Athletic in April
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Lia, you look gorgeous! Thanks for sharing this pic, I love it. Spring is a huge mood lifter for me! I didn't even realize how much my mood needed lifting until the sun came out and I started to spend some time outside.
Mihani, thanks for the cold water tip for steaming! I've had recipes that have instructed me to do that and I always like the results, so I have no idea why I haven't just incorporated the technique. Good luck with your cleaning day!
Karrie, is the countdown to the cabin/lake on yet, or is it still too far off?
I went a little crazy ordering seeds for the garden this year. I picked out a lot of herbs, both for our cooking and for medicinal uses. I'm especially excited to grow and try the medicinal ones. I ordered catnip, echinacea, calendula, lemon balm, bee balm, chamomile and I can't even remember what all else. I worked on the garden beds a bit over the last few days, getting rid of weeds and mixing in some of our homemade organic compost.
I could ramble on more, but I still have work to get done inside and out!0 -
Lia, beautiful!!! I'm so happy for you.
Hi Karrie! Are you still eluding Zombies?
Carla, can't wait to hear how all your gardening adventures go.
My cleaning day has been something of a bust so far. I got a fair start early, but I was tired and it was dark as night with thunderstorms around noon so I decided to take a little nap on the couch and woke up 3 hours later lol. I still have a lot to do so I best get back at it.
B - fat free hummus, cucumber, peppers, green onion, super greens on a pita
L - same as breakfast, apple
D - plan is for broiled marinated portobello mushrooms with sweet potato and asparagus
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Weighed in this morning, it hasn't been quite two weeks, and I've had two "cheat" days in there where I had alcohol, but kept my food on plan, and I'm down 9 pounds. Woohoo! Maybe I've finally got my head back in the game.0
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OK, so I've had a hard time getting going; with a lot of false starts. But yes, I am still doing Zombies, Run! I finished season 1 and was about to start season 2, but then it said that they recommend doing the race missions for bonus storyline before starting season 2. There were 2 5km missions, 2 10km missions and 2 20 km missions. So for the 20km missions, I set my "speed" to 6 minute miles. Man, I wish I was that fast!!! I'm not even running yet; I'm still just walking.... But I'm doing it.
It's nearly time for cabin season. My hubby went out there yesterday to start setting up. But the rest of us aren't heading out there until the May long weekend; looking forward to it!
This morning is my new Day 1. But this time, the whole family is on board. Both my kids have said they would like to get into better shape so they can be better at gym/track & field/ball hockey/swimming, etc...
So we are all going to be eating healthier. I got groceries last night and spent 3 hours in the kitchen washing and chopping and bagging all the fruits and veggies into single servings. (I was so sore after all that standing - my poor feet!!)
My son was a little worried yesterday; he thought he wouldn't get to eat as much and that he'd be hungry. I explained that it's not a diet, it's just better choices. I explained to him that if we do it right, he'll get even MORE food than he usually does and he should never feel hungry. That surprised him. I promised I would do my best to make sure they had good food and that he would always feel like he got enough to eat.
I bought them cute little mini chiabatta buns (they're so tiny!) I'm adding 2 servings of veggies in their lunches now. And after school instead of crackers and junk food, they'll get apples with peanut butter and then at supper I'll put out a giant plate of veggies every night. Fewer empty calories; fewer carbs.
And breakfast today was so much fun. I made banana ice cream. (7 bananas, 1/2 cup coconut milk and 2 tsp vanilla, and that made 3 servings). I made some chocolate drizzle and some peanut butter drizzle. I had crushed pineapple and blueberries and raspberries and coconut chips. And I told them to have at 'er and load up their ice cream with whatever they wanted. so basically, it was a smoothie bowl.
And then when they were talking about how delicious everything was, I said - ok, when you go to school today, you tell people that our family has decided to eat healthier, so we had ice cream sundaes this morning for breakfast!!! 
They thought that was a riot. 
Also, I resorted to bribery for them. For every day that they do at least 20 minutes of exercise, I will give them $1. So if they do every day in May, they'll get $31 each!! I said we can do walks to catch pokemon, or we can ride our bikes or we can just do jumping jacks and sit ups and burpees. I said they can even use the treadmill as long as I'm free to sit there to supervise (safety first!) Whatever they want, but it has to be at least 20 minutes.
