Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Wednesday

My pictures are backwards...oh well...this is actually dinner although it looks like breakfast;)
1 egg and 2 egg whites, with brocolli, red peppers and onion topped with salsa...toast with peanut butter (i actually had another 1/2 of another piece of toast too)

Breakfast: Oatmeal

snacks: grapes, raw almonds, TLC veggie crackers

lunch: 2 tacos (leftover brown rice and kidney beans, little salsa, orange bell pepper, cucumbers and avacado...i forgot the spinach! darnit!) and an apple


Exercise:Ran 2miles and did P90X Ab workout

Tuesday

Breakfast: granola w/skim milk

snacks: grapes, raw almonds and whole wheat crackers

lunch: veggie sandwich (spinach/lettuce, cucumber, tomato and bell pepper on HOMEMADE whole wheat bread!) and an apple (should have taken a picture because it was DIVINE!!!)

Dinner: Veggie-Rice stacks
Got this from Erleen Tilton cookbook. REALLY liked it. The so called "cheese sauce" is made with cashews, a carrot, liquid aminos, chili powder, onion powder and salt...you put that all in the blender and mix until smooth then heat it up over the stove. So there's brown rice on the bottom, then the sauce, then top with kidney beans (or whatever you choose), red bell peppers, celery, brocolli, raw sesame seeds and raw slivered almonds.

Exercise: Ran 3.5 miles

Monday, April 20, 2009

Monday

Breakfast: homemade granola, raisins, skim milk

Snacks: red/green grapes, raw almonds

Lunch: Green salad with cucumber, yellow pepper and carrots...leftover grilled chicken and an apple..also had a roll
Dinner: (very yummy) black bean tacos....(forgot to take picture) black beans were seasoned with ground cumin, salt, onion powder and chili powder...used white corn tortillas, put on beans and topped with red bell peppers, lettuce/spinach, avacados and a little taco sauce...

Exercise: Level 2 from Jilian Michaels DVD and walked 2 miles on the treadmill...

The Challenge

I had already implemented some of these daily habits...and wasn't going to sign up for the actual "challenge"....but the competitive side of me won! And I did sign up....

It's something that I felt that I needed...I want to feel good about myself again...and take the time to do these things for myself each day...

Daily Habits
Each item is worth 1 point, with a possible 10 points per day
1 7 hours of sleep
2 48 oz. water
3 45 minutes of exercise (not necessarily consecutive)
4 2 servings of veggies, 2 servings of fruit
5 No soda, beer, wine, unhealthy snacks, or bad fast food [anything FRIED]
6 No sweets [desserts, pastries and sugary snacks & cereals] * sugar-free alternatives are ok
7 No eating after dinner/8pm
8 15 minutes of scripture reading (or other spiritual text if you don't do scripture)
9 One journal entry (any length)
10 Express sincere appreciation or praise to your spouse (if single, to another person)
Note: You have one free point per category per week, of your choice, or you can choose a day where all 10 points will be given.
Exceptions
You are excused from the sweet rule on YOUR BIRTHDAY.
You are allowed three sick days where you are excused from exercising and eating veg/fruit/water [if you can’t eat/drink] This is ONLY to be used if you are indeed sick.
Scoring
All scoring is "on your honor." Please update the shared Google spreadsheet each day, or week with your points. We will send you this after you have paid $20 on a Paypal account.
There are two categories of winners:
1. The three resolutionaries with the most points will equally divide 80% of the cash in the Challenge Fund. For example, if there is $500 in the kitty, $400 will be allocated amongst the three players with the most points.
2. All participants with more than 505 points, or 60% of the available points. Because the Resolutionary Challenge is partly about getting the most points, but mostly about process, any person who gets an average of 6 points or better per day, will have won, and will be eligible for a random giveaway which will be funded by the remaining 20% in the Challenge Fund.

Friday, April 17, 2009

I just threw this salad together with what i had leftover in the fridge. Spinach and lettuce are fresh from my garden though!!! Salad also included: yellow bell peppers, carrots, cucumbers, rice, black beans,salsa and leftover grilled chicken!
Lunch with leftovers from the next pictures dinner.
Dinner, rice and black beans...in it has cumin, chili powder, salt, green chilis and some green onion and also chopped up cashews. the cashews were a yummy twist...(i got the recipe from a book from a lady name Erleen Tilton, I went to a health class of hers) served with apples and red and orange bell peppers! Very good!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Food

Yes, this is normally something i'd eat for breakfast, but we didn't have anything scheduled for dinner for some reason, and so this is what i ate...the kids had oatmeal that night i think! 1 egg, 2 egg whites, salt/pepper, onion, zucchini and bell pepper..and orange!
My mouth is watering just thinking about this dinner. My cute sis-in-law from North Carolina visited us a few weeks ago and when she was here, she made this very yummy chili. I attempted to make it for us the following week and it was delicious!!! This is leftovers that I ate the following day for lunch, I actually had this three days in a row! Once for dinner and twice for lunch...it is THAT good!!! Plated with carrots, celery, strawberries and apple:)
The chili had black beans, ground turkey, canned tomatoes, onion, green bell peppers and seasoning....mmmmmmm
I am now 3 weeks post delivery of babe...and am SO wanting to go for a run!!! But I know it's a little too soon, so I will impatiently wait a little bit longer! I can't wait to start really working out again and getting back into shape. I don't have any weight to really lose from the baby, I am already almost at the weight I was before getting pregnant. I just need to tone everything back up again!!! yay!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Some Food

Yesterday I had this for lunch...normally I use grilled chicken, but I was all out. So I used white beans, a little salsa, lime juice, spinach cucumber, red cabbage and yellow bell pepper. thanks to Sara (as usual) for the lime juice idea, it REALLY makes it taste good!!!! If I remember correctly, I had an apple too.
This one was with chicken...but no lime juice. I was TOTALLY missing the lime!!!! Served with apples and baby carrots
This was dinner last week. Bowl of slow cooked beans and chicken. With Salad (spinach, lettuce from moms garden, carrots, cucumber, cabbage, brocolli and celery) and balsamic vinagrette dressing...strawberries and oranges...YUM
My SIL texted me last week and said...I think I just lost our bet. She told me she went to dinner the night before and just realized that there was brown sugar on the sweet potato she ate. LONG story short, I told her not to worry about it. She said, you don't want me to lose so you can eat sweets all the time again? I said, NO!!!
Honestly, I have loved not relying on chocolate and the sweets and I told her that I was afraid that if we didn't continue to do what we were doing...that I would start going WAY OVERBOARD again...and I just didn't want to do that! So, we are continuing on our journey. We have given ourselves 2 free days a month (used to be only 1) and it seems to be working out very well for me. Although, my poor hubby is missing the sugar around the house! Just last week, after dinner, he said...I NEED SOME SUGAR!!!! haha...I'm like sorry! I was going to the store that night anyway, so I brought him home some dove dark chocolates. He was very happy with that:)
After this baby is born...I will have to break ANOTHER habit though. Eating a bowl of cereal (or 2) at 8 o'clock at night! Almost every night I am hungry again at that time. 2-3 hours after I have already eaten dinner. Ugh....