Wednesday

So .. funny story this morning. I had a Shakeology explosion in my kitchen.

Slight background: I'm traveling tomorrow, and want to take some shake mix with me. I got some little snack-sized ziploc bags and my trusty Shakeology, then proceeded to start putting one scoop of mix per bag. All was going well until I apparently hit an air pocket in the Shakeology bag, and POOF!! Choco shakeology everywhere! Up my arm, on the counter .. it wasn't pretty lol

It was, however mildly amusing.

What is mo-betta is that I have 5 days worth of shakes all portioned out and in my shaker cup, ready to go!

Speaking of shake ... methinks it's time for breakfast!

Tuesday!

YAY shake for breakfast!! I miss shakeology when I don't have it, even for a day. I can feel the difference in my digestion, and how I feel.

Got a bit of a late start on foods today, I didn't make my shake till about 9:50am - BAD!!! Threw it in the blender with some unsweetened almond milk and random frozen fruit (it's a mixed bag, and most pieces are covered in ice crystals).

I'm going to remake my lunch from yesterday here in a couple hours - fajita steak meat into phase 1 soup broth & veggies. There isn't any stew meat left in it, and veggies are limited, but it is still delicious. And besides! We need to clean out the fridge :)

12:00pm - snack! apple + reduced fat cheese

2:30pm - steak fajita meat + phase 1 soup broth

Remiss yet again

Last week was absolutely crazy. Stepmom was in visiting, yay! But I wasn't on my best diet-behavior, boo. Add to that, Jason had some friends in from Norway which added to the diet misbehavior.

Biggies - I got p90x ordered, and it should be here in time for us to leave to Vegas, haha. I'm going to order the recovery drink mix as well, prior to starting up. We should have plenty of time. Once we get back from Vegas, we will collect the equipment needed to get started, and do our fitness test, measurements, and before photos (gak).

Foodstuffs from Monday (writing on tuesday):
breakfast: leftover biscuit + green chile gravy, scrambled egg
snack: apple + reduced fat aged cheddar
lunch: threw some fajita meat in with leftover phase 1 stew (gonna do that again today too)
dinner: 2 pcs pizza (hangs head in shame) and 2 beers

Thursday

7:40am - I woke up hungry today! Had my shake kinda early. Mixed up with almond milk, then about 4oz of water to clean out the cup when the milk was gone.

Busy day of work ahead, while getting ready to go to Plano for an overnight trip. My boss is leaving the company, tomorrow is his last day.

10:27am - laundry is in the dryer. it is SNACK TIME!! apple + cheese :)

1:00pm - Lunch! phase 1 soup. I got a little carried away with my portion size though :( I feel it too!

3:41pm and I'm still stuffed. ugh. need more water to help flush me out!

Wrapped up in the real world

It is so ridiculously easy for me to blog during the week, I'm right here at my computer for almost all of my meals (well, especially the last three weeks of overtime-hell for work). After being bogged down for so long, I refused to enter my office all weekend. I got out in the real world.

Saturday morning was eggs and potatoes and ham all scrambled together for breakfast, since we were going for a bicycle ride (woot!). Met up with some friends at Walnut Creek for a ride at 11, it was cut "short" due to one of the guys having a kidney stone come along. He'd originally planned a 12 mile route for us, and we finished with around 5.75 miles under our belts, I believe - I'll have to check my mapping program to confirm. We usually do 6.5miles or so, but Sam took us on some new paths with some SERIOUS climbs! The mapping program rated my ride about 1000cal. We had a couple of extended stops in the ride as well, good recovery zones. Saturday afternoon we chilled out, then went out for (more) mexican food and patio time for dinner.

Sunday .... Easter. Shake for breakfast, relaxed a bit, then Jason put on a ham and various other components of a boiled dinner. Fam + friends came over around 1, had lunch, chilled for a while chatting and whatnot, they left around 6. Made our spaghetti squash bake for a later dinner, watched some Game of Thrones and GCB, then called it a day.

Monday - relatively nondescript. Eggs + ham for breakfast, shake for lunch, apple for snack. Made soup (low carb) with the ham stock from Sunday.

Tuesday - also nondescript. Eggs + ham for breakfast, shake + banana for lunch, apple for snack. Leftover soup for dinner.

