkered down on the couch, lol. I wish I could say I was one of those folks who took up exercising, but I wasn't. I went the opposite way. I was completely motivated BEFORE the shut down, and when that happened my motivation shut down too.
I am closing in on FIFTY and I want to take control of my health for good. I want to feel better and look better.
I am Italian and I love food, lol. So this is going to be more difficult than it sounds. I did a plan right before the world shut down called BURTON NUTRITION and it worked. I lost 30lbs and kept it off. But then 2020 showed up and I reverted to all my old habits. And now Burton Nutrition is no longer a thing.
I've been heavy all my life. Before I got married I lost 20lbs on Weight Watchers, but gained it back when I stopped counting points. In 2018 I started on Burton Nutrition. BN wasn't a diet, it was learning how to eat healthy for life. (I didn't quite learn how to eat healthy for life, lol) I did lose 30lbs and I was still enjoying foods that I liked, I just learned how to eat healthy.
I didn't become a gym person, but I tried to get in exercise.
I was having a protein shake for lunch (my favorite was the Elvis - PB and bananna) eating 3 meals and making sure to snack healthy so I wasn't starving. Yes, I was counting calories, but it was enjoyable, not a chore. I used my Fitbit and the Fitbit app for that.
BN had Facebook lives once a week for motivation and questions. It was weird how much that helped. I mean, I used to HATE going in to Weight Watchers for weigh in and the meeting. But "meeting" with Steve and Jon once a week was painless!
I did join a gym at that point, but quickly learned it was not my thing.
I concentrated on my shake for lunch (that had all the nutrients of a meal), taking a green coffee bean supplement, and keeping with a higher protein diet, lower sugar, and more veggies. Oh, and drinking lots of water.
Then 2020 hit (we all know what that brought) Being stuck home and it being difficult to find some of the things I was used to eating. I fell back into bad eating habits.
In late 2021 the products became hard to get. We thought it was just a delay, but turned out to be a much longer wait as the company changed names and rebranded.
I ran out of protein powder and it is harder than you think to find protein powder that doesn't contain Sucralose (Splenda).
I was looking for Stevia. And it was useless trying to find a coffee bean supplement like the BN one.
I tried another supplement, not knowing you were supposed to follow a strict diet with it. I don't want a DIET. I'm not going to live off of cottage cheese and tomatoes for the rest of my life, so that diet just won't do. I need to teach myself how to eat the things I like while eating them in moderation so I am still eating healthy, and not just pigging out on junk. And yet I am not depriving myself for the rest of my life of foods I enjoy. I learned that was possible. I also learned I have no willpower - lol...
(I already knew that.)
That's why I need a lifestyle, not a diet. I need a healthy plan that is sustainable for me. Eating a tablespoon of cottage cheese, a tomato and a few grapes for dinner is not sustainable for me... not for me.
It's difficult to get started. I'm winging it for now, trying to find my footing, and get back that motivation that I lost.
I'm fighting the laziness, stress, the peri-menopause hormones, anxiety and depression, all while trying to be creative.
If you can relate, follow my blog and we'll get through this together!
Yesterday the new company (the old Burton Nutrition) launched the newly rebranded products and I was over the moon with excitement!! The items I have been missing are now in process and on their way to me! I think that gave me the little boost that I needed to get back at it.
I'm trying to get healthy for fifty, but I want to be healthy for life. I want to lose weight to look better, feel better, and be healthier. I want to eat pizza on Friday or have a piece of birthday cake or cookies at a holiday. And I want to learn the right way to do that and be healthy for life.
Here we go.
My husband and I have a young adult son trying to find his place in this world, a Siberian Husky, and two cats.
I watch more tv than I should, but...oh well. I love RomComs, Hallmark movies, SitComs,
and dramas.
My Favorite tv shows to binge: Gilmore Girls, General Hospital, Chicago Fire, NCIS, Friends,
and the Resident
I love the beach, pizza, and coffee.
Yes, I am a romance author. I currently write a hockey romance series and a sweet college romance series. Being an author you spend a lot of time sitting behind a computer. Before 2020 I worked hard to get my steps in daily. Once everything shut down, I grabbed some snacks and hunkered down on the couch, lol. I wish I could say I was one of those folks who took up exercising, but I wasn't. I went the opposite way. I was completely motivated BEFORE the shut down, and when that happened my motivation shut down too.
I am closing in on FIFTY and I want to take control of my health for good. I want to feel better and look better.
I am Italian and I love food, lol. So this is going to be more difficult than it sounds. I did a plan right before the world shut down called BURTON NUTRITION and it worked. I lost 30lbs and kept it off. But then 2020 showed up and I reverted to all my old habits. And now Burton Nutrition is no longer a thing.
I've been heavy all my life. Before I got married I lost 20lbs on Weight Watchers, but gained it back when I stopped counting points. In 2018 I started on Burton Nutrition. BN wasn't a diet, it was learning how to eat healthy for life. (I didn't quite learn how to eat healthy for life, lol) I did lose 30lbs and I was still enjoying foods that I liked, I just learned how to eat healthy.
I didn't become a gym person, but I tried to get in exercise.
I was having a protein shake for lunch (my favorite was the Elvis - PB and bananna) eating 3 meals and making sure to snack healthy so I wasn't starving. Yes, I was counting calories, but it was enjoyable, not a chore. I used my Fitbit and the Fitbit app for that.
BN had Facebook lives once a week for motivation and questions. It was weird how much that helped. I mean, I used to HATE going in to Weight Watchers for weigh in and the meeting. But "meeting" with Steve and Jon once a week was painless!
I did join a gym at that point, but quickly learned it was not my thing.
I concentrated on my shake for lunch (that had all the nutrients of a meal), taking a green coffee bean supplement, and keeping with a higher protein diet, lower sugar, and more veggies. Oh, and drinking lots of water.
Then 2020 hit (we all know what that brought) Being stuck home and it being difficult to find some of the things I was used to eating. I fell back into bad eating habits.
In late 2021 the products became hard to get. We thought it was just a delay, but turned out to be a much longer wait as the company changed names and rebranded.
I ran out of protein powder and it is harder than you think to find protein powder that doesn't contain Sucralose (Splenda).
I was looking for Stevia. And it was useless trying to find a coffee bean supplement like the BN one.
I tried another supplement, not knowing you were supposed to follow a strict diet with it. I don't want a DIET. I'm not going to live off of cottage cheese and tomatoes for the rest of my life, so that diet just won't do. I need to teach myself how to eat the things I like while eating them in moderation so I am still eating healthy, and not just pigging out on junk. And yet I am not depriving myself for the rest of my life of foods I enjoy. I learned that was possible. I also learned I have no willpower - lol...
(I already knew that.)
That's why I need a lifestyle, not a diet. I need a healthy plan that is sustainable for me. Eating a tablespoon of cottage cheese, a tomato and a few grapes for dinner is not sustainable for me... not for me.
It's difficult to get started. I'm winging it for now, trying to find my footing, and get back that motivation that I lost.
I'm fighting the laziness, stress, the peri-menopause hormones, anxiety and depression, all while trying to be creative.
If you can relate, follow my blog and we'll get through this together!
Yesterday the new company (the old Burton Nutrition) launched the newly rebranded products and I was over the moon with excitement!! The items I have been missing are now in process and on their way to me! I think that gave me the little boost that I needed to get back at it.
I'm trying to get healthy for fifty, but I want to be healthy for life. I want to lose weight to look better, feel better, and be healthier. I want to eat pizza on Friday or have a piece of birthday cake or cookies at a holiday. And I want to learn the right way to do that and be healthy for life.
Here we go.