Day 19

  What could it be?  It's 10 days left till this challenge is over! Yeah, for that.  Not because I want to go out and gorge on junk but everyday seems like I'm studying for a test.  So much focus on what I'm eating for all my meals.  The exercise I can do without thinking twice about.  However healthy meals require more effort on my part plus avoiding or ignoring not so healthy meals also requires more concentration on my part.

Today was a light day for me.  I must point out even when it looks like I'm not eating a lot. I promise I am truly not starving to death.  We have grown accustomed to eating more than we need anyways.  Some days I am hungrier than other days. Some days the urge to snack is huge other days particularly the ones I skip a meal on do not honestly phase me especially like I said if I go to sleep.

  I may be smaller than others but you know how we view ourself is all we really see so what you see in me is not what I see.  However I am really loving my legs and stare at them often.  Haha when I put my hair in a ponytail I also admire my arms.  My gut on the other hand is still a work in progress.  I have read that sometimes that skin may not go back to pre-baby.  I will work on it and just hope for the best.

Breakfast: muffin, yogurt, peach
Lunch: Caesar salad with chicken
Dinner: garden salad with hard boiled egg

Snack: cottage cheese with pineapple
75 oz water
Today's workout was weights and a focus on the abs.  I need to pay more attention to that area instead of ignore it.

Only recipe credit I have for you is the dressing for the Ceasar salad.  The dressing on the other was a very basic vinegarette with olive oil, vinegar and some water.

Recipe credit: healthier-caesar-salad

Day 12

  Another productive day.  A good workout, water consumption and meals!  Oddly it seems to be getting easier.  Last week I had that take out salad. I needed/wanted takeout.  Lucky for me I wanted a taco salad otherwise it could have been worse.  Don't get me wrong I never crave a salad doesn't matter if it's taco or not. So it must have been two world colliding. Take out versus healthy; to come up with a take out taco salad.

  The weekend is approaching and that's where I am more active so we shall see what we get into over the next couple of days.  No plans are set just one day at a time.

  Now onto the meals.  Breakfast was scrambled eggs with spinach and garlic and onion powder and pineapples.  One time I sprinkled those two powders on my eggs and I have never gone back.  My mom puts dill on hers but I don't get the flavor kick with that like I do with mine.

  Lunch was just leftover spaghetti and some squash.  The noodles are now officially gone but I still have the sauce to use up.  Some more zucchini boats may be in the future.  Or I could dump it in a pot with some more tomatoes, add some beans, spices and call it chili!

  Dinner was potato salad (I made mayo last night) a hotdog and corn on the cob.  In my potato salad was the mayo made, a couple hardboiled eggs chopped up and blended in there along with some cut up pickles and paprika.

  Lol, as I am writing this I am waiting on cookies to get out the over.   A healthy recipe I got from pinterest.  It has banana and chocolate chis in it.  No sugar, eggs or dairy.  I hope they are good.

  My water was 75 oz today and my workout was 33 minutes on the elliptical and weights.

Cookies were a success here is the recipe: banana-chocolate-chip-cookies

Day 5 of 30 healthy challenge

  Started my morning with a carrot and peach smoothie compliments of my young chef assistant.  (See separate post for recipe and pictures)  I have been doing good with drinking 25 oz of water everyday with my breakfast.

  I always eat before my trip to the gym.  My workout today consisted of 30 minutes of the arc trainer and 15 minutes on the treadmill.  No weights today and no squats.  My pants didn't fit well enough me to move in that way.  Lol, they fit a little snug.  They fit enough for the cardio machine but definitely no bending, twisting or turning.  I must also tell you pulling them up after a trip to the restroom all sweaty was a chore too.  My problem is the thigh region (and maybe backside) but I think muscles are effecting the area more than that I am overweight.

Lunch today resulted in a meeting of the minds with my fitness group.  To make it this far is killing me.  I eat fast food, I eat sugar and I just wanted to go out.  Now granted I ate Mexican on Monday and Tuesday was chick fil A so I had been out but, not enough.  I wanted something and to smell fast food would have even been a reward.  I had posted my request of fast food and taco salad.  The ladies provided me with two places and good options.  Chipotles salad was the winner!

One word for this salad. H-U-G-E!!! I wound up eating half of it and may work on more tomorrow.  I did skip the sour cream and cheese.  The onions in the pico were a little much for me and for a non-guacamole lover I sure got a big dollop of it. Washed my lunch down with another 25 oz of water.

Lastly dinner was a simple spaghetti also prepared with the help of my assistant young chef.  The spaghetti was a wheat pasta, homemade scratch sauce,( I have previously  wrote about this easy 3 can + spices recipe) and sausage along with a side of carrots.  Again washing it down with 25 oz of water.

Pleased with my day regardless of the take out because I still did my best to get something healthy.