Paleo Dinner Day 1.

Hello!!!

This Monday was a MANIC Monday for sure! Yesterday we started to notice that my kiddo has pink eye so that really stunk. We totally were not ready for him to be sick but really? When are we ever as parents right?? Well my husband had duty where he stays at work all night long and today was pay cut for me. Which means that today is the last day to enter pay transactions into the data base so it can go on the members pay check. Well we kind of both HAD to be at work, but we worked it out. When I got to work AYE AYE AYE one of my co-workers forgot to fill out the proper paperwork to discharge a person from the service and it took us 5 hours to complete this on top of all of the transactions that had to be put in today! WOW it was a busy hectic day. I am thankful for it but still WHEW!

SO my eating was a bit off track.....not really but it's not all that I wanted to eat. We were in a rush to get out of the door so, I ate an oatmeal packet with a banana, then I had a microwave meal with a Caesar salad, then I had some brown rice chips and when I came home I ate my Paleo salmon with broccoli. I thought that my iPad would take a picture and keep it in my photos but NOPE so here is my instagram feed (follow if ya wanna!)

SO after dinner I hung out with my kiddo whom is looking and feeling better so he will be going to school unless they don't want him but he isn't contagious and he isn't gooping anymore so we will see what happens tomorrow morning.

Back to my eating! AHHHHH I can't believe I ate so much processed foods. Tomorrow I am going to be eating eggs in the morning and then I have some chicken that I made yesterday in the fridge and go ahead and eat that with some broccoli since I have some left over.

Do any of you struggle with your eating?? I am starting to feel the toxic feeling of eating so many processed foods......After Thanksgiving it will be on with some serious clean eating meals! Of course I will start tomorrow but I know that after Thanksgiving I will be more in tuned with this!

Paleo anyone??

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So while I was on FB yesterday I found a like page for emeals. I went and checked out the website and I clicked on the several different meal plans that they offer and it was really cool. I was able to score a whole meal plan from the website and it was a Paleo meal plan. The cool thing is, is that they give you a meal plan and then they provide you with a grocery list and if you pick a grocery store they can average out what you are going to spend for the weeks worth of dinners.

I have heard a lot about the Paleo DINNER meal plan on FB and on some of the blogs that I read on my free time and I was curious about the way that they ate but didn't really want to do all the leg work in the way of eating because I sort of thought that it was a fad type diet but I looked over the meal plan and it is VERY CLEAN and very healthy so I am going to accept the emeals Paleo Challenge! I am going to start next week.

So all week for 7 days I will be having a Paleo meal dinner. The menu includes;

Asian spiced salmon, crustless herb quiche, maple glazed chicken, grilled tilapia fillets, pork tenderloin with peach salsa, mustard thyme roasted chicken, blackened skirt steak. They all include sides which look delicious too. I will attempt to post pictures of my dinner meals every night and review what they tasted like and show my receipt. If I like the meal plan I may subscribe to the service and make it my go-to meal planner! I am excited to try this!!!!!!

Don't eat a banana........

I was finally able to get outside and run! I had been running on the treadmill but I don't think that I can use the runkeeper but between time, the hurricane, and the Noreaster, things have not been pleasant to run outside. Keeping it inside on the treadmill is really effing boring except for my last 4 mile run on Thursday. I watched Wendy Williams and was dying laughing so that made things better.

My goals with running are going to be running outside, getting cold weather gear to do that in addition to trying to get my miles in. I am not too sure what they weather is liek here but it is going ot be a challenge prepping for this half marathon but it will be done.

So this morning it was like 60 something degrees outside and I ate a banana prior to running and WOW talk about slimy saliva ewwwwww. I spit more than I have ever in my life! Ha ha maybe it was a little gross but this is my blog so whatever :) I was also running with a serious headwind that took my breath away when I would go up hill so I had to walk a few times just to catch my breath but it was all good. The weather was fantastic and I felt like I was in Florida today so I just let myself be there. I went to Florida this morning and I realized how much I want to go back home and just be there.

My son lives there with his father and I would so much more like to be a bigger presence in his life. Not only that though, I miss FL and the palm trees and knowing where every thing is and what not. I just feel like I am at home there. Not like a visitor that is coming and going and not setting roots in the ground, but that is the life of a military member right? I signed up for this but now that the holidays are coming and I am getting older setting roots is starting to take over my mind and to me it takes a place to do that.........

Anyway, I had a wonderful weekend! I ran, I had a photoshoot with the hubbs, and I got to spend time with my Boogie and had a day away from him today and got lots of personal things done like get back to this blog LOL.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend too!!!!

Les Mills Week 4 DOWN

Well today was the last day of week for Day 28 but next week would have been thirty but I went strong for 4 weeks.

