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Cook @ Home Wk 1

Week 1 June 7-16

5 meals for a week

(The hardest part for me is that I eat the samethings all the time. 

If you look at my food log there really isn't that much variety.)

Meatballs w/ broccolli & sweet potato chips (homemade)

(NO PIC)

2 pieces baked chicken, w/ peas and baked sweet potato

(NO PIC)

Oatmal w/ PeanutButter, strawberries, cinnamon

Scramble eggs w/ spinach, mushroom, and salsa 2 turkey patties

Baked Fish w/ collard greens

Happy Friend Making Monday

FMM: Bedroom Habits

1. Do you set an alarm clock? If so, for what time?

Yes, its set to 7:00. Do I wake up? NO, more like 7:30am when I have to.

2. How many hours of sleep do you get on an average night?  

10 hr during summer, school in session give or take 5 (nursing student)

3. Do you bring your laptop to bed? 

NO

4. How many pillows do you require to sleep? 

8 on the bed, and move through all of them during the night

5. Do you sleep with socks on? 

MUST

6. How often do you change the sheets?  

Every 2 weeks (is that bad?)

7. Do you remember your dreams? 

When they wake me up,YES.

8. Which side of the bed do you sleep on? .

The entire bed

9. How often do you take naps? .

Maybe 3 times a week

10. Do you sleep soundly? 

When im not stressed, or emtional

F U Cravings

I never use to like ice cream that much. I've always been a cake, cookie girl. But when I started getting stressed and felt very low during the past couple of years, like most people I went to ICE CREAM. Thats right, the best flavor in the world is Cookies & Cream, ( no particular brand). Now although I did go to ice cream for comfort, I didnt sit and eat the entire pint, or quart, or gallon in one sitting, but I craved it, and I ate it, and it was delicious. 

Right now I am on a 30 day challenge and basically its not sugar, no carbs for the most part. So guess what NO ICE CREAM!! Its been a week and I've been doing well, but sometime you just have that craving. Its kinda like losing a friend that you know never benefit you, but due time you begin to miss, and yearn for that friend again just because they used to be there, yep thats how I was feeling about ice cream. 

Well Saturday (day 6) was the hardest day for me thus for. First I get to work, and thru out the day I glady have a fresh salad, some chill and I'm filling great. Then I go in the freezer to put a bottle of water in there, and love and behold, my cookies and cream ICE CREAM (from about a week ago) just sitting there calling, screaming my name. I shut the door so fast, I was so tempted to go in there and gooble it down, mainly because I saw it, it was there, and it was mine, and no one was around. Well I didn't, I focused on my work and by the time it hit  5:00 I didnt fully forget about it but I fought that awful craving.

 So I get home to an empty house, great ill just go play the SIMS ( lovie). Then I hear a knock on the door, and my siblings come through the door, yes happy to see them , NOT REALLY! Why? Because they walk in with what i had been fighting all day, COLD STONE ICE CREAM ( one of the best ice cream parlors EVER). I was very upset, not that they had it, but because I couldn't indulge in that tasty smoothie (made w/ ice cream) and cookie and cream cup. SUPER :( . So I got down stairs and continue playing the Sims. after a while the craving came back, I go to the freezer and stare at the left over ice cream. I must have stood there for about 5 minutes thinking about if I should eat it or not. I held it in my hand, twirled it around, and that butterfly on my shoulder said, F U CRAVING!. Thats right I put it back in the fridge and slammed the door. I knew that I shoudlnt have it, I was doing fine as long as I didnt see it, so why spoil my great week with this one bad craving that seem to be taking over me. I had won the battle, me versus ice cream round 1, ME! Now I know it was round 1 because I'm pretty sure it will happen again, But Im ready to FIGHT. So to ease off that moment, I made me a fresh smoothie instead. No its not ice cream, but Its fresh fruit that I can have. 

Sunday I arrive at the office, only to see this pint of ice cream again, torturing me, and tempeting me to eat it. Well I finally said to the ice cream. F U! I DONT NEED YOU! YOU DO ME NO GOOD! And the rest is for you to see...

THE BEST ICE CREAM EVER!!!

I don' t need this. 

YOU DO ME NO GOOD! 

Drown! You sucker!

Yes, I know this is the right thing

BYE BYE! 

F U CRAVING

Im on a mission, to be the best ME there is, and right now ice cream is not on my team! 

_BRee

Cook @ Home Challenge

I just joined this new challenge.


http://www.alltheweigh.com/kenlies-cooking-at-home-with-calphalon-challenge/

Mission:
To cook 5 meals at home per week for the next 4 weeks.
Each week post a pic of the 5 meals

This will be fun! I have stopped eating out as much as possible. I'm starting to cook alot more, and experiment with different recipes. So I will prove to my self that I can do it.

GAME ON!

Challenge

I am on a 30 day challenge with mo mother and her friend. We are having a contest of who can lose the most weight, since there is no set weight amount you can lose. It starts today, June 4. I'm excited but nervous at the same time. Today wasn't the ideal day because I didn't have any meals prepared. So I ate out, but I made healthy choices.

I will update everyday, put my meals in the Yummy/yuck section (food log) , and weigh in (Oh Soo Many lbs) every monday. This should be interesting.

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/brett-hoebels-30day-flat-belly-plan#copy

Amateur Grocery Shoppers

Today I went grocery shopping with my mother, because today is the DAY 1 of our 30 day challenge. That will be in a later post . Anyways a couple of funny things happened while we were there. We had fun in the produce section because alot of the things we eat are NEVER from that area of the store. Prime example.

What the hell is this?

 There was no label, no tag and no name on the price label. OK This looks like something that will come alive and eat me. YUCK. Someone please tell me what this is?

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Is this a Sweet Potato or Yam?

 

Don't judge us :)

Mom: I don't see any sweet potatoes

Me: Here they are

Mom: Those aren't it, those are Yams

Me: I believe they are the same thing

Mom: I dont think so

Me: Ok lets call Yana(vegetarian cousin)

Yana: REALLY?? YES, THEY ARE THE SAME THING! DUH

Me: I knew that, told u mommy :)

Yes, Yams and sweet potatoes are the same things. But growing up, yams were the chopped up orange potatos, layered with cinnamon, sugar, and marshmallows for Thanksgiving. Sweet Potatoes  were the organge potatos the my cousin ate with plain butter and looked disgusting with no taste. But now we know, the plain unjustifibel taste its worth a try, and their "suppose to be good for you", so what the heck, lets try them. 

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NO! not bird seeds.

So we get home and  my brother is putting away all the food and he comes across a bag filled with these:

Brother: What the heck is this

Me: Whats what?

Brother: Did we get a bird that I dont know about?

Me: What are you talking about?

Brother: Look! Bird seeds. Flax-a-seed (Flax Seeds)

Me: lls, no we didnt get a bird, thats to go in smoothies and oatmeal

Mom: Yeah she tryna feed us like one 

Brother: Right 

This journey is going to be interesting more so because we are learning about alot of new produce and foods that we knew nothing about. We are learning to eat healthier, so that we can eat more, and have control over what goes in our mouths. 

_Pynk KiiSSeSS