Birthday

I'm officially 50 years old now. That seems completely impossible. I had a lovely birthday. Stepped on the scale (since it was Friday morning)--200. Yes! This latest plan is working!! Four pounds down---at least for the moment.  I asked for and received a basketball, so we all went and played a very unpracticed game of horse.  Lots of fun, and I was proud for getting out there and doing something. As it was my birthday, it was a free day and I ate a whole plenty including movie popcorn. Movie (Noah) was terrible, popcorn was fabulous. Went to Tocano's, a brazilian buffet, which was fantastic and then had birthday cake on top of that. I enjoyed it all whole heartedly, and today I'm back on track with my first Hungry Girl day.

So far the Hungry Girl day has been great--helped on by starting full, but even so....yum. I had a bowl of yogurt with peaches, cinnamon, fiber one cereal and almonds for breakfast, a big salad with chicken and garbanzo beans for lunch and I've made a new discovery--Kale Chips. Weirdest thing, but Hungry Girl knows her stuff. Take kale, spray it with canola spray, salt it and bake at 425 for 8 minutes. They actually taste good. They're too fragile to dip, but otherwise a perfectly good substitute for chips. I"m going to the store in a minute and will buy another bunch for later this week, they're that good.  I got a lot of exercise in today as well by walking to the Pleasant Valley Library--there and  back is about 5 miles. I need to do another 15 min of exercise and then I'll have 2 hours, which I plan to blow on birthday cake and ice-cream tonight.