Friday - date night

Breakfast - cinn weight control oatmeal and a banana, vitamins, water
Lunch - California rolls with wasabi and soy sauce, sips of groovy guava jamba juice
Dinner - Hello date night! Pirates of the Carribean 3 rocked my pirate boat! ARGG MATEY!! 2 slices of delicious pizza, popcorn, root beer, some raisinets, sips of sprite and diet coke

Exercise - Does cleaning house and watching 2 toddlers count?!?!?!

Thursday - day of skin cancer steroid injection treatments - yah I deserved the chocolate

Breakfast - plain silk soy milk and cheerios

Lunch - Tuna, mayo, and lemon pepper mixed and put on 3 light rye WASA crackers

Snack -popcorn, chips, salsa, peanut butter(yah - I think I am having pregnancy cravings)

Dinner - half steamed rice half fried rice with terriaki chx and little bit of orange chx, 3 cream cheese ragoons, and some orange soda.

Dessert - Butterfingers ice cream bar

Exercise - I rested in bed and watched chick flicks. Today I had multiple needles shot in to my shoulder and chest. I totally deserved every treat I got. Man was I in pain. That's enough to coat my body in sunscreen every time I leave the house.....learn from this my friend...sunscreen is your friend!
**And last but certainly not least - I have an amazing husband who came home from work early, watched Ben and Lily while I rested, then took Ben and grocery shopped, and brought me home special perfume and a willow tree. I love Dan so much. He spoils me.......

Wednesday - HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!!

Breakfast - banana(was really busy getting ready for the day)

Lunch - broccoli, tuna, whole wheat pasta noodles, shredded cheddar cheese, garlic salt sprinkled on top

Dinner - homemade mini sub sandwiches(rye sub bread, little mayo, little Dijon mustard, romaine lettuce, pepper jack cheese, turkey and ham) light fat free pringles, apple slices, few pieces of celery, root beer and Hansons natural diet soda

Snack - tiny bit of cotton candy(most of it melted from humidity by the time Dan walked back to where Ben and I were saving our firework spot)

Late dessert - when getting back home I had some of the jello flag mold I made. - sugar free strawberry jello, sugar free cool whip, blueberries, and strawberries.

Exercise - Today my exercise was walking from car to block party at Pearl Harbor, back to car, then walking to picnic spot, then back to car...... Today's exercise was walking!

Tuesday - holiday before the holiday

breakfast - nutri grain waffles, frozen blueberries, syrup

Snack - 2 light rye wasa crackers spread with Skippy's natural peanut butter

Lunch - spicy guac pringles, whole wheat rye sub bread, light mayo, Pavarotti with jalapenos cheese, turkey and ham, Dijon mustard.

Snack - 1 kashi chewy granola bar, pina colada smoothie

Dinner - 1 whole wheat tortilla with fat free refried beans and sprinkled cheddar cheese; some broccoli with minced garlic and a few pasta shells with minced garlic; water

Snack/Dessert - 1 serving of homemade banana pudding

Exercise - Hiked Diamond Head Crater - this was about a total of an hour and a half - that included 271 stairs!!!- Can anyone say FEEL THE BURN??

Back on the saddle again Monday

Breakfast - cinn weight control oatmeal made with plain silk soy milk; raisins; water; vitamins


Lunch - romaine lettuce, grilled chx, lemon juice and olive oil mixed to make homemade salad dressing, orange slices; baby carrots dipped into roasted red pepper hummus


Snack - kashi chewy granola bar


Snack - pringles, grapes

Snack - spinach dip and bread bites

Dinner - wheat 6" sub roll, turkey, ham, romaine lettuce, 1 slice of Colby jack cheese, 1 slice of pepper jack cheese, light mayo, Italian seasoning; Hanson's dark cherry diet natural soda

Dessert - Dan had the night off the next day and I have been meaning to make this for days now. So in celebration of the holiday I finally made it -
Banana pudding!!! - I made it with sugar free pudding and plain silk soy milk, banana slices, and vanilla wafers.

