Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Favorite Smoothie So Far.......

So, I loooove the Green Monster.  It is amazing.  It is great.  However, I think I mighta found something I love a little more.  My girls wanted a smoothie for breakfast last Thursday - but one of my twins hates bananas and they were going to share - so I grabbed my ginormous bag of strawberries from the freezer - popped 6 frozen strawberries, one container of raspberry carbmaster yogurt & one cup of almond milk in the blender.  They loved it and it got me thinking about my love of the GM and wondering how it might taste with the strawberries instead of the banana. And then I continued thinking about how nice it might be to add the container of carb-smart yogurt to the mix.  And THEN I started thinking about how it might taste totally awesome with a little bit of coconut extract to it and guess what?  SO freakin' good.  Seriously.  Here's the breakdown:

2 T. Ground Flax
2 C. Fresh Spinach
1 Container Kroger CarbMaster Raspberry yogurt
1 C. Almond Milk
6 Frozen Strawberries
1/3 Capful of Coconut Extract (totally optional)

This is 290 Calories.  It contains 19g of protein and 14g of fiber.  If you wanted to, you could always do 1T. of flax and that would bring your calories down to 255 - but it is seriously so full of good stuff that I think the extra 35 calories are worth it.  And protein is SO, SO, SO important when you working hard and weight training.  Anyway, I'm just loving this right now - and it's still a very cheap meal and you're getting 19g of protein (12 of it is from the yogurt) without having to buy protein powder - and 14g of fiber, holla!

Moving on.  I last weighed in on Friday and my weight was 238.4.  I am very pleased with that number.  I am hoping I'm down to 237 by Friday or Saturday of this week - I'm making the choices that should put me there.

this is me now.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Week In Review

So, this week I finally tried something I've heard about for the last 6 or 7 months it's called The Green Monster and I looooooove it.  I've tried the "original" monster and the Blueberry-Banana and I have to say that I'm a big fan of the original.  I have had it twice first thing in the morning and once mid-afternoon and it really does give you ENERGY.  It definitely helped with my mid-afternoon slump.   I bought a HUGE bag of ground flax from Costco for around $8 and I freeze my bananas - I also used regular 1% milk, but I'm going to get some almond milk this week and try it.  Give one a try and let me know what you think - you will NOT be able to taste the spinach - maybe in the first sip - but after that it tastes like a yummy banana smoothie.

I weighed 240.1 yesterday morning.  The reason I am using my weigh-in from yesterday is because PMS has reared its ugly head and I am now a puffy marshmallow - puffiness will ensue for the next 2 or 3 days.

So, I changed my weight routine this week, and of course I used two of the workouts from this months issue of Oxygen .  My body has responded in the best way it knows how - being absolutely sore.  I am still taking BodyCombat twice a week - I really love it.  Heavens knows I will never be a boxer (much, much too slow), but I enjoy how strong I feel.  I have also been running twice a week - my goal it to build up to 5 miles per run.  I am currently at 3 1/2 miles.  I also do some sort of cardio on Mondays - usually the stepmill.  Working out has not been something I've struggled with this past 14 months.  It's the darned nutrition.  I read this week in Corrine's post over at Phit-N-Phat that most "experts" will tell you that losing weight and living a healthy lifestyle is 80% nutrition and 20% exercise.  She took it a step further and said that it is 60% MENTAL 35% nutrition and 5% exercise (she actually put 25% nutrition but those numbers add up to 90 and I'm pretty sure she was shooting for 100%).  Her advice is to GET THE HECK OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY.  I believe it because I've lived it.  The months when I've lived with my "healthy" mindset have been the most rewarding and easiest of my journey.  I'm getting back to that.  Until next time.

this is me now

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Don't Worry.....

I am one to automatically think the worst has happened - for instance, my sister called me at 7 a.m. about 6 weeks ago and my first thought is, crap! something is wrong with the baby (she's pregnant).  Turns out that the reason she called is she thought it was 8 a.m. here - crazy girl! And just wanted to chat. 

The reason I'm stating this is because I didn't want anyone thinking the "worst" has happened to poor Emily and she has given up on herself.   Truthfully, I have been having a VERY difficult time keeping my momentum going - it seems like one thing after another has happened (i.e. washer & dryer died, vacuum died, needed new tires on the Expedition, had to get a root canal) and I have dealt with them in the way I have done the past 12 years of my life - with a lot of food and I am slowly dealing with that.  This morning I weighed 242.4 - after reading my posts of the last few months I realize that I am pretty much at a standstill - it feels like it is taking all of my effort just to stay within a reasonable weight fluctuation - and it is through no one's fault but my own - I haven't been eating well and have really been feeling down in the dumps.  Poor combination.  However, that doesn't mean I'm giving up and feel "destined" to be where I'm at.  I'm putting my weight out there. AGAIN.  I'm posting my truth. AGAIN. and I am going to keep living my life each day with the intention of living it on purpose.  I am aiming to MAKE choices each day that will bring me closer to living the life that's important to me - as a healthy wife, mother, daughter and friend. 

I'm also contemplating combining this blog with my Emily's Big News blog - because my life ain't all about trying to lose weight and I've thought it might be best to combine the two because a) I've been horrible about blogging on either one of them and think it might be less "overwhelming" b) I'm not self-conscious anymore about my friends and family that only visit EBN finding out that I used to weigh 297.2 and c) I can do what I want because these are my blogs =).  Let me know what you think - okay, let me rephrase - if 2 or 3 of you would be willing to leave a comment on this I would really appreciate it!!!

this is me now.