Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts

Saturday, August 2, 2014

A quick follow-up to my "8 week challenge"

Okay, I was looking at my last few posts and realize I really am not portraying the right picture of myself! I see that I began a couple posts about an "8 week challenge." It looks as though I gave up and never completed them because I didn't blog about it. 
Not true!
I did complete the challenge. In fact, I won the challenge! 
There was a little pot of money involved and that was fun :) 
I wound up finding myself eating sugary treats only once a week - which is huge for me. 
I also found I had a little more energy than before. The energy part took a few weeks to kick in.
I was pretty low on energy when I first began. My goal with this 8 week challenge was to go all out crazy and start a new work out routine and start eating healthier and avoid sugars. I needed to start with one newly focused habit; or I knew I would not succeed. 
My goal was to just to focus on what I ate. 
It was awesome. I lost weight and gained a new happy habit in return.
After the eight weeks I decided to incorporate working out.
This was just one new habit. After all, I had already been settled into a new eating plan that was going well. It was time to keep the upward momentum going. 
My body was happy, I was happy. I'm not sure that I was actually accomplishing much more on a day to day basis. I felt good on a day to day basis. Not sluggish, energetic. Ready for bed. 
That was/is so important to me. 
I wanted to follow-up on this, because the strides I made during that time - are notable.

Monday, January 23, 2012

8 Week Challenge! Day One-Week One

Today was my first day on the 8 Week Challenge. I think I did awesome! I ate well(whole grain toast with almond butter and a little honey for breakfast, nuts for a snack, roasted veggies for lunch, a banana for a snack, then dinner.) I drank 80oz. of water, because I needed it, we only need to drink 64oz.
I was busy today. I worked out for 30min. and I usually work out for about an hour, but today was an exception. I have a friend who is dying of cancer and in home hospice, so I spent most of my day there today, cleaning and visiting. I came home midday today to watch four of my nieces and nephews, and I still had my own house to clean and a soup to make from scratch(Chicken & Gnocchi Soup, from allrecipes.com, yum!) I do have five children of my own, and today two of them came home not feeling so well. Needless to say, by 7:30pm I was really getting a craving for some chocolate-this is usual for me. Buuut, because of this challenge, I am determined to take each day at a time and not give in.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Pot Roast

Question?
Will the crock pot roast ever cook if I don't plug it in?
I think I'll have better luck with dinner if it actually cooks. ::flat hand to the forehead::