Category: Food (Page 5 of 6)

This morning Tim had a men’s bible study social event.   He’s leading a small group for church this winter.  It’s an early Saturday morning group so he thought it would be a great idea to put together a breakfast for all the guys.  He was expecting a rather big group, so he decided to go the whole nine yards:

• Pancakes
• Scrambled Eggs
• Bacon
• French Toast sticks
• Orange Juice
• Donuts

Is your mouth watering yet?

Mine was!  In fact as I watched him load up the pounds of delicious food, my stomach seemed to be actually growling audibly!  I have such a soft spot for breakfast food… ugh!

However, while he was gone this morning I forced myself to do my workout (even though I didn’t want to!).  Then when he came home a little later, with a ton of left over food and I let myself have one of the left over pancakes (that were delicious!) and then I stopped.  Did you hear that?  I stopped. 🙂

The Baker’s came later in the morning for their piano lessons and we were able to give them a bunch of donuts to take home with them.  Thanks goodness for that!  We still have quite a bit of left over donuts (I guess they all filled up on pancakes and bacon and didn’t have much room left over for the donuts…)  but it was nice to be able to give some away.

As I got ready to eat lunch I opened the fridge and gazed at all the left-overs and donuts.  All I wanted to do was gorge on donuts.  All I wanted to do was make a giant plate of cheesy scrambled eggs and greasy bacon and pig out.  But I didn’t.

It’s days like today I have to remind myself why I started.  Why am I doing this?  Why do I want to lose weight so badly?  What’s my true innermost motivation?  What do I hope to gain from all of this?

……..

And then I remember… it all comes back to me.

So I loaded up an extra giant bowl of spinach, grabbed a banana and water bottle, and walked away from the fridge.  🙂

I’ve mentioned before that weekends seem to be the hardest time for me to stay on track.  And this continues to be true, but I have also discovered that I have a second “hardest time” that I need to battle through every day.

It’s the dreaded “Evening: 6:00 – 10:00” I can stay on track pretty well throughout the day but after supper I get munchie.  You know what I mean.  I just want my mouth to have something to chew… chocolates, popcorn, chips, cookies, etc, etc, etc… And it’s never the healthy food I crave.  Nope.  It’s the stuff that I can’t seem to stop pigging out on.

So, I’ve started drinking herbal tea after supper.  (I can’t have caffeine after 4:00 so it has to be something caffeine free or I’ll never get to sleep.)  My favorite right now is Peppermint Tea, but I picked up a sample pack the other day to try some new flavors.  I’m still working my way through them, but so far none of them top Peppermint for me.  The nice thing about tea these days is that it’s nice and warm–which is nice.  Especially this past  week when we were stuck in the negatives for days!  Plus it’s an extra glass of water in my day, which is so much better for me than a handful of chocolates!  It usually takes me 10-15 min. to finish a cup and by then I usually have my resolve back or am not quite as hungry anymore.

I’m not generally a tea drinker (I prefer coffee in the mornings) but this has helped me continually get through that dreaded time of day–as I’m hoping it will continue to do!

I find myself eating more on the weekends.  Why is that?  Somehow in my mind I must feel like the weekends are for “letting loose” and being lazy and eating whatever I want.  So…….. I’m working on that.

And I’m pleased to say that this weekend is going very well–and, hey, look!  it’s already Sunday afternoon!

This week I finally tried making a “Green” Smoothie.  I’ve been interested in trying a smoothie with spinach for some time, but I wasn’t sure I would like it.  Lo and behold, I do!  Well, I’m not actually THAT surprised because it does also have a banana and some peanut butter and greek yogurt… but when all is said I get to count it as 1 fruit, 2 veggies & 2 dairy.  Plus it keeps me full for quite some time which is a wonderful bonus.  And did I mention how pretty it is?

This is from the website that I got the recipe–but mine was just as strikingly green!

What’s that?

You want to try it too?  Well, I thought you might… so here is the link: 🙂

http://iowagirleats.com/2012/01/04/my-top-secret-diet-weapon/

I was up bright and early to head to the polls before Tim left for work at 7:15.  I decided that, since our location is only 5 blocks away, that I would walk… Which was really pleasant.  Well, the walk there was pleasant.  When I got there the line was already crazy long.  I was voter number 71 and I would guess almost all those people were already in the room by the time I arrived.  So… it took a lot longer than I expected and I had to RUN back home in order to get Tim off to work without being seriously late.   But it was so worth it–especially since I really didn’t want to contend with 2 small children amongst the lines of sour, impatient voters.  🙂

So, my civic duty is done.  I’m very curious what the outcome will be–but I’m not at all up in arms about any of it.  This is all in God’s hands.  He puts people in authority so I will accept whomever He wants to have there.  But I’m still curious.

In other news I’ve been seriously inspired by all of my Fritz side women 😉 to get back on the weight loss bandwagon.  So, here I go (again!).   Today was hard–I’m so out of practice.  I’m eating before I’m even aware that I’m eating.  Gah!  And I discovered how often I snack on the kids food–again, without even noticing I’m doing it!   But I stayed on track.  And I was very hungry by the time supper rolled around.  It’s amazing how normal food can taste SO GOOD when I go back on a diet!  🙂