Wow. Had an awesome workout today. Did about 1.5 hours of circuit training. I did variations of squats, lunges, plyometric exercises, T360 and Tone it Up exercises. I am worked!

BUT, when I got home tonight I blew my days relatively healthy menu. I ate a whole bar of hazelnut chocolate...about 600 cals. GEEEZ!
Tomorrow is a new day...will definitley be reducing calories consumed to make up for the chocolate attack.

Lately my focus has NOT been on food and I am suddenly below what I wanted to be. I am almost afraid to write this because I don't want to seem like I am bragging but it's simply the truth. I have been spending my extra time focusing on a side project (business) and being that my day is completely full anyway with my job, child, friends, and husband, food has been left out of the whole equation. I don't dream about tortilla chips and guac anymore, or pizza from the Tavern, nope I'm thinking about how to make us a few more $$. I literally have to remind myself to eat. I am not malnutritioned I eat oatmeal every morning, snack on nuts or fruit, eat a salad or sandwich and then dinner. My portions are pretty small because my stomach has shrunk. I feel like I am eating to live not living to eat now. I feel like food is my friend. Since I am not starving and craving large portions of cheese and dough my choices are simple and what's in my fridge. I shop wisely and only buy foods I know I should eat not want to eat. So for now this time in my life my struggle is not with food it's with getting enough exercise and making some $ to buy a house. Life is never perfect but I'm liking this scenario.

DOES SUBWAY COUNT?

This challenge is not as difficult for me as the no flour. However soon after I gave birth I started eating cookies which was really odd since I had never had the urge before? It took me a few months to realize I was even eating them really. My Dr. had said, um ok you can start losing your pregnancy weight now? I was so offended because I had only gained 32 pounds which I thought was pretty good but then it hit me I hadn't really changed back to the way I used to eat. Anyway so far so good. It's Tuesday and not one sweet treat! 3 more days to go!!

Wow. This week has FLOWN by. I have been kinda bad with my diet! EEK!! Had some Mexican pastries, a grilled cheese from In 'n Out and a bean and cheese burrito the size of my thigh...needless to say tomorrow is gonna be a minimum 10 mile run.

So I am happy to say I have not had any pasta, crackers, bread, etc since Sunday. I almost had a white cracker because I just didn't register it, and almost made pasta for dinner because that was the easiest thing to make at the time but caught myself and thought outside the box. I feel good so far and each meal I eat I don't feel stuffed. All I'm going to do is go get some gluten free pasta and crackers and this will be easy.

What would you do if you had a mother in law that really doesn't understand she is causing all of her problems by the food she eats? My husband just goes silent when I mention something, he doesn't want to confront her. I think it would maybe be saving her life if someone told her that 2 oatmeal cookies for breakfast isn't the answer for the 'fiber' she said she needs and gets from her cookies. Ok maybe the 1 tablespoon of oatmeal in the cookie but what about the flour, butter, and sugar? I really am so frustrated. How do I even begin. I don't want to be disrespectful or hurtful. How do I tastefully respond? What I want to say is you must be kidding right? You honestly think you need those two cookies to help you go to the bathroom? Someone help me. It's really bothering me. I want my daughter to know her grandma. They are headed to McDonald's and I just couldn't go. I fed my daughter oatmeal with some almond butter so she gets full before they feed her processed artery clogging food.

Hi I am new to the site. I have been using the Catie's Organic Greens and Vitamin C in my morning smoothie for about 6 months now and it is really amazing. If you have not had a chance to try it I encourage you to give it a go for 30 days. You will notice a difference, especially around the holidays.

I've been a vegan now for about 6 months, and my husband comes in and out of it. I really love eating this way, and I feel great and have lost about 10 tough pounds that nothing else seemed to be able to get rid of. But I am getting kind of bored with dinner. Does anyone have any good recipes for me?

Ohhhhh, this is a very good challenge as like the most of us human beings we always seem to be in a big hurry even when we are eating a meal.

When growing up I use to think why does it take Mom so many hours to prepare a great meal (especially holiday meals) and almost everyone be done with in
20 min. or so...I also remember my Mom telling everyone to slow down...LOL!
Sometimes I catch myself eating so fast and other times when I am self conscience about my eating I chew more and take my time...

After today's challenge I am going to pay more attention daily and slow my eating down and chew my food and enjoy it!

My husband and I are really trying to focus on eating healthier; exchanging most of our food with healthy alternatives. We changed from regular semolina pasta to whole grain pastas, using tomato-based sauces and adding extra tomatoes to the sauce. We eat a salad with every home-cooked meal using dark leafy greens.

Drinking Silk soy milk, and adding more fruit to our daily menu. I still am having a hard time staying away from the sweets.

