Day 362 Galveston Beach Fun

Exercise: Rode goofy 2 person bike at Galveston. I pedaled for 30 minutes and Vince pedaled for 30 minutes. 

Had a blast at Galveston. Made a video to post for my last day coming up VERY soon! I can't believe 365 days is almost here! Time sure flies when you are having fun.

I dared to wear a bikini, but still wore my shorts!
Maybe next year! Funny, when Vince and I
went to Greece a few years ago, we noticed
everyone had skimpy bikinis and no one cared!
We can be so modest here in the US. 

Our Exercise: Vince and I rode a 2 seater bike down
the seawall for 1 hour. Fun! Had a couple near
accidents. 

We shared this foot long
subway sandwich.

Vince clowning around.

The new Galveston attractions: carnival rides and more.
We didn't go in because I get motion sickness
easily so no point in being around rides. 

Pleasure Pier in Galveston

I love how Subway prints the calories and fat grams
of their sandwiches. 

Dinner

Breakfast: 1 boiled egg, 1/2 cup oatmeal with milled faxseed, green tea, frozen blueberries.
Lunch: Subway sandwich: grilled chicken, tomatoes, cucumber, banana peppers, pickles, spinach leaves, black olives, slither of mayo, water and cookie.
Dinner: peanut butter sandwich, watermelon, water
Snack: About to have unsweetend cocoa in organic coconut milk.

Day 361 Air Popcorn Machine

Exercise: Missed spin class due to a work meeting. Haven't been to spin in so long. Sure miss it. I remember going several times a week last winter and Spring. Hope to do that again soon. 

Vince in the process of making us
salads for dinner. 

Vince pulled out his old air popper from storage. What fun it was! The idea is to make popcorn without any oil. Good idea since vegetable oil and canola oil has GMOs. We are going to try using grapeseed oil soon hoping that is healthy.

Vince popping our air popcorn. Quick, easy and fun!

Breakfast: 1 boiled egg, 1/4 cup oatmeal with milled flaxseed, green tea, frozen blueberries

2nd Breakfast: At a work event where breakfast was served: scrambled eggs and 2 sausage links, water, orange juice.Late Lunch: Ate out: chicken fajitas in tortillas with beans, few corn chips with salsaLate Dinner: salad, water

Day 360 Working Late and Bad Food Choices Today

Friday's Blog

Exercise: Walked briskly for 1 mile

Worked really late today so I saved my snacks for late afternoon/evening.

Breakfast: 1 boiled egg, 1/4 cup oatmeal with milled flaxseed in organic coconut milk
Snack: none
Lunch: Forgot my lunch today! Made a bad choice: Whataburger with cheese, water
Snack: apple, dried peas
Snack: plum, Oreo cookies
Snack: pear
Later Dinner: sweet potatoes, broccoli, chicken, salad, butter bread

Snacks at work. Didn't eat the carrot.

Starving by lunchtime and forgot
my lunch. Made a run for a
burger! 

Veggies, little chicken and salad for dinner.
Thanks to Vince for cooking AGAIN!

Been working on several projects causing a bit of havoc
in my office. Stayed late or organize everything. I'm the
type of person that is usually so organized that I even organize
my closet by clothes category and by color.
You can imagine how my office was bugging me.
So I ate some Oreo cookies! Ahhhhh!
Office is organized again.  : )

Ate 1 Oreo cookie package.

Post 359: Sardines!

Exercise: None. Got home at 7:30pm.

More info on sardines tomorrow.....

I came home from work and
was starving. Vince was sweet
to have a sardine sandwich
waiting my arrival. I ate it, but
won't again. 

Vince bought these as if I would eat them!!! I remember the
heavy horrible stench of sardines from childhood. My dad used
to eat them on the couch. I hated it. LOL

Dinner

Watermelon again as a snack. Yum!!

Day 358 Eat Sprouted Bread

Thursday's Blog

Exercise: Ran/Walked 3 miles at Memorial Park this evening.

I've discovered sprouted bread! Read about the benefits of eating Sprouted Bread.

One slice of bread as a snack...on the go.

Breakfast: 1 boiled egg, 1/4 cup oatmeal, frozen blueberries, green tea
Snack: none today...busy
Lunch: 1/2 salmon, sweet potato, zucchini, water
Snack: Can't remember what I ate yesterday.  : (
Dinner: See below.

