Okay, so the Bible study is ending up to be a bust because we are all so busy with it being ball season. We'd planned to meet on Sundays after lunch but the church keeps planning things to do and we have to spend SOME time with our families!
Kim, Barbie and I did the first lesson ourselves as Jo and Meg were doing the scavenger hunt. The next lesson we all did together. The next lesson, Kim and Barbie forgot all about it. This next week is when we'll be going to the Fly Over Jerusalem thingy at Fernbank so we won't meet then either. Meg and I sat down (finally) to go over the first lesson that she missed and then the next day we did the lesson 3. I'm thinking I'll just let Kim and Barbie borrow the DVD and check it out for themselves. I don't know.
ANYWHOOOOO, lesson 1 is on Faith, lesson 2 is on Food and lesson 3 is on Fitness. Fitness is my problem child. Yes, I really wanted to dump Johanna out the car door so I could go to town on her Zaxby's fries last night (obviously, the child Daniel Plan's according to a different drummer). Yes, I'm finding it difficult to not snack on my normal snacky foods. Yes, I am busy thinking of what I'm going to eat on April 10 (April 9th is the last day of our 40 day Daniel Plan adventure). However, I'm getting by. Fitness? Not so much.
I think what really gets me is that a couple years ago I'd "got" it. I don't feel like I ever craved exercise or ever really wanted to do it, but I'd gotten in the habit and gotten over the part where the excuses on why not to do it made more of an impression. So as soon as the DVD was over, I put on my walking shoes and popped in my gal, Leslie Sansone and did one mile with Walking Away the Pounds. Then I was reminded just how out of shape I was. Two years ago, I could do all 5 miles on the DVD. Now, I can barely get to a mile. BUT, it's a mile I wouldn't have done otherwise! I didn't exercise yesterday as I'd planned because I was able to talk myself out of it. But I'm not letting that set me back and I'm planning on doing the mile as soon as I get home.
Foodwise, nothing new to see. Still mostly doing smoothies or ezekial bread with almond butter or peanut butter for breakfast, sandwich or leftovers for lunch. I had a salad for dinner last night. The night before I made the Walnut Pesto Chicken (yum!) and the night before that I made spaghetti using whole wheat pasta and the sauce with turkey meat and tomato paste/olive oil/garlic/spaghetti water. Tonight I'm making a version of one of my co-worker's recipes. It's a wild rice soup. It is COLD in Georgia (nice winter we're having this spring, I tell ya!). I didn't have an onion and didn't have the 10 cups of chicken broth it called for, because apparently I can't read a recipe well when I make out my grocery list. I need to stop by the grocery for some bananas for our smoothies, the ezekial bread that isn't disgusting (I prefer the one in the blue wrapper and accidentally bought the original in the orange wrapper...yuck), and the ingredients for Jo's (well, Pampered Chef's) salsa so she can make some fresh salsa for me.
I finally saw some downward movement in the scale again. Not sure how long it will last but I'm going to take it. I started this adventure at 185.2 lbs and today my scale read 177.2 lbs so that's 8 lbs. Course I've been down this road before so I'm not holding my breath. It would be sweet to lose 10-15 lbs total while doing this. I know I can't go back to eating the way I was and I know I need to get on the exercise train before this is over. I've got less than 2 wks to get myself motivated. Lord? I need you! I can't do this one on my own!
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Daniel Plan...Day 13
So glad that we started on the 1st. It makes it MUCH easier to remember what day I'm on!
It's one of those "blah" days, which followed a "blah-er" day. My get up and go is so far away, I'm not sure how it will ever come back.
