{"id":937,"date":"2011-01-13T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2011-01-13T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:02:15","slug":"staceys-green-monster-oh-g-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Stacey’s Green Monster (OH G M!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"photo-7\"Today I started the day as a frustrated 35 year old woman.\u00a0 I quit smoking in April of ’09 and am so thankful to have kicked that nasty habit!!! Unfortunately, that victory came with a price tag to the tune of a 45 pound weight gain in about 12 months.\u00a0 Everyone I have spoken with has insisted that the health benefit of smoking cessation far “outweighs” the burden of becoming severely overweight.\u00a0 I agree, instantly!\u00a0 However, being 175 pounds and 5’1″ at the age of 35 feels sad.\u00a0 I have never been “skinny”, but never really worried about my weight.\u00a0 I enjoy eating, graduated from a top Culinary school, and am an advocate of eating healthy.\u00a0 I am happily married and the proud parent of two great, encouraging, loving kids (ages 9 and 11) who insist i am more beautiful today than ever!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lately, though,\u00a0 I feel like if I don’t do something really great for myself, I might not be the active, awesome, grandma I look forward to being.\u00a0 At this point, it IS about the weight but more about my HEALTH!!!\u00a0 It is a known fact that smoking robs your body of nutrients, and today I actually apologized to myself for treating me so bad for so long.\u00a0 To make an excruciatingly long story a bit shorter, I was surfing the web looking for a Pumpkin Gingerbread recipe.\u00a0 I wanted to make use of the beautiful pumpkins I had purchased and been given.\u00a0 Maybe use them for holiday gifts?!\u00a0 Anyhow, Ohsheglows was the second site listed on Google, so I clicked…..and two hours later, after reading your blogs…Voila I have imbibed my first Green Monster!!!<\/p>\n

I AM SOOOOO GLAD I FOUND YOUR SITE!!!! When I read about your outlook on exercise and healthy eating, I thought, she must be my long lost sister!LOL! JK.\u00a0 I look forward to reading more and beginning my journey into fun, fitness, and transformation!!!\u00a0 Oh, BTW, my Green Monster consists of: 3 handfuls of baby spinach, a banana, a squirt of agave, 1\/4 c frozen leftover berry smoothie(vanilla yogurt, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, agave), 4oz. cranberry grape juice, dash of allspice, and an accidental glob (1Tablespoon?) of cinnamon……DELISH!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I started the day as a frustrated 35 year old woman.\u00a0 I quit smoking in April of ’09 and am so thankful to have kicked that nasty habit!!! Unfortunately, that victory came with a price tag to the tune of a 45 pound weight gain in about 12 months.\u00a0 Everyone I have spoken with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reader-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}