Lil Miss : Recommends

I was surfing Amazon and I came across one of the cutest ideas for a gift basket. The product on Amazon is called the “90s Decade Box Gift Basket – Classic 90′s Candy” and as you can tell from the picture, it’s basically a decorated box filled with a lot of different types of candy made popular in the 90s. They also have a candy gift box for other decades as well. The idea is really great, but it’s poorly executed. The gift box itself is rather expensive (about $45 shipped) and judging by the reviews it doesn’t include many of the candies mentioned.

If you’d like to duplicate this idea in a cuter and less expensive way I would suggest purchasing a plain box (the size of a shoe box) and decorating it with fun nostalgic pictures from the decade of your choice and purchasing mixed bags of candy from a discount store. You can usually get variety bags of chocolate and other types of candy for just a few dollars. Try filling the box with candy such as M&Ms, Laffy Taffy, Smarties, Mike & Ike, Jawbreakers, Jujubes Candy, Swedish Fish, Jolly Rancher, Goobers and Tootsie Rolls, to name a few! If you want candies from a specific decade you might have to do a bit of research!

I’m feeling really fat tonight. I don’t think I even ate dinner tonight because I filled up on chips and ice cream. I have no motivation when it comes to eating the right things. I actually feel really bad about eating the chips, but I’m not really sad that I ate the ice cream. I’ve had a sore throat for the past few days and the ice cream is soothing to my throat. Besides, it was “light” ice cream so it had half the calories and fat as regular ice cream. That has to mean something!

I hope to get back on the right track as soon as I feel better. I won’t use the sore throat as an excuse to eat ice cream every day. When I do get back on track I’m going to have to be really strict with myself because it’s so hard to lose weight when you don’t have fat burners, a gym, or anything like that to help you out. I’m pretty much trying to lose weight all on my own. That’s going to be hard.

I’ve been doing a lot of research online trying to find more information about proper health, nutrition and weight loss and I feel more confused than when I started. There’s so much to learn and unfortunately there’s so much conflicting information out there. One website says to eat low fat and sugar free foods because they’re healthier, but then another website says the artificial sweeteners are no good and that you’re better off eating the regular products. It’s hard to know who’s right.

And I won’t even get into the whole sugars and carbohydrates debate. Which sugars are good and which aren’t. It makes me so crazy. I just want to know what I have to eat to be healthy and lose weight. I would love to learn more about health and proper nutrition, but I want to be able to at least apply what I’ve already learned so far. It’s too confusing!

I don’t understand why dieting has to be so complicated. I wish it was as simple as working out and changing the way that you eat but it’s not. People try to make it seem as if it is, but I’ve learned from experience that if you want to lose weight it’s a lot more complicated than just dieting and exercising. I know someone who’s been doing both things but can’t lose weight because they’re not getting enough protein. What’s up with that? So now not only do I have to figure food and exercise into my plan, I have to figure out protein intake as well? That’s on top of watching fat and calorie intake.

Dieting is definitely a lot more complicated than finding diet pills that work. But I wont even get into diet pills because that adds a whole other dimension to the problem. Why can’t losing weight be easier. Or at least less complicated.