Design For Shabby Apple

A little contest make big dreams come true

As a little girl I spent allot of time drawing dresses and clothes on super model type girls. My mom sewed allot and taught me a little. It was my dream to create and design clothes. That's why I was so excited to hear about Shabby Apple's Design challenge! They have awesome Shabby Apple Dresses! I would have a hard time picking my favorite out of any of their collections. They have something for every occasion and I love love love their style and sophistication.

So hear is my design for Shabby Apple. If chosen as one of the top 15 you must go vote for mine at www.shabbyapple.com Winner will have their dress made and sold at Shabby Apple. AWESOME!

This dress is flowy in all the right places and is fitted to give that womanly sihlouette. The bodice has allot of detailing on the front bib with pleating and ruffles. The waist band is roushed to give an extra curve. Girls my size so desperately need help adding the curves. But if you've already got 'em this dress shows em off! At the bottom there is a peekaboo of a ruffle created by an added layer. Don't know about you but I would love to wear this dress next spring!

My inspiration is the always beautiful and elegant Audrey Hepburn. I love her as seen here in My Fair Lady. She is the epitome of style and grace. This movie pictures some really great big "church lady" hats. When I think of spring I imagine all the ladies dressing in beautiful flowy dresses with big hats and gloves. This dress would be perfect for an Easter Sunday with such accessories!

I can see this dress in a peachy pink, medium purple, or even mustardy yellow. A polyester cotton blend would be great to keep it flowy but also show off the detailing.

What a fun contest to help little girl's dreams come true! Thanks Shabby Apple!

Herbs, Gummy Bears and other stuff

Family today is our first week to weigh in to see our progress. Same time each week would be idea and before all the Superbowl treats would be even more ideal :)

I did some great stuff this week, some not so great embarrassing stuff and learned cool stuff!

First great stuff was I ate plain yogurt and granola for breakfast. At fresh and easy there are yummy granola with berries or other fruit you can buy and add to your yogurt. I also love putting in fresh or frozen fruit when I have it. Just look out to see if your frozen or prepared fruit is sitting in high fructose syrup.

Not so great embarrassing stuff-I have to admit I found myself eating to make myself feel better this week. It was stressful at work so I have fried dessert. You know what I'm talking about :) I had a rough time with a whole lot of kids at my house so I bought and consumed a half container of chocolate covered gummy bears. I looked at the nutritional facts the next day and I should have eaten about 4...instead of 24. Oh well. Looking back I can see how something that made me happy for the short term did not make me happy in the long term.

Jeremy and I are way interested in herbs and how they are Heavenly Father's way of natural healing our bodies. Now there are some things out there that aren't going to help you and may give you psychedelic effects. Please don't go around eating everything that grows in the ground hoping to cure cancer or acne, but if you study which plants can help I believe we'd all be in better shape then taking pharmaceuticals all the time. We went to class at Herbally Grounded called "There's an herb for that". The founder of the store was diagnosed with lupis and given 1 year to live if she did Chemo. She studied and prayed and found herbs that build your immune system and beat it and had no further symptoms of the disease. Amazing! There is also a weight loss class on the 18th that teaches you about detoxifying your body so your body is ready to lose that fat!

For all you looking to beef up your bodies as well as lose weight you might want to check out these herbs that have all the amino acids to make protein in your body. Foods that we eat only have some of them have to be combined with other foods to make up all the amino acids. Hence the peanut butter and whole grains combo.

So call, text, email or any other form of communication to let us know your weight loss this week!

If you see Jeremy make sure to let him know if he has any grass in his teeth from all the green herbs he has been drinking

Weigh In Day!

Today is our first weigh in for our family biggest loser challenge. If you couldn't make it you can still play along. Weigh yourself today and write it down. Each week weigh yourself at the same time and track your progress.

I have a confession. I have a bunch of annoying nutrition and weight loss facts I've always wanted to share, but when I was 18 years old my best friend told me no one cares that you need to eat peanut butter on whole wheat bread for it to actually to make protein in your body. So I've kept my annoying facts to myself. I am in no way an expert, YET! One day it is my hopes and dreams to be a registered dietitian and herbalist. Nothing in my blog should be taken as expert advice. So read if you like, comment if you like.

Basic weight loss is based on calories. How much you take in and how much you put out. Check out this website to find out how many calories your body needs just to stay alive. http://health.discovery.com/centers/heart/basal/basal.html This is if you laid on the couch and didn't move. Basic movement probably adds about 400 calories and the more active you are the more calories you need. Sometimes being a busy mom I feel like I use allot of calories but everyday movement isn't as much as you think it would be

I found a free website that will keep track of how many calories you ate and burnedhttp://www.my-calorie-counter.com/. Basic info is it takes 3500 calories to make a pound and 3500 calories to lose a pound. So if you can cut what you eat and burn calories by 500 a day you will lose one pound a week.

I'm excited for this challenge. As Jeremy's coach I will be getting our family to move everyday. He doesn't know it yet but when we watch tv we will be doing situps, pushups, banana rolls, sqauts you name it during the commercials.
So comment and make me feel loved. Too annoying, too basic?

The Biggest Loser Competition!

K Family this blog will hopefully be a great way we can all stay motivated in achieving our goals. We can talk about the different ways we exercised, yummy nutritional meals we ate, or wish we ate instead of the McDonald's we had. We can also use this to announce our weight loss each week.

Hope to see you all on Sunday for our first weigh in. We are trying to figure out the best way to keep track of weight while keeping everyone happy. First idea was a moderator can write down everyone's weight and will be the keeper of that info. Moderator can be someone nonthreatening like Abigail or someone else we decide on. Then weekly when you let us know how many pounds you lost we would figure out your percentage of weight loss and post it. Which is the real determination of our Biggest Loser. Second idea we go on honesty and everyone keep track of their own weight. You can post your pounds lost to inspire everyone. Third idea is we have each person write down their own weight and seal it in an envelope and we keep it until the challenge is over. Then weekly we would only post pound numbers instead of percentage numbers. Give me your ideas!

I can't wait for this great game to begin so excited.