Wendy's Transformation

[fengshway]

Wendy Welch's Diet Power Webpage

I use this software. it is great!

[Karen411]

Wendy, way to go on the run. Beautiful pictures in your log. I need you to come and teach me how to cook the foods you cook. (But, I'd also need you to teach my family how to eat that many vegetables . . . )

[stingo]

Unless I miss my guess, you look thinner in your new avatar. Congrats

[fengshway]

karen, sneak the veggies in!!!

thanks stingo, but I think it is the picture angle. the proof will be the measurements next weekend. clothes fit about the same, maybe a tad looser.

[nutbar]

Originally Posted by fengshway

cooking up a storm here, but took a break to do silly pictures, and some pretty ones of our property:

Wendy's Blog

Gorgeous!! I subbed to your blog's RSS feed. Hope you don't mind. I can never get too much beautiful scenery!

[fengshway]

subscribe away! I love my paradise, and I love to share it! we live on 8 acres of old florida forest that backs up to a tidal creek--we can kayak from our backyard to the intracoastal if we go left and to an old molasses/sugar mill from the 1820's if we go right. we have wild boar, deer, hawks, and of course, gators. tons of different birds. and the ocean is just 2 miles the other way. our house is a little 2 bedroom 2 bath florida cracker house, two story. no garage. 1400 sq feet, so we have to keep clutter to a minimum, which is a good thing. but no room for sexy squat racks, unfortunately.

within a year or so, we will be building a greenhouse for fresh veggies, fruits and spices yearround.

we have lived here two years, and I am so much healthier. walking to the mailbox is almost 4/10 of a mile round trip, lol.

someday, we will build a very cool treefort too. and landscape the front to include some running paths.

[Karen411]

Originally Posted by fengshway

karen, sneak the veggies in!!!

I try my best, but sometimes they detect them anyway. I am considering the cookbooks that sneak them in children's foods, but I want them to just love vegetables and appreciate them the way I do. Is that too much to ask, LOL ?

[nutbar]

Oh, how very cool!! We bought our 23 acres 4 years ago in the foothills/mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. There was a crappy old trailer on it that we lived in for a couple of years while we started building our house. Just us building it, bit by bit. All concrete and steel, earth-bermed. Hubby built me a greenhouse down at the old trailer when we were still there -- you'll absolutely LOVE having one! We can't start building one up here at the new place yet until we get more of the house done. We've only got 1/4 of it done right now and are living in that part -- 1000 square feet for the 7 of us. Paying out of pocket, both for time and money, makes things go very slowly. LOL Anyway, yeah, I feel your pain in scrunched living and your joy in living on such a breathtakingly beautiful property! (I need to do some technical updating on my blog since I moved hosts but will put a link to it in my sig when I do.)

[gregl515]

Weights on squats and deads are great and the food porn!

[fengshway]

karen, my favorite trick is the blender, my niece and nephew never knew the the stuff I put into things!

diane, definitely link me to it when you can--we interviewed in elk city ok, (west) years ago--that part of OK was very hilly and pretty. the eastern part is probably different--maybe greener??. 1400 sq ft is plenty for ed and I. we don't have kids. so the only thing we will do is a garage and a pool, but not until we can pay cash for it. I am done with debt of all kinds--part of losing weight, was living more simply and getting out of debt!!! we are debt free, except the mortgage, and we will be out of that in a few years too.

thanks greg! the food porn will be more detailed once the greenhouse is built, lol.

[Karen411]

Wendy, that sounds great. Here's what I'm thinking is the biggest draw of your pics right now--there's no snow. I am in western MT and we have more than a foot of snow. Sometimes it melts and then it snows some more, but it will be another month at least until there is less than a foot. A pool and trails and a garage just sound heavenly. We are finishing the last room in our house right now (been building 2 years, with 2 kids and 3500 sq. ft.) and doing the rest of the landscaping (5 acres) this summer. The garage will have to come later as we are not adding debt either. You'd think that it'd be easy to stay fit when there's so much to do all the time, but sadly that's not the case.

As for the blender, I have tried that and food processor, especially with spinach and carrots. It's okay with them as long as I don't cross the line into too much of a good thing, LOL.

[fengshway]

karen, I know how lucky we are to not have snow, but people who grew up in the snow miss it when they live here! I am a native floridian, so I don't know what I am missing. but when snow people talk about their snow sports, they light up! I am especially intriqued by cross country skiing.

[fengshway]

tough workout today!

active dynamic warm up
dead warmup 6@65
6@95
then 3 sets of 8 @120

dumbell shoulder press 3 sets of 8 with 2 x 20 DB
lat pulldown 3 sets of 8 @ 90 lbs

walking lunges 3 sets of 8 with 2 x 20 db
decline abse 3 sets of 15 with a 35 lb plate

then I did my core workout.

recovered with the yummy italian pasta dish and meatballs from yesterday.

[wilburaz]

Hi Wendy ~ I finally had a chance to catch up on your journal! Wow...you've been busy cooking, running, and throwing some serious weight around the gym! I know what you mean about the carbfest the day following a long run...mmmm...food. I am living vicariously through your running right now because I am finishing up 8 weeks of non-running due to a stress fracture in my left tibia. That's okay though because winter is practically over in my neck of the woods and I didn't have to get up and run in the dark and the cold! Enjoy your wonderful meals.

[fengshway]

thanks rachel. good for you to allow your body to heal. I took off 8 weeks from running due to and IT band injury, and now I am back! you are smart to rest.

cooking good food is the only way I could stand to eat for the long term. diet food is yukky!

[Bill2380]

Wendy, I love the pictures of your compound. Kayaking is great exercise and you lucky devils get to do it year 'round. The State of PA tore down a hundred year old dam on a creek which runs close to my home. With the dam removal went the couple of miles of kayakable waterway. Now I keep my kayak at my Dad's place, at a lake about two hours north of here. I love to get out early in the morning while everything is calm and the deer are eating the neighbors bushes. Unfortunately, we can only get there every other weekend in the late spring and summer.

By the way, your not missing a damn thing by not having snow.

[Karen411]

Originally Posted by Bill2380

By the way, your not missing a damn thing by not having snow.

I'll second that! I've never lived where there isn't snow and someday I'm going to live my winters where there is no snow.

[missjane]

I hear that! Oh, how I would NOT miss snow!