Exercise - swam laps in pool for 30 minutes, played with Dan and Ben in pool for another 20 minutes

Sunday

Today was fast Sunday - for those of you who don't know what this is - it's when I fast for 2 meals and focus on my sprituality a little more. Well, the problem with this is when getting back home from church(our church schedule right now is 3-6 because we share the church building with multiple congregations) I am starving. So this is what happened -

In the car ride home from church -ate a granola bar(chewy kashi)

Ate these while the turkey dogs were grilling -baked lays; schezuan chips; diet root beer; 1 brownie(leftover from movie time last night)

Finally ate our meal - but was basically too full. I could not imagine not eating a real meal so i overate even when full......2 turkey hotdogs with chili and sprinkled cheddar cheese;1 diet natural hansons black cherry soda

Ate this while talking to Dan and just enjoying our evening -1 caramel cone by skinny cow

Saturday

Breakfast - Biscuits made with healthy heart Bisquick and Lactaid milk, also had gravy on top; bowl of fruit with watermelon, grapes, and mango; water, vitamins


Lunch - 1 whole wheat sub roll, 1 slice of Colby jack cheese, 1 slice of pepper jack cheese, ham and turkey slices, romaine lettuce, little mayo, little mustard, little sprinkle of pepper and salt; 1/2 can of black cherry natural Hanson's soda

While driving to beach and back - munched on wheat Ritz crackers; apple slices.

At grocery store bought and ate a snickers bar. I hadn't had one in years and I was really craving chocolate.

After going to beach and finishing up a quick grocery trip, For the most part, I forgot about the word health -

baked sour cream and cheddar lays, 3 frozen pizza slices, guac and chips

With movie -a few bites of a brownie(didn't eat whole brownie), choc soy milk, 1 skinny cow cone.

Exercise - Deep cleaned house and went to beach and went and swam with Ben in ocean

Friday

Breakfast - total cereal with lactaid milk; vitamins; water

Snack - kashi chewy granola bar

Lunch - Quiznos flat bread honey mustard grilled chicken salad; bag of baked sour cream and cheddar chips; 1/3 of a choc chip cookie

After finishing grocery shopping - Dan and I treated ourselves to a Ice cream cone from McDonalds.

Dinner - spinach dip(recipe on reipe of the month link) and wheat bread bowl bites (appetizer night - Dan and I were full after this, so we didn't even get to the shrimp quesadillas we had planned on. I am proud of us for stopping though.)

No exercise today - unless you count me chasing around 2 toddlers and dog sitting a 100 pound American bull dog!

Thursday

Breakfast - 1/2 C strawberry yogurt with chopped pecans sprinkled in; 1 piece of multi grain toast spread lightly with peanut butter; water, vitamins


Lunch - 1 whole wheat tortilla, no fat refried beans, chopped up onions, chopped up mushrooms, Tapatio hot sauce, sprinkle of shredded cheddar cheese.


Snack - kashi chewy granola bar


Dinner - tortilla chips sprinkled with shredded cheese, chopped green onions, jalapenos, no fat refried beans.

Snack - Lemon herbal tea with little bit of honey poured in

Exercise - Walked down to kids playground and played with Ben and Lily. Went down slide with both of them after carrying them up the stairs. Drove them around in a pretend kids car while running behind them pushing them. Walked back up hill to house while carrying Ben and holding lily's hand. - I broke a sweat so I consider it a work out. :)

Wednesday

Food Log -


Breakfast -
1 piece of multi grain bread with a light spread if Skippy natural peanut butter; 1 C strawberry yogurt with a sprinkle of chopped pecans; 3 orange slices; water; vitamins


Lunch - 1 grilled pork chop(pre-made last night by chef Dan) seasoned with lemon pepper; 1 no fat/no cholesterol/whole grain flour tortilla sprinkled with shredded cheese, little bit of butter, and cholula hot sauce; water

Snack -
Kashi chewy granola bar, protein shake with Lactaid milk

Dinner - whole wheat organic pasta noodles, marinara sauce, 2 chx tenders, mozzarella cheese; cold spinach leaves as a salad spritzed with Italian dressing spritzer

Snack - 1 sugar free chocolate pudding with 1 spoonful of chocolate cool whip

Exercise - Put Ben into the jogging stroller and walked down to our track on base. Sprinted/fast pace walk 2 laps, ran around middle of track grass playing with Ben and Dan.

Tuesday

Food log -

Breakfast - blackberries mixed in to 1 packet of cinnamon weight control oatmeal with 3/4 C plain soy milk; water; banana; vitamins; 1 mug of lemon zinger herbal tea. (Trying to drink lots of herbal tea recently, to help my singing voice.)

Snack - Kashi granola bar, some baby carrots

Lunch - Oh yah, forgot that...too nervous and busy making my audition CD!!!!!

Make up meal - tuna, mayo, lemon pepper mixed together and put in half a pita pocket; 1/2 C strawberry yogurt

Dinner - 2 grilled pork chops sprinkled with lemon pepper, half a bag of Asian mix salad.

