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Day 2–Healthy Chocolate Waffle Recipe

By Angela on June 18, 2013

Today was a little crazy. I got up at 6:30–excellent! I wanted to work out and study my scriptures, but instead I cleaned my house. I’m enjoying the cleaner areas, but still haven’t gotten to my workout or scriptures yet. Tomorrow, I will get it right.

Breakfast was a Trim Healthy Mama inspired chocolate Waffle with blueberries and plain yogurt (sweetened with stevia in the raw.) Recipe at the end 🙂

Snack: 1 oz of sprouted almonds and a small apple

Lunch: 2 cups of torn romaine with 3 oz of grilled chicken, half a diced avocado, and 2 Tbs Aldi Light Caesar Dressing

Snack: 6 oz plain lowfat yogurt with 1/4 cup peanut flour stirred in. I wanted to grab a produce with it but couldn’t decide what. I already ate an apple today, the carrots are gone and then I ran out of time. So I took the kids to their Doctor visit and vowed to do better next time.

My mom came to stay with some of the the kids while I took others to the Doctor. She heard Heidi ask me if she could bake cookies. We don’t have an oven so I told her it would have to be eggless cookie dough. Which is soooo yummy! Then I asked her not to, because it would be such a temptation to me. So my mom went home and baked cookies and brought them over. OH my! I was so hungry form my pitiful snack and so close to dinner that it was a huge temptation to me. With our limited fridge (we just got back from vacation for a week) there weren’t many good choices for me. So I had a sugar free popsicle (not stevia sweetened so not on plan–but the best I could do.) And it tasted so good I had another. Whew! I made it by on 30 calories without a cookie and quickly made dinner.

Dinner: 1 Ole Extreme Wellness lowcarb tomato and basil tortilla (toasted) with 2 oz ground beef and .5 oz brown rice stirred together and seasoned with my homemade taco blend. Topped with romaine, salsa and about a tsp of hummus–just enough for a creamy cheesy flavor but still be dairy free. An avocado would have been lovely here, but I already had my allotment for the day at lunch :).

I saved 80 calories for an after workout snack tonight–if I remember to stop by the store for more almond milk I’ll make a half smoothie.

I’m going to my first ballet class at 7:30!!! I’m super excited about it. Heidi gave me her old split sole shoes and I found my leotard in the back of the closet. I’m going to let this count for my workout today so I can spend more time in the scriptures tonight.

Healthy Chocolate Waffles

Yield: 1 serving

Calories per serving: 409

Fat per serving: 27g

Healthy Chocolate Waffles

Ingredients

Waffle:
1/4 cup flax meal (or part peanut flour or almond flour)
1 Tbs cocoa powder
1-2 Tbs stevia in the raw
1 egg
1 Tbs coconut oil
2 Tbs almond milk or water
Topping:
4 oz plain Greek Yogurt
1/2 cup thawed wild blueberries
1 Tbs stevia in the raw (or a Truvia packet)

Instructions

In a small bowl beat flax, cocoa, and stevia. Stir in egg, coconut oil and water.
Pour into a greased, preheated waffle iron. (Makes 1 Belgium or one half of a Foreman waffle iron.) Cook until the light indicates done or check after 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, beat yogurt and stevia together. Fold in blueberries (I use juice and all.) Spoon over cooked waffle.

Notes

27 g of carbs including 11 g fiber; 24 g protein (if using Greek yogurt); and 24 g calcium

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Here’s my food summary before the snack tonight 🙂

Wowsers! Check out my fat grams today. I’m still in line with my calories so won’t stress to much. But maybe nuts; coconut oil; and avocado doesn’t need to be all in one day, lol. Or maybe it’s fine. What do you think?

So on the hungry scale. It’s not as bad as yesterday, though I’m still plenty hungry tonight. It’s the way I’m made. I’m always hungry unless I’m sick, lol. I’ve found the first few days of a new food routine to be more hungry than normal but my body seems to settle in after a bit and not complain so much. Also, I think drinking more water would help a bunch.

