Hi.  My name is Tab and I’m a drive-thru-aholic.  Yes, I am a mom to three wonderful children, a wife to an incredible husband and a full time worker and I like easy.  I’ve never loved to cook so I have for most of my married life taken the easy way out and stopped for take-out two to three or even four times a week.  Fast forward through 25 years of wedded bliss and all of that take-out food has taken a toll on my body.  I accumulated 40+ extra pounds (according to who you ask).

I have in years past tried every diet, every ‘get slim quick’ pill and I can’t even begin to tell you how much money I’ve wasted on different exercise programs. I have lost 10 – 15 pounds with different programs only to quickly put the weight back on once I stopped said program.  So here I am again.

In November we went on vacation to the beach and after seeing those wonderful beach pictures, I decided that I could not keep letting my health deteriorate and my waistline expand.  I’m a short girl and I can remember my grandfather talking about his mom and saying that she was ‘five feet tall and five feet wide’.  I’ve never been more than five feet tall and I do not want to be five feet wide. The Monday following our vacation, I signed up for Weight Watchers.

I’ve had great success so far and hope that this will be my year to get it all off and maintain.  I love reading blogs and seeing other people’s ideas for meal planning.  That’s where this blog comes in to play.  I can’t cook all that fancy stuff and if I set my table with some of those meals my family would just giggle and say, “where’s the real food?”.  I decided that if I have had success with my way of eating, that I may be able to help someone else.  We do still eat out and I do still go through the drive-thru sometimes, but I am learning how to make better choices.

I’m looking forward to seeing how all of this unfolds and hope to look back next year proud of what I accomplish.

Until next time….