Day 1 (again) End

I did okay today. There is always room for improvement. At least I exercised. That is more than I did yesterday, and I ate less junk today.

Breakfast - Smoothies w/oatmeal, milk, almond butter, agave nectar, banana
Snack - String Cheese
Lunch - Sandwhich - Pumpernickle bread w/tomato, red pepper, cucumber, cream cheese, alfalfa sprouts,
Snack - Lays Limon chips (not my finest moment)
Dinner - Chicken Dish - rice, pasilla chilies, chicken, onions, sour cream, cotija cheese. Watermelon
Snack - Frozen yogurt (yummy, but probably not necessary)

Exercise - I walked about 2.3 miles in 47 minutes.

Day 2, here I come!

I'm Baaaack!

I changed the title to Eating Well & Exercising. The whole clean eating thing isn't for me. I will use some of its ideas, but I think my family would revolt if I tried to do it full time. D saw the recipe book not too long ago and asked if we could throw it away. I tried one more recipe from it and it didn't go over too well.

Today is the start of my new Eating Well campaign. Pregnancy and bed rest did not agree with me. H is the cutest girl ever, but I am now living the effects of not controlling my eating and laying in bed for almost 4 months.

I WILL update my eating and exercise each day. For breakfast this morning I had a smoothie. I am about to go for a walk (I'm out of shape).

Yay for the new me!

Obviously nobody reads my blog

Is anyone even reading? I know I haven't been consistent, but come on, you could at least check in once in a while.

For breakfast, I ate a banana and 2 small slim jims.

Not fun at my house right now

My kids are sick. I'm not feeling well. Who knows how long this will last. D says he is not feeling well. Not a fun week at my house. We are eating whatever, so my eating hasn't been the greatest. I went and rented movies from Blockbuster tonight. It was the first time I had left the house since Wednesday. I bought tons of junk because I feel bad for the kids. I need to get to Trader Joes and Henry's for some fruit. We don't have any right now, and I really want some sweet juicy fruit.

No exercise. I may try to walk tomorrow. I'll see how I feel.

I wonder how long until someone notices?

So, I haven't been feeling so great lately. I'm tired, don't feel well, and just want to sleep all the time. I haven't really wanted to eat that much either. I wish I could say I am on my way to losing weight, but I'm just going to keep packing on the pounds for the next 8ish months. I'm a little nervous because of what happened last time, but today the doctor said everything looked good. I go back in 2 weeks. I did get a nice souvenir from my visit today.

Yummy!

I have been making this smoothie almost every day for breakfast, It fills me up and keeps me full for a long time. It is from the Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook. I don't have the best blender, so it doesn't get as smooth as I would like it.

Oatmeal Protein Smoothie

1/4 c dry, uncooked oatmeal
1 T natural nut butter (I use almond)
1 scoop protein powder
1 T organic honey or agave nectar
1 T flax seed
1 cup milk
1/2 t cinnamon
Ice

Puree all ingredients, adding ice to adjust consistency of smoothie.

Enjoy!

It's June!

So not one day of eating clean so far. I guess I can't do it. I am still going to try though. D told me that he didn't want anymore of that food. He wanted to eat real food. I have been having stomach issues, so trying to eat well is NOT what I want to do. Maybe it will help with my issues.

Everyday I wake up and say today is a new day, I'm going to do better today. It always lasts until about 10am, and then I give up. I need more self control.

I bought two packages of tofu, and I am going to try to sneak it into a meal one day. Hopefully it will be better than the tofu meatloaf, and tofu dessert I attempted about a year ago. I think we all have scars from trying to eat that meal!

I went jogging/walking with a friend today. I want to get up tomorrow and do a Bootcamp video.