21 Day Fix- Round 2 - Day 13

 ROAR!! I officially love this program. Today was a good day I went full beast mode durring work out.  I was doing the upper body fix with soup cans as my heavy weight and baby food jars as my light weight (because I'm too broke to buy real weights) and the copy of the DVD that I have is corrupted the last 8 minutes of the upper body fix, so I just rewind to do the seccond time through Round 2 and then instead of doing my own cool down I did the Yoga Fix workout.  BOOM I feel like a BOSS.  I mean Yesterday I did the hardest video in the series and didn't wind up super sore like I did last time, at least nothing more than my baseline sore that I've gotten used to.


Food wise I did pretty good today too

I Started today with a cup of coffee with Hubby.  Sweet pea woke up before Hubbys alarm, so we got to have coffee together before he left for work.  I LOVE my new coffee maker.  Its a Macchinetta and it makes espresso.  Mixed with 1 tsp of stevia and 2 TBS milk makes a fine cappuccino.  I'm working my way down there, I throw in 3 chocolate chips to help cut a little of the bitter that IS coffee, but thats down from a full teaspoon, so I'm well on my way to being a full grown up. I didn't take a picture of the coffee, because we don't have cappuccino cups, so it just looks like a half full coffee cup, because it is.


For breakfast I had about 1/2 a banana (or whatever part was left when Monkey decided he was done with it) and tossed in 1 tsp of Peanut butter, 1 Red container of Yogurt, 2 blueberries and about half a strawberry (pulled out of a fruit salad I have, I didn't just choose to use half a strawberry) and Whizzed it up with my immersion blender.  It was pretty tasty.  I usually have a textural issue with low or non fat  yogurt, but whizzed with the banana it was a non issue.

Lunch was going to ba an avocado turkey wrap, but my avocado went bad :-( so I used my last 4 pieces of turkey and 2 spoonfuls of cottage cheese as my protein source and 1 cup of veggies in a tortilla (yes mine are 8 inches not 6, but I can't find the 6 on wic approved wheat tortillas and 6 inchers are hard to make quesadillas out of)

I realized after I set my plate that I was having 3 carbs tonight not 2, but decided Oh well, I've missed carbs lots of other days, so I had a glass of wine with dinner (an a champage flute holds 4 oz of wine, just FYI)  Dinner was sauteed chicken with cajun seasoning blend with broccoli and brown rice that was cooked in chicken stock.  It gives it some really great flavor, and I make my own stock so I know its low sodium and I skim the fat off before its stored, so its just chicken and water.

After working out I was HUNGRY.  So I had another portion of Cottage Cheese.

I'm going to have to take the minions out for a grocery run tomorrow because I'm out of Greens, and Cottage Cheese, and Turkey and fruit and bananas.... All I have left is fruit salad and sunflower seeds....

Thanks for reading and Keeping me accountable!

21 Day Fix - Round 2 - Day 12

 Today felt good.  I didn't have coffee this morning, so I was a little snippy with Monkey today (especially when he found the bin from the shredder and decided to decorate the parlor). I did the Total Body Cardio Fix today (which has no right to be the first video on the disks, it is by far the hardest of the videos) and I think I might be able to walk tomorrow :-) but only time will tell

For breakfast today I had a half a banana and some tea that I made and promptly forgot to drink.

Lunch was a salad with avocado/herb dressing.  I smushed up 1/4 of an avocado with about a tsp of oil and some fresh herbs from my garden.  It didn't make a really runny dressing, but I could toss the salad through it and got a pretty good flavor from it.

1 Green 1 Blue

 Dinner was the last of our very freezer burnt burgers. I'm glad we're done with them.  They were getting bad, but I can't throw them out, so we toughed it out. I had one 4 oz burger with 1 Green of veggies and a side of sweet potato chips, I'm still mastering how to make them, but they're pretty good, but not quite as easy as the Kale chips.

1 Green 2 Yellow 1 Red

For dessert I had the last serving of the Fruit Puree Sorbet that I made last week (I think).  Its good :-) Tastes like ice cream, but is just fruit.


Thank you for reading and keeping me accountable.  If you have any questions please let me know!

21 Day Fix - Round 2 - Day 11

Today was State Fair Day so on top of my normal exercise I probably walked 2 miles, then I did the Dirty 30 video and to compensate/punish myself for my bad eating today I did the first half of the Ab fix. I was going to do the whole thing until she said repeat... Uh uh.  I was barely getting there the first time. So I'll try again another time, but I'm definitely getting stronger.  I didn't have to modify on half of the warmup and on half the moves and I'm about to have to switch up to using soup cans for weights (I use baby food jars right now, its what I have and its free)

 I didn't have a great food day. I started with some coffee before the fair. And on the way to the fair I got accused of being Hangry, so when we stopped for more sunscreen I picked this up.  It was the healthiest thing in the CVS that looked even remotely edible.

Lunch at the fair was Chicken Tenders and French Fries.  We all shared this, because Monkey would eat the french fries and Sweet Pea will eat the chicken.

These are the reason I go to the fair. Ambrosia of the Gods!  Deep Fried Oreos :-) If  you've never had them before, TRY THEM.  They're awesome.

Dinner had to be at least a little healthy, so it was 2 Green containers of veggies, 1 red container of Chicken and 1 cup of chicken broth

Thank you for reading and keeping me accountable!

