21 Day Faux - Day 8

 Diet wise today went really well.  I'm satisfied, snack was a little tricky to figure out today cause I knew i needed all my grains left for dinner and my seccond fruit for dessert before bed, so I was left with a protein only snack, which took some creative thinking as you'll see below.  I usually keep this blog updated throughout the day, but i couldn't find my tablet so I'm doing it all on my husbands laptop now.  Oh well... On to Breakfast!

I had 1 yellow container of rolled oats and 1 purple container of cut strawberries and bananas with a little squeeze of lemon over it.  Was actually very good.  It needed the lemon because the strawberry and banana flavors were not merged into the oats, the oats just tasted kindof like lumps of blah, but by putting lemon juice in it added a nice citrus flavor to the oat bits and it tasted awesome.  I will definitely do this one again.

 Lunch was a salad with 1 1/2 green containers of assorted veggies and greens with the leftover burger from last night as my protein, and avocado mashed with some water and a splash of ranch dressing.

My all protein snack, was actually pretty good, there were three, but i had to try it before I built the other two to make sure it wasn't completely horrifying, and i actually will probably do this again, put a nice spin on the cottage cheese.   Its just 3 turkey pieces spread equally with a little more than 1/4 cup of cottage cheese and a little bit of pepper, rolled up like taquitos.

Dinner was AMAZING.  About 1 cup of greens, 1/2 container of salsa (as dressing).  1 Blue container half filled with each avocado and cheese.  One yellow container split between rice and pinto beans. A little less than one red container of ground beef with taco seasoning (it wasn't full lean beef, but i drained all the grease out and used a little less so I call it good) and cilantro.

Was an AWESOME taco salad.  And really easy to do this for the family, i didn't have to cook mine in a seperate pan to keep the ratios right  I just set up a nacho bar and included a bag of chips for everyone else to use.

 My husbands nachos, not as healthy as my bowl, but not too terrible, just different ratios than mine.

This blog is aparently the best choice I've made. I know very few if any people are reading all of every day, but I feel like I can't cheat without letting people down.  So thank you

21 Day Faux - Day 7

OK, now I'm really back on the wagon.

For breakfast this morning, I made rolled oats with lots of cinnamon and a diced up apple, was pretty good.

For lunch I had a large salad (2 green containers) with diced up turkey sandwich meat and lots of herbs from the garden (with a very small drizzle of ranch dressing, it needed some sort of lubricant)

Dinner was delicious, but not 100 percent on plan. The only thing off plan really was the bun.  It was a very lean burger (nothing pooled ontop when it cooked) with 1 cup of veggies (mostly tomatoes and greens, with a little bit of onion) Instead of mayo I used mashed up avocado and a swirl of mustard.  Once I put the sandwich together i realized how much bigger the patty was than the bread, so i broke off the extra burger to counter the fact that i don't really know how lean the meat what and the fact that i was eating the bun too.

Was still plenty filling, and i'll use that leftover beef tomorrow in a salad



Was nice to eat some junk food while at the wedding, but i know its better for me to stick with it. and I've never come back to a diet after a bad day like that before, so hopefully this will work for me :-)

21 Day Faux - Day 5th and 6th

Well I'm posting this on the 6th because on the 4th (day 5) we were headed to an out of state wedding and on the 5th we had a family picnic at my moms house So i'm catching up with this diet diary.


For Breakfast on the fourth I did a scramble wrap.  1 Cup of veggies, two eggs and 1 blue container of cheese wrapped up in a tortilla.  Was pretty fantastic

When we got back from our neighborhood 4th bike parade i wasn't very hungry so i had a nectarine before we hit the road, then about halfway to cincinatti me and the hubs both got hungry so we got some Mcdonalds.  the standard cheeseburger is only about 300 calories so i went with thath.

Cincinnati is really hard to drive in btw. especially when you're used to a grid system city like Indy.  The Cinci roads made NO sence to me.  The architecture was pretty and the boat ride was awesome (our friend got married on one of the paddle boats)

It was a carbalicious dinner so i totally didn't follow the rules, I also ate a mini cupcake for dessert, but i ate it before i rememberd to take a picture :-)

I also drank about 3 glasses of wine, so ... yea not a good diet night, but back onto the wagon I went the next day... kindof.



On the 5th I had a bagel and schmear for breakfast, I was kindof hung over from the wine, and I needed carbs. it wasn't whole grain, but it was small and i only had half.  Then i had a doughnut at church and a soda, cause i was exhausted and I don't like coffee

 I was so tired i don't remember eating lunch, so i don't know if i did or what it was.  I took a nap, i think that was my lunch (or the doughnut from church had me full still)


For dinner i had a very large salad and a hot dog (no bun) and i topped my salad with salsa, so i didn't even use any dressing :-)

But i was bad for dessert again, my aunt brought over a DQ ice cream cake (my favorite) to celebrate my cousin being home on leave from the marines.  I also made a sorbet to share with bananas kiwis and ground cherries

Thank you for keeping me accountable even though its not been stelar diet days.

