Keeping it Clean

Searching for my easy button!!! Oh there it is!!!

Seriously when does this get easier? It never gets easier you just get stronger!! I switch up my weight training every couple of weeks but don't focus so much on switching up my nutrition. Although lately My cheat meals have turned into cheat days and they are closer together than they used to be. I am switching things up a bit in what I am eating. I need to do a total overhaul and pull up my "Big Girl Panties" and take charge of my nutrition... Clean Eating for me!!

I have a GOAL.. I am writing it down, I need to be accountable!!.. I am taking the next three weeks and making an investment in myself!.. I am going to Commit to eating 100% clean for three weeks.. I am going to pack a cooler in the morning and eat from my cooler my designated snack and lunch.. I will eat a clean breakfast every morning, and prepare a clean meal for supper. Not allowing any "cheat" Meals.... I will take a photo every day of a meal , or snack and share with you what I am eating... I will also share what physical activity I have done that day or share my weight training work out... Anyway you will be seeing alot more of me around here... and hopefully I can at the end of 3 weeks trade in my "Big Girl Panties" for a smaller size!!

Food Journal

My Food Journal So far today

8am 1 cup Kashi Go Lean Cereal with 1/2 cup skim milk and 1/2 Orange

10:30am 1/2 Orange, 1 protein Shake

12:30pm 1 chicken breast, 1 cup carrot (mini) and 1 Apple

2:30pm 1 Banana

5:00 pm Whole Wheat spaghetti, with chicken and vegetables with some chicken broth.

I have also consumed 5 bottles of water and 3 coffee (Large 2 Milk 2 Sugar)

Something different just wanted to share with you what my daily nutrition looks like... I will also have a snack in the evening... something with protein I was weight training today.. probably 3 egg whites....

Getting Active from Seal Pups to Hockey Pucks

I like to get active with my family in the evening, usually after supper we take a walk, hike, wagon ride, sleigh ride.. Hockey in the drive way, skipping, soccer, tag... anything that gets us together getting us active as a family and having some good old fashion fun... yesterday we took a stroll along a local beach .. well we climbed over Ice chunks and jumped over puddles.. but a nice stroll along. We came across a baby seal that was on the beach.. Usually the seals are birthed out on the ice flows but this year there is no Ice out in the water forcing the seals to come on the beaches.. Here are a few photos.. We did not get too close, You have to let nature take it's course... the baby will find its way to the water.. Jake and the Seal Pup

Seamus and the Seal Pup

Here is the pup it was so super cute.. Hope you find your way!!

Another evening we played hockey in the driveway... Even Aiden got involved he has a stick cut to size for him... Loves to chase the puck.. I think he will enjoy Hockey as much as the older two.. I hope so I absolutely love being a HOCKEY MOM....

This Journey was mostly for me but my family plays a big role. I want to be there for my kids, want to participate with them and have fun, I want them to learn good eating habits, learn what Healthy choices are, Learn to be active !!! I'm doing it for me but for them too...

Falling is not Failing

My son Jacob had Day Surgery Yesterday. He had a dental procedure done to extract a tooth with an abscess. He was such a great guy, very up beat and very social with all the nurses. It had been scheduled since December so I had lots of time to discuss with him what was going to occur, there were no surprises. While getting admitted and getting his vitals checked there was another family with a child and the little boy was asking what he was doing there, and was very frightend. I believe that being honest with the boys is the best way, I have always explained everything in an age appropriate way to the boys, Always honest when they ask is a needle going to hurt.. um yep it hurts..

Everything went great, we got there at 8am, and left the hospital at 2pm.. Soft foods only for a day and Jay asks on the way home for a cheeseburger...umm No!!! He was easily satisfied with a pudding!!

Before
After

After.. My little trooper!!

That being said my eating yesterday left a lot of room for improvement. I did not eat on any schedule what so ever and am declaring that between the hours of 8 and 3 a write off. I got back on track at supper and today is a new day!! Falling is not Failing

Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese is one of those foods that I want to eat more of...Here's the thing...Not a big fan of it. I want to add more cottage cheese into my diet, I want the Protien. I am comming up with lots of ways to eat it..
Adding unsweetend apple sauce and Cinamon, Adding fruit Strawberries, Blueberries, Pineapple, and Kiwi, mixed it in with my oatmeal, and tonight I am going to add it to my sweet potato.

I hope I can come up with some more creative ways to incorporate cottage cheese into my diet, It is low in calories and fat, high in protien, low in carbohydrates, and it's high in calcium..

I trained with my personal trainer yesterday, I did back and biceps... My legs were sore yesterday today I am hurting real bad, My legs are so very sore, and my back is feeling tight.. NO PAIN NO GAIN.. well No Gain hopefully.. I am enjoying my work outs and really am feeling quite motivated when training..

I am eating clean very clean, and keeping active,I hope to see a weight loss this week!!!

Ouch...Sucker for Punishment

I think I am a sucker for punishment.. I started with my Personal Trainer today and had a very intense "Leg" work out. It was a grueling hour and I loved it... I like feeling that "I CAN DO IT" I am in love with the feeling of strength!!!.. I also took in a bootcamp class last night..again sucker for punishment.. Squats, Lunges, Kicking, Running, Jumping.... again loved walking out of there with a feeling of "I did it"... I am very sore this morning, feeling my muscles stretching with every movement.. a reminder that I have muscle!!... Off to the gym this afternoon for an uperbody work out, and then a cardio class..Zumba maybe...

It snowed during the night last night, but this morning the sun was shinning.. I got up as usual and got the boys up, breakfast, washing up, getting dressed, hats, mitts, snow pants... all the snow gear, lunches made, and out the door they went to wait on the bus, when a neighbour drives by and says "No School Today"!!! lol.. Cancelled due to heavy drifting on the roads.. Its a Snow Day!! I am the mom that sends the kids out for the bus when school is cancelled.. I quickly made another packed lunch for Little A.. Packed lunches for all the boys today.. A is loving having his brothers home today. Speaking of lunches..I have made some executive decisions regarding my kids lunches.. I only buy healthy choices, so that's what they get in there lunch, and so far no complaints.. Today they have whole wheat turkey sandwiches, Minigo's, Grapes, Watermelon Slices, and a babybel cheese, also at school they get a skim milk and I send a bottle of water instead of Juice. I want my boys to not have the struggle that I have.. I want Healthy eating and Healthy choices to be their normal.