It has been a couple of days since I last posted. Yesterday was out of control at my house. It started off with my oldest son trying to take his DS to school, which we don't allow them to have just whenever they want, so he took it out of my bedroom. So that turned into him throwing things and breaking breaking one of my water cups. Then I had co op as well, which just takes some time.
Wednesday was pretty good. My last two challenge days went well. I weighed a couple days ago and was down two pounds from Sunday, so that is nice. I went to Smiths for a pretty good sale, and to get some free BBQ sauce, and came home with some wheat thin crackers and ritz crackers that are whole wheat. These are great for the kids, but also are good for me. I love wheat thins! I also found some that are wheat thins flat bread that are very yummy and only 60 calories for two crackers. With a little melted cheese on top, they make a great snack, I love them.
I have been grilling up some chicken breasts for lunch, with sautéed mushrooms, and we did some steaks yesterday that I found in the freezer. I have been loving eating this for lunch, and then with a side salad, it has been the perfect lean and green lunch for me.
For my shakes, I was able to get coupons for Silk fruit and protein, which i think is soy milk with fruit. It is quite strong by it self, and at around 130 calories per cup, kind of high for me, but it makes it easy to get a fruity flavor in my shake. So I have been doing half that and half almond milk, which has been really yummy.
Other than this, I just stay way busy all the time with babysitting kids and my own kids. Weekends a nice to take to relax. Oh yeah, my husband and I finished up one of our projects. We finally got our built in entertainment center/shelves put in.it looks so nice! We are very happy. And it keeps the DVD player and video game systems out of reach of kids. Now if we could do something about all the videos. I am way anal about how they are organized and when they get out of pattern I have, it drives me crazy. If I had it my way, they would be on shelf lining the ceiling where only adults can reach. But as it is, I don't have much control over that right now. Anyway, until next time. Keep living!
Friday, September 14, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Challenge: day 33
Fall is finally here! I love fall and have been waiting for the cooler weather. I have been opening my windows at night and when I came down this morning, I almost froze! Looked at the temp outside, it said 47 at 6:30 this morning. No wonder I was freezing. I had to actually close the windows and my poor kids were just shivering. It is nice to have cooler nights though.
With the cooler weather comes the yummy fall produce! I get so excited for squash and peaches and salsa! It takes time to can it all, but it do worth it when you have that all for the next year! Planning a trip to the fruit belt this week. We get paid Friday, so I need to go get some peaches to can and some squash to eat and freeze. I'm trying to get through some of the pumpkin I have in my freezer so I have made pumpkin muffins and pumpkin bars. I am always trying different ways to make things like this more healthy. Wish I had more time and endless ingredients, then I would be in baking mode all the time and trying new things all the time.
I got hooked on a show called DC Cupcakes the last week. It's about two sisters that started a cupcake shop together. They have tons of different kinds of cupcakes and even do huge displays for different things out of cupcakes. They are always trying to come up with new and different cupcakes as well. That made me want to go do the same thing. I don't know about cupcakes, I would just eat them all, but I would love to experiment with different kinds of muffins! Those seem to be my specialty lately and I don't just make a dozen, it's usually 2 or more! I've said for a while now that I would love to go to culinary arts school and learn how to combine ingredients and spices to make yummy tasting things. I have also said I would love to open a bakery and bake anything I wanted and sell them, I think that would be so much fun! Anyway, that's a dream for another day.
So my challenge day went pretty well. Got my two shakes and nice salad of greens, cilantro, cottage
cheese, carrots and celery with a chicken breast with sautéed mushrooms. I felt I did pretty well.
Spent most of the day on my feet again finishing salsa. I made it to hot the day before so had to add some more tomatoes to calm it down some. It turned out pretty good. Got all the jars processed and now just need to clean them off and put them in the storage.
Since I was going to be on my feet most of the day, I decided to wear my pedometer and see how many steps I take in a day. I ended up with around 10,000 steps and walked about 5k, which is about 3.1 miles. Not bad for just walking around my house all day. I was so exhausted last night. I slept do good until about 3:30 when my hubby woke me up to get the throat spray for him. I was so weak and still so out of it. He asked about the humidifier but I could not even really walk, none the less fill up the humidifier and start it. That's what happens when you go and go all day and don't slow down, you crash hard and can't budge for anything. So now it's a new day to go and go all day again, so until tomorrow....
