Day 5.

Poop.  I messed up tonight.  

Breakfast:
Quinoa with berries, a little honey, cinnamon and soy milk

Mid Morning:
Chicken
Cucumber

Lunch:
Shrimp Ceviche with avocado
1 asian pear

Midday:
Frozen yogurt from Luna Berry with kiwi and dark chocolate

Dinner:
Black bean Butternut squash chili (made with black beams, beef, butternut squash, roasted tomato, green pepper, onion, and spices)
Carrots


Post dinner:
I fail.   1/2 everything vegan cookie from Whole Foods, Amy's cheddar bunnies, and Amy's graham bunnies.

EEK!

I was craving carbs. :(  

Day 4?

Only day 4? Really?  Wow.  I cheated today. Oops!  It was just an "incident."  You'll see.  It pains me to put it all in words, actually.

Breakfast:

• Shake made with Shaklee protein, berries, 1/2 cup oats, and soy milk 

Mid morning: 

• 1 pear
• cashews

Lunch:

• baked cod
• brown rice with some black beans
• 1/2 cucumber 

Mid day: here' were it gets bad. 

• 2 Reese's cups
• 2 fun size snickers

My friend Heidi had the halloween candy out and I couldn't resist.  Oops! :D  It was delish. 

Dinner:  

• 1/2 avocado with shrimp ceviche (shrimp, onion, green pepper, jalepeno, tomato, cilantro, lime juice, orange juice). 

Post dinner: 

• Dirty Chai latte   

Son

Breakfast:
Egg whites
Oats cooked with soy milk, berries, cinnamon, and honey

Mid morning:
Pear
Cashews

Lunch:
Baked cod
Brown rice
Steamed carrots

Mid day:
Chocolate Shaklee Cinch shake

Dinner:
Shaklee Cinch bar
Asian pear (I got at the farmers market today).


Only three days in and in already having less cravings for junk.

Day 2

Here we go:

Breakfast:

• 1 scoop Shaklee energizing soy protein with 1/2 cup oats, 1 cup light soy milk, lemon juice, and two plums all blended together.  

Midmorning: 

• apple
• cashews

Lunch:

• brown rice
• steamed carrots
• chicken breast

Midday: 

• smoked turkey
• carrots 

Dinner:  

• Spinach salad with black beans, heirloom baby tomatoes, salsa, and chicken 

Post dinner: 

• cashews

I'm up kind of late tonight.   Went to the new Warren Miller ski movie tonight and knew I wouldn't be able to make it from 7pm-bed time without eating, thus the cashews came into play.  

Love.  

Welcome Back Kotter

Well here we go.  4 weeks. 28 days. About 150 meals.  Lots of lean protein, brown rice, sweet potatoes, oats, veggies, and fruits.  

Its on.  Like donkey kong.

Okay, that was cheesy.

But so anyway, the whole reason I started this blog way back in 2010 was to keep me honest with my clean eating, and whelp, here we are again.  I need something to keep me honest over the next 4 weeks so here goes:

Breakfast:

• 1/2 cup oats with cinnamon and chopped apples
• Egg whites
• Coffee

Midmorning: 

• 1/4 cup cashews
• 1 pear

Lunch: 

• Spinach salad with heirloom cherry tomatoes, black beans, fresh salsa, and chicken breast

Midday: 

• Celery
• Chicken breast  

Dinner: 

• Steamed carrots
• Brown rice
• Chicken   

So on the Eat Clean Diet: Stripped!  you can eat a sixth meal if you're hungry after dinner.  Maybe I'll have one, maybe I won't.  

Making Banana Pancakes. . . .

Ok so I'm not like Jack.  I didn't make banana pancakes today.  I made Blueberry Banana Oat Muffins. 

These yummy creations are so easy to make and super clean and healthy.  They call for 3 cups oats, 1 cup coconut milk, 1 tbls baking powder, 2 eggs, 3 bananas, 2 cups blueberries, a little honey to sweeten, a little vanilla, and some cinnamon.  You just mix everything sans oats first and then once that is all good, you add in the oats.  Bake at 400 for 20-25 minutes.  The recipe makes 12 muffins (6 servings).  Yummy!!!

A day worth blogging about!

Day three of operation hot body. :D

Meal 1:

• Egg whites with onion, mushrooms, and arugula
  
• rolled oats with flax, wheat germ, and pumpkin spice
  

Arugula = FANTASTIC. Try it if you never have! :)

Meal 2:

• 1 pink lady apple
  
• 1 scoop of vanilla whey protein
  

Mmmmmm pink lady apples are soooooo good.

Meal 3:

• carrots
  
• green pepper stuffed with ground chicken with spinach and feta (baked)
  

Whole foods has as awesome meat section. They have this ground chicken that's already mixed and seasoned. The one with spinach and feta is basically to die for. :D Feta makes everything betta.

Meal 4:

• herb blend salad with mushrooms and lemon tarragon chicken
  
• 1 sweet potato with half scoop cinnamon roll protein powder by BSN
  

So usually I would eat 5 meals a day, but I just wasn't hungry earlier. And I would have made myself eat, but I just didn't blah, blah, blah... And also normally I would eat half the sweet potato with lunch and the other half with dinner, but it wasn't done cooking in time for me to eat it at lunch. oops! Guess I'm better about when I cook everything the night before.


Workout:

• 5 mile run at a 10 minute pace. This is actually pretty good for me. I didn't run a lot in November or December and have been running slower than usual lately. Hoping to get back to a 9 minute pace sooner than later.
  
• ARMS! Did the arm machines in the circuit room today at the field house. Worked hard and kicked my butt.
  

Time spend at the gym: 2 hours. :D