Excuses, excuses

Well, we've had a stressful couple days. Stress=bad food choices for me. I didn't completely fall off the wagon though.

Day 3:
Breakfast- smoothie

Lunch-celery and pb

Snack-banana and a cookie

Dinner-Chinese, specifically, lo mein and orange chicken. I didn't eat the white rice though ;).

Day 4:
Breakfast- blueberry bagel with blueberry cream cheese

Lunch- tuna and carrots

Snack-banana

Dinner-chicken Caesar wrap

And....two pieces of Halloween candy....I need to throw that stuff out.

I've decreased the amount of sugar I eat, and am eating more healthy foods then I did. We are also doing no beef. Man, I am such a steak and cheeseburger girl too. Ugh. Nelson says I'm not eating enough for my metabolism go work as well. I usually have busy mornings and don't think about food so I eat breakfast and nothing until lunch. I've got to get in a healthy morning snack. I'm drinking lots of water. No soda all week!

Clean eating....

Maybe writing it here will hold me accountable.  We are trying to make a lifestyle change, but geez it's hard. Sadly, we eat out a lot. I don't like cooking, and it stresses me out. However, my family is my world and Nelson and I want to get healthy. I was tiny before kids, but never appreciated it...then I was up 10 pounds after the girls...but I was so small before them that I didn't hate how I looked. Then, with Joshua I kept 10 pounds on and then, I lost Anna and gained 10 pounds. Yes, that's 30 pounds more than I was 8 years ago. I do yoyo between 5-10 pounds. I would be ok just getting down to what I was after the girls. My body is different and I just want to feel good in my skin. So, I am determined to get healthy. Nelson has also put on weight since losing Anna. He doesn't get really emotional and I was looking at pictures and noticed his weight gain has been the last two years and he said he thinks it's been the grief of losing her and how sad I have been since 2011. Anna would want us to be here to watch our kids grow. So, I'm hoping we can stick with these healthy choices. The girls are embracing it, but Joshua isn't thrilled. Probably not good that I'm bribing them to eat veggies by telling them they can have a piece of Halloween candy after dinner ;).

Anyone that knows me knows I have the biggest sweet tooth. This clean eating, no sugar diet we were trying to follow worked great yesterday on day 1, but today I had some slip ups. Going to try and be better tomorrow. I am missing soda and tea for the caffeine. Trying to just do only water. Joshua told me today he was going to go look for a healthy snack :). Teaching my kids good choices so it's not hard for them as adults is helping me to do this!  Any healthy recipes anyone wants to share, please do!

Day 1:
Breakfast-smoothie (1/2 a banana, 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk, handful of spinach, tbsp of pb, and ice)

Snack-water and apple slices

Lunch-1/2 tuna sandwich on whole wheat bread, and carrots

Snack-water and an orange

Dinner- eggs with peppers and bacon

No sweets at all, woo hoo!

Day 2:
Breakfast-smoothie again

Snack-pumpkin muffin....not good

Lunch-tuna, apple

Snack-3 pieces of Halloween candy....not good

Dinner- blt on whole wheat with carrots

Then, I had a cookie...ugh.

Tomorrow is a new day!