As for Daniel Plan, we're off the detox part (no gluten, no caffeine, no sugars, no dairy). I'm still trying to be careful and only eat gluten in one meal and not going overboard on the dairy. Now, while I'm enjoying (surprisingly) trying new things, I gotta say that everything takes such a long time! Meal planning, grocery shopping, cooking, clean up...they all require a heck of a lot more work than I usually put in and that just does not gel with my lifestyle. Anyhow, time to look back at the meals I've had:
Day 10's dinner was beef chunks in the balsamic vinaigrette we like to make now. Didn't turn out so good. I don't think I picked the right kind of beef as it was super tough. Guess I need to do some research on that. We also sliced the zucchini into coins instead of spears...and that didn't go over too good. I really think my oven is whackadoodle. I need to get that looked at now that we are cooking more.
Day 11 I made the regular blueberry/banana/flax smoothie for breakfast, had celery with peanut butter/apple/and something else but I can't remember for lunch. I grocery shopped after school and got my beloved wheat bread (hooray). Jo had her first home lacrosse game so after putting groceries up, I headed to the high school and for a treat since 1) it was her first home lacrosse game and 2) it got over at 7 and there was no time between getting home and leaving to make dinner, we went to Wendy's. I got my favorite apple, chicken, pecan salad. Meg did, too, but she didn't like it. Poor baby. She was so looking forward to getting off the detox. Jo went totally rogue and ate off Plan and relished it.
Day 12, again my regular smoothie for breakfast. For lunch I mixed Greek yogurt with tuna and stuffed it and romaine lettuce in a small oat/flax/wheat pita pocket. I had carrots and brought an apple which I didn't eat. Dinner was chicken that I'd put in the crockpot with salsa and left on low all day. I made the gluten-free corn tortilla crisps from the book (not bad) and had some corn with it. I put a dollop of Greek yogurt on it in place of my normal sour cream. We failed in that we didn't include a non-starchy vegetable. :(
Today I finally made Dr. Hyman's whole food smoothie, with one exception...I didn't have pumpkin seeds. It's a combo of blueberries, banana, a little almond milk and some water with chia seeds, hemp seeds, walnuts, brazil nuts, almond butter and pumpkin seeds. It blended up okay but the recipe said that it served 3. It didn't make much more than the amount I normally drink for my breakfast smoothie. I should have listened. That drink is dense. It's also...earthy. The blueberries and banana don't do much to add any flavor, that's for sure. It's also, well, chewy. BUT, I drank about a third of the cup and couldn't handle anymore...I was full and satisfied. It's 9:30 and I'm still okay and not doing what I usually do, looking at the clock to see how long it will be until lunch! I'll make this again...but this time only take a third so I don't waste it. Lunch is natural peanut butter (9 g protein in 2 tbs of sugarless peanut butter) on one slice of whole wheat bread, carrots and a banana. Dinner tonight is supposed to be spaghtetti squash, turkey meatballs and the sauce I make from tomato paste that's so nummy, steamed fresh green beans and sliced apples. Tomorrow night we are making turkey burgers and Paula Deen's healthier macaroni and cheese from the recipe she put together for Dr. Oz. So excited about "real" comfort food!
Oh, and weight-wise, on day 11, it went down .2 lbs, day 12 stayed the same and this morning I was down .8 lbs. I also told my Bible study buddies that I was going to try to be more active this week and wanted them to hold me accountable. Monday I did 6 EMS laps (450 steps each) and a mile in the neighborhood, Tuesday nothing, yesterday I only got in 2 EMS laps but did a mile in the neighborhood in the blustering wind (seriously, I was being bounced around out there). I'm planning to get in a mile when I get home today, too. Go me! I'm definitely exceeding what I did last week...which was NOTHING!!!
It's one of those "blah" days, which followed a "blah-er" day. My get up and go is so far away, I'm not sure how it will ever come back.