21 Day Faux - Day 4

Its going suprisingly well for me.  Yesterday was the first day I didn't sneek a little piece of chocolate or a bite of ice cream.  I think spreading the fruit out and having a stronger flavored fruit like nectarines is better for me.  Today we started the day at the Farmer's Market and had breakfast there.  It was so good i forgot to take a picture. 

I'm counting it as One Green and One Red  I tried to get about a cup of veggies, and they briefly sautee them with 2 farm fresh eggs and serve it in a berry box :-) its delicious.

I picked up a bunch of veggies and fun snacks for this week so the eating should be good

For lunch I enjoyed a few of my new veggies in my wrap. 

Its one wg tortilla, with a small spread of hummus, 3 pieces of turkey and 1 c of veggies (kale/spinach salad mix, sunflower sprouts, basil, tomato, and cucumber)

Dinner was AWESOME I tell you.  I made brown rice which takes for freaking EVER and some chicken thighs and stir fried some veggies (carrots, broccoli, onion, peppers, and sunflower sprouts) in a little sesame oil.  Mixed it in with some of the 21 day fix asian dressing and OMG. And it was SOO filling, I couldn't eat it all, so I'll have some of the leftovers as a snack. 

So I counted this as 1 yellow, 1 green, 1 red, and 1 spoon.

Once again, thank you for keeping me accountable, I never realized how addicted to sugar I had been. I mean i quit soda a couple months ago, but i used to eat a nutrigrain for breakfast every day and snack on cookies and home made ice cream or biscuits and junk food.  I still feel like i'm going through a little withdrawl, but its getting to the point that fruit will satisfy my cravings... kindof.  I'm looking forward to tomorrow when me and my hubby are attending a wedding :-)  there should be a dessert of some kind, hopefully cake and i'm going to ENJOY it :-)

21 Day Faux - Day 3

So this is now officially the longest I've ever stayed on a diet (I'm not very good at resisting temptation) and I'm sill doing well, though I never realized how addicted to sugar I had been/am  I keep drifting towards the candy/ice cream/ chips that the rest of my family is eating.  But I've stuck with it so far and here's Day 3s journey

For breakfast I had 1 red container of cottage cheese and a Kiwi so 1 purple

For lunch I made a turkey sandwich. I used Whole grain bread so 1 yellow, ( know it probably counts as 2 but I needed 2 pieces to make a sandwich and I still want some grains with my soup tonight)  3 slices of turkey and 1 hard boiled egg so 1 red and 1 cup of veggies (salad greens, cucumber, tomato and a little onion)  Really was quite delicious. I'm going to go easy on the grains with dinner, cause I know Ive already had quite a few, but I still want some.

I had an orange container of sunflower seeds for a snack, but I didn't take a picture. 

And I've got chickpeas on the stove so I should be able to have hummus for a snack in a little bit with my last cup of veggies.

For dinner I made soup.  I used one one chicken thigh and 1 cup of chicken broth (i counted that as 1 red container) and 1 cup of veggies (onion, carrots, mushroom, and celery) with 1 blue container of shredded cheese

leaves me with one red and one blue along with my hummus and veg to eat still... may wind up with a deficit today

My hummus wound up almost spicy from the amount of garlic i put in, may have to make more to cut it down, or sautee it or something, its a bit much.


Thank you for keeping me accountable

21 day faux - Day 2

Let me just start saying, this blog is what kept me on track this morning.

My first attempt at breakfast was... interesting?  yea lets go with interesting.  I tried using the rest of the steel cut oats I made yesterday and, since I don't like plain or vanilla yogurt, added strawberry yogurt (fewer calories actually more protein than plain so I didn't view it as too much of a cheat) and a cut up half of a banana.  It didn't taste terrible, but the texture OH the TEXTURE... just wrong.

 

Then my minions started whining and wanting cuddles, so I ate the banana out of the bowl and ate as much as I could take (which wasn't much). And it wasn't enough, and if i didn't have this blog to track everything I probably would have just grabbed a nutri-grain bar (my standard breakfast). But instead I created something Much better.  Tomato Avocado breakfast burrito.  Using the rest of my avocado from yesterday (or most of what was left, these tortillas are small) and two small slices of tomato and two scrambled eggs. 

 

Please ignore my finger, it wouldn't stay closed on its own.  It was pretty tasty, but then again its kinda hard to screw up scrambled eggs. 


For Lunch I did my full days green container minus a half a cup... I already have dinner planned, and its one of my favorites, but it doesn't include veggies, so I sautéed 1 cup of chopped veggies and 2 cups of dark greens and mixed in the leftover chicken from last night and an egg on top lightly fried so it was runny and worked as dressing.  Pretty good, but I may be sick of eggs by the end of the day...