They're motivated, and after breakfast was so delicious, I think they're not so nervous. It's go time!!
Bfast: banana smoothie bowl with crushed pineapple, peanut butter drizzle and coconut chips
Lunch: hummus with grape tomatoes, celery, mushrooms, cauliflower and kohlrabi
Snack: bag of smart pop popcorn (70 calories for 2 cups) and some pink grapes (never tried them before - they look so pretty!)
Supper: Not 100% sure yet; either OSG ceasar salad or OSG immunity boosting pasta on zucchini noodles.
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Thanks you guys, you're always so nice and supportive
Karrie that sounds awesome!!!!!!!! I feel like trying to make it more fun and interesting for your kids will hopefully make it more fun and interesting for you too (although you never make it such a priority for yourself lol). I'm drooling over banana ice cream now too.... I saw an easy recipe for peach lemonade freeze which is basically a bag of frozen peaches and fresh lemon juice in a vitamix, and it looks amazing and decadent. So I think I'll make that tonight and trick myself lol.
Carla, wow you are so ambitious!!! Can't wait to see your pictures of your blossoming garden of veggies and herbs. It'll be so satisfying in a little while. How long should it take for the first batches to come up you think? Our neighbour has a little vegetable garden and I want to get one too. My only worry (I'm a huge wuss) is that we have a lot of spiders around our area!! I know they aren't *bad* to have around, but I wish I could get rid of some of them. I'm terrified of having a veggie garden and then never touching it because the spiders are guarding against me lol.
Mihani, NINE POUNDS is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow good for you!! Especially considering you said it hasn't felt like a horrible diet lol. How are you feeling? How was the rest of your weekend?
Today is my last (real) day of work, woohoo!! Bringing some home to work on at my leisure but so happy to be out of this crazy office (and feeling guilty as heck that I'm leaving behind everyone else here to suffer lol).0 -
9 pounds is amazing - congrats Mihani!!0
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That is so cool that your family is all on board with eating healthy, Karrie! That is going to make it so much easier for you to stay on track too I’m sure, and you are setting such a great example! I agree about getting to eat MORE. This morning I had oatmeal with super greens wilted in and topped with half a banana, some berries, and a few walnuts. I was stuffed and didn’t eat lunch until 2:00 this afternoon, and I haven’t had any snacks for two weeks other than a couple days I had an apple. Your breakfast sundaes sound sooo good, and lots of fun.
Just hearing about your zombie runs wears me out. I’m so far away from being in shape now, every bit of muscle I had worked so hard to build is gone, but I will be getting back to the 30DS this week. I see such huge results from that, even though to start I’m sure I will be cursing Jillian and slacking on a lot of the exercises lol.
Lia, I remember a recipe for a Wendy’s Frosty type dessert. It’s 2 frozen bananas, 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder, 1/4 to 1/2 cup of non-dairy milk, 1/4 tsp vanilla extract, 1/4 tsp cinnamon. I had to use more milk because I don’t have a kickass blender, but it was still thick and good. Not acceptable for the 7 day rescue, sadly. So happy to hear you’re done with work. I know you feel guilty, but the memories with the baby are going to be SO worth it! How are you feeling? Have you got her room all set up and decorated? You're going to be such a great mom.
Carla, are you up to your elbows in the garden? Hope work has slowed down so you can concentrate on the fun stuff! Are you doing any new weaving or painting projects or focusing on the outdoors stuff for now?
Last night’s dinner was awesome. I marinated sliced Portobello mushrooms in a mixture of about 3 parts balsamic, 1 part soy sauce, a little water, some garlic and fajita seasoning, and a little liquid smoke. Then broiled them. Water sautéed a mess of peppers and onions with garlic and more fajita seasoning, when they were nearly done I added the cooked mushrooms and couple big handfuls of super greens and let them wilt in. Served ‘em up with small corn tortillas. Soooo good. Broiling the mushrooms first and adding them last to the fajita veggies seemed to keep them more “meaty” for lack of a better word. It made a lot though, I will be eating fajitas for a few nights. I’m not sad about this!
