These yummy little bites make great party food, but are fast enough to whip up for a fast lunch. With protein and produce they fit both into Trim Healthy Mama plans (as an S meal) and FitYummyMummy. All of the ingredients can be found at Aldi :).
Ingredients Instructions
http://www.centsablyfit.com/thm-friendly-bacon-stuffed-mushrooms/
The challenge starts Monday and I’m getting ready! We’ve been brainstorming meal options for our success. I do the best when I have all the ingredients on hand to make anything on the list, then just choose what sounds best in the moment. All of these meals go together in just a few minutes so I can make something for myself and cook the family a traditional meal without much stress.
Cookie dough oatmeal–yum!
Bedtime Snacks:
365 calories; 31 net carbs; 10g fat; 27g protein; 8g fiber Ingredients Instructions
http://www.centsablyfit.com/mixed-baby-greens-with-chicken-apple-and-pomegranate/
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.
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.
BEST Story Ever. I have to put this first, because I’m going to bore you with the rest and you might stop reading before the good stuff. (If there is anyone reading…knock, knock…anyone out there?) Anyhoo, I was out shopping at Wal-mart today and lost my car. Long story. So I’m wandering around in the parking lot trying not to look stupid, but feeling really stupid at the same time. Also, trying to look confident and move quickly so I don’t look like an easy target to some criminal mind. I was wearing my exercise clothes because I meant to work out earlier in the day, but didn’t. No makeup–hair in a pony. A car pulled up beside me with two men inside. It scared me and I took off walking the opposite direction as fast as I could without running. The passenger rolled down the window and tried to talk to me, but I kept going…faster. Then he got OUT and start to shout to me. “Ma’am…” I turned on my heels to look at him. He was a marine in full dress blues. The back of his car had an official government plate. I relaxed a little. “How old are you?” He wanted to know. I was shocked…kind of a rude question for a lady my age and we’ve never even met.
“36,” I said. His jaw dropped to the pavement.
When he recovered he asked, “Do you know anyone ELSE we could recruit for the Marines?” Marines? He was going to invite me to be a marine…but I was already near retirement age for the military, bwa ha ha. It made me feel good and when I told my dad he gave me a high 5.
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Yesterday I had my second ballet class. I’m the one on the right. It was tough and I have a lot of practice to do–especially to learn to spot a turn and not get dizzy, lol. I’m growing more flexible which is super exciting to me. I’ve been stretching out every day and started to wonder if I was just maintaining a balance of flexibility. The strength training makes me less flexible and I thought the stretching was only working to keep me as flexible as I was–but, no! I’m actually getting better. That is encouraging me to keep it up. It’s little things like being able to touch my toes without bending my knees that get me excited, lol.
Today is a bit of a blur. I worked out at 3pm and did strength A from the July WOM. My shoulders are the weakest part of my body and I really feel them in planks, push-ups, reverse planks etc and this workout has them all. Hopefully by the end of the month it will be a piece of cake —I can wish and keep working at it.
Two of our air conditioners broke this week. My attic was over 100 degrees (where my kitchen is) and the second floor with the bedrooms were close to 90. Thankfully we have a basement that keeps cool, but cooking didn’t sound good at all. So for dinner last night I bought deli pizzas from Aldi and grilled them. I ate 1/16th of a sausage pizza and then some pieces of sausage that Grant picked off his piece.
(I forgot to eat the cantaloupe, but someone in the family got it :).)
Cold foods sound best, so I ate a few meals of cold cereal (but chose a protein rich variety.) And shakes and puddings. Lunch was a pig (turkey pig) in a poncho (low carb tortilla) and dinner was leftover grass fed sloppy joe meat on a tortilla with the rest of the broccoli salad from the weekend.
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
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
18 g protein; 17 g carbs, including 2 g fiber
Breakfast: 1 banana and a detour protein bar
Snack: 1/2 pita with 1/2 cup chicken salad (the end of it) and sprouts.
Salad with chicken breast, sprouts, pom nuggets and 1 Tbs sunflower seeds. Fat free raspberry dressing. (this was a variation of last night’s dinner)
Snack was 2 cups of thistle tea with almond milk and allspice. That took away my nibbling hunger and kept me warm until dinner.
Dinner was a plain large baked potato, sugar snap peas, home canned pears, 4oz beef and a dill pickle.
Blueberry oat custard: 1/2 c oats, 1 egg, 1 Tbs stevia, 1 cup almond milk, 1 cup blueberries (I made it without protein powder and it tasted MUCH better.
Lunch was an apple salad: 2 cups torn lettuce; 2 oz canned chicken breast, 1 apple, 2 Tbs craisins, 1 Tbs sunflower seeds, 2 Tbs fat free raspberry viniagrette
Here’s my fitness pal summary to show the rest of the day. The hungries took over this afternoon and I had a hard time making good choices. I’m excited about tomorrow–it will be a better day.
I’ve rediscovered that writing EVERYthing I eat down makes a huge difference. I took 4 days off from journaling while I planned Heidi’s 13th birthday party and now am bloated and uncomfortable from just a nip there and a taste here of the wrong foods. I’m hoping none of that is really extra fat and that it will be gone after a few days of doing the right things. One can hope…
