Day 3

The morning was a little hairy. It doesn't seem to matter if I wake up 45 minutes before scheduled departure or an hour and 45 minutes before...I"m always running late during the week. This is why I try and do as much as I can to prepare the night before.

Last night I prepared our salads. I took out our pre-packed lettuce and took stock of what I had left in the fridge. I had defrosted a little chicken, so I tossed that on the George Foreman. That took like 7 minutes but I had that cooking while I was putting everything else together. I cut up the other half of my cucumber, divided that into 2 containers, peeled 2 hard boiled eggs, removed the yolk and cut one up for each container, cut up 2 roma tomatoes and put one in each, put some slivered almonds into a mini container so they wouldn't get mushy and waited for the chicken to cool so I could put that in too. Here's the 1/2 way completed salad sans chicken and dressing. I put the dressing in a mini container as well so hubby wouldn't have to carry an entire bottle back and forth.

I also packed him a snack baggie of carrots, one serving of yogurt covered pretzels and some fresh strawberries. For breakfast, he ate a banana and a cliff bar

For my snacks, I went with the 1 serving of Triscuts and cheese again, carrots, and strawberries. My breakfast today was another green smoothie. I thought it tasted good again, but a little watery. I wonder what it would taste like with a little nonfat plain yogurt??

Last night I also pulled out the crock pot. Wednesdays and Thursdays going forward WILL be crock pot meals or something like we had last night that can happen really quickly. Once I pulled the crockpot, for this chicken chili recipe that I got from Pinterest, I pulled the ingredients

I guess I forgot to put the taco seasoning packet in there... As you can see I have the chopped onion in a bag that I chopped while prepping the broccoli/onion recipe. And the chicken is in the fridge....where it should be...not contaminating the air with it's rawness. I'm going to make cornbread to go with it. We have sour cream and cheese if needed also. I'm not sure of the calorie content, but I do know that I'm glad I didn't make all 5 days of packed lettuce for salads for me because there is going to be A LOT left over!

Day 2

So last night after our grocery store sushi dinner, I set out to prep our lunches for today. I vowed to get up earlier than I had on Monday so that I could make a smoothie for breakfast. I got out 2 of the pre-packed lettuce containers and since I had not defrosted chicken as previously planned because I"m a scatterbrained mother who runs around like a chicken with no head, I decided it was tuna salads for day #2.

One day, I'll get better about putting pictures in this thing. For now, this is what I managed to snap. This is what you get - you'll like it and not complain like greedy bitches. You're welcome.

Ok, so today, I put 1/2 can tuna, 1/4 sliced (into quarters) cucumber, a little less feta, and some black olives in my secondary container used for toppings. I also brought along my ripe avocado, which didn't make the cut in the photo shoot and in a teeny container I put almond slivers - I didn't want them to get soggy. As you can see, I also packed some carrots for snack. I also neglected to bring my handy dandy triscuts and cheese over for the picture. I put 6 Triscuts in a snack bag and put 4 small slices of colby jack cheese in another. Turns out this was a smart change from bringing everything with me to the office because after I polished those off, I was ready to eat 100 more. I wasn't HUNGRY but I wanted to eat more. This girl loves food.

For breakfast, I also woke up early enough to shower make a smoothie (don't judge. I did also make breakfast for the kiddo and got him dressed and ready to go to school) Tomorrow I'll have to get up early enough to do both. Anyhooo, I put a good sized handful of spinach in the blender, a frozen banana (I always over estimate the number of bananas that will be consumed in our house and I can't bear to throw them away when they're brown and spotty, so I break them in half and freeze them), some fresh strawberries, like 5 frozen mango chunks, and I had a skosh of pink lemonade left so I poured that in with some water. I had to hit chop a few times, but I ended up with the liquefy setting until I was satisfied I wouldn't be ingesting soggy, liquidey (technical term), spinach leaves. I was a trooper and gave the baby a sip before I took one. If he would eat it, so could I. He promptly sucked down the little amount I gave him, ditched the oatmeal and asked for more? more? more? I took my own sip and whaddya know?! It tasted like a strawberry smoothie! you DEFINITELY have to get past the dingy green look of the smoothie, but the taste was great! I swear- you could NOT taste the spinach! I SWEAR!