Snack - 1 scoop of whey protein, 1 spoonful of creamy smart balance peanut butter, 8 oz plain silk soy milk

Exercise: Today was lower body, abs, and cardio day
ABS workout
5 minute fitness test on bike
20 minutes on treadmill (just stayed at 3.5 - so not in to working out today)
* Left gym after doing abs and cardio. Then went home and ate dinner. I then did the following right before getting my stinky self in to the shower.
3 sets of 10 squats
Every leg lift you can possibly imagine
a few more minutes of doing ABS

Monday

Breakfast - half a banana - I know, not anywhere near enough food. I thought it was better than nothing. I just had zero time.
Lunch - 1 burrito supreme, 1/2 chx and cheese quesadilla, 1/2 extreme quesadilla, little bit of DP - I felt straight out crappy after eating this meal. Such an unwise choice. I seriously regretted eating that meal......my tummy no like Taco smell
Snack - some baby carrots
Dinner - 2 C steamed spinach with sprinkled salt and tiny bit of butter, 3 chicken tenders grilled on George foreman with lemon pepper and tomato basil spice, carrots, edamames, steamed carrots, broccoli, 1/2 C whole wheat organic linguine noodles
Snack - 1 C frozen yogurt caramel praline flavor
EDIT: I also had 1 cup of lemon zinger herbal tea, and 1 small bag of smart pop popcorn

Exercise!
Warmed up with 10 min on bike
38 min on elliptical machine
30 min of upper body/ab strength training with Dan my personal trainer helping out and spotting
YAH! Thanks to my I-POD music the time on the elliptical went fairly quick. Once again the bottom of my feet felt tingly/pain. Heidi - have you heard anything yet if this is normal? I know Dan and our upstairs neighbor have the same feeling when on the elliptical.

Sunday

Breakfast - 2 multi grain slices of bread, skippy natural peanut butter, 1 sliced up banana; water; vitamins.



Lunch - bean tostada with no fat refried beans, no fat/no lard/no cholesterol tortillas, shredded colby cheese, cholula hot sauce; water


Snack - 1 mint flavored skinny cow ice cream sandwich; handful of tortilla chips

Dinner - appetizers at grad party - cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, crab/artichoke tiny wraps, turkey and cheese mini wraps, 1/2 Dijon mustard with 1 slice of pastrami on a roll, 3 pieces of shrimp with cocktail dipping sauce, 1 glass of lemonade, water. (I am proud of myself - I skipped the fried wings)

Dessert - 2 brownies, popcorn, licorice, soy milk, a few tortilla chips with gross guac(too much vinegar)

S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y

I have the Bay city rollers song in my head. I just downloaded onto my I-TUNES. I love that song..... S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y

Food log -

Breakfast - Breakfast burritos - thank you women's health recipe, water, and vitamins
Snack - some grapes and a few cheerios
Lunch - whey protein, frozen strawberries, light soy milk -all blended up to a smoothie; topped with a spoonful of chocolate cool whip (only 2 g of sugar, and a few calories)
Snack - maui onion chips (driving to beach)
Dinner - 1 bean burrito with sour cream from taco smell (healthiest choice for a meal), a little bit of Dr Pepper
Snack - 4 white mac nut cookies (why does it feel so good to be so bad??) with a glass of plain soy milk

I LOVE this link!

I have discovered the greatest thing invented! It's the recipe link on the Women's Health magazine website. Need an idea for a meal? Want to plan meals ahead of time??? Just go to this link and you have all these foods at your disposal. They are quick and easy. They are healthy! And they taste delicious!

Just now I planned today's meals out!
Breakfast - Breakfast burritos
Lunch - Asian Noodle Salad
Dinner - BBQ chicken salad

I LOVE this recipe link!!

One of the great things about this link is that you are able to switch the serving size. Preparing a meal for 2 or 20, it doesn't matter. You are able to change the serving size and it calculates for you the difference in portions! Can it get more simple to eat healthy? I think not!

Friday!!!

So I am very happy to say that I stopped eating 2 hours before I went to bed last night! Yah for me! Dan and I also worked out yesterday at his work gym before heading to date night. And at the movie, I resisted getting nachos and chocolate! I chose the healthiest options there. Diet coke, hot dog, and popcorn. And we brought hot tamales and licorice that I had been saving for movie night! I usually would get down on myself about the soda and hot dog for dinner, but I was actually happy. I could of skipped the gym, so I had time to make dinner before date night. But I really felt that working out was needed for me. So YAH for me!

