02/12/2012

Second week went down hill quick.  I had what felt like morning sickness the whole week, but I am not pregnant.  I am sure it's because of my Birth Control pills (that every woman should have access to free birth control pills, should they need them.  I was eating maybe once a day at work and then dinner at home.  I did eat a lot of greek yogurt. 

I was also a bum and didnt make it to the gym.  But I am meeting with my trainer/nutritutionist on Friday.  She is bringing me a sample for the meal service and then we will start that following Monday. 

Here's to learning something!

Link to a great chili

I ate well today, but I am craving some junk food. I started the day off with Raisin Bran Crunch.  Had a mozzarella stick for a snack, a protein shake for lunch and another mozzarella stick for mid day snack.  Then I had spaghetti for dinner with fresh homemade sauce. 

I am invited to a Super Bowl party this coming weekend, so I sent a message to my new favorite website http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/ and they sent me a link to a great chili.  Here is the link for anyone who wants to give it a try!

http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/vegetarian-quinoa-chili/

Opps

So I didnt do too good yesterday.  I had to finish off the rest of the sour cream and onion dip, right?  It isn't right to just let food go bad and waste it.  Plus there were those Pepperidge Farms cookies that were going to go stale.  But I did eat a healthy for most of the day.  I did NOT make it to the grocery store.  I guess that is my goal today.

Yoga Basics tomorrow at 6pm!

Weekends are Hard

I didn't feel like getting out of bed when I woke up at 8 (which is late for me).  So breakfast didn't happen until 10:30.  I had oatmeal with raisins.  I tell you, regular oatmeal: not that tasty.  I will have to check out the other kinds and see if any are actually considered "healthy".  Or I will have to get off my lazy butt and make that yummy sounding Baked Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal from http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/. 

I heard the Girl Scouts are out in full force.  That is going to be hard to resist.

Baked Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

Recipe found on http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/

Ingredients:
2 cups old fashioned oats
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 cups skim milk
1/2 cup applesauce
1 tablespoon melted butter
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 granny smith apple, peeled, cored, and diced

Optional toppings:
Brown Sugar, Raisins, Dried Cranberries, Chopped Almonds

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Coat an 8"x8" baking dish with cooking spray and set aside
2. In a large bowl, combine oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together milk, applesauce, butter, egg whites and vanilla. Pour wet ingredients over dry ingredients and stir until combined.  Gently stir in diced apples. Pour oatmeal mixture into prepared pan.
4.  Bake for 20 minutes or until oatmeal is golden brown and set.  Remove from oven and serve warm.  Add additional toppings to baked oatmeal if desired.

My First Day Eating Healthy

You know what?  Eating is hard.  I had 5 meals today and it was difficult to eat that much.  Granted they were small meals but for someone who only ate one time a day, it was a lot. I started off with my Chick-Fil-A Chicken Breakfast Burrito (nutritionist approved - but only once or twice a week because of the sodium).  I had a snack of one of those Special K bars and a co-worker gave me a 100 calorie pack of Pepperidge Farm cookies (can't turn that down!).  Lunch was a delicious protein shake.  I got it at GNC and I believe it's the GNC brand.  It was called simply Lean Shake and I had a strawberry flavored one.  I really wasn't looking for a "lean" protein shake, but there was a guy in GNC taking up all of the store attendants attention and I am impatient.  The guy was looking for a weight loss protein shake, so I got what they were talking about.  Second snack was a mozzarella cheese stick and some applesauce, which was sweetened with cinnamon and I am sure sugar.  Finally for dinner I had an Mother's specialty meal, mixed vegetables, tomatoes, rice and hamburger meat.

So was I successfully healthy?  Nope.  But it is a start.  I ate a normal amount of food.  I ate some good foods.  I did have too much sugar, but I was trying to make due with what was in the house already.  My parents are not healthy eaters and we have my 5 year old niece living here so its not like the place is stacked with the healthiest snacks.  I am lucky the Special K bars were here.  I was hoping for a banana because I know Vada (my niece) likes them.  Hamburger meat probably isn't that healthy, but I had her add half of what she normally does.  I would have done better with fresh vegetables instead of canned and brown rice,

Tomorrow I head for the grocery store so I will be able to pick up more good for you stuff.  I also bought two healthy eating cookbooks, My Father's Daughter by Gwyneth Paltrow and the one by Sheryl Crow (I can't remember the name).  I was hoping to get them on the Kindle, but its probably better to have them in hardbook. If I can actually figure out the healthy stuff to eat maybe I can save $100 a week by not having the meal service my nutritionist provides, but I think I will give her a try for a while to find out what is healthy.

PLEASE SEND SUGGESTIONS FOR HEALTHY FOODS!

Help me out!

I would love it if people were to send me recipes or even just suggested healthy food and snacks to me.  I was told that my old standby of potato chips and sour cream and onion dip didn't cut it anymore.