With the cooler weather comes the yummy fall produce! I get so excited for squash and peaches and salsa! It takes time to can it all, but it do worth it when you have that all for the next year! Planning a trip to the fruit belt this week. We get paid Friday, so I need to go get some peaches to can and some squash to eat and freeze. I'm trying to get through some of the pumpkin I have in my freezer so I have made pumpkin muffins and pumpkin bars. I am always trying different ways to make things like this more healthy. Wish I had more time and endless ingredients, then I would be in baking mode all the time and trying new things all the time.
I got hooked on a show called DC Cupcakes the last week. It's about two sisters that started a cupcake shop together. They have tons of different kinds of cupcakes and even do huge displays for different things out of cupcakes. They are always trying to come up with new and different cupcakes as well. That made me want to go do the same thing. I don't know about cupcakes, I would just eat them all, but I would love to experiment with different kinds of muffins! Those seem to be my specialty lately and I don't just make a dozen, it's usually 2 or more! I've said for a while now that I would love to go to culinary arts school and learn how to combine ingredients and spices to make yummy tasting things. I have also said I would love to open a bakery and bake anything I wanted and sell them, I think that would be so much fun! Anyway, that's a dream for another day.
So my challenge day went pretty well. Got my two shakes and nice salad of greens, cilantro, cottage
cheese, carrots and celery with a chicken breast with sautéed mushrooms. I felt I did pretty well.
Spent most of the day on my feet again finishing salsa. I made it to hot the day before so had to add some more tomatoes to calm it down some. It turned out pretty good. Got all the jars processed and now just need to clean them off and put them in the storage.
Since I was going to be on my feet most of the day, I decided to wear my pedometer and see how many steps I take in a day. I ended up with around 10,000 steps and walked about 5k, which is about 3.1 miles. Not bad for just walking around my house all day. I was so exhausted last night. I slept do good until about 3:30 when my hubby woke me up to get the throat spray for him. I was so weak and still so out of it. He asked about the humidifier but I could not even really walk, none the less fill up the humidifier and start it. That's what happens when you go and go all day and don't slow down, you crash hard and can't budge for anything. So now it's a new day to go and go all day again, so until tomorrow....
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Challenge: day 32
Do you ever have days when you just want to dance? My day 32 was like that. I don't know quite why, but I have days when I just feel like dancing and that life is just going well.
My challenge day was alright. Got in my two shakes, and for lunch had some left over beef burgundy and peach breakfast cake that I made for the kids for breakfast yesterday. My kids ate their 5 pieces and then my hubby finished off the pan throughout the day. He is still not feeling the best and is now starting to get a head cold which I hope doesn't turn into anything major like bronchitis, which he gets every now and then.
Anyway, I spent most of the day on my feet peeling tomatoes for salsa. It's that time of year when I can and can like crazy to make sure we have enough fruit and other items to make it through to the next year. I love canning and for the last 4 or 5 years, it has been a great way to spend time with hubby. Usually we start cutting fruit and veggies and what not after the kids are in bed, about 8 o'clock and then we work and work until all the fruits are in the jars and then while they process, we play video games. This takes us until about 3 o'clock in the morning when we finally cant keep our eyes open any longer and call it a night. This year, I really don't have it in me to stay up so late, and with a recovering husband, I don't want to make him stay up, nor can he lift or do much anyway, so I have been canning on my own this year. I start in the afternoon and start cutting fruit and then work until its all done. It's a long process, especially by yourself, but I learning it's ok. The hardest part was salsa yesterday. Cutting all the many ingredients for salsa is very time consuming.
So I got all that I was going to cut up for salsa done and mixed up and then on to the tasting, the best part. Well, it was much to hot. Thankfully I didn't use all the tomatoes I had on hand, so I can add the rest of the tomatoes to this batch and it should hopefully tone down the hot from the peppers. It tasted great, was just a little to warm for us. So I will continue today peeling tomatoes for salsa and hopefully I can get it in jars and processed tonight, wish me luck. I'll let you know how it all goes tomorrow. Until then....
My challenge day was alright. Got in my two shakes, and for lunch had some left over beef burgundy and peach breakfast cake that I made for the kids for breakfast yesterday. My kids ate their 5 pieces and then my hubby finished off the pan throughout the day. He is still not feeling the best and is now starting to get a head cold which I hope doesn't turn into anything major like bronchitis, which he gets every now and then.