Day 1

By Angela on June 17, 2013

I’m all ready to post my food journal and realized I didn’t put up my starting stats yet. Oops! Here they are:

Mom to 6 kiddoes aged 13, 11, 9, 7, 5, and 2

Age 36

Height 5 foot 6 inches

Starting Weight 144.5

Bust: 37

Natural Waist: 32.5 at the smallest

Mommy Tummy: 36 at the biggest

Hips: 39

Goals:

1. I know it’s not about the scale but my goal is to finish the challenge below 140 lbs. This number has been a roadblock to me for about 2 years and is the next hurdle for me.

3. To be consistent with clean eating and 6 workouts a week

4. To read my scriptures at least 5 minutes a day and keep a prayer journal

So before pictures were fresh out of the shower getting ready for church. No makeup and wet, uncombed hair. That will make the afters all the better :).

And here’s my food today:

Breakfast is not pictured: Chocolate covered strawberry smoothie: 1 cup almond milk; 1 Tbs cocoa powder; 1 Tbs stevia in the raw; 1 scoop Designer whey protein powder in French Vanilla and 5 frozen strawberries (about 1 cup.)

No snack today: I woke up late, took my shake intending to work out and then got a live Skype message from two of the programmers that I’m interviewing for a job and spent the next hour on that. Didn’t work out or read my scriptures. Took my two daughters to swimming lessons and came home with a dog to babysit and two cousins. Spent the day online trying to catch up from vacation last week.

Lunch: Low carb Ole brand tomato basil wrap with half an avocado, 3.5 oz sliced chicken and romaine.

Snack was 6oz Mountain High plain yogurt with 1/4 cup peanut flour and 1 Tbs stevia in the raw stirred in. With half a chopped Gayla apple over the top. I ate the other half of the apple out of hand.

After my snack, I learned the June FYM workout of the month and then finally worked out around 4pm. That workout was tough! I remember halfway through I thought I was done and she said, “Now we just have to do all of that again.” And I thought I would die! I dropped to a lower weight and kept going. It felt really good to finish. But two hours later I’m still shaking a bit, lol. I drank a post workout shake after the workout.

Dinner was half a baked sweet potato with just salt. Then a huge plate of romaine topped with 4 oz of sliced chicken breast and 1 oz of Aldi’s fit and active light Caesar Dressing. I’m still starving. Today I actually measured my food instead of eyeballing it and got up to 1600 calories. But this is shockingly less to my body than what it is used to to maintain my 144 pound frame. Hopefully this will make some fat burning take place :). I’m planning on some tea tonight to help me get through the hungries.

Left for tonight is to attend a funeral. The little girl next door who plays with my daughter and goes to church with us lost her non-custodial mother. It is sad for all involved. My son has a fever so my oldest will babysit the littles and my youngest daughter and I will go alone as a date. After that I’m planning to stay up as late as I have to, to get my scripture study in. Then tomorrow I plan to get up earlier and be more productive for the day. Here’s the calorie breakdown:

Yawn…Stretch

By Angela on June 11, 2013

Waking up this blog. Holly’s Summer Transformation Challenge lasts only 6 weeks and it starts on Monday the 17th! You can register as soon as tomorrow. Come join me, it will be fun!

My kitchen currently looks like this:

So I’m cooking in my attic ↓

Where the head height is a little low. But I’m grateful that the previous homeowners put in this little guest space.

And I’ve been using convenience foods for, well, convenience. (Notice the canned biscuits above and cream of ? soup. Well, my tummy bloated right up and my patience level went down. When I don’t eat well, I don’t feel well. I know better, but sometimes I don’t do better. And dairy and I aren’t friends.

My sister-in-law recently finished the New Year Transformation Challenge and then the Team challenge that followed. Wow! I’m motivated to get myself back on track. And just so you know, she has 6 kids–so no excuses.

I’ve already started eating right and working out, now to be consistent for the next 6 weeks. It’s my kitchen remodel and body remodel at the same time :).

Tomorrow I take measurements and photos to make it all official. See you then.