B – oatmeal with greens, half a banana, berries, and a few walnuts
L – bowl with a baked potato, steamed broccoli and cauliflower, chickpeas, barbecue sauce
D – leftover fajitas
S – apple
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I'm so pooped from cooking and washing dishes!! It's exhausting eating so good!!
I made the OSG nutty croutons last night and was about to make the caeser salad when I realized that I was supposed to have soaked the almonds overnight; oops!! So we just had some flavoured basalmic vinegar (strawberry & peach) over our salad instead. It was very yummy. I made them cauliflower mashed potatoes and salad and pork chops. I had it all except the meat. And then it took me until 8:30 to wash all the dishes. So I was lazy at night and gave them some store-bought sorbet (strawberry lemonaide; dairy-free). It was too tasty! So they started and ended their day with ice cream. Not a bad way to get healthier!!
Day 2 we added cocoa to our banana smoothie bowls. Not bad, but I prefer it plain. Today I have all my veggies and hummus again for lunch with some smart pop for my snack again. Tonight I'm making OSG granola cluster and they'll have that with yogurt for their snack. No idea what supper will be yet; but I'm leaning towards veggie samosas (store bought) and salad...0 -
Karrie, that is so cool that the whole family is on board for a healthy lifestyle. Of course YOU are the one that is really rockin' it by doing all of that work to have healthy and appealing meals prepared for everyone. I've found that it really is a lifestyle change. It takes more care, effort and time and so becomes a bigger part of each day. Woot to cabin time coming up!
Mihani!! 9 lbs is AWESOME!!! congrats! Your dinner sounds amazing. I wouldn't be sad about lots of leftovers either. The Frosty recipe looks good! I am going to have to remember that, especially once the hot weather hits.
Lia, congrats on your last day of work. No need to feel guilty, you hung in there for a long time, and even put in extra days! I hope when you are reading this you are relaxing and taking some time for yourself. As far as our garden, I'm not sure when everything is ready for harvest. We have some lettuce that we could eat right now, but it is still on the small side. I get excited thinking about the harvest as soon as we start planting seeds so I'm always in a for a long wait lol. Apples and pears start in August I think.
I've been pretty good about having a smoothie with lots of greens lately for breakfast. I've been busy with work so for lunch I just slather some homemade hummus on thin bread with lots of veggies and call it lunch. Dinners are all over the place. Last night we had a Boca faux chicken patty with tons of fixings burger-style.
I got tired of struggling to complete my woven tea towels so that I could free my loom, so I purchased a cheap tapestry loom so that I can do two kinds of projects at once from now on. Yesterday I went a little crazy and splurged on some hand spun yarns. I found someone that makes them in WA about 1.5 hours from me. She sells them on Etsy and they are so beautiful! This is one of them here:
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I hear you on the amount of time/effort to cook healthy Karrie, plus you have to shop more often because the tender fresh greens don't last too long. But it's worth it, and batch cooking twice a week seems to be keeping me on track. It would be harder with a whole family to cook for I'm sure.
Wow, Carla that yarn is gorgeous. What are you going to make with it?
B - oatmeal with super greens and banana, a few walnuts
L - bowl with brown rice, super greens, carrot, chickpeas, salsa
D - leftover fajitas
S - about 10 pistachios... my boss had them and I couldn't resist a few
Brought home some work to do tonight so I best get on it.
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Carla, I just love handspun. I've been (slowly) learning to spin my own yarn, but I've only just made a couple of mini skeins so far. Nothing as beautiful as that, though!!
Last night we had little baby veggie samosas with salad for supper, and then I made the OSG nutty granola cluster (I ran out of time and didn't make it on Monday night).
We've had banana ice cream smoothie bowls every morning this week, and the kids are still having fun with it. we put something different on them every day. Willow wants to have her bff over for a sleepover this weekend so she can have banana ice cream for breakfast too.