So here is today's food log -

Breakfast - Cinn weight control oatmeal, fresh cut up strawberries, sprinkled cinnamon, raisins; water; vitamins. Side note - I would not suggest mixing the strawberries into that mix. It tasted weird.

Snack - Kashi chewy granola bar

Lunch - 3 multi grain WASA crackers with light laughing cow cheese spread, tomato slice, and turkey breast slice; 2 whole wheat tortillas sprinkled with cheese

Snack - Protein shake with 8 oz light plain soy milk

Dinner - whole wheat organic linguine noodles with citrus shrimp, I sprinkled the pasta and shrimp with a tiny handful of shredded mozzarella cheese, also had edamames before and with dinner, and of course.....WATER!!!

Snack - munched on some edamame's and crystal light tangerine/strawberry flavor

Snack - Creamy chocolate banana ice treat!!! Taste delicious!

** Exercise and feelin good**

Dan left tonight to help out some people from our church. I found myself alone with Ben and just wanting to order pizza and watch a movie with Ben. But, I did not to do that. Oh no, I got my tushy in gear. What is my main motivator at the moment? *July 20th and singing in the Colgate country showdown. I've gotta feel confident not only in my singing but in my jeans. ;) wink wink Seriously though....I am proud of myself. I clicked on the link to the right of my page that says 10 ingredients and 40 recipes. I had went grocery shopping with that list last week. I am just now getting around to cooking a meal from it. I found a citrus shrimp recipe that sounded delicious. So while the shrimp was marinating, I grabbed Ben and the jogging stroller and off we went. We live on a steep hill. It is my main reason for not getting out more. But this time I did it! And I came home sweating like a pig(it felt great), made some yummy wholesome dinner food while listening to my I-pod in the I-home set to my "relax and unwind" play list(aka: Norah Jones, Andre Bocelli, John Mayer), ate a nice quiet meal with Ben, put Ben to bed, cleaned up the house, jumped in the shower, and still had energy to greet Dan with a smile. :) Yah for me! It's a good day today!

Thursday

Food Log -


Breakfast - cinn weight control oatmeal with some fresh blueberries mixed in; water; vitamins
Lunch - Crispy(used canola oil in skillet) whole wheat tortilla with low fat refried beans, sprinkle of cheese, tomato's. onions. and a tiny bit of non fat sour cream
Snack - protein shake
Dinner -Movie date night - hot dog with ketchup and mustard, diet coke, popcorn, hot tamales, licorice(I resisted the nachos and chocolate candy products!!)

Exercise -
5 minutes on bike to warm up
7 minutes of stretching
30 minutes on treadmill - did (2) 1 minute intervals on 5.0 speed jogging, rest was walking at 3.5 speed some times with incline between 2.0 and 3.0
Weight machine for back/arms - 2 sets of 12 - this is the wonderful new exercise that I have discovered. It helps get rid of my "hump" by my neck. It formed when my front area got HUGE during the pregnancy. Also from poor posture. I thought I would never get rid of it. God bless this weight set!

Wednesday

Food log -

Breakfast - 1 piece of mulit grain toast with smart balance creamy peanut butter; few bites of a banana, water

Snack - wheat grass shot with a slice of an orange from jamba juice

Lunch - 3 pieces of salmon with rice, California rolls Maki, and only 1 tiny slice of Dan's Taco smell quesadilla. (Dan said he was proud of me for not eating taco Bell and for making healthier choices!!!!)

Snack - baby carrots

*Dan watched the kids while I took a 3 hr nap. I feel like someone took a suction cup and sucked all the energy out of my body. What is going on? The only thing I can think of is that I am not eating enough? Anyone have any other thoughts???? Anyone anyone???Buller....anyone?

Dinner - (My wonderful husband made) Tofu stir fry with brown rice. This meal is courtesy of week 1 - day 7 - dinner meal - off of week 1 booty boot camp. (Substituted low sodium soy
sauce for terriaki sauce that we didn't have. )

Snacks - Licorice, couple handfuls of baked lays chips, crystal light pink lemonade, 2 skinny cow mint flavored sandwiches.

I was almost too embarrassed to add this. But this site is about healthy. And being honest is the first step for me to become healthier.

EDIT ADD ON - 2 slices of multi grain bread, 2 slices of deli Colby jack cheese, light butter, 1 Roma tomato sliced up, 1 big slice of a white onion.

