So glad that it's Friday! Getting ready to go take my physic exam, it's my 4th exam this past week so it's been a busy one!!! I was really not good this past week with the whole diet, but oh well right? I went out this morning and did my barn work. That's my exercise on Monday and Friday haha. I'm heading down to Littleton this weekend. Going with my sister tonight to see her high school's musical at Columbine. They're putting on Guys and Dolls. I get extra credit for going for my theater class so it works for me! haha!
Today I've been busy this morning. I got up and went out and did my barn work, then I groomed my dog and gave him a bath. He looks so good now! Then I got my house all straightened up for the weekend. Ready to rock and roll!
As far as eating goes today I prob haven't been eating enough. I had special K this morning, then I've had 1/4 C of my trail mix and an apple. I need to eat something else but I really don't have anything around to eat. I need to go to the store when I get back on Monday.
Well I didn't have much to say today, but I just wanted to check in and let you all know I haven't forgotten about my blog haha! I'm so excited that I have more people following! Next week I plan on being really strict and back to my diet and workout! Thinking about doing the special K challenge just to jumpstart everything. I researched it today and I would get the right amount of calories with it, so I think I will!! Anyways have a good weekend everyone!!!!
Healthy Eating!
Michele
Friday, February 26, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Beef Stroganoff (healthy style :-) )
So tonight I actually cooked something haha. And I found my camera so I have decent pics of it!! Tonight I used my left over pot roast from the other day to make beef stroganoff. Such a good comfort food for a cold night! Before giving the recipe I just have to say that I was better today about eating right, although I really didn't eat enough today. I got caught up studying. I have 2 more exams to go this week! Then the weekend, where I get to study for Ornithology.....Spring Break can't come soon enough!!
On another note I have a phone interview next Thursday with Disney!!! I'm hoping to go do their internship program from June-January. Should be so much fun!! Just another incentive for me to want to loose weight!! FLORIDA!! haha! Ok well I really don't have much else to say today, so here's my recipe!
Healthy Beef Stroganoff
4 oz left over pot roast (or you can cook it through the day, mine also had cooked carrots with it)
1/2 C chicken broth (or if you have beef broth, I just had chicken broth)
1 serving of whole wheat pasta ( mine was about 1 C)
1 T flour
4 T water
salt and pepper to taste
Cook pasta according to box directions. In pot bring chicken broth to a boil. When it's boiling add pot roast so the flavors can meld together. let simmer for about 10 minutes. In a separate bowl mix water and flour together this is called a rue. Take and mix the rue and chicken broth together, continue to simmer for about 5 more minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.
Mix pasta in with the gravy and beef and enjoy!!
The first pic is the pasta I used, the second is the rue, and the third is the finished dish. I know it's not so pretty but it sure is good!!! I hope you enjoy it! Just to let you all know that this makes a lot for one serving, I couldn't finish it all!!!! Total calorie count is about 420, and I know this is more than my usual dishes but I made up for it during the day by cutting down on calories there, I just planned a head for it!! ENJOY!
Michele
On another note I have a phone interview next Thursday with Disney!!! I'm hoping to go do their internship program from June-January. Should be so much fun!! Just another incentive for me to want to loose weight!! FLORIDA!! haha! Ok well I really don't have much else to say today, so here's my recipe!
Healthy Beef Stroganoff
4 oz left over pot roast (or you can cook it through the day, mine also had cooked carrots with it)
1/2 C chicken broth (or if you have beef broth, I just had chicken broth)
1 serving of whole wheat pasta ( mine was about 1 C)
1 T flour
4 T water
salt and pepper to taste
Cook pasta according to box directions. In pot bring chicken broth to a boil. When it's boiling add pot roast so the flavors can meld together. let simmer for about 10 minutes. In a separate bowl mix water and flour together this is called a rue. Take and mix the rue and chicken broth together, continue to simmer for about 5 more minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.
Mix pasta in with the gravy and beef and enjoy!!
The first pic is the pasta I used, the second is the rue, and the third is the finished dish. I know it's not so pretty but it sure is good!!! I hope you enjoy it! Just to let you all know that this makes a lot for one serving, I couldn't finish it all!!!! Total calorie count is about 420, and I know this is more than my usual dishes but I made up for it during the day by cutting down on calories there, I just planned a head for it!! ENJOY!
Michele
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Whew what a day
Sorry for the earlier post, I was just so full of emotions at the time. Anyways, today I wasn't so good this afternoon...I ended up eating some homemade chocolate chip cookies that I made over the weekend. I prob shouldn't have eaten them, but with all of the stress of the day whatever! haha. We got about 7 more inches of snow over the weekend so that made the whole barn work a lot harder to do yesterday. I sure got my extra work out in haha. I plan on doing my sit ups before going to bed tonight, that way today isn't a total loss.....
