Day 16 for Vee!

I am so sorry for the lack of update yesterday. It was pretty uneventful. I skipped breakfast, had some left over chicken for lunch and hubby and I went to Souper Salad for dinner. So on to today!

Breakfast
I had the HG's Billion Dollar Blintzes, which can be found here.


I put some fresh bananas on mine with some caramel. I have had crepes before made by restaurants and stuff and I like crepes, but for some reason when I make them, they aren't that great. So these were disappointing to me.

Lunch
I had the planet hungrywood sweet & cap'n crunchy chicken from the chew the right think recipe cards. I think this is also in the 1-2-3 book.


Mine ended up being chicken turds more then chicken strips but these were fantastic! You use cap'n crunch and fiber one for the breading and it was oh so good!

Dinner
For dinner I made the Pret-a-Portabella, which can be found here.


I was a little worried to eat this although I LOVE mushrooms but it was something different. I absolutely loved this. The flavor was great and its a nice alternative to a hamburger (plus the recipe is free!)

Dessert
I made the banana cupcakes with pb frosting from the 200 under 200 book.


I haven't had a chance to eat mine yet, since I am blogging but husband said it tastes very baby food-y. You had to use pureed bananas from the baby food section and the whole time I was making them, that's all I could smell. I know a lot of people that like baby food but I don't think I could eat it. I will let you know how they were in tomorrow's blog.

Hubby and I were going to go to the gym tonight and play tennis but when we got there, the gate to the pool was locked, which is really annoying since we have a key that allows us to go 24/7. I have been thinking about playing tennis all day so my dreams were let down, but hopefully we can play tomorrow.

That is all I have for you today, until tomorrow...

Day 14 for Vee!

First, I have to say, I think its amazing that I have stuck with this for 2 weeks. I know I have said it before, but I am just so PROUD of myself. This group of girls (and people who read & comment) are just so motivating and I am so lucky to be a part of it. Anyways, enough sappy!

I finally got to go to the gym today, woohoo! I still have a bit of a cough but not near as bad as it was. We went to Target earlier and got some tennis rackets and some balls so that we could play in the racquetball room. The gym at our apartments has this huge room of just white walls so we figured instead of boring work outs, we would do something fun and it totally paid off because we were in there for an hour and didn't even know it. I know that doesn't sound like a long time and I wanted to stay longer but I started to get a blister on my hand so we had to leave. It was a great work out!!

So on to the food..

Breakfast
Husband was off today so I made the cheesy green eggs 'n hamwiches from the 1-2-3 book.


This was really good. Of course the green part was just food dye but it really made a cool "experience", I know, I am weird. Hubby seemed to think that the green eggs were "weird", therefore made the whole thing taste weird, but I doubt that.

Lunch
For lunch I made the hg's de-pudged pigs in a blanket from the recipes and survival book.


I HATE HOT DOGS. I think they are DISGUSTING. I made these more for my husband because he wanted them. I did have 2, however and they were ok. I just really really hate hot dogs so I kind of forced them down. He was upset that I made food JUST FOR HIM so I figured I would try them. So with my 2 I had a side salad with some italian dressing, YUM! My husband on the other hand, had 18 of these. I told him its not a diet if he eats everything in sight!

Dinner
We had the queen-of-the-castle sliders from the 1-2-3 book again because they were really good and I had left over beef that I didn't want to go bad.


Just as good as the first time. I also had a half of a serving of the natural puff cheetos. I also had a glass of soy chocolate "milk", which was surprisingly really good!

Dessert
After the gym we had some ginormous creamy frozen caramel crunchcake from the recipe and survival book.


This is caramel corn rice cakes with cool whip free in the middle. Then you freeze them and they are like little sandwiches. I wasn't really sure about the whole freezing thing, but they were really delicious. Because we were so hot from the gym, we had some apple slices too. Apples to me are always really juicy so its nice and refreshing.

So that was today's menu! I have a lot of work to do tomorrow and I am going to be planning the next week of meals, I can't wait! Then we get to go shopping for food. So until tomorrow..

Day 13 with Olivia

Today was really good I think!
I was really tired though and didn't wake up until 8. We have late start sometimes so we started school at 9:20 so I had plenty of time. We also have late start tomorrow.

Brunch: Nutri Grain Bar

Breakfast: Plain bowl of corn chex with 100% orange pineapple strawberry juice I didn't take a pic because I was rushing to get ready!

Lunch: Could have been better, but I was satisfied. PB+J On whole wheat bread, "natural" crunchy regular cheetoes (trying to get rid of em!) with an apple and pudding. Again no pic because I was at school!