So busy tonight and no time to cook dinner. I hate eating chips,
but Vince had some organic corn chips. You know I'm worried about
all the GMOs in corn, but Vince claims organic corn isn't as bad. 

I was also worried about the canola oil,
but Vince said since it is organic,
it won't be bad. Hmmmm, need to
do some research on all this.

Day 357 Frustrated A Bit!

Exercise: None. Toastmasters tonight and had some work to do.

Learning about GMO (Genetically Modifed Foods) bugs me. Seems most foods are bad to eat. It is frustrating  to spend so much money on expensive non GMO items.
I realized today that I have to get rid of the corn tortillas I eat all the time! GMOs! I was irritated at that discovery so I drove to Whataburger last night!! Can you believe that?

Do I just put things in perspective, do my best and go on with life eating GMO foods or do I really make an effort to change again and revamp everything I eat? I started this blog almost a year ago with the intention to be "better/healthier" in one year. Until recently I thought I had accomplished that goal and was proud and happy. Now with this new knowledge of GMOs, I feel I am back to square one....lacking the knowledge of how to eat properly and not eating the proper foods in order to maintain a healthy life-style. I'll figure it out.

My new goal will be to find organic non-GMO foods, organic restaurants, and to make new recipes etc that won't break my budget! Maybe that will be my next blog! Feeling better already.  : )

Here is a new recipe I think I will try. Makes many servings so I like that! I'll leave out the sour cream for sure!!
New Recipe I've been looking for recipes that will make several servings so I can freeze them and eat them later in the week. Trying to get organized better so I don't have to constantly prepare lunches and dinners.

Now eating organic cage free eggs
and drinking vanilla coconut milk.
All Trader Joe's label foods have
no GMOs!  : )

This is why I drink green tea.

Organic flaxseed. Great to add to
your oatmeal or yogurt. Lots of
fiber.

Salad for Dinner

Dinner: wild caught salmon
and sweet potatoes

Love enjoying watermelon as a snack.

Breakfast: organic brown free roaming eggs (should I start raising my own chickens??) LOL, 1/4 cup oatmeal with organic flaxseed and organic vanilla coconut milk, green tea
Snack: banana, low fat cottage cheese, water
Lunch: peanut butter sandwich on organic bread, apple slices, carrot, water
Snack: plum
Dinner: salad, salmon, sweet potato, water
Snack: watermelon

Day 356

Exercise: About to go do weights at the gym or jog at Memorial Park.

Vince was making us salads when
I got home from work.  : )

Dinner

What I call hurricane food! You know...when the electricity
goes out and you are stuck for days doing nothing in
the dark. What do you eat? Packaged peanut butter
and crackers of course! I pass these out during work meetings
and couldn't resist myself today. Hungry. 

Plum and cottage cheese (part of lunch)

Breakfast: 1 free range organic brown boiled egg, frozen blueberries, steel cut oatmeal, green tea
Snack: organic pear, water, 1 carrot
Lunch: leftovers: gluten free pasta with seaweed, organic broccoli, (the bad GMO squash), mushrooms, lowfat cottage cheese, organic plum
Snack: orange packaged crackers!! Ahhhhh total GMO food!
Dinner: Salad and corn tortilla with egg white and turkey bacon

Day 355 Trader Joe's: No More GMOs!

Exercise: none today

My last blog entry mentions genetically modified foods and how they can negatively affect you and your family in horrible ways without you even knowing it. After learning about GMOs, Vince and I have decided to do our best to go 100% organic. It can cost an arm and a leg so we are also going to look into growing our own foods for consumption. Keep in mind that SEEDS too are GMOs so you need to purchase seeds that are not genetically modified.

Trader Joe's Store opened up just a couple days ago so we tried it out today. They have a lot of organic food. We found we get better deals purchasing organic food at Costco for the price, but did come away with some items. It is a neat place to visit. A must see.


My first visit to Trader Joe's.
Usually buy the coconut milk
in bulk at Costco. Not my fav, but
found organic, vanilla coconut
milk at Trader Joe's. No GMOs!



All the aisles were packed! Insane.
Difficult to shop and a bit frustrating.
Come with patience.



Didn't buy this, but notice it states
the chicken is free from hormones.
This is the kind of stuff you need to
look for.



Dark leafy greens. Wish they had this
at Costco. Too expensive at Trader Joe's.



