Wednesday

Breakfast: Cheerios (plain)
Snacks: raw almonds and cashews/whole wheat crackers
Lunch: 2 tacos (brown rice, kidney beans, red pepper, cucumber, avacado, spinach and salsa)/apple on the side
The picture was dinner...realy yummy. I got a recipe for Grilled chicken parmesan (no breading) from my biggest loser cookbook. It turned out really good. You just grill your chicken, when its done you put some marinara sauce on it(i made my own from the cookbook as well) and then top with a little cheese and let it melt. Much healthier then most chicken parmesans out there!!! Paired the chicken with steamed brocolli and zuchini and some canned pineapple (was out of fresh fruit)

Exercise: Level 3 Jillian Michaels dvd and walked 20 minutes on treadmill...my legs were tired/sore from the previous workouts!

Tuesday

breakfast: oatmeal
snacks: peanut butter pretzels
lunch: same as monday (leftover beans, salad, apple)
dinner: breakfast! don't the eggs look so yummy??!! they were really good. I used 1 egg, 2 egg whites, added zuchini (from the garden!!), red bell pepper, onion and salt and pepper. I didn't have any fruit besides apples left so i went to the pantry and got out some canned peaches...also had whole wheat pancakes, plain...no sugary syrup!

Exercise: Ran 4 miles outside...I definitely am hurting for some new running shoes...hopefully soon i can go get some...i am WAY overdue!

Monday

Breakfast: oatmeal
snacks: raw almonds and two handfuls of peanut butter pretzels
(pictures are out of order! oh well!)
This is dinner...rebekkah wanted me to take a picture of her plate too:)

Grilled steak (thanks to cute hubby)...steamed brocolli and zuchini (zuchini was from our garden! yay!)...fresh strawberries, pineapple and one slice of apple (rebekkah didn't want her last one! ha!)..baby carrots..and i had probably less then 1/4 cup of brown rice

lunch: leftover beans from last night...green salad (spinach/lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, brocolli and celery with balsamic vinagrette)...apple...whole wheat tortilla (not pictured)

Exercise: Level 2 of Jillian Michael DVD...ran 2.25 miles on treadmill...then ran home from the park which I think was about a 1/4 of a mile...nathan thinks its more but oh well...so grand total of running at 2 1/2 miles:)

Sunday

breakfast: cream of wheat, strawberries and homemade wheat toast
snacks: crackers and baby carrots
lunch: fresh pineapple and leftover pizza
dinner: crockpot beans, sliced red and yellow bell peppers and cornbread muffins

Exercise: took rylie and walker for a walk (still got the full 45 minutes in!)


*challenge stuff*--for the challenge, you can either take one free point a day or take a full free day. my plan is to take a full free day, however, i can't always get 7 hours of sleep because of having a newborn obviously...and on the nights i dont get the full 7 hours i am not always able to take a nap...anyway...last wednesday i didn't get the full 7 hours so i had to take a free point that day to cover that. So, that meant that i couldn't take a full free day like planned. So, thursday, friday and saturday i got my 7 hours of sleep so could take a free point for each day...obviously, with my sweet tooth i took a free point for no sweets/sugar. friday i had paradise bakery cookies, saturday i had vanilla ice cream w/strawberries...AND for sunday i had carob clusters.

I didn't like taking a free point every day...because then i knew i was going to eat something sweet if i didn't have to take the free point for the 7 hours of sleep. I am hoping that i can still keep my sweets down to a minimal, even if for some reason i can't do my free full day. don't know if this makes sense to anybody else, or if anybody else cares, but i needed to write it down, just for myself. i'm hoping to take just one free day this week and not worry about the one point a day thing...but it all depends on my little babe if i can get the sleep or not!!!

Here's to week 2!

Saturday

Breakfast: oatmeal and strawberries
snacks: baby carrots
lunch: apple and organic mac and cheese (i know, not the best lunch!)
dinner: homemade wheat pizza (i made a veggie one with sauce, little mozzerella cheese, olives, tomatoes, red bell peppers and onion...so yummy! i also ate one of the ones i made that just had turkey pepperoni and olives)

Exercise: Ran 3.5 miles OUTSIDE!!! that was my FIRST run outside since before baby was born! (my other runs have been on the treadmill) it felt so great to be out again, i had a wonderful run!!!

Friday

(sorry no pictures!)
Breakfast: Oatmeal
snacks: baby carrots, raw almonds and pretzels
lunch: apple and 2 tacos (brown rice, kidney beans, spinach, avacado, cucumber, bell peppers and a little salsa)
dinner: salad from paradise bakery

I had another serving of fruit that day (keeping with my 2 fruits/2 veggies from the challenge) but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I'm lucky I remembered everything else I ate that day!

Exercise: Ran 2 miles and took rylie and walker for a walk

Thursday

Breakfast: homemade granola w/raisins, skim milk

snacks: raw almonds, pretzels

lunch: (very yummy today!) chicken salad on top of spinach/lettuce (made with chicken obviously! with onion, cucumber and celery..little mayo and mustard, salt and pepper), sides of 1/2 an aple and red peppers and carrots
Dinner: Turkey sub from subway...loaded with all the veggies (cucumber, peppers, spinach, olives, pickles, etc!)...carrot sticks and baked chips

Exercise: CardioX (from P90x) and ran 1 mile (wanted to do more but the babe was screaming the whole time i did just the 1!!!)