Snack: Nutri Grain Bar...cooking makes you hungry

Dinner: After school I was pretty much on my feet for a while because I had to make dinner. I had to make the quiches! I made this amazing faux quiche that is crustless and with egg whites. it has 80 calories per serving! and tons of protein. I wish I had 2 servings because it was really filling but I needed the leftovers for breakfast tomorrow! (for some reason my brother decided to eat half of my crustless quiche) I had it with a cup of dole 100% orange pineapple strawberry juice with some strawberries


Dessert: Double Rainbow Chocolate Sorbet. 99% fat free. This was okay, I like it, but it's not even that satisfying so I'd probably go for a better option next time.

I should have excersised more (I'm off to work out for 30 mins now) (and I hate when someone goes to watch the tv right before you plan on doing wii fit..psh)
But the quiche process took about 3 hours and I didn't have time to go to the gym because I started drivers ed online, so I'll go tomorrow... (I need to get my permit before school ends so I can be ready to get my license on my birthday in august)

WAY better than yesterday though, I felt so bad for having that dominos I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN.
I'm also gonna see if I can get the books tomorrow finally........ :O

Day 13 for Vee!

Day 13, almost 2 weeks since I have started, that is AWESOME! So today was filled with YUMMY foods and amazingness. I don't really have anything to talk about besides food because I have been really boring lately, sorry :(

Breakfast
I had the sweet cinna-muffin from the 200 under 200 book again.


I know its bad not to eat in the morning and I had a lot of work to do this morning so I wanted something quick and this does the job!

Lunch
I made a quesadilla and instead of just regular chicken, I added the chicken that we had last night with the bbq sauce so it was a bbq chicken quesadilla and it was amazing!


SO SO SO yummy! That chicken is just amazing, as I said last night. I also had some cheetos, which you all know I love.

Dinner
We had the queen-of-the-castle sliders from the 1-2-3 book.


This was another recipe that Mel said was really good and again, shes right. These have so much flavor and are so yummy! They are super quick to make and its real meat (extra lean), just really good!! I had some reduced fat wheat thins too!

Dessert
I made the chocolate marshmallow madness cupcakes from the 200 under 200 book.


So yummy and super fun to make. I love baking. The only thing I don't get about these cupcake recipes is that they always say they make 12 but I usually make 16-18, I'm not sure if I am not adding enough batter to the cups or what but they are delicious, so I will take more then 12 haha.

So that is all I have for you today! Hopefully tomorrow I will be working out, I feel I am finally at the end of my whatever-I-had, woohoo!! Until tomorrow..

Day 12 for Dolly.

so today started off bad, pups woke me up oober early, so my day started shitty blah, today was just an off day for me that`s all, anywho, for breakfast i had a nutrisystem breakfast bar, with some applesauce (no sugar added) & a small glass of milk, i was good for awhile on that, then for lunch didn`t eat much, i just ate some low-fat graham crackers, i just wasn`t feeling to good, then that is all i ate until dinner, i know that`s bad, i just find it hard for me to eat so many times a day, for dinner i had a chicken salad, which was delicious (: & today all i drank was water so that`s good well except the milk in the morning!

i didn`t make any meals out of the book today, just wasn`t feeling to into it today, just one of those days, but i feel better then the last time i posted, i talked to vee & she knocked some sense into me & gave me some great tips, so i`m glad i have these girls to talk to about everything, cause i would of gave up awhile ago lols, well until next time lovely`s! <3

Olivia Day 12

Started at school today and I thought I'd be okay but today wassss FAILED.

Breakfast: chex with strawberries. good!

Brunch: (2 hrs later) Nutri Grain Bar

Lunch: Turkey burger on orowheat sandwich thins, with ketchup and mustard.
Strawberries and Pudding

After I got home I started feeling feverish, stomach achey, and I felt like i had a high blood pressure so I kind of went overboard.

Midday snacking= 1 mini snickers (the little square ones) and a peanut butter cookie

Dinner: Dominos olive pizza=2 slices

I am so pissed at myself you don't even know!
But tomorrow I am just gonna kick my ass and work out really hard.
Yeah sorry for the dull post, during the school week I rush a lot :x

Day 12 for Vee!

Still trying to get over my lungs wanting to jump out of my throat so no exercising today. I hate it because I feel like I am getting fatter by the second but when I can't breathe in without coughing, I don't think exercising is the best idea. Send good luck my way so I can get my exercise on again!

Breakfast
I was being lazy and decided to stick with something I have already tried so I had the egg mcmuggin from the 1-2-3 book.