As for Daniel Plan, we're off the detox part (no gluten, no caffeine, no sugars, no dairy). I'm still trying to be careful and only eat gluten in one meal and not going overboard on the dairy. Now, while I'm enjoying (surprisingly) trying new things, I gotta say that everything takes such a long time! Meal planning, grocery shopping, cooking, clean up...they all require a heck of a lot more work than I usually put in and that just does not gel with my lifestyle. Anyhow, time to look back at the meals I've had:
Day 10's dinner was beef chunks in the balsamic vinaigrette we like to make now. Didn't turn out so good. I don't think I picked the right kind of beef as it was super tough. Guess I need to do some research on that. We also sliced the zucchini into coins instead of spears...and that didn't go over too good. I really think my oven is whackadoodle. I need to get that looked at now that we are cooking more.
Day 11 I made the regular blueberry/banana/flax smoothie for breakfast, had celery with peanut butter/apple/and something else but I can't remember for lunch. I grocery shopped after school and got my beloved wheat bread (hooray). Jo had her first home lacrosse game so after putting groceries up, I headed to the high school and for a treat since 1) it was her first home lacrosse game and 2) it got over at 7 and there was no time between getting home and leaving to make dinner, we went to Wendy's. I got my favorite apple, chicken, pecan salad. Meg did, too, but she didn't like it. Poor baby. She was so looking forward to getting off the detox. Jo went totally rogue and ate off Plan and relished it.
Day 12, again my regular smoothie for breakfast. For lunch I mixed Greek yogurt with tuna and stuffed it and romaine lettuce in a small oat/flax/wheat pita pocket. I had carrots and brought an apple which I didn't eat. Dinner was chicken that I'd put in the crockpot with salsa and left on low all day. I made the gluten-free corn tortilla crisps from the book (not bad) and had some corn with it. I put a dollop of Greek yogurt on it in place of my normal sour cream. We failed in that we didn't include a non-starchy vegetable. :(
Today I finally made Dr. Hyman's whole food smoothie, with one exception...I didn't have pumpkin seeds. It's a combo of blueberries, banana, a little almond milk and some water with chia seeds, hemp seeds, walnuts, brazil nuts, almond butter and pumpkin seeds. It blended up okay but the recipe said that it served 3. It didn't make much more than the amount I normally drink for my breakfast smoothie. I should have listened. That drink is dense. It's also...earthy. The blueberries and banana don't do much to add any flavor, that's for sure. It's also, well, chewy. BUT, I drank about a third of the cup and couldn't handle anymore...I was full and satisfied. It's 9:30 and I'm still okay and not doing what I usually do, looking at the clock to see how long it will be until lunch! I'll make this again...but this time only take a third so I don't waste it. Lunch is natural peanut butter (9 g protein in 2 tbs of sugarless peanut butter) on one slice of whole wheat bread, carrots and a banana. Dinner tonight is supposed to be spaghtetti squash, turkey meatballs and the sauce I make from tomato paste that's so nummy, steamed fresh green beans and sliced apples. Tomorrow night we are making turkey burgers and Paula Deen's healthier macaroni and cheese from the recipe she put together for Dr. Oz. So excited about "real" comfort food!
Oh, and weight-wise, on day 11, it went down .2 lbs, day 12 stayed the same and this morning I was down .8 lbs. I also told my Bible study buddies that I was going to try to be more active this week and wanted them to hold me accountable. Monday I did 6 EMS laps (450 steps each) and a mile in the neighborhood, Tuesday nothing, yesterday I only got in 2 EMS laps but did a mile in the neighborhood in the blustering wind (seriously, I was being bounced around out there). I'm planning to get in a mile when I get home today, too. Go me! I'm definitely exceeding what I did last week...which was NOTHING!!!
Friday, March 7, 2014
Daniel Plan...Day 7
Still the hardest thing for me with this is the lunches. I
keep thinking I’m making enough to feed everyone and have leftovers for lunch,
but the gentlemen in my life are watching their portion control, so there’s
usually nothing left. You can only have romaine and turkey wraps so many times.
So far, I’ve had them once. And that was enough.