Wednesday - eggs + ham for breakfast (9am). apple for snack (11:30am).  delicious apple too!!! nice and firm, very juicy. then I caved and had a Lean Cuisine pizza for lunch (2:15pm). PROCESSED FOOD!!! Sheesh. I've been craving all sorts of "bad" things today. it's time to start giving the child some of this chocolate, so it won't be in the house!! I have NOT, for the record, had any chocolate today. But don't think it's not looking at me. Because it is. I did pick up more almonds at the store, as well as some carrots and mozzarella to do some "different" snacks. It is now 3:44 and I am starting to consider a small snack. I am behind on water today, I've only had a liter.

Also! Breaking News!! I signed up today to be an Independent Team Beachbody Coach. Jason was talking last night about doing P90x together, after we return from Vegas, and I've been talking with the Amazing Gretchen about becoming a coach mostly for the discount on Shakeology... but hey! Now I can get the coach pricing for P90X as well!  Can't wait to have less of me!!

4:00pm - snack of 15 almonds

6:30pm - two FRS healthy energy chews, and off to the hike&bike trail!  9 miles in 52 minutes. Not our best time, but it was a nice workout.

10:00pm - phase 1 soup for dinner, one bowl.

Friday!!

I'm always excited for Fridays. They signal a few remaining hours of mediocrity until the weekend. Today is especially awesome, as it is the last day of the testing that I have been working on for 3+ weeks, testing which has kept me in my office till 10 or 11 at night. Not cool /gru.

7:53am - Shake shake shake, shake shake shake, shake your breakfast!! Ok, well shake MY breakfast. Unsweetened almond milk this time - I've apparently been buying "sweetened".

10:08am - snack time. cauliflower bitesized pieces with a little aioli

Catching up on Wednesday - the rest of Friday went downhill. I had a reasonable lunch, I had an apple for a snack. Then work FINALLY wrapped up at 3:15pm and we headed to Chuy's for long overdue meximarts on the patio. And chips and crack sauce. And pancho nachos.

Got home around 7, enjoyed some more time outside with a book. Passed out on the sofa around 7:30pm, woke up for an hour or so around 10:30pm to sign some papers, then I was back out. Cold. Slept through till about 8am Saturday. It was glorious.

new post coming for the rest of my updates.

Friday's Eve

8:30am - breakfast today was the rest of the steak, and 2 eggs, all scrambled together

12:00pm - didn't even realize I missed snack. still not starving, so I will wait to eat.

1:00pm - NOW I want some foods. Apple + cheese it is. next snack / small meal will be a shake. I am so accustomed to having the shake-goodies in my system, that I can feel my belly gurgling as if saying "seriously chick? where's the goods?"

3:18pm - snack time. SHAKE!! Btw - this is the end of my FIRST bag of shakeology. 2nd is already in teh pantry :D there was a little left in the bottom of bag 1, so I just opened bag 2 and dumped it in! No point in being wasteful.

7:40pm - getting hungry, dinner not yet started. grabbed a handful of bite-sized cauliflower pieces to munch on. seems to have helped. and HOLY CROW. I apparently decided I was thirsty,  I've downed 2+ liters of water since 5pm. WOW!

Wednesday

8:40am - shake time!! I've come to decide that this is my favorite time of day. I've also come to decide that I am a lazy bitch who prefers her shaker cup to the blended delights. It works out though, since I'd throw more ingredients in if I used the blender, which would be more calories that I don't necessarily need.

12:30pm - lunch. soup & salad at olive garden. since I didn't have my morning snack, I perhaps had a little more than I normally would. But it still wasn't bad, at all. one bowl of pasta fagiole (however the hell it is spelled), and most of one bowl of salad (they were TINY today).

Rebuilding on Thursday -

~4pm - apple + cheese for snack.

8:45pm - small chicken breast for dinner, with some garlic aioli

work is making me a crazy person.

Not-Monday

8:14am - coffee. I woke up at midnight-30 coughing up a storm, so I stumbled downstairs and popped a benadryl. Made it a challenge to get up at 630 like I wanted to. It's going to be a long day

8:20am - shake made, ready to consume. random observation... boyfriend has been talking about going gluten-free. I had wheat thins as part of a snack yesterday, and had some ill aftereffects... if I do everything else from yesterday the same except the wheat thins, would I avoid the aftereffects? I love the hell out of wheat thins. but if our bodies are not primed to process wheat/gluten efficiently, then perhaps it is best to not-to (channeling a little Mater this morning)

10:40am - snack. apple + aged white cheddar. why is this so delicious!!

