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Well, if I could describe these past fews weeks that I have been absent in one word I guess it would be: Wow.
The tone of that “Wow” should be heard in a major disbelief. There’s been a lot that’s been going on around us, and I have some posts that will come in future discussing this. I will say that everything that has been going on has made me open my eyes to how important it is that I am actually a healthy person, and that I need to do everything I can to stay that way.
I went into a new Doctor’s office and had a complete health assessment done, with blood-work, EKG- the whole nine! I go back this Friday for my follow up results. I hate how doctor’s offices are with results. I’ve called them and some things they are telling me they don’t even see in my chart!
Anyway, I have an idea of what I want to do for my health, self, weight-loss, general sparkle, but I also want to see what this doctor has to say. I’m not saying that I will be going 100% off of a doctor’s opinion, but it will be interesting none-the-less.
I’m in the process of starting over, but this time I have a new major goal- get healthy. For me in order to get there I’m going to have to lose weight, so here I go!
Well, I’ve made it beyond the next mini goal, and have made my drawing. This time it’s a little more exciting- I get a new MAC Lipglass (or gloss of my choice) when I meet my next mini-goal, which is really appropriate because that will be my ten pound mark. There is a lot going on right now, and I am happy that I have lost weight, but the circumstances at hand make this not such a big deal. I am glad that I’m not turning to food though.
Well, I’ve changed things up a bit on here, I didn’t post my weigh-in every day like I had been doing, and I’m thinking I might keep this up. It’s obvious that you can see that my days are very up and down, and luckily I am in the down zone this moment.
I have kept up with my goal of last Sunday, partially, by waking up early! I was up every morning this week by 6:30 am, and for me I was proud of myself. I can thank my sweet husband for that and the new world of coffee that he has introduced me to! I’ve always been such a diet coke fiend, and I still love the stuff, but the coffee really lifts the fog and it seems to be acting as an appetite suppressant for me as well. I drink it with a tablespoon of sugar-free french vanilla coffee mate, and three spoons of sweet-n-low, but the spoon size (that comes in the box) actually equals one package, so yeah three packs of sweet-n-low. It’s nice, and I’m actually liking the flavor now, and it’s kind of ironic because one of my first jobs was at Starbucks and I never drank coffee back then! I worked there when it was the only one in the state of Tennessee, it was actually a Barnes and Nobles Cafe that was exclusively Starbucks. How funny that back when I worked at Starbucks I didn’t abuse the 50% off discount like I would today!
Exercise was half-on, half-off for me. I did partake, but not every day. I used my bike and my elliptical. This week though, I’m going to start strength-training again, and I’m hoping I will start to love it again. I just want to get that part of me back. I hated exercising when I was younger, but when I started strength training a few years ago with a trainer it became something that I enjoyed so much that I would do it when I was bored!!! That’s where I want to be again.
Eating was pretty good, I’m just kind of doing my own thing, eating lower carb items, but not giving anything up exclusively, so we’ll see how that goes for me and if I can keep this up.
So, I’ve been screwing around for almost two months now. I’m eating too much. I like things that we all like, and I’m not caring enough about myself to change my bad habits.
I’ve got to get it together and make some real progress here.
If you’ve been reading this I’m sure you’ve become frustrated with me, “why don’t you just get off your butt and do it?” That’s what I’m thinking, and I have been thinking for a long time.
I’ve got to just get it through my head that food cannot control me, I have to control it, and I’ve just got to tell myself, “No.” No. No. No. I’m telling myself no. I’ve got to.
So here’s my goal for this week- wake up earlier than usual, and exercise five days this week. I work from home, and there is no reason I can’t take the time out of my schedule to just get up and move. So there you have it, get up and move. I’ve got to make some progress for my health and my weight.
At this point I’m eating low-carb foods, getting most of my carbs from high fiber vegetables. It has worked for me in the past and it was the only way I was able to remedy myself from the eczema that I supposedly have on my hands, along with seasonal allergies that I’ve had since I was a kid…
I’ve struggled with peeling fingers, as I would call it, for years now, for as far back as I can remember. It’s typically happened most frequently in the colder, more dry-aired seasons – late Fall, Winter, early Spring. For me it’s not only a major self-conscious issue that I have, but painful, very painful to the point that it hurts to zip up my own jeans.
Last year it was very bad, and I had a few days where it had me so upset that I would just burst into tears, and feel hopeless than I would find relief. I knew from seeing a dermatologist years ago about this that there was really nothing that I could do to cure it. Sure I could use Cetaphil instead of sudsy soap to wash my hands, I could wear latex gloves in the shower when I wash my hair (to prevent them from contacting the perfumes and chemicals in shampoos and to keep them dry), I could even wear white cotton gloves all the freaking time! I could do all of those things, plus lots of other things to try to relieve myself of the pain and, yes, humiliation, but it never really worked. The only cure was for the seasons to change- my whole life was this way…
Allergies, yikes! I was one of the kids you’d find in the doctor’s office getting their weekly allergy shot. I suffered from allergies when there was no such thing as prescription Claritin, let alone over the counter Claritin, Alavert, etc. etc. I started taking the Claritin redi-tabs when Doctor’s started veering away from the shots and leaning more towards the pills. I think by the time I was old enough to just take care of myself I pretty much gave up on allergy pills and just dealt with the allergy. One year it finally got so bad I went back to the doctor and he prescribed my Clarinex- right before Claritin went over-the-counter. I think I took that bottle, ad like so many others do, once I started feeling better I stopped. Allergies and me go way back to say the least. All the pills, shots and sprays helped but it was more like pacifying a teething kid.