I've been planning on making biscuits and gravy this week and its one of my favorites, so I wasn't about to pass it up, though I did modify it just a little. warning, it looks weird, but tasted good. I used breakfast sausage and an onion and about 4 mushrooms sautéed up.  I took about 1/2 a cup of meat and 1/2 cup onions and mushrooms (to finish off my green) and 1/2 cup of plain yogurt in a sauce pan.   (I made my family's gravy the normal way, so I got to taste it, and both were good.  The traditional way is much sweeter and the yogurt only way was a little tangy and looked funny, but tasted just fine.  I counted my biscuit as my yellow, I know biscuits aren't technically approved, but I was not going to go to the store for a whole grain biscuit of some sort... so I just used a small biscuit cut in half.  Oh and there's a single egg in there to round out my protein up to 1 1/2 cups which is 2 red containers.

So for the rest of the day I think I just have my orange and one more purple(fruit) so I'll just eat a nectarine and maybe a little dish of sunflower seeds


Thank you for reading and keeping me accountable

21 Day Faux!

Hello again

It seems I update my blog just a couple times a year, well hopefully over the next 3 weeks I'll get better. See I've started the 21 Day Fix, however I can't afford to buy the actual kit... so PINTEREST TO THE RESCUE!!  I have so many friends who have had real success with this program, and after closing my last show I'm already down close to 15 lbs. (thank you Zionsville town hall for not fixing the AC for hell week)

Most of the materials are available on pinterest, and my wonderful husband found the main booklet available as a download (somewhere, I'll find out where and update). 

For the containers (because I was NOT willing to spend $85 or even $50 on glorified Tupperware) I used the Ikea Food Container set of 17 available on amazon HERE.  I even got it on sale for $11 with Prime shipping so... score!

It took me maybe half an hour to use some water to mark out the exact correct measurements for the Fix containers. And yes, the official containers let you fill right up to the top with no thinking, but to save 50 bucks or more I'll pay attention to the lines, or use a measuring cup. 


Since I don't have the official containers I used a sharpie to wright out the colors on the lids (I was careful when measuring to make sure that one color was one container size, so the lids won't fit on the wrong size container)

There were more containers in the package than I needed for the program (some were up to half a gallon in volume) so we can use those for leftovers and stuff, they also make good astronaut masks

I'm also going to be not doing the exercises so much, I'm in a walking boot, so I can't really do much strenuous exercise, so I've moved myself down one menu level (if you look at the pinterest charts you'll see what I mean) to compensate for the fact that I'm not doing the official exercise.  I'm still walking with my kids and we go to the park and stuff, but with the boot I can't really run or dance or whatever.

This morning was my first fix meal

I'm not a big fan of steel cut oats (to lumpy) or of fruit in general, so I decided to get all my fruit for the day out of the way at once. So I overcooked my oats just about 5 mins (they actually weren't to bad that way) and I cooked up my fruit, I'm not sure if that's allowed in the fix program but in the Faux... I do declare Cook Away!  I diced up an apple and cooked that in a little water with a bunch of cinnamon and then when they were almost all the way soft I tossed in a half a banana for sweetness.  I then tossed the whole fruit mixture into my magic bullet with a spoonful of vanilla yogurt (what I had on hand, thanks WIC :-) ) and blended it into applesauce-ish and tossed the whole bit onto my oats. 

Wasn't too bad. I wouldn't order it in a restaurant, but I don't usually have more than a breakfast bar usually anyways.

Oh well, we'll see how this adventure goes

Wish me luck!



UPDATE: warning- clearly I am not a food stylist

I took my measurements and recorded weight and all so I'll be able to share results

I also had a Snack (cottage cheese, one red containers worth, with one spoonful removed to compensate for the yogurt in my breakfast)

and for lunch I made a freaking huge salad, seriously, this is 2 containers of green, 2 eggs (one red) and one blue (avocado) and I'm FULL.

For "dressing" I took half of my half avocado and smashed it up with dill and parsley with a little balsamic vinegar and 1 tsp canola oil (all the "approved" oils are expensive or I have a bad reaction to) and some water to make it a little more pour-able

Tasted great and I am super full.

For dinner I did cheat just a little, I planned my dinners this week before I decided to start the Faux so I made some modifications, but its still a little naughty.  The wings are baked and white meat so I think they count.  The buffalo sauce isn't JUST hot sauce, but I only used a little of the wing sauce, so its not bad.  The big cheat was my dressing/dip. Half a blue container of Avocado and about 1 T of ranch dressing (tasted AMAZING btw)  Along with a baked potato and the rest of my salad/mixed veggies that I also ate at lunch

Now all I have left is the Orange, so I'll probably just have some sunflower seeds as a snack later tonight...won't take a picture of that, but that puts me done with my daily food.  Not too shabby.  Hope this works for me, may have to give myself a reward if I get down to my goal.  It'll be hard though, I started this early which means i'll have a cheat day for sure on Saturday... I'm attending a friends wedding so CAKE, HUZZAH (hopefully) :-)  Something to look forward to at least.

I know this is super detailed and most people won't read this all or all the way to the bottom, but posting on here at least makes me feel accountable so Hopefully it will help.

Thanks for reading!