Day 90 Houston Zoo & New Year's Eve

I've made it to the 3 month mark! Content with my healthy eating and exercise challenge now. 

Exercise: Spin Class at Ballys. The instructor wasn't there due to the Holiday, but I worked out for 45 minutes even harder than usual. I was worried I wouldn't work as hard without an instructor so I really pushed myself. Burned 514 calories.
Walked at the Houston Zoo today.

Breakfast: Corn tortilla with spinach leaves, one boiled egg, plum green tea, raspberries.
Lunch: Made a tuna sandwich. See ingredients below.
Snack: no sugar hot chocolate with my new Flaxmilk.
Lunch #2 at the zoo: one corndog with mustard and french fries.
Snack: banana, few orange slices
Dinner: frozen pizza and a salad to celebrate the New Year.

Tuna Sandwich. Didn't eat the banana.
Very tastey sandwich.



Tuna with mayo. Not so worried about eating
things like mayo every now and then anymore.
Green onions, celery, carrots, spinach leaves,
tomatoes.

Lions and Tigers and Bears..oh my!





Day 89 Flaxmilk, Goat Cheese and 3 Grocery Stores Later

Exercise: Intense 40 minute run on the elliptical machine at Ballys. Burned 425 calories. 10 minute ab workout. Burned 37 calories.  Spin class yesterday was awesome!

Created my grocery list by looking at some healthy recipe books. I'll share some new recipes that I try this week. I was weasled into buying very expensive Flaxmilk to replace my soy milk. I've heard some news about how soy milk is dangerous due to too much estrogen. It seems like just about everything is bad these days. So I'll try this FlaxMilk, but I can't affort to pay $12.00 per six 32 ounce containers. I feel swindled! What was I thinking?? (pic below)

Needed goat cheese and BBQ sauce for my turkey meatloaf tonight. The BBQ sauce must not have corn syrup. Finally found one brand sweetened with brown sugar instead of corn syrup. I went to several grocery stores and found no goat cheese. Really should have gone to Whole Foods Market, but it was really out of the way. Substituting fetta cheese for goat cheese. I read that very few brands are actually made from goat's milk. Some are made from sheep and cow depending on the brand. Too hungry to care right now.

New recipe for tonight: Turkey Meat Loaf (as seen on the Today Show). Mix turkey meat (I'm guessing a pound), 2 ounces of goat cheese and a little BBQ sauce. I put about an 1/8 cup. May need more. Not sure.
Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. I'll let you know if that works out okay.

Breakfast: 2 left over Christmas tamales. Trying to get rid of them. 2 more left. Green tea.
Lunch: No time to cook. 1 corn tortilla with fajita chicken left over from yesterday. Mixed greens also in the chicken taco. No sugar hot chocolate with soy milk. (soy milk is 100 calories per cup).
Snack: one delicious chocolate almond cluster candy from samples at Costco.
Raspberries with 2 tablespoons plain Greek yogurt
Dinner: Turkey meatloaf, zuccini, salad, red potatoes
Dessert: 2 slices of watermelon




Only 50 calories per cup vs. 100 in soy milk per cup
30% calcium in both.

Extra lean turkeyloaf, zuccini,
red potatoes with olive oil and
parsley, mixed greens with tomatoes

  

Day 88 Out On The Town Temptations

Exercise: Spin class at Ballys today! Burned 398 calories in 30 minutes. Arm/Chest weights burned 71 calories.
Last night Vince and I ate out for dinner. I wanted to stop and get dessert everywhere! It was already premeditated that I would get dessert. Just a question of where. We drove to 3 different Starbucks searching for my favorite chocolate brownie, but almost got side-tracked along the way.

I never want donuts! They give me a
huge headache if I eat them before noon.
Wanted one. Drove by and luckily they
were already closed for the evening.
Whew! I was going to get a chocolate
one. 



Ice-cream craving was next. It was a little chilly out
and Vince didn't want ice-cream. I could already
taste the fudge brownie chocolate ice-cream cone.
Not tonight.

Day 87: Working on Killer Abs and Yard Work

Exercise: Daily Ab Workout App. 10 different ab exercises one minute each. Video shows you how to do them. Ballys today. Did the elliptical as if I was running. Burned 319 calories. Used my cardio app. Allows you to not only track calories of the machine you do, but the intensity as well. Today was high intensity for me.

Starting to see an improvement in leg muscles. Must be the elliptical machine and spin class. Want to work on my abs more. Raked leaves in the backyard. Burned 200 calories.

Breakfast: not hungry since we ate late. One boiled egg, green tea
Lunch: see below
Snack: no sugar hot chocolate with soy milk and one corn tortilla, slice of ham, mixed greens, 1/2 avacado.
Dinner: Pei Wei Asian Diner with Vince (See below)
Snack: Went to Starbucks and had their chocolate brownie. Premeditated decision.


Sweet potato with olive oil and some salt.
Mixed veggies, chicken strips with spices.
Water.




Dinner: brown rice, chicken with sauce,
carrots, snow peas, peanuts.

 
 

Raked leaves in the backyard today. Burned 200 calories.

Day 86 Leaves, leaves, leaves!

Exercise: Raked the yard for 4 hours. Arm/back weights yesterday + raking today = achey body. Great workout. Ended up not going to spin class tonight. Needed to just relax.
Calories Burned: almost 600 according to my cardio App.
Forgot to mention that I did an ab workout yesterday using my Daily Cardio Abs App.

Breakfast: Last left over 1/2 tuna sandwich, raspberries, plum green tea.
Snack: Another green tea
Lunch: 2 egg omlette with ingredients below, water
Dinner: 3 1/2 left over beef tamales from Christmas, salad, water
Snack: no sugar hot chocolate and corn tortilla with 2 slices of ham


red onion, zuccini, mixed greens,
cheese, ham, 2 eggs, 2 corn tortillas.



Day 85 Near Car Crash

Exercise: Weights and Elliptical machine at Ballys.
I returned from the gym today to find our home was nearly driven into.

Excitement of the day was when a teenager lost control of his jeep, drove it up the curb onto our front yard all the way into our bushes. Luckily, he stopped about 5 inches from our dining room windows as my husband watched from another room. Close call, but no damage to our home and the driver was okay. Christmas miracle.

Breakfast: left over 1/2 tuna sandwich, plum green tea
Snack: raspberries
Lunch: left over glutten free lasagna with extra lean turkey meat, water, salad with 12 avacado and tomato
Snack: no sugar hot chocolate with soy milk, 2 biscuts with butter left over from the company. RATS!
Later snack: plum green tea, orange
Dinner: 1/2 salmon, sweet potatoes, greenbeans and mixed veggies, water, buttered wheat bread slice.


Had more lasagna, but ate it before taking the photo.



Day 84 Christmas Day!

Exercise: Walked one mile with Mom and Pops (visiting from Corpus Christi) at Memorial Park. Way to cold, damp and misty. Vince and I jogged about 15 minutes in our neighborhood this evening until my knee hurt again.

Had a difficult time eating well today. So many delicious non-healthy items in the fridge and so many people enjoying them all!

Breakfast: one biscut, corn tortilla, boiled egg wth mixed greens, plum green tea, bits of my sisters bean tamales.
Snack: water, raspberries, couple apple slices.
Snack: Starbucks tall hot chocolate with whipcream.
Lunch: tuna sandwich with a salad on the side (tuna had lots of mayo mixed in, onions, egg, walnuts)
Snack: part of a cupcake
Dinner: Tuna Sandwich, one bean tamale, water

Merry Christmas Everyone!