Full force

I'm still here.

I'm getting good and into our new school year schedule.

I'm working super hard at my at home business and plan to open my Etsy store this coming Monday!

Woo hoo!

On Sunday I did super meal prep.....

15 breakfast sandwiches (the kids are eating what Brian and I are too)

Oatmeal, apples, yogurt, hard boiled eggs, lunches (below), protein shakes.

Yep, covered all the bases I'm pretty sure.

The only thing missing was chicken salad (it was still in the slow cooker)

It was easy enough to stay on track and it takes all of 3 minutes to pack a lunch bag each evening.

Even I have one so I only eat from it and stay on track.

Works for us :)

I also have been walking 1/2 on my treadmill in the morning and then 1 hour walking the kids to school & coming back home.

So you can see super boring haha!

I'll update periodically and more so once I get past my super slow level of working out.

Hopefully in the next month or so.

Until then I need to stop talking about it and just do this thing! 

Meal Prep Sunday

Finally got off my lazy butt on Sunday and did some food prep for the week.

I have to do this in order to stay on track.

I'm a thought track jumper with no regard for safety.
I become very distracted at the smallest of things so when I have everything in order and ready to go it is so much easier for me.

Everyday's food is prepared enough to grab and go.
Even every dinner's meat (either its in meatball form, marinating or pre-cooked)

Me:  5 meals per day at less than 300 calories each with dinner 500 or less.
I make Brian's lunch each day so he eats this too.
The kids have breakfast and dinner the same (snacks/lunch are different)

120 ounces of water/day (including my morning coffee)

Sunday I made ahead:

24 breakfast burritos 

30 meatballs (Meatballs recipe--so easy!)

Homemade spaghetti sauce (Spaghetti sauce recipe)

4 Chicken salads 

4 chicken breasts marinated in teriyaki sauce & honey

PB & J rollups & frozen yogurt  for the kids after school snacks.

(Making banana bread, oatmeal, and mini donuts for more snacks today)
Now I know I can do a lot more bc I got the above done in under 2 hrs.
Next week will be insane.

Weekly Meal Plan

Monday: 

1.  Breakfast burrito (egg/turkey bacon)

2.  Ricotta cheese & apple
( I made my own ricotta once.....yah, not that fun and Trader Joe's brand is so much better)

3.  Chicken salad  (boiled chicken, cooled shredded--easy as that)

4.  Protein shake (EAS soy protein pre-mix--although I'm going to a recipe to kick out the chemicals and sugar)

5.  (Turns out we are going out to dinner so I'll choose a salad)

Tuesday:

1.  1/2 cup oatmeal, 2 egg whites

2.  Ricotta cheese & apple

3.  Tuna salad

4.  Protein shake

5.  Spaghetti & meatballs, cheesy broccoli

Wednesday:

1.  Breakfast burrito

2.  Ricotta cheese & apple

3.  Chicken salad

4.  Protein shake

5.  Grilled honey teriyaki chicken, brown rice, roasted cauliflower

Thursday:

1.  1/2 cup oatmeal, 2 egg whites

2.  Ricotta cheese & apple

3.  Tuna salad

4.  Protein shake

5.  Steaks, baked potato, corn

Friday:

1.  Breakfast burrito

2.  Ricotta cheese & apple

3.  Chicken salad

4.  Protein shake

5.  Cheeseburgers, sweet potato fries

So far today I've checked off meal 1 & 2.
I've had 20 ounces of my 120 ounces of water--better chug some more.

Walked 1 hour with Molly while blasting my Newsboys Pandora station.

"I hate you for dragging me along"

Now I am off to fall into my creative rabbit hole for some graphic designs :)

Meal 3 is locked and loaded and Meal 4 will be perfect for my afternoon break. 

Yay for organization!!
My Note to Self Motivational Monday Quote....

Day 10: Walking!

Now that everyone is back to school we are walking there each morning.

It's less than a mile but I plan on continuing the walk after that.
I would love to walk back and pick them up but Olivia's bus doesn't make it home in time for both of us to walk to meet them.

I am going to try the mapmywalk app. (http://www.mapmywalk.com/)
I'll post tomorrow my previous day stats with my nailed it or failed plan.

Per my fitbit (and only walking to school and back) my steps for the yesterday totaled over 11,000 so I am super excited to see my end steps for today.  I bought new headphones so I can blast my itunes radio. I feel hopeful for this day :)

 Yay!  I'm going to start with #1 on this list from Greatist.com 

It doesn't just spout out tips and pretty pictures, it actually has medical science to back up all their posts.

At the end of each post is a works cited link.

http://greatist.com/grow/how-to-be-happy-long-term

I'm ready to follow the sun.....

Vacation Hangover

That is definitely a thing.  