Avocado and Ham wrap

By Angela on May 14, 2013

This lunch wrap is too delicious and easy not to share. Fresh sliced tomato and cucumber would be amazing and beautiful if you have them.

It starts with an Ole low carb tortilla. Then 1/2 a salted avocado ($.25 from Aldi), 4 slices of Kirkland deli ham, a few spears of sweet pepper and some romaine. You won’t miss cheese or mayo with all the creamy avocado. It’s yummy!

I’m tearing out my kitchen today (it will be more than a day’s process.) So probably won’t post a ton until I’m all done with the huge project. If you want to follow that project I’ll post about it from time to time at my other blog: Grocery Shrink

Day 72

By Angela on March 19, 2013

2 eggs with a side of spinach and peppers

Snack: 1/3 met rx bar

Lunch:

2 low carb tortilla with 2 oz shredded chipotle beef each; lettuce; salsa and a pinch of coconut.

The beef I slow cooked with garlic salt, cumin, liquid smoke, jalapenos and homemade lemon extract. (Lime would have been good too.) Then shredded and chopped with two forks and a knife. It ended up very lean.

Snack: smoothie with raw milk, protein powder, spinach, strawberries and banana.

Spaghetti squash with a little turkey sausage and mushrooms with a side of baby carrots and hummus.

Day 71

By Angela on March 18, 2013

Whew! It has been awhile since I’ve posted. I’m trying to be faithful with my food but am doing a better job with my workouts. The food is by far the hardest part for me right now and can undo all my great progress if I’m not consistent. I’m getting down to my last 10 lbs which is the hard part. I have an active appetite which rarely slows down, lol. But I feel a lot better when I eat right.

My nephew had a pizza party for his birthday and I planned an indulgence for that night so I could enjoy a slice or two without guilt. They ordered Pizza Hut, my childhood favorite. But I had been eating clean for so long, it didn’t even taste good to me. Shocker! It didn’t taste terrible, it was just not the “I have to eat another slice because it’s so good even though I’m not hungry” feeling that I’m used to. And I love being lactose intolerant, because it makes it easy for me to say no to ice cream, even though it was my former favorite food.

I do way better with my food when I photograph it and post here. I tend to grab more tastes of things passing by when I know I don’t have to write it down. It feels overwhelming right now with all our other projects going on (We are planning a huge main floor remodel of our house and picking out stuff, talking with contractors, thinking about budgets, and worrying about where we will sleep, cook and eat while it’s all going on. Great fun! But stress too.)

Workouts: I’ve been able to up my weights to 15 lb dumbbells for overhead moves like overhead presses. And am up to 20 lb dumbbells for dead lifts, squats, and rows. I feel like I can up those to 25 lbs next week since I can feel everything getting easier. I’m doing my push-ups on a weight bench and can only do 3 sets of 8 right now. I don’t have my elbows as far back as I’d like. It’s more a T than a 45 degree angle. My triceps are still very weak and I need to work on that.

I haven’t lost sight of my goals to do 20 burpees in a row and 1 pull-up. I’ve started adding some pull-down finishers to build up the muscles I need to do pull-ups. I’d like to add some reverse pull-ups on alternate days too. I’ve waited so long to start this that I may not be able to do a pull-up by the end of the challenge but it will happen eventually. I already tried an assisted pull-up with my knees in a resistance band, but it was still too difficult.

The burpees are another story. I’ve learned how to do them more correctly, but I may have a health issue that makes this more complicated than I first thought. I have very low blood pressure and usually black out several times a week. The quick head up head down movements of the burpees give me a terrible headache. At first I thought it was just my needing to get more fit, but after some research it looks like it may be caused by my blood pressure issues and not as easily overcome. I’m abandoning this goal for now until I get some more answers on my heart and blood pressure issues.

As far as my weight goes, I’d feel super pumped about this challenge if I could drop below 140 lbs. That would only be a loss of 5 lbs over a 12 week period, but I’ve also been gaining huge amounts of muscle–so overall the fat loss would be greater than the scale shows. Anyway, 139 is a psychological hurdle that I’d love to break. It’s been taunting me for about a year and I’m ready to climb that mountain.