I am not too sure why I took a pic of it because you have seen it before, but I know how much you all love pics of the food, so here you go. It was as amazing as it was the first and second time!

Lunch
I wanted something very light, tasty and low in calories so I went ahead and had a salad. 2 cups of lettuce, 2 tablespoons of low fat italian dressing = 41 calories.


I have a huge weakness for italian dressing and because lettuce is so refreshing, this was perfect for lunch today. Very tasty, filling and low in calories!!

Dinner
I made the slow-cookin' bbq chicken 1-2-3 book.


I have to say, out of all the recipes I have made so far, I think this one is my absolute favorite. You mix a whole bunch of things in a crock pot to make a BBQ sauce and the taste of it is sooo good and amazing. Cooking the chicken in a crock pot makes the chicken sooo soft and easy to shred. 1/2 cup (the amount that was on top of my bread) of this chicken is only 149 calories which is AMAZING, this tastes like it would be 600 calories. Definitely a great taste!

Dessert
So for dessert, we had the mmmm! miracle mousse from the 200 under 200 book.


Same thing as yesterday, but in Vanilla instead of Chocolate. This was ok, I would prefer the chocolate one as the Vanilla one felt like I was eating pure whip cream.

I think that's about it tonight. Until tomorrow..

Day 12 for Mel

Monday Oh how I hate you...

Breakfast;

Honey wheat English muffin, one piece of ham, half a wedge of laughing cow cheese and mustard. 2 hours later at work I had about 1/2 cup of mandarin oranges. (they are my weakness)

Lunch;

2 tablespoons pineapple, 3 tablespoons homemade macaroni and cheese, 2 tablespoons of steamed broccoli (no butter, no salt). Diet coke to drink.

Snack;

One Peanut Butter/Oatmeal softie (trust me they are fab)

Workout;

When I got to the gym I wasn't feeling to much like working out. I had to kick myself into gear. I did have some frustration to work out so I channeled that and let it go. I did 40 minutes on the elliptical with the intent of being done but half way to the door I decided that I was gonna get a good work out if it killed me. I wasn't aware that Mondays was Salsa night so that is where I went. Class was amazing. It was exactly what I needed. I left drenched in sweat (gross I know but so amazing) As I sit here my legs may not get me to the shower. It was that good.

Dinner;

On the way home we (me and the kids) decided to meet up with the hubby (he got called into work for a bit) and have Taco Bell. I had 2 chicken soft tacos Fresco style of course and a diet pepsi. Yay for me right? Not so much. The hubby driving behind us decided to stop at McDonalds and bring the kids a surprise. In addition to the surprise for the kids he brought me a strawberry sundae and small fries. He wants me to "pee on a stick". The hubby intuition feels like there was a reason I should eat french fries and a strawberry sundae. I however am still undecided on that one.

Tomorrow is Zumba!

Day11 for Mel

Sunday Our Anniversary

Sundays are really laid back for us anyways and being that it's a no gym day we also use it as a free day. (meaning we can splurge food wise if we have been craving something)

Breakfast;

I skipped breakfast (I know, I know don't yell). Normally I wouldn't do this but we didn't wake up until 8:30 and I was still full from Saturday night.

Lunch;

I had left over spaghetti. It's always better the second day, and did I mention we made meatballs!

Snack;

My fabulous husband made Peanut Butter/Oatmeal softies from the 1-2-3 book. Wow these are by far the best pb cookies I have ever eaten. The recipe makes 6 gigantic cookies. They were sweet, peanut buttery and filling because of the oatmeal. I can't remember exactly the NFs and my book is outside in my truck. I would normally go get it but with the wind I might get blown away. Trust me it wasn't that much.

Dinner;

We love to cook out and since we weren't able to go to dinner to celebrate (child care issues) we grilled out like we love to do. We made chicken breast, and chicken quarters. For a side veggie we had green beans. (no butter, no salt). I only tasted a piece of the hubby's chicken quarters b/c I don't care for dark meat.

Late night snack;

So here is my second no no for the weekend. For some odd reason about 22:20 I started craving chicken noodle soup like it was the last food item on earth. (random I know) and since we didn't have any the husband went to find the next best thing. He surprised me with a ham and cheese grilled sandwich. It tasted just like a low fat ham and cheese lean pocket. He made it with 2 pieces of Sara Lee protein bread, 2 slices of ham and a whole wedge of skinny cow. He sprayed the bread and pan with cooking spray to grill it. It's not in the HG book but it should definitely be. I will be making that on the regular.

