FTC 2013 – Centsably Fit

Day 23 Single Serving Protein Pancakes, plus Drywall and Running

By Angela on September 17, 2013

I woke up at 6 am for the second day in a row! The plan was to go running this morning, but I’m not usually up this early and who knew it’s still dark at 6am? Like midnight dark. Plus it was raining. I’m totally a fair weather runner. So I read my scriptures instead, which was another kind of awesome.

The drywall man came today! I watched him for awhile and happy tears came to my eyes. It’s finally happening! There’s hope to have a real kitchen before Thanksgiving. I may be able to paint Monday…

After dinner I looked outside and the rain had stopped and the sun was out, so I went running :). Felt good to make strides towards being ready for the 5k in a few weeks.

I took no pictures of food today, but here’s my journal. And I figured out a single serving protein pancake recipe–so you don’t have to guess if you get one serving or not.

Single Serving Protein Pancakes

Ingredients

1 egg
1/3 cup cottage cheese
1-2 Tbs almond milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup rolled oats
1 packet truvia
1 pinch baking powder

Instructions

Blend everything until smooth and cook on a griddle. Makes about 4 pancakes.

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FTC 2013 Day 10–Chicken with Apple and Pepitas salad

By Angela on September 4, 2013

Breakfast: 1 cup protein cereal, 2 Tbs raisins and 1/2 cup almond milk

Snack: 6 oz plain Greek yogurt with stevia and 1 cup fresh strawberries

Lunch: Tomato basil low carb wrap with deli turkey, light mayo and lettuce. 1 grapefruit (which was delicious!)

Dinner: Mixed lettuce with canned chicken breast, 1/2 chopped apple, 1 Tbs pepitas and 2 Tbs light French dressing. (Not pictured…biscuits and gravy–whaaaat?????)

I finally saw the doctor today. My samples tested free of bacteria, but I had a low grade fever and very low blood pressure. They are leery of throwing more antibiotics at it so we are going to watch and see. In the meantime, he suggested I go back to the chiropractor. That surprised me, but I’m glad to go.

So for now, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate (with my darling new water cup.) I’ll keep taking the herbal that did the most help for me and sipping kombucha tea to rebuild natural cultures. And I think I will slowly do some exercise, walking and a plank or something and see how it goes. That’s tomorrow and I’m excited about the thought. I feel like I’ve missed the first two weeks of this challenge and am ready to go for it.

My food choices today were really good until dinner. The calories in my original supper was on the low end and I was still hungry without a good idea of what to eat. So I ate a portion of the biscuit and gravy dinner I made for the family. I’m worried about the carbs but I’m still under 1600 calories for the day. And I’m plenty hungry tonight–so hoping for progress anyway.

I tried on skinny pants again at the store today–they finally looked passable, so I ordered a discounted pair of the same thing off ebay. I ordered a size smaller, since I’m confident that I’ll need them by the end of the challenge. I’m hoping they will be ok for teaching in.

FTC 2013 Day 4 All-Fruit Strawberry Gelatin

By Angela on August 30, 2013

Breakfast: Protein pancakes sprinkled with frozen wild blueberries during cooking.

Then topped with Greek yogurt with wild blueberries stirred in. It was super yummy. And I felt a little bit like super mom. (I had mixed up 20 cups of pancake batter earlier in the week and 9 cups of protein batter then kept it all in the fridge waiting for a morning like this.) So the kids got blueberry pancakes too.

Strawberry Gelatin–A yummy experiment:

Our freezer got propped open with a stray piece of drywall and a huge Costco bag of strawberries (half full) thawed. I threw them into the blender and made 5 cups of puree and added some stevia extract to sweeten it up a bit. Then I boiled 1 cup of water and dissolved 6 Tbs of bulk plain gelatin in it. Then threw it all into the blender and gave it one last buzz. After a few hours it was nice and firm and ready for lunch.

The lunch sandwich was super yummy. It was smoked deli turkey topped with sliced cucumbers and light mayo on a 100% whole wheat sandwich thin. I feel a bit guilty about the sandwich thin, but I seem to have more energy when I use some whole grains.

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Today was more of a struggle for me. I worked out with friends for the first time since summer and there was so much to catch up about. It was my IT day, so I didn’t take weights and thought I would just do the exercises in a on then off fashion. Well, whew. I ended up just marching in place and flapping my lips. I couldn’t do much of anything and think a good amount of rest might be required to get over this infection once and for all.

Tomorrow morning, I have an appointment with a massage therapist and then chiropractor to follow and then the day after Labor Day a doctor to fix this infection thing–I hope. I’ve already visited 2 nurse practitioners, but the antibiotics aren’t working. I wonder if they could just do an antibiotic IV in the office?

Tonight was open house at school and the last day our Chipotle BOGO coupon was good-so Darren grabbed that for me and was generally a hero tonight–doing family worship, scripture memory and putting all the kids to bed. Also, we finally got a drywall guy to come look at our project. He’s going to call us tomorrow with his bid….we’re on pins and needles.

FTC 2013 Day 3 Cucumber deli snacks

By Angela on August 29, 2013

I didn’t take a lot of food pictures today, but you can see what I ate below in my journal. And that I ate way too many sweet potato chips. My body is asking for more salt–I need a more calorie friendly way to comply, lol

But I did snap a photo of this yummy snack. It’s just fresh cucumber spread with Aldi’s version of light Laughing Cow cheese wedges, sprinkled with lemon pepper and topped with deli ham. Delicious!

Day 3 workout was August workout of the month b. I’m still super sore from 2 days ago and really regret not making the recovery shake a priority on Monday. I rarely have pain when I use the shakes, but I really thought I was taking the first workout back easy and didn’t work hard enough to earn a shake. Bwa ha ha. Holly’s workouts may be short, but they are mighty!

I’m still not feeling well and had to take a nap after lunch. It worked out ok since Grant napped at the same time. I just set my alarm so I would make it to school to teach my one class on time. The rest is good, but it also feels like I’m not getting all my chores done. I go to another doctor Tuesday after labor day and hope he’ll know how to kick this infection for good.

FTC 2013 Day 1: Southwest Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

By Angela on August 26, 2013

Breakfast: 2 eggs with peppers and onions

Snack: Chocolate strawberry pudding shake (made with glucomannan)

Lunch: Southwest stuffed sweet potato half (Taco meat; black beans; peppers and onions, stirred with the pulp from half a baked sweet potato and topped with Jack’s fresh salsa. It was really good. I stirred a bunch of cheese into Darren’s portion which made it even better.)

Snack (not pictured): 1 apple and 2 Tbs peanut butter

Dinner: Ranch Chicken Salad with Pepitas (Chicken was slow cooked all day with basil, garlic, onion, and lemon extract)

More from dinner: Organic Terra Sweet and Beet Chips (I’m low on calories today and thought these would be a nice treat–they were :).)

Workout today was FYM workout of the month August A. This was my first time on this workout (I spent August workout out with construction work and lap swimming instead.) At first I thought this was a doable workout, then I realized Holly was going for 4 rounds instead of 3. Whew! That made it a challenge.

This was my second day to teach school and I’m not in a rhythm yet, but having a great time. I woke up today with a recurrence of my UTI from July which the nurse practitioner thought had never completely gone away. It’s a bit of a relief since I haven’t felt great the last 2 months and now have hope that I can get better. The nurse also gave me a lecture on drinking enough water. The tests showed I was pretty dehydrated which is also linked to my low blood pressure.