1:08pm - starting to think about being hungry.

1:24pm - lunch. 2 eggs scrambled, with ~2oz steak. little bit of feta.

4:00pm - There was about 1.5oz of leftover chicken from last night, I had it for "snack" with a little bit of garlic aioli.

6:45pm - had a little bit of guac, maybe 2 tbsp, for another snack (second snack?).  Soup will likely be dinner around 8-830pm.

8:35pm - last bowl of Phase 1 Soup. More broth than anything, but it was just the right amount of food. I wasn't super hungry.

Water to finish off the night.

Monday, Monday ....

8:24am - OMG starving. time for breakfast. Almond milk + shakeology. and tea. I made iced tea for some caffeine. slightly less messy than the french press for coffee.

10:34am - snack time. hello apple! braeburn is the flavor today - the fujis did not look good at the last store outing.

12:30pm - lunch. 2 eggs, scrambled, with about 2oz of leftover steak. little bit of feta added, bad idea though - I didn't use my "normal" brand, and it had a really not-great mouth feel. I had to pick it out :(

3:11pm - snack time, I think. my tummy is a little off today. I'm having a wedge of Laughing Cow Sundried Tomato and Mozzarella, with a half-serving of Wheat Thins (8 crackers). This works out to about 130 cal if I remember correctly from MyFitnessPal. Not terrible.

4:48pm - I have a desire to snack, but i'm not hungry. I think my mouth is bored. I've tried gum, but it's not working for me. Maybe i'll have some water.

7:15pm - snack is a bloody mary

9:15pm - dinner. small chicken breast baked in italian seasoning, brussels sprouts on the side. SO SALTY. omg. i'm going to have to drink another liter tonight to offset all the salt. good flavor, but holy balls too much salt. if I can finish my food, i'm done for the night. and it may be leftovers. because .... stuft.

Weekend

Saturday - shake with almond milk + ice in the shaker cup for breakfast (8:20am), then it was off for some much-needed girlifying. Hair appt 9am, followed by mani pedi. I needed a snack between hair and nails, but totally didn't plan it out, so I had to stop off. I stopped at Panera, and got a completely delicious asiago bagel with chive & onion (10:40am). Their menu had it rated ~450cal, so I had half the bagel and about a quarter of the cream cheese for my snack. Still way heavy, but I needed something and there were no other good options on my route. The other half of the bagel was snack around 1:00pm, with another quarter of the cream cheese.  2:00pm I made a salad for lunch ... spring mix, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, tomato, avocado, and yellowfin tuna. YUM.

Didn't really have an afternoon snack, the salad really filled me up. Started putting dinner (soup) together around 5:30, and we were headed to a mountain bike ride at 7:15 .. didn't have time to eat dinner before we had to head out. It wouldn't have had time to settle. I made a half PBJ around 7, so I could have some carbs and protein to get the ride going.

Ride was good - our first night ride! We took a path we are familiar with, thank the stars, because it was a completely different ballgame! our pace was a little over half what we usually do ... coupled with the perhaps minor fear of being locked in the park, we didn't dally too long. Ended up doing about 4.5 miles in  just over an hour

here was our ride

After we got back, it was time for that delicious soup! We call it Phase 1 Soup: lean stew meat, garlic, onion, bell pepper, diced tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, couple cubes of chicken bouillon, and water to balance out the fluids. One bowl for me and I was done.

I did have a couple of amazing bloody marys to accompany my dinner.

Sunday - 9:30am shake time! Pulled out the blender this time and mixed up some almond milk, shake mix, half a banana, and a few ice cubes. Simple, effective, delicious. It is 10:26am now, and I am almost finished with it. Then I will drink about .5L of tea, hello caffeine! Might make some more tea, then start in on my water for the day. There's a good bit of soup leftover, so that will probably be lunch. I am having a steak for dinner though ... been thinking about it for days.

12:00pm - apple snack

2:30pm - bowl of Phase 1 Soup

Rebuilding on Monday - 4:00pm - afternoon snack, bloody mary. 8:00pm - dinner! NY Strip (8oz), zesty zucchini + squash for side.  DELICIOUS.  Leftover steak was chopped up and put in the fridge for use in eggs this week :)