Midday Snack

Whole wheat crackers, babybel cheese, berries, grapes and peanut butter. yum!

Exercise was a 40 minute fast-paced walk/wog.

I’m short on words this evening, but wanted to share my pretty snack/meal. Hope you had a lovely day!

Weekend and Weekday Breakfasts

Sunday’s breakfast: sweet potato hash with cayenne and garlic, scrambled eggs, mushrooms and red peppers. Strange, but good and filling. I wasn’t hungry for hours.

Breakfast this morning: 1 slice whole grain bread, 1 banana, 2 T natural peanut butter, cinnamon and 8oz. whole milk.

What did you have for breakfast?

Collecting the Hours

When I’m not feeling well, my acceptable food list gets very narrow. This morning, I woke up with the worst migraine I’ve ever had. A migraine where light and the slightest movements hurt. Nausea was my only response to pain. Nine hours later and I’m feeling back to normal.

I ended up eating a bowl of grapes in the bed this morning while sipping water. And then when the headache was gone, about 45 minutes ago, I ate two bowls of angel hair pasta very ravenously. This Seeds of Change sauce is so good:

Pasta and sauce with feta was not on the meal plan for today, but I’m glad to be full and feeling better now.

Dinner will be a salad and maybe some fish and I’m already looking forward to our evening walk/run. Time to make up for the missing morning hours.

Self Plan

I do love magazines, I’m not gonna lie. I know the models are airbrushed and unrealistic, the information is regurgitated, but that doesn’t stop me from picking them up on occasion as a treat. I haven’t read Self in a really long time, and in a fit of needing inspiration I bought this, Health and Fitness when I was in WV the weekend before last.

I do find inspiration in them, just having them around the house, in the bathroom (haha I know) or the coffee table, it’s like a reminder of what I’m doing. Where I want to be.

Anyhow, the point of this is to share with you that the April issue of Self has (in my opinion) a really good and realistic weight loss plan.  I’ve tried a lot of diets in my pre and post blog. Some that require counting calories or restricting carbs and they all work, it’s just about consistency and for me, the more down to earth it is, the more likely I am to stick with it. As soon as I decide I can’t have something for the sake of weight loss, that’s all I want. Even if I don’t really want it.

The Drop 10 (and more, they talk about losing more weight) is pretty straightforward: 1,600 calories a day, with a 200 calorie treat a day that can be carried over to other days when you may need them more (like plus points with weight watchers), the only catch is that you can only stack 800 together at a time. So say, you are planning to go out for a celebration this coming weekend you can use up to 2,400 at one time and still lose weight.

They also provide a daily exercise plan, recipes and a check off list to keep track of your progress. And for those wondering, I wasn’t paid or asked to promote this magazine or plan, I just really liked how simple and doable it is. I think having structure with the principles of Brain Over Binge (breaking bad habits) will be a winning combination.

I’m traveling to WV again this weekend for a baby shower and plan to save some of my extra calories this week for that.

Today’s breakfast:

One Ezekiel cinnamon raisin english muffin with less than 1 T butter, 1 T cacao (cacao!) bliss and a cup of strawberries: 367 calories