Welcome to my life and my journey

Hello. Welcome to my life and my journey.

Hiya.  Welcome to my little corner of the internet. This is my site to share my world with you.   I love to travel and I love to eat.  Unfortunately I think I have had one too many schnitzel's and beers while we have been in Germany.  Regardless, feel free to join me on my journey.  I try to blog when I can.  I have seperate areas on my site for recipes, travel and my blog & food journal.

We have several places that we have traveled too and several that we would still like to visit.  Ireland, Scottland, England, Turkey, Vienna, Prague, Brussells, Bruge...just to name a few places that we hope to visit in the next three years.    We have already visited Paris (3 times), Amsterdam (2 times), Venice, Rome, Egypt (El Gouna on the Red Sea) and some places in Germany.

In the past 5 years I have let myself go.  I used to be in shape.  I spent 4 years in the military running, lifting weights and taking good care of myself.  Now I have a lot of work to do.  We are stationed overseas and have been here for several years.  We do not have any children but they are an option of the future.  We do have to kitties.  Socks and Boots are our two adorable cats. 

I work full time for a company called SAIC.  I am an information analyst.   I  also just completed my bachelor's degree in business administration.  I actively volunteer in our military community for two different organizations.  One is the Fisher House and the other is our Family Readiness Group in my husband's unit.  I spend any where from 3 to 20 hours a month between the two organizations.

I think people make the mistake of setting too many rules for themselves and then finding that they cannot stick to all of them.  Right now I am working on eating healthy.  Hopefully it will result in weight loss.  I am trying to get at least three work outs in each week.  But eating healthy is my first priority.  Once I lose about 20-30 pounds then I will keep eating healthy and start to put more stress on exercise. 

Anyways...here is my effort to get back on track.  I plan on eating better and exercising more.

If you have any suggestions or just want to contact me you can email me.

Favorites and Resources

Here are some of my favorite sites and resources for food and travel 

www.ronisweigh.com This is Roni's site. (She rocks!)  Let me tell you...she was featured on MSN.com and gave me inspiration to start working on a site.  She has all kinds of great info on fitness, food and fun.

www.greenlitebites.com  Roni's new food blog and store.  She has added videos too. 

www.weightwatchers.com This site has good info for anyone in need of weight loss motivation.

www.foodtv.com The Food Network site.  Lots of good stuff...but not all of them are health conscience.

www.rachealraymag.com Racheal Ray...Need I say more?  She is great.  Some times you can luck out and tweak her recipes to make them fit into a healthier way of life.

http://weightwatchinwiki.pbwiki.com/  Weight Watchin' Wiki...Good stuff here!

http://www.bahn.de/international/view/en/index.shtml   German train tickets online

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/?culture=IE   RyanAir for cheap flights in Europe

http://www.edelweisslodgeandresort.com/home.html   Edelweiss Lodge and Resort

https://europe.satovacations.com/  Sato Europe