Today’s breakfast was the Quinoa Breakfast Bake from the DP book's recipes. I had such high hopes because after making the quinoa, you add a couple eggs and some cinnamon and get to put some nut butter (I chose almond butter) on top. It wasn't very tasty. I thought being able to chew on something after all the mornings of glugging smoothies was going to make a big difference, but it didn't. The best part of the deal was the almond butter! Lunch is leftover chicken breast, spinach salad,
balsamic dressing, and an apple. Tonight I’m making the “Chicken Walnut Pesto”
from the DP book. I’m wracking my brain to find a different word than “pesto”
cuz there ain’t no way my man is eating “pesto.” That’s a fact!
Wait, I think actually the hardest part is having to shop
all the time. I feel like all I do is plan to go to the store. I have to be
better at menu planning, I’m thinking.
So the last time I blogged about DP (oooo…makes me miss my
Dr. Pepper’s), it was Day 5 and I had no idea what to make for dinner. I fell
back on my failsafe and made broiled chicken with brown rice and green beans.
Yesterday, I made a banana, blueberry, and flax seed
smoothie for breakfast. I found this awesome, super, fantastic trail mix that I
thought was going to work out for
snacking at work between meals.
But I was wrong. It is lovely, but I didn’t follow my own rules and read the ingredients. There’s cane sugar with the cranberries. I can eat it moderately once I’m off the detox part, but not now. So sad.
Any ways, lunch was natural peanut butter with carrot sticks and an apple. Kind went skimpy on that one. Dinner was nummy. It was rainy, cold, and windy yesterday afternoon. Nothing hits the spot when it’s rainy, cold, and windy like beef stew. The recipe from the DP book is for the crockpot so I just tweaked it for the stove. They call for red-skinned or purple potatoes. I found a bag of “celebration potatoes” that had red-skinned, white-skinned and purple potatoes. Those purple potatoes are purple all the way through. But when they are stewed, they lose the pretty purple and just kinda look rotten so I had to be sure to give a disclaimer as the family was scooping their portions.
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| Nummy, non-roasted, non-salted trail mix. But the cranberries have sugar. :( |
But I was wrong. It is lovely, but I didn’t follow my own rules and read the ingredients. There’s cane sugar with the cranberries. I can eat it moderately once I’m off the detox part, but not now. So sad.
Any ways, lunch was natural peanut butter with carrot sticks and an apple. Kind went skimpy on that one. Dinner was nummy. It was rainy, cold, and windy yesterday afternoon. Nothing hits the spot when it’s rainy, cold, and windy like beef stew. The recipe from the DP book is for the crockpot so I just tweaked it for the stove. They call for red-skinned or purple potatoes. I found a bag of “celebration potatoes” that had red-skinned, white-skinned and purple potatoes. Those purple potatoes are purple all the way through. But when they are stewed, they lose the pretty purple and just kinda look rotten so I had to be sure to give a disclaimer as the family was scooping their portions.
Jo is enjoying the air-popped popcorn. Think she’d enjoy it
more with a bit of butter. J
Last night she asked me if I’d cheated on the Detox yet and, since I found out
about the cane sugar TODAY, I said that I hadn’t and she changed the subject.
Now that I know about the cane sugar, I’m a cheater. And so sad.
This morning I weighed myself and I am .2 lbs from being
down 6 lbs so far. “.2 lbs” you say? Yep, I’ve got a scale that measure in .2
lbs increments so I take or leave them as the case may be. Big Kenny’s already
dropped 5 lbs and he’s not even doing the Detox, he’s just trying to make
better food choices.
Still not doing so hot on the exercise front. I’ve only
taken one lap here at school today. I’ve got to get myself together and get my
rear in gear!! I’ve done it before, I need to do it again!
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The Pinterest experiment
Well, I tried. I'm not going to call this experiment a "fail" but it certainly wasn't a total "pass" either.
