Hello world!

What can I say? I actually like the automated title from WordPress, so I think I’ll keep it.Well, since it is the beginning of my blog, we will start with the beginning… Of today, that is.

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Skin & Makeup

Well, as I mentioned in my “About” section, I have recently been diagnosed with eczema, well I’ve started getting my first “flare up” on my face in the last two weeks and today I woke up with my eyes half swollen shut from the flare up getting so much worse in the last day and a half, so I went to the doctor’s office and she decided to give me a steroid shot, in an effort to get this to heal more quickly, so hopefully the worst of this will be gone in the next two days. One thing I’ve read about is keeping track of what I’m eating and what products I use on my skin and anywhere near my face, so I will be using this blog to log all of that, both as a record of that, but also to show what kinds of makeup the makeup junkie in me is using day in and day out.

Today is easy, since I wasn’t able to use much of anything

• Murad Energizing Pomegranate Moisturizer SPF 15
• Neosporin LT Lip Treatment

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Health, Fitness & Diet

Since I went to the Dr, I had to get on the scale (don’t you hate that) and the result… 187lbs. Luckily, I learned last time I was there that the Dr’s scale is a few pounds more than the scale at Weight Watchers, so I haven’t regained too much, hopefully.

Today’s Diet

• Breakfast
  • Stonyfield Farm Lowfat Yogurt Blueberry, 6 oz -0 points
  • Regular Coffee, 1 cup (8 fl oz) – 0 points
  • Tea, brewed, 8 fl oz – 0 points
  • Sucralose (like Splenda), 1 tsp – 0 points
  • Silk Vanilla Soymilk Plus Fiber, 0.25 cup – 0.5 Points
  • Nature Made Multi For Her with Calcium & Iron, 1 serving – vitamin
• Lunch
  • Lean Cuisine Roasted Garlic Chicken Pizza, 1 serving – 7 points
  • Weight Watchers Sweet and Salty 2 Point Bar, 1 serving – 2 points
• Dinner
  • Grilled Chicken Capri, 1 serving – 11 points
  • Vitalicious VitaBrownie, 1 serving – 1 point

Reflections on today’s meal: Breakfast could have used some fruit added to it, or added as a morning snack, preferably with some healthy fats, such as almonds. Lunch could have definitely used some fruits and/or vegetables. Dinner, while delicious, again could have used some fruits and/or vegetables and the VitaBrownie, while ok, was not the best brownie I’ve ever had, but did satisfy my sweets craving for only 1 point. Overall, while an ok day, only going 0.5 points over my daily target, was seriously lacking in fruits and vegetables. Notes for tomorrow’s meals: Take in mixed fruits and veggies, pick up some almonds for when I need some fats and proteins to add to a snack.

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The book scene

• Current Read: Radical Cure by Olivia Gates from the Silhouette Bombshell series
• Synopsis: Working in war zones while treating the sick and wounded, Dr. Calista St. James is used to being under siege. But now, her team has been deliberately infected with a seemingly incurable and mysterious agent that simulates both chemcial and biological afflictions — and all signs point to it being an inside job.
  Before Calista can expose the traitor, or the truth, she has to travel worlds away with her former mentor, maybe lover and definitely uncertain quantity black-ops agent Damian De Luna — a man she loves, trusts with her life but doesn’t trust to ever tell her the truth — to find the cure.
  Radical steps are needed to stop this deadly outbreak, but can Calista stop the breakdown of everything she’s dedicated her life to building and fighting for?
• Review: This is a medical suspense novel, second in a series. While the base storyline is interesting, the author doesn’t segue well between scenes, which can be very jarring and tends to ruin the overall read.

www.PaperbackSwap.com Books Sent or Received Today:

• Received: The Dark One by Ronda Thompson, Book 2 in the Wild Wulfs of London series