I started the Atkins Diet on January 1, 2004. When I started to Atkins diet I’m sure I probably was suffering from both of them- allergies and eczema, already, so from what I can remember I don’t think it automatically cleared it up right then and there, but by the time allergy season came around- September/October I didn’t have a single sniffle, and the same went for the eczema no peeling fingers, no need to wear gloves in and out of the shower. In fact I had the healthiest year of my life when I was really following it and soon rather die of thirst than to accidentally sip a regular coke instead of a diet one.
The only thing I was doing different that time in my life was actually a big thing- not eating carby, sugary foods.
I’m no Doctor and I don’t claim to have all the answers for lives medial mysteries, but this seems to have worked for me. I’m trying it again, and we’ll just see what happens. If my calculations are correct allergy season is right here knocking at my door, and eczema is not far behind…
Ahhh, back to the real world. We had a nice get-a-way, and ate way too much, but luckily it didn’t take me long to back on track when we returned.
Something great happened because of this mini-vaca, I learned something that I’ve always just avoided- you can go on vacation, stay at home, what-ever and gain weight because you ate too much food, but just because you gain weight after a planned or unplanned pizza-fest doesn’t mean you can’t get right back on track and lose it. Yes, it’s far easier to gain than it is to lose, but none-the-less it can be done, and I’m doing it!
So, yesterday was my two-year wedding anniversary, and I have to say that I am truly more in love today with my husband than I have ever been. I love him more and more each day it seems! We had a nice evening in, as we went out on Saturday and saw the musical Wicked! The only thing bad I can say about yesterday was that I was sick, because of this I didn’t weigh-in this morning. I didn’t really think it was fair to myself to weigh-in on a day that I was sick. Luckily I am feeling much better this evening.
We are headed out of town for an anniversary get away, so I won’t be weighing in for the next few days. My hope is that I don’t blow it while we are out of town, and I don’t really see any reason that I would, so here I am signing off for a few days, here’s hoping to something good when I get back!
When I weighed myself this morning I was so excited, I met my 2 pound goal! No more sans-nail polish for me! I was so excited, but all that excitement was for nothing. I was wrong about the amount I should have been at. I guess I was thinking about my last two pound goal that happened, you know, 15 years ago.
So there I am updating my stat page, so excited, until boom, right there in my face, I see that I am totally wrong. I’ve not lost weight, I’ve gained again, which is what I was thinking would happen anyway.
Too much food last night, it’s what I get for being such a glutton. Oh well, maybe in the next few days…
Clean Refridgerator- Check!
Quick Breakfast created- Check!
I made a great simple breakfast, a low-carb favorite, egg muffins! These little muffins are kind of like mini-quiches. They’re just perfect to store in the fridge, and reheat through-out the week. They look and taste delicious!
 My batch of egg muffins- a great breakfast!
This was more or less me experimenting with an idea that I knew would work, so the ingredients are really up for discussion, but here is what I did:
6 large eggs
2 tablespoons of heavy cream
2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
1/2 cup of cheddar cheese
3 slices of light swiss cheese (I used Jarlsberg Light) cut up into 12 squares
2 slices of bacon
Baconsalt to taste
Green onions to taste
First I pre-heated my oven to 350º
I used my Electric hand-mixer and beat the eggs, heavy cream, mayo and several dashes of baconsalt for about two minutes to get it kind of frothy, and set it aside while I prepared my muffin pans.
I sprayed my muffin pans with a little Pam, and sprinkled the cheddar cheese in the bottom of the muffin pan- I just used a small amount to cover the bottom.
I then filled the muffin pans with the egg mixture, I just tried to make even, so it was more or less me eye-balling each muffin, I didn’t measure out a certain amount for each muffin.
Next up I crumbled up the bacon, and you would be surprised how far two slices of bacon will go when you crumble them up. I sprinkled the bacon on top of the egg mixtures, again just eye-balling the amount, and followed that with a generous amount of green onions ( I love love love green onions!)
The final touch was to place a Jarlsberg Light square (or any other cheese you’d like) on top of each egg mixture. You could honestly leave this out if you didn’t want the extra cheese, and I’m sure it would still be quite tasty!
I put these pans in the now preheated oven for 30 minutes at 350º and the turned out perfectly fluffy and golden once they were done. I looked in the oven towards the 20 minute mark and they were really puffing up! Don’t be alarmed, they will go down once you have let them cool outside of the oven.
Now, these are in a plastic tub in my refrigerator and I’ll be eating these for breakfast for the next several days!
As far as the nutrition, here is what I have come up with, using Sparkpeople’s Free Recipe Calculator:
For 12 servings, one muffin per serving
| Amount Per Serving |
| Calories |
105.7 |
| Total Fat |
8.1 g |
| Saturated Fat |
3.2 g |
| Polyunsaturated Fat |
0.5 g |
| Monounsaturated Fat |
1.9 g |
| Cholesterol |
118.8 mg |
| Sodium |
127.2 mg |
| Potassium |
47.4 mg |
| Total Carbohydrate |
0.6 g |
| Dietary Fiber |
0.1 g |
| Sugars |
0.0 g |
| Protein |
7.0 g |
There you have it!
I’m sabotaging myself, and I think a lot of people are doing the same thing. I’m skipping breakfast, and it’s messing me up. By lunch I’m starving and I making up for it big-time between a huge lunch and dinner!
Why am I skipping breakfast? It’s turning into breakslow for me, and I need to have some quick options- but something healthy.
My mission today and to clean out the fridge and make some quick breakfast items… Photos will come soon!!!
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