I am not a meal planner. I get bored way too easily making the same stuff over and over but trying to find new meals that my family will actually like (they are pretty picky) is hard. So I proposed an experiment. With all of us home over Christmas vacation and needing food for all three meals, I had to get creative. So I created a Christmas Break meals board on Pinterest and added all the kids as contributors. Then I told them to find meals that they'd like to try and pin them. I got one pin from one kid. Joy. But I found a bunch of meals to try, so that was okay.
First problem I ran into...my kids are all teens+ and they like to sleep in. Like past noon, sleep in. So the first couple of days with me getting up and making breakfast? A total bust. I enjoyed the breakfasts all on my ownsies.
Second problem we ran into was lunch. Lunch, also, was kind of a bust because while they hate (HATE) the normal routine of making a sandwich for lunch or scavenging for leftovers, having a fresh meal at lunch freaked them out. Except, of course, the couple days we were on the road and pulled through a drive-thru!
Last, and this one is all on me, I forgot that while I love stuff with cheesy goodness involved, my son does not. And I'd pinned a LOT of cheesilicious recipes! You should have seen the look on the cashier's face when I bought the cheese I needed for the first week.
The second week of Christmas Break, I reverted to the kids' regular favorite meals, which made them happy.
Today we should be in school on our first day back but the wind chill was below 0. For us? That's pretty cold. I know a lot of people in the north or who transplanted here from the north are making fun of the school systems for doing so but here's the facts...we are not geared for this kind of cold! We don't have the clothing and our buildings don't have the insulation. It just is what it is. So make fun of us if you will, but it would make more sense if you tried to think of how you would handle this weather without a coat, scarves, hats that were made to withstand that kind of cold. See what I mean?
In the meantime, I've got a Potato Soup in the small crockpot (from Pinterest) and chili in the big crockpot (not from Pinterest).
Christmas Break meals board on Pinterest
I am not a meal planner. I get bored way too easily making the same stuff over and over but trying to find new meals that my family will actually like (they are pretty picky) is hard. So I proposed an experiment. With all of us home over Christmas vacation and needing food for all three meals, I had to get creative. So I created a Christmas Break meals board on Pinterest and added all the kids as contributors. Then I told them to find meals that they'd like to try and pin them. I got one pin from one kid. Joy. But I found a bunch of meals to try, so that was okay.
First problem I ran into...my kids are all teens+ and they like to sleep in. Like past noon, sleep in. So the first couple of days with me getting up and making breakfast? A total bust. I enjoyed the breakfasts all on my ownsies.
Second problem we ran into was lunch. Lunch, also, was kind of a bust because while they hate (HATE) the normal routine of making a sandwich for lunch or scavenging for leftovers, having a fresh meal at lunch freaked them out. Except, of course, the couple days we were on the road and pulled through a drive-thru!
Last, and this one is all on me, I forgot that while I love stuff with cheesy goodness involved, my son does not. And I'd pinned a LOT of cheesilicious recipes! You should have seen the look on the cashier's face when I bought the cheese I needed for the first week.
The second week of Christmas Break, I reverted to the kids' regular favorite meals, which made them happy.
Today we should be in school on our first day back but the wind chill was below 0. For us? That's pretty cold. I know a lot of people in the north or who transplanted here from the north are making fun of the school systems for doing so but here's the facts...we are not geared for this kind of cold! We don't have the clothing and our buildings don't have the insulation. It just is what it is. So make fun of us if you will, but it would make more sense if you tried to think of how you would handle this weather without a coat, scarves, hats that were made to withstand that kind of cold. See what I mean?
In the meantime, I've got a Potato Soup in the small crockpot (from Pinterest) and chili in the big crockpot (not from Pinterest).
Christmas Break meals board on Pinterest
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Weighing in Jan 2014
Oh crap! I'm really not wanting to do this. But I do know that what you put down on paper (or on a blog) provides the accountability that is necessary to push ya over the edge. At least I hope so!