I guess I can't really say today was a total loss becasue I prob ended up hitting about 1500 calories which is good, but with all the wrong foods!! haha! Oh so early today I was in class and waiting for it to start when I over heard a girl talking to her friend. She was telling her she's trying to loose weight so she's eating healthier and eating snacks through the day. Thinking to my self, hey that's what I'm doing I got a glimpse of her first snack of the day....and all I wanted to do was look at her and go oh man, that's way too much food! She had a trail mix, which is full of protein and really good for you, but in small quantites. She probly had about 2 C's worth. I first thought to my self, well maybe she's only going to eat part of it... no she ate the whole thing. It's things like that that really make me want to write this blog...to help educate...Being a zoology major I"ve learned a lot about the way the body process food, and honestly the best way to loose weight, consume less than you burn...nuff said haha. The whole concept of eating several SMALL meals through the day is to help out your metabolism and keep it going. If you skip breakfast and eat two large meals your body may think your starving and just store all the food as fat to help it survive. But then why should everyone eat above 1200 calories if I'm saying that it's better to eat less calories....that's because your body does need a certain amount of food to fuel it. And that includes a wide varriety of carbs, lipids, proteins, fats, and minerals. Your body needs all of these!! Trust me, I just took a physiology exam on it haha. But too much of one thing can be really bad for you!
That reason alone is why some of these fad diets are not good for you! Like the atkins one with no carbs....carbs are needed for energy storage and to help transport nutrients across your cells! You cannot survive well with out carbs. Also your adding a lot of extra fat that your body can't use and just ends up storing it, usually around your stomach area causing belly fat.
One other piece of advice to everyone out there is if you take a multivitamin take it at lunch instead of early in the morning. Most vitamins in a multivitamin are water soluble, so they need plenty of fluid for your body to absorb and use them efficiently! Just make sure throughout the morning to drink plenty of water, remember your suppose to be getting 8 cups of water a day! Not only will this help with your weight, but skin and everything!!
A theory I'm working with right now is body temp and metabolism....I have a very low body temp naturally and I alos have a slow metabolism....but with both of these I have b-12 deffiencey so I'm I'm on a b-12 sublingule and I'm seeing what my temp does...so far it does raise up to close to 98.6....that's from about 96, so that's an interesting thing. If you feel like it see what your temp is like in the morning when you get up, then like 10 mins after you eat! See what it does! Let me know so i can kinda see if this all correlates with each other!!
Anyways, I know this was a long post, but I think it was good to help explain my knowledge of eating healthy and how to loose weight! Now I just need to apply all that myself haha!!!!
good luck out there and I will post later!!
Michele
I guess I can't really say today was a total loss becasue I prob ended up hitting about 1500 calories which is good, but with all the wrong foods!! haha! Oh so early today I was in class and waiting for it to start when I over heard a girl talking to her friend. She was telling her she's trying to loose weight so she's eating healthier and eating snacks through the day. Thinking to my self, hey that's what I'm doing I got a glimpse of her first snack of the day....and all I wanted to do was look at her and go oh man, that's way too much food! She had a trail mix, which is full of protein and really good for you, but in small quantites. She probly had about 2 C's worth. I first thought to my self, well maybe she's only going to eat part of it... no she ate the whole thing. It's things like that that really make me want to write this blog...to help educate...Being a zoology major I"ve learned a lot about the way the body process food, and honestly the best way to loose weight, consume less than you burn...nuff said haha. The whole concept of eating several SMALL meals through the day is to help out your metabolism and keep it going. If you skip breakfast and eat two large meals your body may think your starving and just store all the food as fat to help it survive. But then why should everyone eat above 1200 calories if I'm saying that it's better to eat less calories....that's because your body does need a certain amount of food to fuel it. And that includes a wide varriety of carbs, lipids, proteins, fats, and minerals. Your body needs all of these!! Trust me, I just took a physiology exam on it haha. But too much of one thing can be really bad for you!
That reason alone is why some of these fad diets are not good for you! Like the atkins one with no carbs....carbs are needed for energy storage and to help transport nutrients across your cells! You cannot survive well with out carbs. Also your adding a lot of extra fat that your body can't use and just ends up storing it, usually around your stomach area causing belly fat.
One other piece of advice to everyone out there is if you take a multivitamin take it at lunch instead of early in the morning. Most vitamins in a multivitamin are water soluble, so they need plenty of fluid for your body to absorb and use them efficiently! Just make sure throughout the morning to drink plenty of water, remember your suppose to be getting 8 cups of water a day! Not only will this help with your weight, but skin and everything!!
