Weigh In Wednesday: Weeks 4 & 5

Well I totally forgot to blog last week about my weight loss for week 4.  Probably because I didn't lose anything but gained 1 lb! YIKES  I knew this would more than likely happen because I really was not good about drinking my water or watching what I was eating.   So Week 4 my total weight loss was 5 lbs.

Week 5 I did do better with eating less but still not so great with drinking my water.  But I did LOSS 1 lb! So I made up for the 1 lb I gained back.  My total weight loss for 5 weeks is 6 lbs.  Not the greatest for 5 weeks but better than nothing I say!  I really really need to get better at eating better breakfasts.  I think that is one of my major issues as well.  I do pretty decent for lunch and dinner, but I eat snacks or not so good for you muffins and stuff like that for breakfast.  My goal is to start finding healthier breakfast options and making and eating them! And apparently I need to do this for my daughter too! I just love that my dad works at her school and is friends with her preschool teachers because some of the stories they tell him and in turn he tells me just make my day!  Today (after eating 1 1/2 gogurts and some pop tart minis) she tells her teacher that "my mommy never gives me enough to eat in the morning and I'm always starving!" She really is too comical! And that is what she asks for for breakfast! So maybe I need to start serving her 3 course meals for breakfast as well.  I do honestly think that my daughter will eat us out of house and home.  She could seriously constantly eat all day long and still be hungry!  And she has not one ounce of fat on her! She is all muscle!  I'm not sure what I would do without my baby girl! I just love her so much and she makes our lives so much better!

So here is to  hoping that Week 6 has another loss as well!
Happy Healthy Eating!

Meal Plan Monday: My Meal Plan for the Week of 2/27

This weeks meal plan I just now finished!  I have been a little behind on my meal planning and blogging in general lately.  Hopefully I'll get it together and start being a little more organized!

This week will be a pretty easy week for me cooking wise.  I'm off the hook for 3 nights dinners!

Monday 27th- Gino's East Pizza- They are closing this week and I still have a groupon deal to use there, so cheap, yummy pizza!

Tuesday 28th- Chicken Quesadillas- the chicken is in the crock pot today so I will just have to put it all together and heat it up tomorrow after the gym.

Wednesday 29th- Fish Fry with my parents, brother, sis in law and Uncle!  My Uncle gets us tickets each year to his Church's fish fry! It's pretty funny because they actually have their fish fry at my Church's school!  So Emma will be excited to eat in her gym.

Thursday 1st- Hamburgers on the grill and french fries.  Hopefully the weather is ok.  If not probably BBQ Chicken Sandwiches

Friday 2nd- Dinner with Friends!! I just need to bring a dessert or 2.  Any suggestions??

Saturday 3rd- Enchiladas and possibly having French Toast Bake for Breakfast! Depends on how creative I feel Friday night!

Sunday 4th- Pancakes for Breakfast (made on my new griddle pan!) and my Parents for dinner.

Whats for dinner at your house this week?

Week 6 of 52 Week Organization Challenge

I am a few weeks behind!  Here is the link for week 6. This week was creating a home recycling center and dealing with trash.  An easy but important challenge for me.  We already have a really good system down for our recycling and trash issues.  Our recycling items do not have to be sorted and are just dumped into our big recycling bin, taken to the curb every 2 weeks and is emptied by the recycling man!  We are very aware of things that can be recycled and try to put everything that we can in there.  Even our 5 year old is really good about asking or knowing if something can be recycled and putting it in there as well.  Our recycling bin in the house is something that isn't the cutest but works for what we need it to do!  We use an old, emptied and cleaned plastic kitty litter container! 

Once it gets full, about every other day, we just take it out our back door and empty it into the city provided big recycling bin. This bin sits right around the corner of the kitchen so it makes it super easy for us to recycle!

We have a good system already in place as well for our everyday trash, just an ordinary trash can that Brian empties when it gets full.  With this challenge though I did give the trash can and surrounding area a nice clean!

The next weekly challenge is Coupons!

Meal Plan Monday: My Meal Plan for the Week of 2/20

Today starts another Monday and my poor baby Caden isn't feeling the best.  He is coughing and is very flemmy.  Thankfully his cough is really loose so I'm hoping that means he is almost done with it.  I love that this winter has been nice but I hate what the constant temperature changes does to the kids, and Brian and I. 
Last week we stuck to the meal plan pretty well but we did eat out alot more on the weekend than we typically do.  I'm afraid of what the scale will say on Wednesday.  This past week I have been in a blah mood and my diet has definitely reflected that (as has my motivation to do much of anything creative this last week or so).
Here's this weeks Plan.

Monday 20th: French Toast Bake (Pinterest- Not even counting the points!) This thing looks so yummy and I wanted to make it this weekend but we ended up going to Cracker Barrel for breakfast yesterday (so not complaining about that!)