Day10 for Mel

Saturday oh how I love thee. So We all know how much I love Saturdays. We woke up early of course because we like to hit the gym before it gets crazy. I ate a fourth of a whole wheat bagel with peanut butter just for energy. Gym was amazing we did circuit training (5 exercises 1 minute a piece w/ a 15 second break in between), 30 minutes of cardio after that and finished off with weights. Today was legs and as if I wasn't hurting enough we went heavy on weights again.

Lunch;

When we got home I had a light string cheese to snack on while we made lunch and got the house cleaned up. The hubby made us a delicious wrap. It had 3 slices of turkey bacon (approx 1.4 ounces), a slice of ham, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers on a whole wheat tortilla. It was delicious!

Dinner;

Now this is a different story. We made spaghetti. We always use the leanest ground beef possible so that wasn't to bad but we used regular spinach and four cheese sauce and regular noodles. I also had a 1/4 piece of garlic toast made with 1/4 of a ciabatta bread, light butter, garlic and salt. It was definitely worth the splurge.

Snack;

Sugar free black cherry jello, with sugar free chocolate pudding and ff/light cool whip. This was amazing and the perfect chocolate cherry desert. I made a two boxes of jello but then for each serving I mixed one pudding cup and a tablespoon of cool whip. Yep it was amazing.

Dolly isn`t Feeling Right?

so lately i have been doing a lot of thinking, & i feel like i`m not a part of this at all, i feel like i`m all alone in this weightloss crapp, like i know everyone secretly wants to lose weight, why do i feel so alone ? like i have no one to talk to, no one asks me how i`m doing on it or anything, so i`m feeling like what is the point !? like i`m so ready to give up & just not care anymore, no one else does, so why should i ?! maybe, i`m just haveing one of those days ? who knows. i`m just not feeling in this anymore, i was doing good, makeing food out of the book, i`ve made apple shakers, egg mcmuggn, cake on the beach, & more, but it`s like no one cares how i`m doing on this, i try to care but i haven`t cared about myself in so long, it`s fckn` pointless, i don`t know sorry for the depressing post, just thought i`d throw something out there.

Day 11 for Vee!

Happy Sunday! Lets get right into this! Today, I ate somewhat "light". It is sooooo hot outside and in my apartment and I hate to eat a lot when its hot outside because then I just feel nasty so I went for more simple receipes.

Breakfast
I had the sweet cinna-muffin from the 200 under 200 book.


I am not really sure why this was in a recipe book because its so simple to make and I am sure half of you have made it before but that's besides the point. This was cinnamon, butter and splenda on an english muffin. I usually make this on toast with all kinds of things that are bad for you (like real sugar) so this was a nice breakfast idea. I also had some banana chips with this!

Lunch
I didn't really have a "lunch" today because I wasn't that hungry and because again, it was flaming hot. I did have some apple slices with some low fat caramel dip, which I think the juicy-ness of the apple was great for this hot weather.

Dinner
I made the lean bean 'n cheese enchiladas from the 200 under 200 book.


A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. This was great. To me, this tasted like a Taco Bell bean n cheese burrito. EXACTLY like it, but instead of a flour tortilla, it was a corn tortilla. For the record, one enchilada was 187 calories and a TB burrito is 370, so you choose. With this, I had a side salad with some fat free italian dressing. I have been craving this for DAYS and I forgot how refreshing and yummy salads were!!

Dessert
For dessert, we had the mmmm! miracle mousse from the 200 under 200 book.


This was pretty much pudding and cool whip free. Good, but again, another thing that makes you think "WHY is this in a recipe book?"

So today I worked all day trying to get caught up so hubby decided that Sunday's will be our no work out day so we haven't and will not work out later. I am also getting over something nasty so I think my lungs might need a little break but to finish off with the week, I am pretty happy with everything I have done this week.

I have been getting a few emails and tweets about possibly sharing the recipes from the book with others. I don't know if the other girls are getting these requests, I assumed I was getting them because I was actually posting pictures but I don't think that its fair to the author of the book for me to give out the recipes since you do have to buy the book. However, if you go to the website, you can sign up for the newsletter which comes out Mon-Fri and there are recipes in there for new things that aren't in the book.

I do have some meals picked out that are from these recipes that are free so look forward to those. I will be putting links to the ones that I do make in that post so that you can try it out if you want. I hope you guys understand!

I also wanted to put my weight loss since the beginning. I know I have been putting updates every day about losing/gaining here and there but I think I will be putting official tallies in each post, or maybe just on Sundays. These will be tallies from the beginning each time so if next week I say I am down 12 pounds, it doesn't mean I am down 12 pounds from the following week, it means that I am down 12 pounds TOTAL since I started.