I ate like POOP in the month of October. I mean I ate well a lot but most of the time I fell off the wagon with candy, Chinese food, candy, fish and chips, beer, soda......you get the picture. I always picked up right where I left off before I ate the bad foods that I did but I felt like I went haywire if you know what I mean. October was the month of indulgence for me. I will leave it at that, but maintaining my weight loss will always keep me on my toes and I will always evaluate what I have done for the day, week, and month and make adjustments. I think that when I started running my metabolism spiked and I went for what was quick and easy most of the time like having a microwave meal because I was too lazy to make my lunch in the morning. This month will be all about changing the bad habits and getting back on track.

So here are my Les Mill Pump 30 day results.

I am up 2.4 pounds. I had wine last night my weight was hovering at 121 for a few weeks so I am convinced that I gained a pound but it's ok. I lost three inches total, the only place I did not lose inches was in my waist and hips they stayed the same so it is better than gaining anything right? I don't fell that I look any different though. I wrote everything down so that you all could see it.

I am ready to get onto the next phase. Pump challenge is a good workout but doing only that three times a week gets pretty boring......in the same respect I think it is because Beachbody is KNOWN for having 13 discs and having you change your disc every day for the 5-6 days that it has you work out so essentially you aren't really doing the same workout all the time........but I pushed through and knew that it was temporary so I am happy with my results :) I wasn't delusional in thinking that I was going to look better I was actually surprised at the 3 inches lost!

Oh one more thing. I did go up in weight. I started with 10-15 pounds and now I am hanging out at 20-25 pounds and the 25 is going to the squat and back section :) I am really happy with that so I am def getting stronger and that is pretty amazing!!!!!

Until next time! :)

Photography - My babies birthday!

I had a fab day today and gave my son the best gift he could possibly want. Our time! We played, baked, and hung out all day! I have to get back to my kiddo, but I hope you all enjoy your day!!!! Tomorrow off to run again!

Hurricane Sandy and my 5K pictures

Well since I live in he Cape Cod/Boston area we were advised to take today off. Well work gave us the day off but my husband had to go into work and it is pretty boring. I am not going to run today since it is disgusting out, but I did my Pump and it was great to get some muscle failure work in there. I really like the program but I am bummed that I am starting Week 3 over again but it's all good they are 20 and 30 minute workouts :) 

So my day was pretty un-eventful. I have been home all day, I danced with my kiddo to some Adele. I edited some pictures for a friend of mine. She got not so great newborn shots so I wanted to take a stab at editing some of them so that killed some time. I read the Bible, listened to some Joyce Meyer and studied the references that she made in her speaking. I also did flash cards with my kiddo we made a game out of it and I found some of my running pictures online. I have to say that I look like utter doggy poo running but for my sake I am going to keep it as I didn't sleep well the night before and truthfully I didn't. So here you go some pictures of my run yesterday. :) Next time I will throw on some make up ha ha ha ha! 

I hope you all have a wonderful day! I think I am going to go watch Hart of Dixie. Anyone else watch that show? It is slowly turning into my guilty pleasure :D 

Whew what a week!

Did you ever have one of those weeks that no matter what you do, you just never ever have enough time? That was this week for me! Monday was pretty lame it was just a Monday. Tuesday I had a physical that I have to do yearly and I fasted for guess what? An HIV test. I was totally livid about that but what could I do? I thought I was going to go through some glucose or whatever testing and well NO. Then Wednesday I had duty, that's where I stay at work for 24 hours to basically babysit but whatever. Some important people came to work and I had to get everything ready for them so no chance to workout that day. That was okay with me for that one time because I was totally into reading the Hunger Games series so it was cool. I rarley workout on those days where I have to stay at work so I wasn't that let down. Thursday was supposed to be my Bible Study but they cancelled which was okay too because I was feeling SO behind by then. Friday was a rush and yesterday was the first day that I felt like I could breathe. I had a Superhero 5K this morning and I took the family with me so they could watch me run and my kid blew chunks EVERYWHERE it just wouldn't stop! What a mess that was! I was almost late but my wonderful hubs took care of the kiddo so that I could run and get my $35 worth of RUN lol.

Les Mills Pump was a bust so I am starting week three over again. Yesterday I ran 8.1 miles in 1 hour and 10 minutes I think? I also ran my 5K in 25.31 I placed 18th in my age group which was pretty cool. I was pretty proud of myself for that.

The race was really cool! It was my first official race in the United States and my first race in Boston! I had a blast. Everyone came in costume and it was nice to see the creativity of these folks because I thought super hero and just thought of Superman and Spiderman so there were so many people out there with SO many different costumes and some didn't dress as a superhero either so that was cool too. I didn't really do much but wear a cape ha ha but whatever I was really there to enjoy my first race! There were people on the sides of the street cheering us all on and giving out high fives to racers, it was a great environment to be in and has me really excited to run my Princess Half Marathon! Well that pretty much summed up my weekend but here are some pictures I took of my kiddo that you may enjoy :D