A theory I'm working with right now is body temp and metabolism....I have a very low body temp naturally and I alos have a slow metabolism....but with both of these I have b-12 deffiencey so I'm I'm on a b-12 sublingule and I'm seeing what my temp does...so far it does raise up to close to 98.6....that's from about 96, so that's an interesting thing. If you feel like it see what your temp is like in the morning when you get up, then like 10 mins after you eat! See what it does! Let me know so i can kinda see if this all correlates with each other!!
Anyways, I know this was a long post, but I think it was good to help explain my knowledge of eating healthy and how to loose weight! Now I just need to apply all that myself haha!!!!
good luck out there and I will post later!!
Michele
Stirring up Old emotions
So there was a shooting today at Deer Creek Middle School in my home town of Littleton, CO. 2 kids were injured before the suspect was tackled down by teachers. The two who were injured are going to be alright. This shooting just hits way too hard because this is the same town where the Columbine Shootings happened 11 years ago. This time it wasn't kids who went to the school but an older male with a rifle. This just makes me question humanity and what the heck!! This is our third shooting at a school in Jefferson county over the past 11 years. I have a combined emotions of wanting to scream, cry, or I just don't know!! UGH!!!!!! Please play for the kids, families, and teachers of that school! One of my good friends' sister attends that school. She is alright just shaken up I"m sure. Just makes the whole town remember back to the horrible day of the Columbine shootings and how scary that was. I was in 6th grade during the time of that and it was so scarry, I'm just sorry that these kids have to go through it as well. Sorry this is rambling I just needed to get this off my chest
Friday, February 19, 2010
Good Morning!
Good morning everyone!! It's Friday! WOOO haha. We got about 3 inches of snow last night so it's cold out, but pretty haha. So I did my weight in this morning and I seem to have gained like 3 lbs. But I looked back over my week and remembered that I started my work out / weight lifting this week. So it's natural to gain muscle weight before starting to drop lbs of fat. So next week I should see some drop! But good news! I did loose 2 inches around my waist, .5 inch around my chest, 1 inch around my bicep, .25 around my forearm, and .75 around my calf. So add all of those together and I lost 4.5 inches this week! That in its self if exciting!! I was bad yesterday... I gave into having McDonalds for dinner. The reason being is that it was late when I got out of class, it was snowing, and cold. So I knew my drive home would be a long one and I was starving!! So I just stopped by and got chicken nuggets and fries....I know I know, bad Michele!!! But today is a new day, no living in the past haha. I have to get out and do some barn work today which will burn some good calories, also with my work out. I'm heading down to Littleton this weekend to celebrate one of my best friend's birthdays. He is turning 23, we are all getting so old!! haha. Anyways have a good weekend everyone and keep plugging along!
Michele
Michele
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Busy Busy Busy
Whew what a busy day!! Tuesdays are always busy! I'm on campus from 8-5 and only one hour break in there from classes! So with this comes challenges of eating!! Before starting all of this, with days like this I would be lucky if I would eat at all. So I had to get creative on simple things to bring with me to campus. One thing is trail mix! Now I had to make my own because I"m allergic to almonds and most trail mixes have almonds in them! So I just got raw cashews, sunflower seeds, walnuts, coconut, and yogurt covered raisins. It really good!! So along with that I brought an apple with me, half a turkey sandwich, a baggy of carrots, and a babybel cheese. Sounds like so much to eat and it is!! But trust me is' only like 1,000 calories for all of that!! Another accomplishment is I actually ate breakfast! Special K with 2% milk.
Also knowing that today was going to be busy I decided for dinner just to put a pot roast in the crock pot. I just seasoned it up with garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper. I also added carrots and small red potatos to the pot and like a cup of water. Turned it on low and let it simmer all day. Oh it was so good then I got home, and I even have left overs to do something else with tomorrow night!
So this morning before running out of the door I happened to notice my pedometer sitting on my desk. So I thought why no I'll put it on for the day. The current count is at 10,147 steps. That's crazy!! Especially before putting it on I had already been out in the barn feeding the horses and everything!! That just tells you how much running around I do on Tuesdays haha. So that's about 5 miles of walking today!
Still not quite done for the day, going to do some ab exercises that I found in a magazine that looked really good. My calorie count fell below what I want it at, at about 1300 calories for the day. And i"m full!! Harder than I thought it would be to get to 1500!
Anyways I hope I didn't ramble too much and healthy living to everyone!
Michele
Sorry no pic today of my food, I was too excited to eat it and totally forgot!
Also knowing that today was going to be busy I decided for dinner just to put a pot roast in the crock pot. I just seasoned it up with garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper. I also added carrots and small red potatos to the pot and like a cup of water. Turned it on low and let it simmer all day. Oh it was so good then I got home, and I even have left overs to do something else with tomorrow night!
So this morning before running out of the door I happened to notice my pedometer sitting on my desk. So I thought why no I'll put it on for the day. The current count is at 10,147 steps. That's crazy!! Especially before putting it on I had already been out in the barn feeding the horses and everything!! That just tells you how much running around I do on Tuesdays haha. So that's about 5 miles of walking today!