Total weight loss since April 1st: 8.8lbs

So, I think thats about it for today. I am going to go finish off my mousse and think about going to sleep.. maybe! Until tomorrow..

Olivia's Day 11

Ok so today was the MOST BORING DAY EVER........You will not be entertained....

I woke up at 11:30 :|||||| AGAIN. And I start school again so that sucks

I had brunch, I guess you could say..at like 12.



SUPRISE! SAME AS YESTERDAY!...........ok then.

I then had to rush my butt and get ready for my sister's volleyball game so I spent like 1 hour doing that...

Then her game went from 2-3:30 ish and they won. Her team really sucked besides her and like 3 other people though. They just would watch the ball bounce in front of them, I was shocked they ended up winning LOL.

After that for "Celebration" it was chosen to go out to linner. Yes. The quiche has been postponed again....lol
We ended up going to Bob's Big Boy. We just got one in our town and we used to go a lot as kids apparently so that was a "must"
I wish I got a salad. I didn't resist any cravings today really. Which kind of disappoints me.
I had not even half of their "turkey burger" with pickles,lettuce and a little bit of 1000island which ended up spewing out the back anyway. It was kind of overseasoned so I didn't eat much. Oh and it was on a whole wheat bun. I had a side of fruit which was honeydew and cantaloupe. I only ate the honeydew because the cantaloupe was not really ripe enough for my taste.
I had lemonade to drink which was really tart but I didn't want to add extra sugar. I should have ordered water but oh well.

For dessert we shared the famous hot fudge cake. I had less than 1/4 of it, since maybe 5 of us shared it, so I am not kicking myself entirely.

At 8:30 I had another snack that I was craving. I feel so uncreative but I can't help it! But at least I added fresh ripe strawberries, right? HAHA. You will see more of this, this is gonna be easy breakfast to start my days!



Hope you enjoyed that LOL.
I didn't work out today besides playing volleyball for about 20 minutes after my sisters game. But it's all good. I'm gonna be walking, running,and jogging like all day on saturday at the relay for life so that will help majorly.

Failed Day 10: Olivia

Today I woke up at 10:30. SUCCESSSS!ish. School starts again on monday so not really. HA. Well today was kind of strange.

Breakfast: We had donuts but I felt like I would kill myself if I let myself have one, so I resisted. I had a bowl of corn chex. For some reason I find that these taste really good even though it's not packed full of sugar like some of my other faves.


I was really full from this portion and didn't even get hungry until about 2 :O

From 1-2:30 I was at the gym working my ass off, or working my ass ON and working my stomach off.
I did okay. I did the elliptical for a little over 20 minutes. Don't know how many calories burned because for some reason it was BLANK. wtf. pissin me off.
Then, I stretched in the weight room and went on the roman chair to work my arms and help me lift my own weight.
After that I did a random machine, the shoulder press I think, to get rid of my sideboob fat which really isn't even a part of the boob. (tmi?) about 16 of those with 25 lbs.
Then I did the treadmill for 40 minutes. I can't really tell you what I had it on because I change it throughout the whole thing, although mostly I do a fast paced walk so I can read at the same time.
*****funny story time= This chick got beside me on the treadmills about 30 minutes into my walking. She was running 4.5 MPH so I decided I was gonna go faster. I was listening to BLAHBLAHBLAH by the kla$$$$$y ke$ha and went up to 4.5. TOO FAST TOO SOON. I put it down to 3.5 or 4 with the hand i had my iPod in. My iPod FALLS OUT OF MY HAND. ONTO THE TREADMILL. I bend down to get it like an idiot forgetting that there is a stop button. I was like "shiiiit!" and jumped to the sides, pressed stop, and ran the hell out of there. SOOO traumatizing. I didn't fall on my butt-total AFV Moment.

***weird story time= When I ran out of there I had to wait for my dad, so I was leaning against this wall checking tweets and drinking water. I wasn't really paying attention, but all I hear is BOOM!!!!!!!!! and the wall shook. I look up like WHAT THE HECK, this dude in a pick up truck rammed into the wall like 6 feet away from me. It didn't break though. He came out and was like O IS IT OK?! YES ITS OK! and ran back into his car and parked across the street, SPRINTING out of his car with his shoes barely on and a towel over his shoulder into the Y. LOL WTF?

Then after the gym at about 3 I had a grumbly stomach :O. So I had a nutrigrain bar. These had some protein so that's good or whatever after a workout. like I know.