Anyway, I spent most of the day on my feet peeling tomatoes for salsa. It's that time of year when I can and can like crazy to make sure we have enough fruit and other items to make it through to the next year. I love canning and for the last 4 or 5 years, it has been a great way to spend time with hubby. Usually we start cutting fruit and veggies and what not after the kids are in bed, about 8 o'clock and then we work and work until all the fruits are in the jars and then while they process, we play video games. This takes us until about 3 o'clock in the morning when we finally cant keep our eyes open any longer and call it a night. This year, I really don't have it in me to stay up so late, and with a recovering husband, I don't want to make him stay up, nor can he lift or do much anyway, so I have been canning on my own this year. I start in the afternoon and start cutting fruit and then work until its all done. It's a long process, especially by yourself, but I learning it's ok. The hardest part was salsa yesterday. Cutting all the many ingredients for salsa is very time consuming.
So I got all that I was going to cut up for salsa done and mixed up and then on to the tasting, the best part. Well, it was much to hot. Thankfully I didn't use all the tomatoes I had on hand, so I can add the rest of the tomatoes to this batch and it should hopefully tone down the hot from the peppers. It tasted great, was just a little to warm for us. So I will continue today peeling tomatoes for salsa and hopefully I can get it in jars and processed tonight, wish me luck. I'll let you know how it all goes tomorrow. Until then....
Monday, September 10, 2012
Challenge: days 29-31
Why is it that weekends are so much harder than every other day of the week? For some, they are at school or work for most of the day so they don't have the temptation to snack on everything in the house and then on the weekends have their indulgences. For me, I am home all day pretty much every day, so why should the weekends be so hard for me?
Friday was a really bad day! Had my shake for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and had every intention of doing my shake at dinner, but then decided I wanted to try these Italian brats my hubby got, but I chose to buy whole wheat buns, and make my own fries, baked with some olive oil and lots of veggies. Then we did our back to school party with the kids. We went to Fat Cats for bowling, glow golf and some breadsticks came with it. We had a groupon we were using. These breadsticks were huge and very yummy! So didn't do to bad until dinner.
Saturday was better than Friday, but for lunch I had a tostada sandwich with my hubby, we had buy one get one free coupons, but I stuck to my shake for dinner. I took dinner to a family in our ward, and for there is an unwritten rule that you have to take dessert with dinner, so I made up some brownies, which I only had two, which is two to many, but then my kids and hubby finished them off so I didn't have to see them anymore.
Sunday's are always so much easier for some reason, so I did my shake for breakfast and lunch and had home made beef burgundy for dinner, which is easy and yummy. You eat it over pasta. I also had some salad and steamed cauliflower. When I weighed yesterday, I had only lost .6 ounces since last week, which is not very good, but since I have been going at this for over 30 days now, I measured again. As of this morning, I have lost and 1/2 inch off each arm, nothing else off hips, measured 1/2 inch larger on each leg (which I hope is just from getting back to the gym here and there), but I lost 3
more inches off my stomach! That's a total of 5 inches so far gone from my stomach! Stomach fat is the worst fat to have hanging around, so I am so thrilled! Yes, I would love to lose 20 pounds, but even if I see there progress in inches lost, I am fine with staying the same weight.
I would love to be super skinny like a lot of women I know don't get me wrong, but if you were look at my skeleton, I don't think I would ever be a size 6. Well, maybe if I had a flat tummy and a flat booty maybe, but that would just look silly I think. Even in high school, I don't think I was ever much smaller than an 8. The dress I wore at graduation was a size 7, but dresses are measured a little different. I still have that dress and wish I could fit into it. I think I was about 10 when I got married almost 12 years ago. I remember buying bareback jeans from a neighbor (since I thought I was such a
cowgirl and all), and I remember they were a size 12, that was my junior or senior year. So even as a teen I wasn't the skinniest around, I even ran a lot in high school.
After getting married, I slowly gained weight and then kids started coming along. It was fairly easy
for me to lose the baby weight after my first, but then came twins and lots of stress and not really taking care of myself, so I gained and gained. I got up to a size 18 and I was pushing 190+! That was when I finally woke up and decided something needed to change! I got on Weight Watchers and was doing well. I lost over 20 pounds, which was huge! But then is tarted getting lazy and didnt gain much back, but wasn't losing either. I then got pregnant with my daughter and had such a different pregnancy than all the others. I only gained about 11 pounds the whole pregnancy and then lost more than that the day I had her. It was great, but then I started gaining again. For the last two years though, I have been able to stay pretty consistently within 5 pounds up or down.