Bfast: see above
Lunch: kohlrabi, mushrooms, peas, carrots, cauliflower, hummus
Supper: unsure; we have to eat on the run tonight, so it might just be a quick salad or more cut up veggies...
Tomorrow night I'm making the OSG noodle bowl with edamame and peanut sauce. I haven't made that one in ages, so I'm really looking forward to it!0 -
I can't remember I shared a pair of my most recent socks... So here they are:
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OMG love the socks Karrie! How cute, and such beautiful colors. Enjoy your noodle bowl. Have you tried the orange sauce variation? I really liked that one too, it tastes light and sunny.
I fell face first into some brown rice crackers today, they were weirdly addicting and I just kept eating them. Should have never bought them, I know I can't control the snackiness when the urge hits so best never to indulge it. Oh well, back on the wagon with dinner, the last of the leftover fajitas. I need to prep salad stuff tonight.
B - oatmeal with greens, banana, and a few walnuts
L - bowl with brown rice, black beans, carrot, super greens, salsa
D - leftover fajita
S - aforesaid crackers
I am super tired, didn't sleep well last night and work is stressing me more than usual the past couple days so I am going to hit bed early. I need to do laundry first. And prep salad fixin's.
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Mihani, I was worried when you said "fell face first" that you had an injury, then the rest of the sentence made me giggle. I'm the EXACT same way. I've really gotta smarten up!
There is a man at work who had a medical emergency here at work at xmas. He lost his vision in the middle of a meeting. And I think something else too, but I wasn't there and it doesn't seem polite to ask. Since then, he was diagnosed with diabetes, went on a diet to lose weight so he wouldn't have another episode like that, started walking 10km+ per day, and in just 4 months he lost 70 lbs. (!!!!!!!)
While he's very inspiring (very!), he also puts me to shame. I am literally ashamed that I can't seem to get it together. What is my problem?!?!?!?
I fell face first into the pretzels last night. This morning I weighed the same that I did at the beginning of the week. Grrr. Stupid!!! Lost my progress...0 -
I sat staring at a blank screen for about 10 minutes trying to come up with a title for our May thread before finally giving up. Sorry guys, the best I had was 'May we all improve in May!' and I just couldn't do it LOL.
Karrie, love your socks!! So fun with the different colors on each sock. It reminds me that I need to pull out a certain half-finished sock I have hiding in my closet. How do you like spinning? Is it difficult? Mmm! The OSG noodle bowl. I need to make this again!
Mihani, I'm with Karrie, for a brief moment I was worried you fell face first on cement or something and then I cracked up at your expression. Is your boss still away? Hope you get some R&R in this weekend, or at least some time away from the office!
Lia, how are you feeling? 5 more days to go (give or take)!
We have such pretty lettuce growing in our garden right now! I will have to take a picture of it for you guys. The green lettuce looks just like a green rose, and we have a deep red one and a speckled one that it cool looking.
The yarn shopping frenzy continued after I last posted, and I have more on the way. My only fear is that the yarn is so beautiful that anything I do with it will only screw it up! Here's what I picked out:
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Oops, sorry I worried you all with my fell face first lol. Carla, I too realized last night we hadn’t started a May thread and pondered it a bit as I was drifting off to sleep and came up with nothing. I will do something in a few minutes. Just want to reply to y’all first.
Karrie, that is an amazing story about the man you work with. I wonder why sometimes it takes us to a real health crisis to think yeah, I should really DO something. I don’t want to do real damage to my health before I get off my *kitten* and get these habits ingrained. My cheats are of the better sort, generally, but they are still cheats and I’m still overweight, and I'm not at all consistent with exercise which is important. I’m 53 years old now, I can’t keep playing this roulette game. On the bright side, my guess is the pretzels were salty and you are just retaining water from that and you didn’t lose all your progress at all. Drink lots of water.
Carla did you find your unfinished sock? Love those yarns, so beautiful and interesting textures to them. My boss is not planning any more trips soon. Wish he would go away for another week though lol. I get so much done when he’s not in my hair.
Lia, you doing okay? Miss you!
I think I've decided on a Force Be With You sort of thing for our May thread, since I just saw something about Star Wars being a May the 4th be with you thing now.0
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