After the gym my dad told me I should make quiche- so I stayed on the webz for 2 hours searching for good recipes. Then he said we were going out :| Something I've been dreading!

I was feeling a tad hungry after that too, so I had a small snack at 5ish. I took a pic of a lot but I ended up pouring 3/4 back into the bag because they were too salty.



So then we ate dinner at CPK at about 6ish. I was feeling quite hungry from the lack of food today since I didn't really eat lunch, I just snacked through it since I didn't wake up too early I wasn't hungry enough to have a full meal.

Now after the workout my body is like PROTEEEEIN GURRRL!
I overindulged. That is why this is called "FAILED day 10"
But that's okay, NOBODY'S PERFECT. Hannah montana~
I had Chicken Lettuce Wraps + 2 glasses of Iced tea with a total of 1 lemon wedge + 3 splendas total (so detailed right?) and for dessert I had Red Velvet Cake
I have a red velvet cake addiction. If i see it on the menu I have to have it.. :\ That's why i need to get the HG book with the cupcakes in it HAHA.
They have a nutrition facts menu and everything now so it made me feel worse. But oh well we have our bad and our good days: But 3+ Hours later I'm still not hungry so it was filling...

(pics from google images below this...I didn't wanna look like a freakooooo)
They gave me less chicken than this so I bet it was a little less calories than the atrocious number it said. The sodium was out of this world :(



By the end of that I was feeling very satisfied but kind of disappointed in myself. But then I realized it's only one meal. I can still lose weight. I just have to get my act together. I've heard somewhere it takes 60 times of something to form a habit. so hopefully in the next month or two it will feel habitual and i will always WANT to eat healthier, and always enjoy it. But I do have to realize It's good of me to find my eating problems on my own now, then later.

:)

P.S. my wisdom teeth are coming in big time :( I have to get them removed in the next month, but that means..LIQUID DIET! AHHAHA. that will be a miserable week of major weight loss. Just in time for prom, right? I am totally kidding by the way. It will most definately suck....
Hopefully this ibuprofen will help me sleeeep <3

Day 10 for Vee!

desdisjfdjshkfjdhskjh, thats all I have to say. No, just kidding, but I feel like that. It was SO hot today, I was burning calories just breathing, yay for me!

Breakfast
This morning I had the big bowl breakfast from 1-2-3.


Pretty much this recipe was "if you have it in your fridge/freezer, put it in this bowl". There were eggs, o'brien potatoes, canadian bacon, broccoli and cheese. It was very different, there was a lot of flavors going on but it was pretty good. However, they aren't kidding, this bowl is BIG. I could only eat about 1/4-1/2 of it.

Lunch
I had the super-svelte bacon melt (with turkey bacon) from the recipe and survival book.


And of course I added some YUMMY cheetos. If I wasn't on this "diet", I would probably have eaten the whole bag by now, haha! Anyways, this was good. Turkey bacon was new to me but I didn't taste a difference!

Dinner
I made stuffed chick cordon bleu from the 1-2-3 book.


I rather liked this. It was chicken with some light swiss cheese laughing cow wedges and some ham. I have never had real chicken cordon bleu before because it calls for bleu cheese (I'm pretty sure) and I HATE blue cheese but this was good. My husband didn't like it though because he hates cheese. He still ate it though. I also steamed some asparagus and mushrooms.

I forgot to weigh myself before dinner so I ate and we went to the gym. It was kind of a bad idea because I feel like my lungs might take a vacation from my body and it was 100 times worse then what it normally is but I guess it was better calories wise, I just feel like hell now. So I did the bicycle thing for 15 minutes (or 3.24 miles) and then did the treadmill for about 3 minutes 12 seconds and decided I was going to die. Then I weighed myself after and I was up .4 lb's, boo, but that's ok!

Well, that's all I have today. Until tomorrow...

Day 9 for Vee!!

Not much to say for the beginning of the day. I am losing about 1lb a day, so my eating habits are definitely paying off, woohoo!! So on to what I ate:

Breakfast
This morning I had the double-o-cinnamon apple breakfast bowl from the 1-2-3 book.


This was.. meh. I wasn’t too impressed with it for a few reasons:
1. WAY too much cinnamon and I even used less then what the receipe called for.
2. Although I love cottage cheese and I love apples, I don’t think this is a great combo. I thought they would balance each other out to have an awesome foodgasm in your mouth but it was actually the complete opposite. They didn’t mesh well together, IMO.

So that is definitely something that I won’t be trying again. Every time I took a bite I felt like sneezing. I only ate about 1/4 of it because it was just too weird ):

Lunch
For lunch I had 2 of the left over exploding chicken taquitos and some natural white cheddar cheese puffs, mm.

