October Fix Day 1

I'm back in it!  Last month didn't work well (see my previous post) but I'm still down 40 pounds overall!!!!  Woo Hoo!!!  Today I'm not working out (I have a dentist appointment and i don't want my kiddos in childcare that long

Breakfast was a fried egg and 2 strips of turkey bacon (cut in half thats why it looks like 4)  and a grilled tomato.

I have a dental school appointment today so I've put dinner in the crock pot.  Its one onion, one carrot, 4 radishes, 5 garlic cloves, and some split peas with 2 bone in thighs (they're cheaper than breasts) I put it in the crock pot for about 8 hours on low.

 In the mean time lunch was a diced up tomato, a diced up pickle and greens tossed with a can of Tuna (and some pickle juice for dressing)

Here's dinner all cooked .  The chicken was a little dry (and the peas completely dissipated)  but for not having to cook with a couple of clingy babys after a dental appointment it was pretty darn good.  For measuring i just measured out one green container of the cooked veggies and all the drippings I wanted (i only added about half a cup of water to the crock pot), so all the liquid is from the chicken an veggies, so i count is as included in the calorie count :-) 

Dessert/post dinner snack was an apple with some peanut butter... i know its way more than I'm supposed to have on the plan, but I didn't use any blue containers and its natural, so i'm counting it as a "fat". I was raised seeing it as a protein and am having a hard time switching it in my mind.

I'm still kindof hungry so I may have a banana half or something later, but we'll see :-)

Thanks for reading and keeping me accountable

September Failure

Ok, so I'm finally getting around to updating this, I started doing the 21 Day fix last month, but I was tired of doing daily posts, so I tried doing just a weekly post... well you can see how well that worked.... About 10 days in i realized i hadn't posted at all and my motivation totally just plopped out.  I didn't start eating like i used to, but i wasn't trying very hard.  I would sneak fruit roll ups and i ate ALOT of peanut butter, with apples, but still way more than the teaspoon i'm supposed to have on the plan.  I was still working out, but my diet wasn't great.  I'm still making progress.  As of yesterday I'm officially down 40 Pounds!  Woo Hoo.  I'm back to it for real today. but I'm going to put that in a separate post

21 Day Faux - Instructions

So I've had a few people ask how I did my 21 Day faux.  Its very simple.  The first round I did, i just did the diet, then in the second round I added the exercise.  It made it easier for the transition for me.  Going from totally sedentary and eating whatever i wanted to a healthy diet and daily exercise.

This chart is how you figure out which meal plan you should be on.  If you're not going to start working out  skip the calorie burn additional calories and go from there.

 For example I started this at 190 so multiplied times 11 is 2090. 2090 minus 750 is 1340.  So, looking at the next chart I'm in the lowest diet group. 

 

Thats all it takes! 

After that its just filling up those containers through the day.  If you choose not to get the containers below is the list of the measurements for each color.  You simply have to find your way of keeping track. Some people write notes, some people use magnets. I use glass stones that i keep in a jar on my shelf, an switch them from one jar to the other as i use them for the day.

 

 I have one of these printed out and on my fridge as a quick reference guide. Its mostly correct.  The banana listed in fruit is not to be measured in the container, its 1/2 a banana as a serving, but otherwise i haven't really run into anything that breaks these rules.  I mean don't deep fry everything and expect to lose weigh, you've got to work for it, but you can do it!

 I believe in you! 

21 Day Faux - day 21

 

The last day. I feel like it went well... plus I'm  down 5 1/2 inches and 8 lbs, but that is with no exercise, so once I get das boot off I should be able to kick into high gear :-)

 

 

I had salad for lunch with a berry vinaigrette, about half a cup of strawberries and blueberries whizzes up with rice wine vinegar and just a couple drops of honey.

 

 

 

 

I made the soup to use up some meat that was close to freezer burning.  its turkey stock with a lot of carrots and onion with a little potato, whizzed up and the meat stirred back up



 



21 Day Faux - day 20

 

For breakfast I had oatmeal with some frozen fruit puree

 

 

 here it is all stirred together

 

 

Lunch was free at church.  I had a little bit of potato and a big salad

dinner was home made spaghetti. One yellow of pasta, one red of beef, 1 1/2 green containers of diced and puréed tomatoes

 

 

21 Day Faux -day 19

Ok, so I didn't take pictures of breakfast or lunch... straight up forgot... sorry

 

Breakfast was a single pancake and a cup of chobanni Greek yogurt

 

Lunch was a whopper jr (we were driving home)

 

my husband cooked dinner tonight because I was so tired after the drive. So we had quesadillas

 

 

21 Day Faux- day 18

 We're headed out of town today for my cousins wedding, so breakfast was cottage cheese

 

 

Lunch was a speedway mocha late. We stopped by McDs on the road, but due to the time change they weren't serving lunch yet.

Dinner at the wedding, BBQ chicken sandwiches and green bean casserole (the chips and stuff were fi my kids)

I had a piece of cake too, but didn't take a picture.

21 day faux - day 17





 Breakfast this morning was excellent, a grocery trip last night netted some absolutely gorgeous strawberries and blueberries for my oatmeal. :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch was 1 C of diced greens and veggies under 1/2 cup of chicken salad (I know its not on the plan, but it was free) with lemon squeezed over the top

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner was very similar to lunch just with a little mustard added

21 Day Faux - day 16

 

Finally caught up on my blogging, sorry with the trip to the in laws plus a surprise wedding this weekend, I'm still working on the present and it keeps occupying my blogging time, but its in a drying stage now and if I have to try again I'm going to have to try another tactic before I boot my Yudu out the window.