Tuesday's meals and feelings (because for me the two go hand in hand)

After having a splurge all weekend I have decided that meal planning is a NECESSITY! At least for right now. The weekend is the time for me to go off the meal plan and try and choose healthy options. But the weekend rolled into Monday and I am really down on myself. I ate so much garbage these past few days. Only 1 way to pick myself up. KEEP GOING! This is really hard for me. Because I am doing it the "healthy" way, it is a slow process. And even though my arms were feeling toner, face felt thinner, and my derriere' felt higher....I feel like all my progress went out the door with the bad food choices and not exercising. But instead of staying in that frame of mind, I am going to switch gears.


Look at the positive and what works for me -

* Eating healthy breakfast, vitamins, and water right after I wake up. This helps me not skip meals which leads to overeating and choosing garbage.

* Getting on computer less for pleasure(aka:People.com) and more for journal feelings and track eating.

* Following meal plan or healthy meal ideas from Women's Health

* When at grocery store, stick to list and healthy options. Stop buying Chips(even though they are baked lays and multi grain tortilla chips)

* Pat yourself on the back for only having soda two times in 5 days. Pat yourself on back for choosing Icee and popcorn instead of nachos and chocolate candy on Friday night.

* Get off your tush and get active!


Food Log for Tuesday -Following (for the most part)week 1 booty camp day 1 meals

*Breakfast - Cinn weight control instant oatmeal, 1 cup of mixed berries (blueberries, raspberries, boysenberries), handful of chopped pecans, 1/4 cup of light soy milk. Water and vitamins.


*Snack and Lunch together - 1/2 cup of cottage cheese sprinkled cinnamon; 4 C mixed salad greens, 4 oz chx from can, 1/2 sliced up avocado; 1 TSP lemon juice and 2 TBSP Extra Virgin Olive Oil mixed together to make salad dressing; 1 orange sliced up


Snack - 1 scoop of protein powder, 8 oz light plain soy milk

Snack - multi grain tortilla chips and homemade guacamole with Roma tomatoes and white onions in it.

Munchies - skinny cow caramel cone

After these snacks, I went and did an intense cardio workout with hills. Then off to Dan's softball game. When we finally got home it was 9:30pm and I just wasn't hungry. I really haven't had an appetite lately. Hmmmm......

EDIT: Had a handful of baby carrots, 3 wasa crackers spread with light cream cheese and raisins, 5 pieces of fat free licorice.

Back after a short hiatus

After a short"hiatus" I am back! Here is a brief run down of how the past 5 days have gone.


*Friday - Breakfast - healthy, 2:30pm - Quizno's salads as a family on the way to the game. Then Dan and I had a date night and saw Fantastic 4 #2!!! My dinner for the night was a strawberry Iceeee and popcorn. I know...so healthy right?


*Saturday - Skipped breakfast. Evening - Went to military theatre and attempted to watch Spiderman 3 with Ben. We left early, but we still ate the un-healthy food. Had dinner at theatre. There were no healthy options. I had a hot dog, diet coke, some popcorn, few tiny butter finger bites, a few nachos. Definitely not my finest moment in healthy eating. This tiny military theatre didn't even have Iceee's. But everything was super cheap. Tickets for example were only $3.50! And Ben of course was free.

*Sunday - Happy Fathers day! Made a mostly healthy brunch. I made french toast kabobs. I also made smoothies out of frozen fruit, plain fat free yogurt, and a tiny bit of apple juice. Also on the table was strawberry/tangerine Crystal Light.

Then we came home from church. Dan and Ben grilled us up some steak!! Yummy!

We rarely eat red meat. It was pretty darn tasty though with the grilled Cajun rub Dan had put on it! Besides steak, I had half a baked sweet potato, 1 piece of corn on the cob, and a piece of french bread. ~Oh yah I almost forgot! We invited our upstairs neighbor Kevin and his little girl(whom I baby sit) over for dinner while Connie(the Mom) is gone to Army training. Kevin brought over the best guacamole I have EVER tasted! It went so fast we didn't even get pictures. But guess what??? I got the secret recipe!!! That was one yummy appetizer!

*Monday( not my healthiest) - Flew by - breakfast - healthy total cereal with blueberries and skim milk. Lunch -while running errands - bean burrito with sour cream and diet coke from Taco Smell. Dinner - while at Dan's softball game - one slice of cheese pizza, watermelon, water. Then after the game Dan wanted a taco. I ordered a nacho just out of habit. I over ate. I regreted it big time. I was not even hungry!

* Tuesday - Doing great! Will post separately for today's healthy meals.