Right now I'm about to go dig out the carrots and tonight I'm going to attempt this broccoli recipe. SHIT! I just noticed I'm going to have to buy more feta! I think I've bought feta like 3 times in my life and now I'm buying a 2nd container in a week! I hate going to the market after work after going to the atm all with a toddler. It's not very efficient getting in and out of the car - nothing is a "quick stop" anymore. Anyway, the hubby is DYING to try this and I already bought the broccoli, weird leeks (I'm not even remotely close to wanting to use these things), onion, and eggs. Looks like I'm going to have to be on the hunt for those pine nuts too. I saw some at Trader Joe's, but that little bag was freakishly pricey! $7.99! I thought I could find them for less $$ but I was unsuccessful. I hope the stir fry style beef I bought tastes good in this concoction. Oh and if you're wondering? My body and I both despise peppers, so those are not on the list to get into the dinner.

May be I should take some pictures so I can do a before and after. that would be sufficiently humiliating. and may be a little motivating....I should probably also start counting calories or something too.

No wine tonight. NO WINE.

I'll let you know how that goes tomorrow

And so it begins.

The hubs and I have decided to embark on a trip to skinnyville. I hope my one reader, sister, enjoys reading about our journey. Let's travel back in time a few days. I'm feeling disgusted with myself. I don't consider myself fat, well, ok, I guess I do consider myself to be overweight. My goal is to shed like 30 pounds, but as long as I feel like I look good in the clothes that are currently hanging in my closet waiting and waiting.....and waiting.......to be worn, I'll be happy. I'd like to get back to my pre-wedding shape...Although, since I've had a baby, I know that's not going to be 100% possible. Saturday, the hubs asked if I wanted to try and lose weight together. normally, this type of question would be rewarded with me sulking and thinking HE thinks I'm fat and disgusting and never wants to touch me ever again, but I decided to try a new approach and after recalling visions of myself trying on 15 different t-shirts to wear to the park until I felt satisfied, I said "sure!". I sat down and made a list for the market. Typically I spend $70-$100 a week on food for the 3 of us. This trip was the first after a long time and I needed to stock up on some essentials. I spent over $200 between 2 stores. shoot me now. I should tell you that I was a little sickened at the total spent especially since I had taken great pains to write out a meal plan for the week!! When I got home from the market on Sunday (which, by the way was a treat trip all by my lonesome - able to roam the aisles in all of their glory - we'll discuss my strange love of grocery stores at another time) I took inventory of my items and set off to work. I bought 2 bags of spinach from Trader Joe's, a head of green leaf lettuce and a head of red leaf lettuce. So I just have to say I'm not going to run down the list of all of the shit I bought because it would be intensely boring. I washed all of the lettuce and put 1/2 spinach and 1/2 lettuce in 8 gladlock "entree" size containers I did 4 for myself and 4 for hubby. Partly because that's how many containers I had available at the time and partly because I'm often left with too much dinner and I have to bring it for lunch the next day because I'm the only one who will eat leftovers other than pizza. Our grand master plan was to work out every night. But life gets in the way. Last night we had to talk to the rents about a certain financing situation so working out (oh and my vow to not drink during the week) was out the window. However, my plan to eat healthy was still on track. We Imade this salad for our Monday lunches. I have to say the finished product looks kinda nasty on their site. I followed the directions relatively closely - I skipped out on the salad and avocado- I bought a few avocados, but they weren't ripe. I put the fixins (tuna, kidney beans, feta, green onions) in their own gladlock container - that took no time at all. Between the rinsing, the squeezing of cans, and chopping onions, I'd say that part was done in less than 3 minutes. Then I started on the dressing. I've never made my own dressing before, so I was a little nervous. I had to buy all of the ingredients except the honey. I even had to buy paprika! I was out! anyway, back to the dressing. I whisked it up and it tasted pretty good. there seemed to be enough for both of us for 2 days. The hubby ADORED the dressing. I thought it was a little dijon-ey for me and I may have used a little too much feta for my liking. All in all, I was definitely full from the salad. I had 1/2 of a plain bagel with butter for breakfast - not so healthy, but delish nonetheless! For snack both morning and afternoon, I had almonds. For dinner, we dined on sushi from the grocery store- don't knock it. This store has a sushi chef and will make customized rolls for you!