Before I made dinner, I did an hour of just dance for the Wii. That game is so fun but I find I can’t do it in front of my husband so I just do it before he comes home. It’s a good work out for someone who isn’t in shape, it really kicks my butt!

Dinner
For dinner we had the sloppy joe-chiladas from the 1-2-3 book. This was something new for not only myself, but hubby as well, as this included soy crumbles. This is pretty much “meatless” ground beef.


When my body knows that something is "fake", even if it tastes good or not, I always get this gag thing going on when I put it into my mouth. For these, I didn't get that. It was pretty good. Hubby enjoyed it as well!

So that is about it for tonight. I am going to go enjoy a cake on the beach and do some work! Until tomorrow..

Day 9 for Olivia

Or day 2. Whatever. LOL. its easier to go with the same # as the girls, and I've been dieting as long as them so ok.

I had no breakfast. I woke up at 12. woops?

Lunch: Had around 1pm so it's alll good. Mel posted on twitter that she made english muffin pizzas with string cheese a few days ago and it intrigued me so I made it for dinner that night. I forgot to get english muffins so I use it on wheat bread with the toaster and a microwave (which is ghettofab..next time I'm trying the oven although I hate preheating time..). For lunch today I had to "slices" of that with a big cup of 100% Orange/Pineapple Juice.
The string cheese on them melts really weird because it kind of re-solidifies itself but it's no big deal it's just a strange texture.



Midday Snack: Well it's 4:41 when I'm snackin. I had the majority of this. One part of it was extremely hard. It's fresh pineapple that I cut (took like an hour) That's why the fresh stuff cost SO much at the store...geez.


Dinner: We eat dinner pretty late, so I was feeling pretty hungry. When I found out we were having burgers on the grill I freaked out and was like "MOM GET ME SOMETHING THAT'S NOT RED MEAT WAAAH!" So she got me turkey burgers by Jennie O. I was really scared to try these for some reason, but they were really good. I substituted the evill white bread bun for an orowheat sandwich round which is whole wheat. I put Lettuce, Ketchup, and Mustard on it! For a side I had 2 pickles and a serving of baked cheetos. I wouldn't have had the cheetos but my dad picked up these instead of the natural white cheddar ones from yesterday,but I think these were less calories?


Dessert: Strawberry shortcake! Angel Food Cake, Cool Whip, and Strawberries. This was kind of a splurge but it has kept me full.


Overall today was alright. I didn't work out at all. I'm kind of disappointed but tomorrow is another day. I'm going to try and make it to the gym if my dad isn't busy with work. I can study the California Driver's Handbook because I need to get my permit before the end of the school year so I can learn how to drive before college.
Total. Fail.

Day 9 for Mel (and a catch up on the in between)

Yes I know it's been a few days since I've caught up with everything. It's horrible to get behind cause it seems like you will never catch up. But here goes and boy am I glad I can type 65wpm. Easter was amazing we grilled chicken on the grill, had a HUGE bowl of fresh fruit to snack on and I made a fruit dip just to add a little something. I just mixed fat free cool whip, fat free cream cheese, and plain fat free yogurt. I wasn't too sweet but really delicious and semi-good for you. (I'm gonna give a run down as best as I can remember this sorry guys) Monday I made the "Queen of the castle sliders" from the 1-2-3 book. I had 2 of them since I've been trying to cut back on red meat. The whole family was home and they asked that I make them again.

NF;(4 sliders) 254 calories, 5.5g fat

I did pretty good the next few days really watching my portions and having small snacks to keep me going and from over eating. We made our own trail mix with almonds, raisins, and semi sweet chocolate chips. I would either have 1/3 c of that or 17 pretzel twists if I was feeling munchy/hungry in between meals. Last night was "cheesy chicken enchiladas" from 1-2-3 again. Those are just to yummy! For desert the boys and I had the "espresso cake in a mug" They really enjoyed both again.

NF total; 407 calories, 7.25g fat

And here we are on Friday! Whew. This week was crazy because I have been fighting being sick and it finally got to me. I didn't go to the gym Wed or Thursday which was really hard for me because my body rebelled big time. I felt even worse inside and out b/c I didn't go. I had to force myself to get some rest knowing that if I didn't I would continue to feel ill. I came home from work about an hour or so early yesterday and rested. Today I'm feeling better than I have been which is a huge relief. I'm so excited for Zumba tonight and plan on really busting out a great workout! I feel that I have put on weight even though I haven't been eating a lot while I wasn't feeling good. I think it comes from knowing I haven't worked anything off.