Not only recovering from being tired, I also had allergies that followed me home.

We had a great time :)

Mmmmm....the Cheese Store.  We got Swiss & Rye and Smoked Cheddar....

We did not get the Sex Olives but it was hilarious to walk by them and ponder why they are in existence :)

Brian's favorite part of the trip.  It was pretty amazing.

My favorite part of the trip :)  It rained the night before so it was cool.  It wasn't very busy AND we got tickets 1/2 price!  Score!

Good grief this day was soooo hot but fun :)

This evening we went swimming and Olivia even joined in!

Awe ya...the best dinner of the whole trip!  

We went there after we went to the pool and hung out with Brandon, Jessie, Austin, Andrew, and Owen.

So happy Tyler came to eat with us even if he did order the green beans and eat them in front of me....

Ewwww  >:P

So I did not do the best eating-wise, which is fine because now I'm super ready to start eating good again.

I'm looking forward to cooking homemade food this week!

The kids start school tomorrow and I will get a bunch of meal prep done (I hope).

Once we get this week in the bag and get good & going on a schedule,  I'll be able to be start full force.

Onward to Monday August 18th and being fully prepared :)

On vacation

Off to go packing.....Will write after vacation (maybe sooner if I get time)

Vacation Eating

It's vacation time!!

My plan for vacation eating.

I can already see this is going to be a problem 

(as evidence by my having pizza and breakfast out this past weekend--I know, I know) 

so I need to attack it head-on.

We'll be going on vacation for a week.

The place we are going to has breakfast every morning with healthy options so that won't be too hard.

I'll choose fruit or oatmeal.

Once we get there I plan on going to the grocery store to pick up a few things.

That will be our lunch and snacks.

We plan on going out for dinner each night.

Ding, ding, ding.....the danger.

Some ideas I have come up with to help with this vacation.

1.  Drink water, lots of it. (Everybody will have a water bottle)

2.  Eat a healthy breakfast to start the day off right. (Fruit/oatmeal/eggs)

3.  Prepare ahead of time. (Snacks prepackaged ahead of time to throw in backpack, bring 

      picnic lunches (If homemade, I can control type of food and portions)

4.  Dinners out (I will leave this as a choice of whatever sounds good but will share with Olivia

     that way I'll choose healthier)

5.  Try not to choose restaurants with "biggest ever" foods, fried, etc.  --Yeah--who's knows on

     this one :)

6.  Snacks (Again-prepackaged ahead of time, variety)

7.  Schedule of food ( I think if we plan on a schedule ahead of time we'll better stick to it)

8.  Have treats-one a day--(Don't deny or the eating healthy bandwagon will crash and go up in 

     flames)

9.  Know limits (Vacation is suppose to be fun but sometime I have the tendency to have to

     explore 

     EVERYTHING--good grief we might miss something you know!  This will help us not get so

     exhausted we end up not caring what we eat or skipping meals only to overeat the next time-

      -that's miserable!)

     Olivia helps us to slow down--we end up having the most fun when we ride the trains or are

      walking slowly on trail--so win for this one :)

10.  Eat when hungry (trying to listen when I'm actually hungry vs. when the time of day says I

      should be hungry.  That's where my snacks come in handy :)

   

For exercise, I'm leaving that up to all the walking and swimming I plan on doing.  

I'm not going to waste any time having fun.

I think if I can nail this vacation down, I can do anything.

This week (vacation starts Wednesday) I'm going to post a nailed it/failed it update.

If I nailed it--it'll be a win, if I failed it I'll make a plan of action & learn from it :)

I will do all the above so when we go to the beach next year, I will have a better time than I did last year.

This mama wants to kick ass in an actual age appropriate swimsuit & not all covered up and ashamed.

I want to be the mama on the outside I feel on the inside.  

Full of energy and able to keep up with the kids.

Day 9: One good thing about being sick

It's the losing weight without trying.

Down 3 lbs baby. 

Woo hoo.

It may just be water weight but it's a loss and I'll count it.

I will check it in 2 weeks again.

I'm still on track with eating.

Although I did have a few drinks at Bunco Wednesday night.

It was wild, what was I going to do?  

Me and my party girl ways.  Haha.

I really like the idea of trying a detox program.

Maybe a few 21 day ones to weed out or introduce things that would be healthier.

(Stealing my cousins great idea!)

Because even though I (for the most part) stay on my plan during the day

the evening is it's own dimension.

I can do WAY better.

My very own detox program because I know what I need to cut out.

I'm going to give myself the weekend to come up with it.

Heck maybe I can get all these allergies under control 

because my body can focus on that instead of the crap I'm feeding it.

Or what if I'm allergic to some food and I just remain this way because I no longer listen to my body.

At any rate.....

Here's to a fresh start on Monday!