Still not quite done for the day, going to do some ab exercises that I found in a magazine that looked really good. My calorie count fell below what I want it at, at about 1300 calories for the day. And i"m full!! Harder than I thought it would be to get to 1500!
Anyways I hope I didn't ramble too much and healthy living to everyone!
Michele
Sorry no pic today of my food, I was too excited to eat it and totally forgot!
Monday, February 15, 2010
I'm back with Firey Fish Tostadas!!
Finally I am able to eat again!! Haha! Thank goodness, I can get back on track with my loosing weight! Still a slight cough so I can't really go run a mile, but I can do at last some stuff haha. So this past weekend was an alright weekend; stayed at home with my little sister while my parents left town to celebrate Valentines day. So I can say that my weekend eating was not very good...oh well right?
Well since this past weekend was Valentines day I got the chance to really look at the day and instead of despising it like I usually do because I'm usually single over the holiday I attempted to take a new out look on it. I saw it as a day to celebrate love, not only of a significant other, but family and friends. I would not be where I am today without their love and support and I'm very thankful for all of them.
Anyways on from that subject I won't bore you with a sap story haha. Tonight I got the idea to make fish tacos healthy. And it really turned out well!! I called it Firey Fish Tostadas! Here's the recipie for you at home:
3 oz salmon fillet
1 T taco seasoning
1 small whole wheat tortialla
2 T sour cream
3 T black beans
1/4 C salsa
Small hand full cheese
Cole slaw mix (no sauce)
Cover salmon fillet with taco seasoning and let sit for about 3 minutes. Grill Salmon filet either either in grill pan or on grill. Grill on each side for about 4 minutes each.
Crisp up tortilla in pan by spraying cooking spray on either side and toasting on med heat for about 2-3 mins on each side.
Heat up black beans in microwave for about 1/2 a minute
Assembly:
Place tortilla on plate, put black beans on top of it. Top with cole slaw mix, sour cream, salsa and cheese. Top with salmon fillet. Enjoy!!
This only has about 300 calories in it and trust me it's plenty to eat!! I couldn't finish it all!
Now just keep remembering that this is only one serving. A tip if your making it for more than one person you can take your tortilla and spray both sides with cooking spray. Place on a cooling rack on a cookie sheet and place under the broiler. Just be sure you keep an eye on it so that they don't burn!! Also if you do not like black beans you can use any type of bean that you want. Also instead of salmon you can use tilapia or even chicken. I guess you could even use beef.... What ever you want!! Enjoy and stay healthy!!! Also the red splotches on the fish are just added hot sauce because I really wanted spice!
Michele
Note: Sorry the pictures are such bad quality, I take them with my phone. I really need to get out my camera and start taking really good pictures of my food haha.
Well since this past weekend was Valentines day I got the chance to really look at the day and instead of despising it like I usually do because I'm usually single over the holiday I attempted to take a new out look on it. I saw it as a day to celebrate love, not only of a significant other, but family and friends. I would not be where I am today without their love and support and I'm very thankful for all of them.
Anyways on from that subject I won't bore you with a sap story haha. Tonight I got the idea to make fish tacos healthy. And it really turned out well!! I called it Firey Fish Tostadas! Here's the recipie for you at home:
3 oz salmon fillet
1 T taco seasoning
1 small whole wheat tortialla
2 T sour cream
3 T black beans
1/4 C salsa
Small hand full cheese
Cole slaw mix (no sauce)
Cover salmon fillet with taco seasoning and let sit for about 3 minutes. Grill Salmon filet either either in grill pan or on grill. Grill on each side for about 4 minutes each.
Crisp up tortilla in pan by spraying cooking spray on either side and toasting on med heat for about 2-3 mins on each side.
Heat up black beans in microwave for about 1/2 a minute
Assembly:
Place tortilla on plate, put black beans on top of it. Top with cole slaw mix, sour cream, salsa and cheese. Top with salmon fillet. Enjoy!!
This only has about 300 calories in it and trust me it's plenty to eat!! I couldn't finish it all!
Now just keep remembering that this is only one serving. A tip if your making it for more than one person you can take your tortilla and spray both sides with cooking spray. Place on a cooling rack on a cookie sheet and place under the broiler. Just be sure you keep an eye on it so that they don't burn!! Also if you do not like black beans you can use any type of bean that you want. Also instead of salmon you can use tilapia or even chicken. I guess you could even use beef.... What ever you want!! Enjoy and stay healthy!!! Also the red splotches on the fish are just added hot sauce because I really wanted spice!
Michele
Note: Sorry the pictures are such bad quality, I take them with my phone. I really need to get out my camera and start taking really good pictures of my food haha.
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