I thought to lose more weight would be great and that's all I've been able to focus on, but now, just seeing the inches I've lost so far, makes me so excited to keep going, to try harder to make my choices more consistent and more healthy for myself. I may never be a skinny bean pole that can eat anything, or even the one that goes to the gym everyday to slim down, but I will continue to keep at it and keep working hard so that i can proudly say I have done what I can to look and be my best! I am very happy with the results so far and can only imagine that the next 59 days will be just as great and the benefits will be even more better than I have seen this far! I will continue to stay accountable for what I do and eat and know that even on a day or week when I don't do so well, I can always start over the next day and recommit myself. So until tomorrow, keep being you and keep looking to the stars!
Friday was a really bad day! Had my shake for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and had every intention of doing my shake at dinner, but then decided I wanted to try these Italian brats my hubby got, but I chose to buy whole wheat buns, and make my own fries, baked with some olive oil and lots of veggies. Then we did our back to school party with the kids. We went to Fat Cats for bowling, glow golf and some breadsticks came with it. We had a groupon we were using. These breadsticks were huge and very yummy! So didn't do to bad until dinner.
Saturday was better than Friday, but for lunch I had a tostada sandwich with my hubby, we had buy one get one free coupons, but I stuck to my shake for dinner. I took dinner to a family in our ward, and for there is an unwritten rule that you have to take dessert with dinner, so I made up some brownies, which I only had two, which is two to many, but then my kids and hubby finished them off so I didn't have to see them anymore.
Sunday's are always so much easier for some reason, so I did my shake for breakfast and lunch and had home made beef burgundy for dinner, which is easy and yummy. You eat it over pasta. I also had some salad and steamed cauliflower. When I weighed yesterday, I had only lost .6 ounces since last week, which is not very good, but since I have been going at this for over 30 days now, I measured again. As of this morning, I have lost and 1/2 inch off each arm, nothing else off hips, measured 1/2 inch larger on each leg (which I hope is just from getting back to the gym here and there), but I lost 3
more inches off my stomach! That's a total of 5 inches so far gone from my stomach! Stomach fat is the worst fat to have hanging around, so I am so thrilled! Yes, I would love to lose 20 pounds, but even if I see there progress in inches lost, I am fine with staying the same weight.
I would love to be super skinny like a lot of women I know don't get me wrong, but if you were look at my skeleton, I don't think I would ever be a size 6. Well, maybe if I had a flat tummy and a flat booty maybe, but that would just look silly I think. Even in high school, I don't think I was ever much smaller than an 8. The dress I wore at graduation was a size 7, but dresses are measured a little different. I still have that dress and wish I could fit into it. I think I was about 10 when I got married almost 12 years ago. I remember buying bareback jeans from a neighbor (since I thought I was such a
cowgirl and all), and I remember they were a size 12, that was my junior or senior year. So even as a teen I wasn't the skinniest around, I even ran a lot in high school.
After getting married, I slowly gained weight and then kids started coming along. It was fairly easy
for me to lose the baby weight after my first, but then came twins and lots of stress and not really taking care of myself, so I gained and gained. I got up to a size 18 and I was pushing 190+! That was when I finally woke up and decided something needed to change! I got on Weight Watchers and was doing well. I lost over 20 pounds, which was huge! But then is tarted getting lazy and didnt gain much back, but wasn't losing either. I then got pregnant with my daughter and had such a different pregnancy than all the others. I only gained about 11 pounds the whole pregnancy and then lost more than that the day I had her. It was great, but then I started gaining again. For the last two years though, I have been able to stay pretty consistently within 5 pounds up or down.
I thought to lose more weight would be great and that's all I've been able to focus on, but now, just seeing the inches I've lost so far, makes me so excited to keep going, to try harder to make my choices more consistent and more healthy for myself. I may never be a skinny bean pole that can eat anything, or even the one that goes to the gym everyday to slim down, but I will continue to keep at it and keep working hard so that i can proudly say I have done what I can to look and be my best! I am very happy with the results so far and can only imagine that the next 59 days will be just as great and the benefits will be even more better than I have seen this far! I will continue to stay accountable for what I do and eat and know that even on a day or week when I don't do so well, I can always start over the next day and recommit myself. So until tomorrow, keep being you and keep looking to the stars!
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