Here's the cake that I made for my 6 yr old. Everything is edible except for the Hot Wheels cars. The big Spiderman and the spiders on top of the cake are made out of chocolate. The buildings are royal icing, as well as the little web shooting out of Spiderman's hand. This is a stacked cake, the bottom tier is a 14" round, and the top tier is a 6". This is my first stacked cake, it was interesting that's for sure :O)

My son requested Wall-E cupcakes for his birthday party yesterday. Phoenix lent me the stand, isn't it awesome? That's 38 cupcakes there. I'm making a cake for his actual birthday on Wednesday. I will post pics :O)

Say....CHEESE!!!

This pic was taken in Kamloops :O)

I have a couple of new things to show you guys :O)

First...a new haircut!



Second...a new bag! This is the Core Gym Bag *Dip Dye by Lululemon. I LOVEEEEE this bag!!!


Here's the Description...

* Rich Purple (a beautiful range of shades) patent-leather like exterior (wipes clean), with matching light purple lining with teal accents in the interior
* Faux croc trim and bottom part of bag
* Long handles for over the shoulder carry
* Exterior material has script from the lulu manifesto written on the front, along with little embroidered emblems randomly dispersed on the bag
* Engraveable name tag on front
* Many pockets and compartments, including a lap top pocket and a large zip pocket seperate for your gym gear (with a shoe bag). There are also 6 pockets on the outside of the bag that you can't even tell are there
* Comes with detachable shoulder strap
* Water resistant liner wipes clean easily
* Tested to hold 50 lbs

All for $98 bucks. I think that's one heck of a deal :O)

Sharing some pics of my family and I that were taken on my trip last weekend.





Haha, my 5 yr old took this shot and told us all to pose "like silly statues". This is my Dad and his girlfriend in the photo. We were over at their place for a BBQ.

My new plan is working! One day of lower points/healthier eating, and I'm already down a lb. The lowest I've been in 5 weeks. I hope this continues! I'm excited! I want to see those 140's again :O)

I really appreciate all the helpful comments everyone. I'm so lucky to have all this support :O)

So, I'm done pouting and moping about my body not wanting to lose weight. I'm ready to tackle this again. I've tried low points, I've tried high points, and I've tried mediocre points...all of these options have gotten me nowhere. Now, I'm going to try the NOT GIVING MY BODY A DAMN CHOICE plan. I will drop my points again to 23, and I'm NOT going to eat my flex this week (which will be hard because I always eat my Flex). I'm going to revert to the old WW plan and only eat up to 4 AP's per day. I will do my best to earn 28 ap's during the week despite this crappy ankle injury that I have. I'm also going to take some of your great suggestions and try to incorporate more of the Core-style foods into my menu. I'm still going to count points though because I don't trust myself not to overeat. I guess that I'll be doing kind of a Flex/Core combo. I really hope this kicks my body into weight loss mode. I think once I get the ball rolling, I will lose consistantly like I did before.

Wish me luck!

(Oh, and weigh in today was 151.5 lbs, so basically I stayed the same again)

Well...I'm 151.6 lbs today. Which is down 2 lbs from last week, but right back to where I was the week before. So basically, in the last 3.5 weeks of lowering my points, I haven't gotten anywhere. I GIVE UP! I'm sick of eating so few points, especially since it's not working. So, I'm bumping my points up to 27, which is 3 less than I normally do for maintenace, and 4 more from what I've been doing these last few weeks. I feel totally defeated :O(

This will be my last week of eating 23 pts. It's just not working! I will finish the week because that's just my style. I don't quit. The lowered points isn't doing a darn thing though! I've been trying for 3 weeks now, and I've been earning my AP's just like I usually would (28 per week).

Just poppin' by with some cool cake pics. I made my graduation cake for Wilton Course 2 tonight, and I'm also sharing pics from my Gumpaste Flowers class on Monday (Sweetpeas and Orchids). The cake is a low fat yogurt, vanilla cake. I worked out today, so I can have a piece. I'm really trying to keep my activity level up with some good workouts. I can't run right now because I've done something to my calf muscle...how weird is that?!? Watching PHOENIXRISING *LINK* working so hard this week is really helping me to stay motivated though. That newbie enthusiasm is so catchy :O)

GAIN - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *jumps off bridge*

I lowered my points from the 30 that I usually eat on maintenace, down to 23 for losing. I earned 28 ap's this week. Ate all of my flex and AP's, and what do I get? A FREAKING GAIN! Up 2.6 lbs. Do I even bother to try again this week? It seems so hopeless.

