Healthy Eating

I wrote this post last night but the blog was down so I am posting it now. Have a great day!

I rarely talk about my weight on my blog. I use my blog as a way to hold myself accountable to my healthy living lifestyle as well as helping others learn to have a healthy balance in their families and every day life. There is also a weight loss aspect to my blog that I discuss sometimes and today is going to be one of those times. For some reason I have been trying to lose the same 15 pounds for the last 6 months or so. I have come a long way from the 80 that I gained during pregnancy but these last 15 seem to really want to stay. Thankfully I feel great and most of my clothes fit but I still wish I could get these last 15 pounds off. I workout really hard and for the most part I eat really well so I know eventually it will happen but today I am frustrated. However, when I checked my body fat percentage today I have lost 4% body fat since May! I was proud of that! My hope is that I will continue to gain muscle, burn fat and the weight will come off. I just wish it would go a little faster  

Enough with the weight talk…

Breakfast

Sadly, I forgot to photograph today’s breakfast because it was really good. I started by cooking 2 servings of turkey sausage in a skillet and draining when done. I then sauteed 6 mushrooms and put with the sausage when finished. In the same skillet I cooked 4 scrambled eggs (2 whole eggs & 2 whites). While the eggs cooked I added the sausage, mushrooms and a little shredded cheese and made a big scramble. It was delicious!

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I had Daisy looking all cute with her Daisy bow but it didn’t last much after getting in the car

My baby looks so grown up!

Workout

Today’s workout was upper body with cardio intervals. The first part of the circuit was 15 diamond pushups! I did them without stopping and I couldn’t believe it. Last week when we did 12 I thought there would be no way I could do 15 but I did it; 3 sets to be exact!

Lunch

Lunch was quick and on the go because we had a check up for Daisy (she had some ear infection problems last month) so we pulled through the Chick fil a drive thru and ate in the parking lot of the pediatricians office. I had a grilled chicken sandwich on wheat with lettuce and pickle and a medium order of fries. (I love their fries!)

After the doctors appointment I got a very disappointing looking dipped cone (without a cone) from McDonald’s. It was tiny and barely covered in chocolate but it was SO good!

Dinner

Tonight Lew and I cooked dinner for our Wednesday night program at church. We made tacos with lean ground beef, beans, rice and fresh strawberries.

Lew was in charge of the meat. This is what he had going on in the kitchen with his measurements!

Don’t you love my random butternut squash!

Lew would make a great baker because he really likes to follow recipes and does very well baking bread and such. However, when he has a little freedom it always gets a little interesting. He was frustrated because I did not have enough seasoning packets for the amount of meat I bought so he was going to add his own. Now, normally I just make my own seasoning but when doing a lot it is easier to use the packets. Well, Lew got out all the ingredients on the back of the package that we had in our pantry. One of those was cayenne pepper. Let’s just say, this was HOT! We had to drain all the liquid that was left and add a little water just so the kids would be able to eat it! It was pretty funny. Next time I will buy enough seasoning packets.

Well, I am tired and not looking forward to she morning. I sometimes really wish the babies would sleep until at least 8:00! Tonight is one of those nights. Maybe I will get lucky and be able to sleep until 7:30…I would really like that!