21 Day Fix - Round 2 - Day 10

I did the Cardio Fix today and I definitely am getting stronger, probably why my weight is plateauing, but that's ok. I'm only checking my weight because a friend of mine started a biggest loser club and the prize money would be fairly significant (to me, not really to anyone not on assistance).   

The kids slept in again, so once again I didn't eat breakfast.  I  didn't want to drink my coffee with vegetables, so I just had some chicken and fully intended to go back and eat a salad before dinner, but completely forgot

 For dinner I tried sweet potato chips. Sweet potato sliced very thin and brushed with coconut oil then baked at 375 for 15 mins. probably could have used more time on some , the thicker ones were still floppy and the dark brown parts tasted the best, so maybe less oil.  The chicken is just sauteed in coconut oil.  Though, word to the wise Coconut oil does NOT keep things from sticking to the pan, in fact it might make it worse.  Won't do that again

1 Red, 1 Yellow

As I was working out and thinking thought my day again. I realized I hadn't had a single vegetable or a single piece of fruit, so I concocted this smoothie thing.  I don't have a juicer, which probably would have made it better.  I used 1 Green of Kale.  1/2 a Banana and 1 purple of Blue berries and 1 Red of Yogurt.  Its a fine flavor, just texturally a little weird. I don't know if its the Kale or the Yogurt (I'm not a big yogurt person, especially low fat yogurt, high fat is so much creamier, and I can't afford Greek)

1 Green, 2 Purple, 1 Red

Once again thank you for keeping me accountable.  Tomorrow is going to be a naughty day (at least a naughty lunch) We're going to the State Fair and I'm getting a Fried Oreo! Its HEAVEN and I only get them once a year. And the fair closes before this round of Fix is done, so I'm going to cheat and I'm going to LOVE it. 

21 Day Fix - Round 2 - Day 9

 Today was not a great day Diet wise- check my dinner for details.  I have a weakness for free food and this played into that. It wasn't too bad, but the cookie after dinner was definetly not approved, nor was the probably 2 tablespoons of butter I ate.

Anyways.  I did the Pilates Fix today for workout, I didn't realize that would be such an Ab workout, but I'm slowly getting better and stronger.  I had someone comment on my weight loss without them being one of the many people I ha talked to about the 21 day fix program (she's very skinny and fit and we don't talk super often), so that felt good. 

On To Food.

Breakfast today was Apple slices with peanut butter and a Latte (espresso with 1 tsp of stevia and 2 tbsp skim milk whipped as much as it could be)

Lunch was a lovely salad, with 1 Green container of greens and 1 Green of diced veggies and 1 Red of diced up rotisserie chicken.

 

My mom invited me and my family over for snow crab (it was on sale) and it was AMAZING I had 3 clusters of legs, which are probably fine on the diet, but the butter i dipped them in was probably not good.  I also had a salad and a corn cob.

oh yea and two of these bad boys


Yummy

Back on the wagon tomorrow.

21 Day Fix - Round 2 - Day 8

 I didn't ACTUALLY work out today, at least I didn't use the videos.  We have been building a patio by hand and I counted that as my excercise today.

Last Night I also cheated, kindof.  I was hungry and it was the middle of the night (so not sure which day should take the points).  But i had one yellow container of whole wheat crackers with a little cheese, tomato and basil. It totally worked from keeping me from having some ice cream (which is what i really wanted.

 for breakfast I had oatmeal with blueberries

1 Yellow, 1 Purple

 for lunch I had a big salad with Turkey deli meat with mustard and lemon juice for dressing (sounds weird, but its pretty good, kinda zingy)

1 Green, 1 Red, Mustard and Lemon

 The dark portion in this picture is what we mixed today. Hubby did more work than me, but I still did lots.  We also went swimming with the kiddos, and durring adult swim I got to swim some laps too.

Dinner was phoned in because we were exhausted, the chicken is grocery store rotiserie (breast) and cut in half is almost exactly the size of the red container.  and the veggies are cucumber slices Ifrom the farmers market this morning) and Garden fresh tomatoes and Garden fresh basil topped with ground pepper

1 Green, 1 Red

Thank you for reading and keeping me accountable!

21 Day Fix - Round 2 - Day 7

Today I tried doing the exercise in the middle of the day as opposed to at night, both my kiddos were running around on their own so I threw on the lower body fix (risky with as sore as my legs were after the Full Body Fix) and Monkey tried to do the warmup, and Sweet Pea decided she just had to snuggle durring the cool down, but otherwise it went pretty well.


 Sweet Pea got sick last night, which makes her extra snuggly, so breakfast had to be fixable with one hand and eatable with one hand, so I had cottage cheese with pepper

1 Red

 Lunch was a cinnamon oatmeal apple. 1 apple with the core scooped out and discarded, then a little more flesh scooped out and eaten to make room for the oatmeal.  Then i put 1/4 cup of oatmeal into the apple with some cinnamon and a drizzle of honey. Then fill the apple with water and put it in the toaster oven for 20 mins at 375

1 Purple, 1 Yellow

 Dinner was a basil burger.  We have these cheap 4oz burgers that are about to go bad, so we had them tonight.  I only used half a bun so it was 1 yellow instead of two.  1 serving of veggies and 1 serving of cheese.

1 Red, 1 Yellow, 1 Blue, 1 Green

I could have thrown mustard on, but decided to use Basil instead.  Was pretty good. 


Thank you for reading and keeping me accountable.