I will do good for maybe a couple of days a week at most, then I "makeup" for the week I went without...frustrating.

Sometimes I am good with replacing a healthier sweet like yogurt with fruit, or a smoothy, or sorbet instead of icecream. But I have yet to be consistent on that front. I think my next move will be to buy some stevia or agave and make my own healthier versions of desserts, since we've successfully replaced healthier versions of some of our favorite fast food and restaurant meals. I hope it tastes good...

Weight - 9 stone 12 pounds


I havent done any measurements as yet because it is that time of the month si I might be a bit bloated.


Rather than following a very specfic diet what I am doing is using ideas from what I have read in magazines, on the internet etc and recently from the toneitup diet plan that I won through the 30 day challenge. This will be my main focus of ideas however.


For breakfast this morning I had 2 weetabix with a little semi-skimmed milk and a sachet of some of the sweetener I won.


For a mid morning snack I weighed out 3 1/2 oz of almonds but only around half of them.


For lunch/dinner I had some brown rice with some quorn "beef-style" chilli. This included 200g of tinned tomatoes. With this I had a little orange juice to drink.




Now, Tuesday is cake, coffee and DVD day lol. This is just something I like to do and is my treat. I had a piece of coffee cake and some iced coffee. I do this on a Tuesday because then I have the rest of the week to be good :)


For my tea I had some bacon-style pieces fried with some chopped onions in a little vegetable oil.

Protein powder, what can you tell me about it? Which flavors do you like, and why? Do you have recipes using the protein powder? Any information would be greatly appreciated.

I loved the 30 day challenge so much I decided to try my own. Well it wasn't my idea it was my mom's. Out of blue she said I'm giving up sugar for 30 days she said. I was floored. She did some of the challenges with me when I told what was presented that day but I didn't think she was into it. And she comes up 2 days a week to help my husband and I with our daughter to cut down on nanny costs and she ALWAYS brings dessert. I try and drop hits for her not to but she enjoys baking so much and I don't like to be ungrateful. I normally don't eat dessert but have been when she comes and really don't want it. So when she said she was giving up sugar I jumped aboard. So I am on day 5 and am doing great. I have not had one sweet thing not even gatorade. I had an urge the 2nd and 3rd day but now nada. I think when this is over I will try to give up my glass of wine :( I did it for 12 months while I was trying to get pregnant and pregnant and feel like I looked better not so dried out? We'll see. First I have to get through 25 more days of no sugar. (I'm not counting the sugar my wine has in it fyi ;)

Just a recommendation for all the honey line girls out there. If you are needing some motivation or just want to see a really great, inspiring movie check out Food Inc.. It is a lot of smaller theaters and I think you will find it highly interesting and life changing.


find out more info at http://www.foodincmovie.com


All the best!

About 10 years ago I became friends with an awesome lady who told me about cleansing, clean eating and helped me to see that food today is laced with chemicals and bad ingredients. Up until then I had this notion that someone had to be looking out for us and that foods couldn't be harmful because they were going through some sort of inspection. Well... that is so far from the truth I have found out that all the ugly facts are right there on the labels. I am glad I changed my ways before I had kids.


My husband and I have raised our 6,5,3, and 1 year old on organic, living, and natural yummy foods. I am such a nerd that I get excited when I see all those beautiful different colored foods going into their mouths (fruits and veggies)! The cool thing about being a healthy food nerd is that even though lots of people may think you are extreme or weird, nerds are actually the new "in crowd". :) Whether you are good with your money and save (money nerds, as people may call you) or great with your nutrition (healthy nerd) you are actually using wisdom and you know what "they" say about the wise. Well, "they" say a lot of things about the wise and it's all good!


So I am going to a party tomorrow night and I am going to bring a barley salad. The cool thing is a lot of my friend are healthy nerds too so they will actually receive the barley salad with open arms.


Love the healthy snacks form Gabby and Laird and I am excited to check out your recipes! Thanks for those!


-Melissa

healthy nerd


P.S. My kids still have treats and so do we but we just make sure that they are made with pure ingredients, etc. ...were nerds not saints :) haha!

Hey Honeys-


Just found an article that may inspire you on the water challenge. Water is one of the top things "they" say you can do for a long life. BONUS!


http://health.yahoo.com/experts/drmao/8307/top-5-habits-to-increase-longevity/


Drink for life!!

I have run into a problem that I'm not really sure how to handle. My kids are in high school and middle school and are starting to have schedules that don't really coincide very well. While one is resting, the other is doing something, then it flips.
Problem is dinner. Because their schedules are so different, its much easier to just grab something while we are out. I want to stop doing that. Right now, its either eat dinner together at 3:30 or at 9:00 or one kid gets a decent dinner and the other doesn't. Any ideas or tips to this dinner problem?