Breakfast: left over sqaush (the GMO
bad kind!!), eggs and mushrooms,
frozen blueberries, green tea



Dark leafy greens, avacado, red and
yellow bell peppers, 1/2 carrot, purple
cabbage, cumumber, wild caught
fish, olive oil and spices.

Have no idea if Pollock is good for
you, but the price was good for it
being Wild C

Organic Pears.

Organic strawberries. Yum!

Won't be buying RiceMilk any longer. Laying off on the rice
since the news.

Dinner: gluten free organic pasta with seaweed, organic broccoli,
squash, mushrooms. water, orange

Day 354 Genetically Modified Food!! I'm Horrified!

Exercise: None. Wanted to get out and do something today, but had a morning work-related function, ate out with Vince and then slept almost 4 hours! Where did the day go??




Looks healthy, but WAIT!! Is it slowly killing us? Read below to find out more!
Answer at the bottom!

I watched a video tonight and learned all about genetically modified foods. I was astounded at the potential of these genetically modified foods (GMOs) being a cause of allergies, disease, birth defects, intestinal issues, cancers. It sparked a huge interest in me to research this. This is straight from one website I found and it may capture your interest:
Q: Are we eating GM food?
A: GM soya is in about 60 percent of all processed food as vegetable oil, soya flour, lecithin and soya protein. GM maize is in about 50 percent of processed foods as corn, corn starch, cornflour and corn syrup. GM tomato puree is sold in some supermarkets and GM enzymes are used throughout the food processing industry. Government regulations on labelling exclude 95-98 percent of the products containing GM ingredients because they ignore derivatives. (from: http://www.saynotogmos.org/) I have not had a chance to look at the entire website, but a lot of it has caught my attention.
I'll try to post the video I viewed tomorrow if I am able to. It is over an hour and quite intense.
Pesticides, including Roundup Weed Killer is a major issue as well. Details later...getting late.

These are the 9 crops you want to avoid or buy only organic. According to the video, they are all genetically engineered and can cause havoc to the intestinal system in some people and much more. Stay away from soy too!! I had no idea and implemented it in my diet so often this past year!! Horrified.

1. Soy (keep in mind this is in baby formula and some vitamins too!  2. Corn!  3. Cottenseed (for oil)  4. Canola (for oil)  5. Sugar Beets  (for sugar)   6. Papaya (Hawaiian)  7. Zucchini!  8. Yellow Crookneck squash  ( I had this for breakfast and dinner today!!)
9. Alfalfa  (for hay).

Keep in mind....cows, pigs, and chickens all eat this bad corn. Then we eat them. This is huge and will require a lot of research. I work in a school and have done so since 1994. I've seen a huge increase in students with allergies to foods, learning issues, autism, and more. Ever wonder if there is a connection to food. How about genetically altered foods?

End goal to keep in mind is to go organic. I made what I thought was an excellent dinner tonight, but now I have to rethink it. I threw the corn away that we had in our pantry. Organic will be more expensive for sure. Need to figure out where we can cut costs to afford going ALL organic. Go organic! Skip eating poison.

 

I'm smiling BEFORE I knew about GMO!
Vince and I decided to eat out for lunch today.
Went to Mi Luna, which was one of my favorite
places when we used to eat out more often.
Ordered my favorite chicken croquettes with
safron rice. Fried...totally a heart attack item!



Tried something different. Clams. Okay I suppose.

Mi Luna is a Tappas Bar, meaning you get small appatizers
as your meals and share. You just order a bunch from the menu at one time. Pretty fun. Here is a goat cheese basil small pizza to share.

 I Finally tried the new recipe that I listed in the blog earlier in the week. Calabaza Con Pollo (Squash with Chicken). It was delicious, but there was a major problem!!

yellow onion, yellow squash,
calabaza squash, tomato

 


Saute all and then add spices:
3 tbs cumin, 3 tbs, garlic salt,
2 tsb black pepper.
Add in 8 onces of tomato
sauce. We were out so I used
canned chopped tomatoes.

Add in 2 cups organic chicken
broth and cubed chicken. Then
simmer all for 20 minutes.



Threw this out instead of adding it to our soup!!

Can this slowly kill us? Maybe. It was made with GMO  squash and possibly chicken! We will have to purchase ALL organic from now on. Say no to GMO foods! We need to get involved so
the government will label our foods GMOs!