Omggggg, I stood on the scale this morning and despite lowering my points and exercising lots this week, my weight is going UP! I can't believe this! I've switched my WI's back to Monday, so hopefully things change by then. Something tells me it won't though. Talk about frusterating, I could just SCREAM!

Ok, so I've found something that I suck at. Royal Icing! Last week I made a batch for my Wilton class, and it was totally runny by the time I got it there. I couldn't make it form a flower if my life depended on it! So this week I made sure to make the icing good and stiff, and it still didn't do me any good! I CAN'T make Royal Icing flowers at all! Here's a pic to prove it! They just look like blobs! LOL! Feel free to laugh at me!



However, I can still make cupcakes. Here's some that I made for my cake instructor/friend that I mentioned below. It was her 30th birthday today. See what a good little "weight loss" friend I am? *mwahahahhahah* She's a "Wall-E" fan, and these cupcakes are chocolate cake with my homemade Hostess Twinkie Filling, topped with Chocolate Buttercream :O)



As far as weight loss goes...I'm on my 2nd week of trying to lose. I need to get my weight down about 10 lbs or so. No, I'm not overweight, but I'm not where I like to be. The extra weight always shows right in my gut, and I HATE THAT! So, week 2 of lowering my points for losing, and am I getting anywhere? NOPE! Since being on maintenance, whenever I try to shed a couple of lbs, my body won't give it up! I will win this battle though. Mark my words.

Here's what I learned in our Gumpaste Flowers class tonight...

These are fondant flowers that I made in my second "Gumpaste Flowers" Class on Monday night. The second pic is of the Superman cake that I made for MsBlingBling's hubby.

Oh, and the scale is down 3 lbs so far. Hopefully it's a good weigh in on Friday :O)

I haven't posted any pictures of myself in a couple of months, so I thought I'd share these (of me stuffing my face) that a friend took at the company picnic.

OMG, my weigh in was SO terrible today! I'm not sure why...but I was up 6.7 lbs! THAT'S INSANE! I've lowered my points for now. I think it's because I haven't been earning as many AP's as I usually do :O(

Here's a cake I did last night. It's a frozen strawberry cake I had kickin' around in the freezer and wanted to use up. Plus I had leftover icing, and I wanted to try making the apple blossoms out of marshmallow fondant to see how it would turn out.

I just got back from a little holiday. I took the kiddo's to visit my family. I love going to their place. All the meals and snacks are point friendly, and they entertain my kids so that I can go for runs in the hills behind their house. I hit the trails with their boxer dog. I actually outran the poor thing! The dog turned around and ditched me in the hills to head back home after about 5-6k. I had to chase her down to get her leash back on! She was at the bottom of the hill laying in a puddle on the street and drinking out of it. When we got back to the house, she laid in the kiddie pool panting LOL! She's just lucky that she's cute ;o)



Anyways...I'm home now, and back to my cakin'. Tonight, I started the Wilton Gumpaste Flowers course, which was SO much fun! We learned apple blossoms, daisy's, and cala lillies. These were made out of fondant, and were a little bit rushed. I know that I could have done them better, but there was just so much to do this class! I'll make a cake later this week to decorate with my newly learned flower makin' skillz. Then I'll be able to take my time. Just thought that I'd share a pic anyways :OP

Here's the cake that I made this weekend.

The cupcakes that I did for my son's Kindergarten class's end of the year party.

Here is the cake that I made to complete the Wilton Course 1 tonight. We were allowed to do whatever we wanted for our cake. This one reminds me of my blog :O)

HEY GUYS! I'm sorry that I haven't been around. I've been so busy! People are asking me to make them cakes, I'm taking the Wilton Cake Decorating Courses. School is winding up, so there's celebrations and get togethers. It's total craziness, and I can't wait for summer holidays to start! Anyways, here's what I've been up to. This blog is turning from weight loss to CAKES, how crazy is that? LOL!