3 weeks!

Ahh the only good thing about Monday's are looking at the scale to see how much weight I have lost! Is it sad that's the only good thing about Mondays?

I lost 2 pounds this week! I weighed myself on Friday, and had lost 2 pounds, and I did it so I could stay motivated to not overeat or cheat. And it worked!!! I'm super excited that I didnt gain any weight. Now I have 3 more pounds to go before I lose my first 10!! So this week I'm going to take a look at how many calories I need to be eating and do some adjustments to my diet, and I'm also going to work out every day. I want to lose these 3 pounds!! I'm ready to have gotten rid of my first 10 pounds in a month! I will be well on my way to my 21 pound goal of April 7, which is my first 10%!

Get your own graph at skinnyr  

I'm going to look at Sparkspeople, and also My Fitness Pal on my iphone. I can do weight watchers, I'm keeping the account for the recipies, but I really want to keep a cap on what I'm eating, rather than getting allowances for any mistakes I make. I need to be held accountable. Its also going to be difficult because of the Super Bowl! I'm going to a party and I know I'm going to be tempted to eat things I shouldnt.

I know they are having chicken and hambugers. So I'm going to plan to eat the chicken, and I think I'm going to bring a veggie tray, that way I know I'll have food to eat while I'm there. I'm also going to stay away from sweets for game day. And I can fill my plate, and still feel good about what I'm eating. Maybe I'll bring some cheese too! Love me some cheese. I've been eating cheese lately, I know it's high in fat, but it keeps me full longer, some cheese with some cherry tomatoes and a few pita chips make an amazingly good snack. I also found these dole fruit cups, usually I'm all about fresh fruit, but these fruit cups have granola in them and keep me full from my afternoon snack all the way to dinner, which includes my workout and cooking dinner, the most active part of my day. I think once I get a chance, I'll do my own granola and do a fruit cup of my own, but these are awesome. Mix in the granola, nuke it in the microwave for 30 seconds and its a nice warm snack for a cold winter day!

Okay- on my lunch break today I looked at my Fitness Pal, and it told me that I could only have 1400ish calories, and that's just not enough for me. I don't know what this thing is thinking, I looked at Sparkpeople and they recommended more around 2200 calories, which seems more in line with what I'm comfortable with. I have absolutely no intention of starving myself. If I do that, then I'm sabotaging myself, because if I'm hungry I'm going to go and snack on whatever I can find. 

I have a couple of pictures today, the first is a picture of me I took on my phone after I worked out I think my eyes look weird, but its cook to see what I look like a week later, just in the face! 

My second picture is leftovers, I've recently taken a liking to leftovers. I've always loved leftover tacos, but to be more frugal- we saved 80 bucks this month because we didn't eat out!- I've been taking leftovers to lunch at work. I don't have to go out to eat, and I don't have to leave work. 30 minutes isn't very long for lunch and I just don't have time to go get something and eat it. Today I had Lentil and Beef soup/stew. It was good, and we got to use some of the 10 zucchinis that my grandma got for us! 

If leftovers looked this good, everyone would want to eat them! One of them is my new favorite bean taco. Yum! I want the protein, but not the fat that you get with the beef, plus if you put beans with something, you can make it last longer and it will keep you full.

I'm going to post what I ate today- even though I keep a journal, just so you have an idea of what I eat during the day:

Breakfast 6:15- 1/2 bagel, 4oz activia, 1 banana

Snack 9:00- 1 serving pita chips, 1 cup cherry tomatoes, 1 babybell

Lunch 12:00- Beef and Lintel soup- 1 1/4 cup, 1 serving vanilla wafers, 1 cup baby carrots

Snack 2:30- dole fruit cup with granola

Dinner 6:00- 2 beef tacos, 1 bean taco all with little big of cheese, tomatoes and lettuce

                      1 weight watchers ice-cream toffee bar and 1/4 c of  beans

Snack 9:00- 1/2 serving multigrain pita chips, 5 cherry tomatoes and 1 babybell

I had 2- 16oz of fruity tea, and about 4-16oz bottles of water at work and 4-12oz glasses of water at home. 

Tasty Tuesday- Taco Style

So another week has gone by! I've been blogging for a week! (that was really yesterday, but today was the day I noticed)

I want to make this short and sweet, so I have a couple of things to say.

1. I feel awesome, I am just getting to the point where I have a ton more energy because of the food change and because of working out. And getting a solid 7 hours of sleep. I have been going to bed at 11 every night.

2.5. I Zumba-ed again tonight!!

2. I was throwing pots tonight and I cut my finger. it was really stupid and I'm not sure what I cut my finger on, it was enough like a paper cut, but I couldn't keep going with all that mud. So I improvised because I had 2 more batts (plastic things that I throw on) and I wanted to throw all of them. I only have 6 so far, but when I need more after using them, I just cut my new pot, mug, etc off the bat and clean it and reuse. If that made any sense. So back to my story. I cut my finger, and tried to clean it the best I could and I had to keep going to I have an apron in my studio and a machete and I took the machete and cut the end of the tie on my apron and tied it around my finger. And then I threw two more pots!

Okay so tonight for Tasty Tuesday I'm going to tell you my favorite recipe of all time. And sadly I don't have exact measurements for the spices, so I'm going to just guess and you can add the spices to your own liking.

Taco Tuesday

2 pounds of ground beef
1 can of tomato sauce
1 tbsp cumin
1 tbsp oregano
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
Pinch of cyanne powder
Salt and Pepper to taste
1 can of water

Taco fixings-
Lettuce
Tomato
We do a can of black beans and then all the same taco spices with it
we do corn taco shells because it only has so much room
cheese

brown the beef- drain off the fat
Add the tomato sauce and all the spices and the water- it will look very watery- you will cook until all the liquid is cooked out maybe 15-20 minutes depending on how hot you have it, I usually put the burner on medium or medium low. It gets all that flavor in there! Remember to add more seasonings as you see fit. Again I LOVE cumin, so I always go a little crazy with it.

Assemble tacos and eat!

This will do way more than the 10 crunchy tacos that come in the package. I usually say 2-3 tacos a person, so 10-7ish servings. Not bad for 20 bucks!

Vegetarian Style: And if you want you can make this a vegetarian dish by just heating up 1 can of black beans with the juices and adding all the same spices to it. Cook for about 15 minutes. And put in the taco shells with the fixings. SOO good, sometimes I have a beef taco and a bean taco.

Enjoy!