Oh food duh! For breakfast I made my own version of a egg mcmuffin (without egg is how I order it) I toasted a honey wheat english muffin, added half a slice of cheese, a piece of ham and mustard. It was delicious. For lunch I am having left over cheesy chicken enchiladas. Not sure what we are doing for dinner yet. I will figure that out hopefully in the next hour or so.

Thanks for reading this chaos of an update.

Day 8 for Vee!!

So last night, I blogged before I ate dinner. I usually don’t blog until I am eating dinner or after I have eaten dinner but it was getting so late, I wanted to go ahead and blog before I ate. I went to get some of the spinach mushroom supreme and the spinach was really dried out so I just threw it away. I ended up having a lean cuisine spinach, artichoke and chicken panini. I have had LC panini’s before and they have always been pretty good so this one wasn’t any different. It did have 310 calories but after I was done throwing away the supreme, I just didn’t want to cook anything since it was really late already.

As well as eating really late, I didn’t end up working out either. I was pretty disappointed but again, by the time I was done, it was REALLY late (about 12:30) so I decided to skip it. I had done A LOT of walking yesterday so I figured that made up for it.

So on to today…

Breakfast
For breakfast, I made the overstuffed peanut butter 'n banana french toast from the 1-2-3 book (which Mel had said was amazing!)


I forgot to take a picture of it because when I sat down, I just wanted to eat it but the picture is from the website. It was really good! Peanut butter and bananas really go together!

Lunch
For lunch today, we had the exploding chicken taquitos from the chew the right thing recipe cards.


These were AMAZING! I know I say that about a lot of the stuff from these books but that’s definitely why they are such popular books. The stuff in these books don’t taste like you’re “dieting”! Hubby loved these too, he ate 4 and said he could eat 8 more LOL these were super quick to make too, just 30 minutes!

Dinner
Keeping with simplicity for today’s meals, we went with the perfect pepperoni pizzas from the recipe and survival book.


I have made these before (of course much more fattening) and they taste just the same. These ones have turkey pepperoni, which I was a little nervous to try but it was actually really good!

Dessert
I made these last night but didn’t get a chance to try them because it was so late. Here we have, cake on the beach from the 1-2-3 book.


Mel has said many times that these are amazing so I had to try them! They were delicious! I am not a HUGE fan of pineapple, I will eat it but I would prefer not to but these are still awesome. Husband says that it tastes like a pineapple upside down cake, but I don't know if that's true or not!

My husband is having a hard time eating the right proportions. He eats double the amount that I do, plus snacks all throughout the day and he just complains about being hungry even MORE. Then he steps on the Wii fit and loses like 4 lbs a day, I don’t get how he does it and its pissing me off LOL

So, that’s all I have for you tonight! I am going to go dance some more on Just Dance for the Wii. My husband actually does this with me and it’s HILARIOUS!!!! Until tomorrow..

Day 8 for Olivia

Or Day 1. However you want to look at it.

I woke up at 11 from my dad asking me what I wanted for lunch, so I really Didn't have a breakfast.

Lunch: I should have taken a picture of it but it was a crappy Grocery Store Deli Sandwich with lettuce, mustard, pickles, turkey, and salami. I ate like 4 inches of it, a little over half. It was on baguette-ish bread. It was good though because It gave me carbs and protein and helped make up for not eating a breakfast.

Snacks: I snack a lot during the day. That will always happen. I have small meals and small snacks frequently.

Today I've had 3 snacks:
1. 2 Spears of Pineapple (you don't neeed a picture of pineapple, do you? LOL)
2. A Nutri grain Bar in Blueberry: These have a lot of calories, carbs,fat, and protein. So, if you are usually "under" on those areas, I'd reccomend them.
3. Natural White Cheddar Cheeto Puffs: the same ones Vee was talking about! I had them a while ago and ended up getting like 3 (thanks, siblings) so I bought them again :D A serving is THIRTY TWO puffs. for 150 calories. That's what I call awesome! Picture is about 29 of them, not that I'm counting, right? HA



Dinner:
Eggplant Parmesan! I know I said NO fried foods (Now changing to LIMITED for sure...I mean it's not like I'm eating french fries and chicken nuggets, right?)
AND it's homemade. With salad. Used Crispy Garlic "bread" as croutons but I had like half of the small piece of bread because It tasted weird (I made it too :|) GOOD JOB, ME! Doin pretty good with the Veg today.
(Pic is of my MOM's....I was so hungry I forgot to take a pic)