hamburger with Gouda cheese on top and cauliflower/broccoli on the side .  Dinner was left overs.

I had a lovely lunch, that I actually turned down a free lunch in favor of, but I didn’t prepare it. I did select it, plan for it, and enjoy it immensely – 1 egg western omelet with American cheese, a piece of bacon, home made raisin toast, and shredded potatoes. Of course, only the omelet was finished. But, when we go to this particular place for…[Read more]

sounds great. More people getting access to you!

Yeah, I’m with you on the meal planning. And maybe even stepping back to meal ideas.  I follow a lot of low carb and bariatric boards on Pinterest, so when it’s time to plan meals, I just pull up Pinterest for inspiration.

I also create the recipes and log them on MFP ahead of time.

While not a “fabulous” lunch, it was one of my favorites …. reconstitued PB2 (peanut butter) with 2 reduced fat colby jack cheese sticks and some watermelon … yum!!

My lunch was something that I wanted and don’t do very often so I did it today.  Definitely not gourmet and not something anyone else would call fabulous but it was something I really liked and was actually craving.  I had a chocolate chip protein bar from Costco with whipped peanut butter on it!!!  This was fabulous to me!!! 🙂 (I know — crazy!!!)

Had a Dr appt this morning. This afternoon I decided to treat myself and went and got my hair colored and trimmed.

Oikos Greek yogurt for breakfast (peanut butter and banana–yum!)

Cottage cheese egg salad over baby spinach and some grape tomatoes for lunch.

A chopped Greek salad with chicken is planned for dinner.

Snack – some of my grape…[Read more]

I had a cottage cheese egg salad over baby spinach and some grape tomatoes. I found this recipe a while ago and loved it. So dug it out for today. No fat is added in this salad.

I had a fabulous lunch!!  Goulash!  Healthy (used whole wheat pasta) and soooo yummy!  My family hates it so I only get it once in a while!   Dinner will be ground beef pot pie!

Meal planning and prepping ahead of time! It takes the guess work out of my meals and I will actually eat real food instead of shakes or bars. I feel better physically and mentally when I do this. However, most of the time, I don’t do it, even knowing this. Probably because I have spent so many years skimping on my meals so that my husband and…[Read more]

I’m making some homemade chicken salad. It’s one of my favorite meals. After one of Nikki’s cooking demos, I started using plain Greek yogurt for part of the dressing and my hubby flipped over it and now requests it!

Would  you please post the recipe in the recipe exchange forum?!

Recipe, please! There’s a forum that you can post it in.

Another day of my husband’s forced vacation. (his work closed down for the entire week forcing employees to either take vacation or not get paid.) We can’t go anywhere because the pet boarding kennel was completely booked by the time he found out that he HAD to take vacation. Between that and his drs appointments yesterday (which caused a pain…[Read more]

I’m dragging. I know this sounds totally ungrateful and unpatriotic, but I really hate 4th of July! One reason is because of the rude people that set off (illegal) fireworks until 3 am for days on end. I need sleep, people!

Otherwise, doing ok. Following my food plan and working out with my trainer today.

Hmmm – I’m thinking…

Easy, peasy. I made a new thing this week – baked ranch chicken – that I really like! I make my husband try most of my new foods and he loved it also. I’ll have that with some raw veggies for lunch on a beautiful plate.

Coloring done! I keep gel pens and a random page from a coloring book at my desk so that I can draw/color/doodle when I need something to do with my hands during a long conference call.

Checking in – I forgot to draw last night! I gathered the implements, and then half were upstairs and half were downstairs and I was tired. I listened to my body. I will color today!

And I didn’t read ahead, so lunch was not prepared. Oops. That will have to be delayed because, I goofed.

Did two pictures from my coloring book.  I had forgotten how relaxing it is.