 

 

Anyways for breakfast I had oatmeal with strawberries and banana with a little squeeze of lemon, I didn't put enough lemon on, but was buried under cranky toddlers so I made do

 

 

For lunch I had a turkey wrap.... literally.  Six slices of turkey laid out overlapping like a flower, then I put avocado diced tomatoes and all the greens I have left in the middle and rolled it up like a tortilla

(please ignore the chipped nails, crafting on an old manicure just is not pretty)

 

 

dinner was wonderful leftovers.  cut noodles with as diced up hamburger with tomatoes cilantro lime and Asian dressing

21 Day Faux - day 15

 

Still not super hungry so skipped breakfast again

 

But for lunch I had a lovely asian salad with some leftover hamburgers from the other night (1/2 cup) and 1 c of veggies, 1/2 cup of noodles cut up and 1 T of Asian dressing

 

 

 

For dinner I made lemon dill whitefish.  with 1/2 cup of orzo topped with the drippings with some lemon juice water and extra dill.  The soup on the side is boiled broccoli with 1/3 cup of cheese per 1 cup broccoli then blended up , quite delicious

21 Day Faux - day 14

Back home and still full from the weekend, so I didn't really have breakfast.  I had diced veggies and 2 fried eggs for lunch

Super awesome totally legal spaghetti for dinner.  1/2 cup of ground beef (cause its a higher fat content I lower the amount)  1 cup of tomato puree and a little garlic with 1/2 a cup of whole grain spaghetti.  YUMMY :-)

 

21 Day Faux - day 13

Still visiting my in laws and my MIL continues to not hear that I'm on a diet and would love to help prep meals so I can make it more diet friendly, but I'm making do

 

For breakfast we had biscuits and gravy... oy, my favorite so I just had one, watered down the gravy significantly so I could use way less and not miss out on the flavor. I added a fried egg and threw some greens in there too

 

 

To make up for my biscuit and in preparation of the drive home I decided to skip the bread at lunch so Its  just turkey wrapped around cheese and veggies with a squeeze of lemon.

 

 

Well we didn't stop for lunch on the way home, I did grab a cup of coffee (which I don't usually like) but it was speedways and I put some of the powedered chocolate in it (I know its not approved on the fix, but on the faux... CHOCOLATE :-) ) It was amazing and I made it all the way home with no mcdonalds.  Plus now i'm dreaming of our road trip next weekend so i can have another :-)

 

 

Anyways

 

For dinner I made burgers and grilled veggies. there is a cup of veggies and herbs on my burger and the grilled veggies have nothing on them (and grilled carrots are an EXCELENT substitute for potato wedges.  I will be making them again for sure!

21 Day Faus- Day 12

 

Out of town and doing well!  Had Oatmeal with fruit - diced strawberries, peaches, and mango (1 yellow one purple) and scrambled eggs  (about 2) so one red container.



 

 

We're going to go to the county fair today, so its going to be a tough day to resist temptation today.  Plus my in-laws have stocked the house with doughnuts, cookies, and soda for the kids and its super tempting... so here's hoping this weekend doesn't totally throw me off.

OK so cheat meal... I tried not to be too bad, I didn't buy the fried oreos (my favorite) and as close as they had to something healthy was the walking taco (I tried to not eat too much of the chips and sour cream.  Then my MIL bought the extra large bucket of fried vegetables.  I ate mostly the pickles they had the best breading to veggie ratio (the squash was basically a chip, but the broccoli and cauliflower really weren't bad)

For dinner I had a big salad dressed just with lemon juice and a small serving of each salmon and chicken with a side of green beans without the butter :-) delicious.

21 Day Faux - Day 11

Officially more than halfway through this healthy eating plan Woo Hoo!

For breakfast I had Cottage Cheese

Salad with chicken veggies, herbs and lemon

 

 

And we had dinner on the road and the kids favorite restraint (McDonalds) so I got the Chicken Ranch wrap (it had veggies, and i got it with grilled chicken so it was only about 400 calories)



21 Day Faux - Day 10

So I'm almost halfway through this little adventure of eating better and I feel like its going well. I'm not doing the workout portion, so I don't know if i'm actually  losing anything, but I feel better, and I'm coming off of my (apparently) rather severe sugar addiction.

 

 

For breakfast today I had cottage cheese with cucumber (one red and half of a green)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For lunch I did a scramble with veggies and 2 eggs and a tortilla

 



 

 

For  dinner, we were trying to use up some leftovers, as we were headed out of town, so I did a 1 and a half containers of greens and veggies  with one red of chicken plus a half green container of cole slaw ( I also counted it as both my teaspoon and my dressing)

It was actually really good mixed in, but I wasn't sure so I had it on the side to begin with.

21 Day Faux - Day 9

 Still going, which is a minor miracle for me.  I don't know if I'm actually losing anything, but i feel better and less tired all the time.  I like this better eating, its pretty nice. 

Breakfast- Same as yesterday, rolled oats with strawberries, bananas and lemon, Still amazing :-) (though the coffee cup was too small, I couldn't get things stirred properly)

Lunch is leftovers from last nights dinner - 1 green container of greens and salsa, 1 red of beef and some extra cilantro.  I left out the rice and beans so i could have rice with dinner.

Dinner was brown rice (1 yellow) and mixed veggies (broccoli, peppers and onions) and ground beef (red) mixed with the asian dressing (orange)  was pretty good, see the second picture, even my 18 month old liked it, but not from her plate, it had to be from daddy's bowl.