Tuesday 21st: Tacos

Wednesday 22nd: Ash Wednesday so no Meat- Pasta Bake

Thursday 23rd: Chicken, Potato, Veggie Bake (Kraft Foods) I have had this on the Menu for the last few weeks and I am bound and determined to make this!

Friday 24th: No Meat Friday- Cheese Pizza (unless I get more creative during the week!)

Saturday 25th: Hamburgers (haven't had these all winter and they sound so good!)

What's for dinner at your house this week?

Weigh In Wednesday: Week 3

This past week I lost .5 lbs.  Not the greatest but at least I lost something! So I am down 6 lbs in 3 weeks.  I did have a few challenging days and know I did not drink water like I should be. 

Last Wednesday I just wanted to eat everything in site!  I was just hungry all day long.  Thankfully I was in Chesterton and too lazy to leave the trailer to go out and get junk!  I had only packed my sandwich for lunch, goldfish and some oranges so I couldn't eat too bad.  I did though on the way home have to stop and get gas and got a coffee cake from the gas station, but that really pretty much held me over till supper.  I am sure that I will have many more days like this throughout my weight loss and than my maintaining my weight, but I'm ok with that.  This new healthier eating is a lifestyle that I will have to (and want to) continue with so if there are some days I just want to eat bad stuff, I'll eat some bad stuff!  I'll just have to workout a little harder than to compensate.

So my goals for this week are to drink more water, really watch the extra junk that I am eating because it adds up faster than I realize and continue to work out 3 days a week.

Here's to hoping for more weight loss this week!

Meal Plan Monday: My Meal Plan for the Week of 2/13

I have been really good about meal planning for about a month now and I can already tell that I am saving money!  Plus we are eating better meals and not eating fast food at all, and being organized with food!  Makes me really happy.  Last week I went grocery shopping and only spent $42.xx!  That is like a miracle for me because we usually spend at least $100.00 a week if not more.  Last week though I was really good and only bought what was on my list.  I do realize that every few weeks it will be alot more because I will have to stock up on snacks and stuff like that that has run out.  I'll wait until I can get a good sale on the stuff like that though.

Last week I stayed on track really pretty good.  Thursday we ended up using a gift card we got for Christmas and had Subway after Gym and Dance, but February is $5 foot long month so we all ate for 11.xx (that includes the bag of chips Emma got!)  And Friday I just had a total fail and forgot to put the frozen chicken in the crock pot for my meal until 1 so that definitely was not ready by the time we were hungry.  We ended up having scrambled eggs, toast and grapes.  Everyone ate all gone and it was really good and nice to have something different.  So we had the Chicken on Sat and it was super yummy! Will definitely make that again. 

So here is this weeks plan...

Monday: Deep Dish Pizza (WW 5 pts- this is what got bumped from last week)

Tuesday: Italian Beef Sandwiches (Amanda- 7pts)

Wednesday: Chicken, Potato, Veggie Bake (Pinterest- Kraft Foods)

Thursday: Chili

Friday: Tacos

Saturday: Beef Fajitas

What's for dinner at your house this week?

Weigh In Wednesday: Week 2

Week 2 of WW and working out went pretty good!  I lost another 2 lbs for a total of 5.5 lbs so far!  Saturday Brian, the kids and I went to the gym for the 1st time in probably 4 months for me.  It works out really nice because the kids like to go to "Gym School" (named by Emma's friend Ms. Morgan!) and Brian and I get to work out and shower afterwards while the kids have fun, play and color.  Even with eating a not so healthy meal of Creamy Raviloi and Chicken from Applebees Saturday I still managed to lose!  This week I have worked out on Monday and plan to work out Friday and Saturday as well.  We go to Memorial Health and Lifestyle and its such a nice, clean and great gym.  They have really nice, top of the line equipment, a cool workout monitoring system and awesome classes.  Going somewhere you like makes it alot easier to go too!  The people that work out there are really pretty good too.  There is a good mix of super in shape people and people that are working to get there!  I never go and feel that people are looking at me funny or judging me by how I look or what I can or can't do while I am working out.

This week the meal plan has been going really well and I'm still trying to drink as much water as I can and eat as much fruits and veggies as I can as well.  The one area I need to work on those are sides for our meals.  I am doing good cooking the main meal but really really bad making sides.  We love steamed brocolli and green beans, I just forget to pop them in the microwave for the 8-10 mins!  My goal is to cook better sides!

My motivational marbles just got 8 more moved to the LOST side!  What a great feeling that is to keep moving them over! 

Also if you look to the right side of this post you can see I now have a Weight Loss Ticker!  Each Wednesday I will be updating that as well with what I have lost!