There’s only 2 weeks left in the challenge and I mean to give it my all. I worked out a new menu for this week based on what I have on hand and a few things I need to grab at Aldi tomorrow. It seems to be simpler on paper than it is in real life–like today, I ended up eating lunch at Mom’s. She had grilled chicken with tossed salad and fresh fruit on it for me–which was awesome and perfect for my plan. It just wasn’t on my list :). Mom had the same thing minus the chicken. I wish I could make her understand the role of protein in weight loss. I nagged her about it quite a big and she finally said, “I’ll have a protein shake later.” But she needed the chicken at lunch AND a protein shake later. She is so frustrated with not losing weight, but doesn’t want to hear from me about it, lol.

Here’s my plan for this week. I just did 7 breakfasts, snack1’s, lunches, snack 2’s and dinners all in a row. I taped it on my kitchen wall and when it’s time to eat just pick one from the appropriate meal and then cross it off. Oh, and my workout recover shake is 1 cup unsweetened almond milk with 1 scoop of Healthy N’ Fit anabolic muscle in chocolate. Sometimes I add a tsp of instant coffee if my blood pressure is low. It is making a big difference in my recovery and muscle building. I love it! I buy it from netrition.com which has the best price I could find. I only drink it after a weight lifting session–not an aerobic one.

B: Chunky Monkey Smoothie
B: 2 eggs with peppers and spinach
B: Chocolate strawberry Smoothie
B: Blueberry Oat Custard
B: Protein Pancakes with Yogurt and Fruit
B: Veggie Omelet

S: Peanut butter yogurt and chopped apples
S: Workout recovery shake
S: Celery, PB and raisins
S: Workout recovery shake
S: Carrots and Hummus
S: Workout recovery shake
S: Yogurt and strawberries

L: Burrito bowl: 1/2 c rice; 4 oz shredded beef; 2 cups lettuce; 1/4 c salsa
L: Egg salad on a low carb wrap
L: Spaghetti squash with turkey sausage and Italian veggies
L: Chicken caesar salad
L: BBQ turkey burger; 1/2 a baked sweet potato; steamed green beans (I like the organic frozen ones from Costco.)
L: Ham and string cheese with spinach on a low carb wrap (with dijon mustard); 1 c grapes
L: Salmon filet; 1/2 c brown rice; steamed broccoli

S: String cheese; 1/2 oz dry roasted edamame; 2 Tbs raisins
S: Apple slices and 2 Tbs peanut butter
S: Protein chicken noodle soup (from Dr.Tague)
S: Tuna and nut thins
S: Protein Pancakes and yogurt with fruit
S: 1 oz edamame; 1/4 c raisins

D: Chicken and grape salad; 1 orange
D: Chicken with chopped apple and sliced almonds over a bed of lettuce
D: Chicken spinach strawberry salad
D: Burrito bowl (See above)
D: Pizza Stir Fry
D: Turkey Hot Dog; Sweet Potato Chips; Raw Veggies and Hummmus (PI meal)
D: PI Basket Dinner at Church (Make good choices, please :).)

If you are still reading after the blah, blah, blah so far, here’s my food for today:

Day 65

By Angela on March 12, 2013

Peanut flour and stevia in Mountain High brand plain yogurt (Costco) with half a Granny Smith apple chopped over.

I’m finally seeing the scale move in my favor after cleaning up my eating even more. My arms are getting lots of definition 🙂 My triceps are still my weakest area there.

Holly’s March workout A has some tough core in it. Good stuff.

Snack was 2 cheese sticks at the dentists’s office. It’s quite the ordeal to take all 8 of us at once! Lunch: 1/2 sweet potato, 1 cup green beans, 3 oz beef.

Snack was dried pom fruit leather and dry roasted edamame. I also nibbled on panera cheese bread and baby carrots

Dinner was Salmon and a big salad. I nibbled on some bacon bits too. I bought spaghetti squash and cilantro tonight. Planning for a better day with fewer bread nibbles tomorrow.

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