So...the numbers from this morning:
Weight: 182.6 lbs
Chest: 34 in
Bust: 38 in
Waist: 35.5 in
Hip: 45 in (ouch!)
Butt: 47 in (double ouch!
And here are the pictures from yesterday...triple ouch!
I'm thinking that I need to get the girls to take the photos since I'm a little fuzzy. I also need to work on better jeans. Yikes! And last, these don't make me look as big as I actually think I am but I am not about to take pictures of myself in my bathing suit, or some such, and post it.
So for breakfast I had a thing of yogurt to combat the antibiotic I'm taking for my sinus infection. I also had two pieces of toasted white bread with margarine. Sorry, gotta eat what I got, people.
For lunch I made roast beef "sandwiches" where I took roast beef deli meat and swiss cheese and wrapped it in a croissant and baked it. I used some French onion soup as the au jus. I warmed up some leftover corn and had some chips. Don't judge. I'm going to eat normally (for me) until the kids go back to college because 1) I need to have normal food in the house for them and if it's in the house I'll eat it and 2) I have a buttload of food that I bought with them being home and I'm not about to throw it away.
I have been pretty active (for me) this morning. I took the dogs on their walk and have done 2 loads of laundry plus I decluttered all the drawers in the kitchen and half the cabinets (okay, so two drawers and two cabinets were already done. What's the point of lying on my own blog?)
I really want to finish the cabinets in the kitchen and desperately need to scrub the cabinet fronts because, frankly, they are really disgusting. I also need to work on my office because I've put our new insurance cards and the new Medflex card in a "safe place" i.e. my office, and I need to use them to get my birth control pills from Walgreens. Plus, the office is really disgusting!
I also thought I would go and get the girls Christmas checks cashed but it's raining outside, so...no.
Okay, so I don't forget it, here's what the character Amy said on The Big Bang Theory episode I'm watching, "Whenever I'm around Sheldon I feel like my loins are on fire. In the good way, not the urinary tract infection way." Bahahaha!
So...the numbers from this morning:
Weight: 182.6 lbs
Chest: 34 in
Bust: 38 in
Waist: 35.5 in
Hip: 45 in (ouch!)
Butt: 47 in (double ouch!
And here are the pictures from yesterday...triple ouch!
I'm thinking that I need to get the girls to take the photos since I'm a little fuzzy. I also need to work on better jeans. Yikes! And last, these don't make me look as big as I actually think I am but I am not about to take pictures of myself in my bathing suit, or some such, and post it.
So for breakfast I had a thing of yogurt to combat the antibiotic I'm taking for my sinus infection. I also had two pieces of toasted white bread with margarine. Sorry, gotta eat what I got, people.
For lunch I made roast beef "sandwiches" where I took roast beef deli meat and swiss cheese and wrapped it in a croissant and baked it. I used some French onion soup as the au jus. I warmed up some leftover corn and had some chips. Don't judge. I'm going to eat normally (for me) until the kids go back to college because 1) I need to have normal food in the house for them and if it's in the house I'll eat it and 2) I have a buttload of food that I bought with them being home and I'm not about to throw it away.
I have been pretty active (for me) this morning. I took the dogs on their walk and have done 2 loads of laundry plus I decluttered all the drawers in the kitchen and half the cabinets (okay, so two drawers and two cabinets were already done. What's the point of lying on my own blog?)
I really want to finish the cabinets in the kitchen and desperately need to scrub the cabinet fronts because, frankly, they are really disgusting. I also need to work on my office because I've put our new insurance cards and the new Medflex card in a "safe place" i.e. my office, and I need to use them to get my birth control pills from Walgreens. Plus, the office is really disgusting!
I also thought I would go and get the girls Christmas checks cashed but it's raining outside, so...no.
Okay, so I don't forget it, here's what the character Amy said on The Big Bang Theory episode I'm watching, "Whenever I'm around Sheldon I feel like my loins are on fire. In the good way, not the urinary tract infection way." Bahahaha!
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