Coasting

I guess that link up and my new followers got the blog-juices flowing. Those do exist right? Yeah they do. Anyways, welcome new followers :) I'm glad I could trick you into following my crazy life!

Last night Danny and I went to eat at one of the hand full of restaurants in our town, The Curve. I may have talked about it a month ago when I was recapping my brother's birthday. I went there with every intention of getting fish. Yes, it was fried but it was probably better than the burger that I ended up ordering that I washed down with a Coors Light. While I was thinking about how I was going to enter those calories into LoseIt and how many I was going to be over, I came to a realization. I am not going to beat myself up over a bad meal once a week. Granted, I did binge on Tuesday night with the almost full bottle of SkinnyGirl and the pizza, but that was a special occasion. The realization came with the thought that I'm not in a big hurry to lose a bunch of weight, right at this moment. Yes, it is important to me but I am SO much happier with my body than I was just 6 months ago. The weight is coming off slow and thats alright. I've been putting very little effort into this and it IS going to be a slow process.

There is the monetary motivation from Erin's DietBet, and I am already down 2 pounds. I did very well eating this week. Yes, very well is still used to describe a week with 2 bad meals. I could be doing worse. Next Friday is the end of my crazy work schedule and I can commit to this journey. I can lose the last 4 pounds by the end of the bet. So for the next week, I will continue to coast along at the current pace. After I take a break next Saturday and indulge in some St. Patty's Day fun at the Curve, its back at it on Sunday.

The other day I came up with a breakfast idea that I wanted to share. I woke up with a craving for something sweet, chocolate to be more specific. While in the shower thinking about a good way to go about this craving, I came up with the plan to make Hot Chocolate Oatmeal.

 



200 calories for a sweet breakfast treat? I'll take it! I used Swiss Miss Sugar Free mix and I HAD to add marshmallows because whats hot chocolate without marshmallows? Not hot chocolate thats what!

Alright, I am off to meet my mama for lunch, house hunting for her, and maybe some light shopping? I see Target in my near future. See yens!

Finish the Sentence...



On this lovely, and long awaited, Friday morning as I sit here and drink my coffee, I am joining my first ever Linkup. I know, its huge. And it's almost as if Holly knew there would be some newbie wantin in on this hilarious-ness because if it weren't for those instructions... I would of been late to work.

 

So if you wondered over here from Holly or Jake, welcome and enjoy!

 

 

1. People always tell me I look just like my mom then 5 minutes later someone tells me I look just like my dad.

2. In the movie based on my life, the casting team would have a hell of a time finding another person on this earth with a head as big as mine and size 10 feet all on a 5'3" frame. That can also act. Best of luck!

3. Typically, I end up regretting eating the whole DQ Blizzard.

4. I always ask to leave off the freakin onions.

5. Kim and Kanye really need to stop pulling me in like I'm watching a car accident.

6. My Parents always reminded me that people in hell wanted ice water too (my mother) and that I could "want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up faster (my dad).

7. Every single day I want to chop my hair off as I blow dry it.

8. This one time in College  4 of my sorority sisters went to Chicago for a night, thought we had a place to stay, got kicked out, then lied and told the hotel we stayed at there were only 2 of us. Wild, I know!

9. My grossest habit is probably not showering after Zumba then curling up in bed next to Danny.  Sorry honey.

10. My latest white lie was I don't lie. (Does that count?)

11. I know all the words to Air Force Ones by Nelly and his intro to Girlfriend by Nsync. Love his old shit.

12. When I grow up I want to be Carrie Underwood's twin.

13. Sexy time is almost always interrupted by the dog.

14. I will never, ever drive a minivan. I'll mexipack the shit out of a Tahoe or Traverse if I have too.

15. I think it's hilarious when little kids cuss. I no joke had tears in my eyes on the episode of Modern Family when Lily said the F word. Tears, stomach hurt, couldn't talk laughing. I'm so ready for kids.

 

That's all folks. :)

 



 

 

The bet is on!

The DietBet began today and this girl is getting back on track! Yesterday was a one of very best friend's birthday so we went over to his house for cake. Their house usually involves drinks of some sort, so I came prepared with SkinnyGirl Sangria. I wasn't, however, prepared to have 3 servings of it, which is 3/4 of the bottle.  I could of done worse (like drink the whole bottle) though because those 3 servings were just shy of 400 calories. A good buzz for a lunch's worth of calories? I'll take it. I could hardly help it though. When the birthday boy keeps filling your glass up, you can't exactly tell him no. Its his birthday for pete's sake!

After visiting for a couple hours, I rode around with the hubs while he plowed his mom and dad's driveways because central Indiana got hammered with this last night...

Snow is all fine and dandy: if you're in grades kindergarten through 12th, or its not MARCH! Its completely okay to snow AFTER Thanksgiving until March 1st. Any other time? I don't want any part of it. Thankfully we have a plow because we live on the edge of town thats kinda city, kinda county and neither really would want to plow. I mean, thank heavens I was able to get to work! I kid.

At the beginning of this post I said I was getting back on track, then I got distracted with bitching. My apologies.  I've eaten extremely well today and have done oookay on my water intake. An afternoon meeting threw me off, but thats life.  I didn't get home from work until 6pm, right when Danny was going to a meeting of course, but I STILL got a small workout in.  I stumbled across some TV show work outs about a year ago and always seem to forget about them. I'm bringin those babies back out and putting them to use! I turned on last night's episode of Pretty Little Liars and went to work. Last nights episode got me this...

 



 



Its not a lot but at least its something. When I have more time I'll post my TV show workouts and help someone else make the most of their time in front of the tube. Fow now, I've gotta feed my husband dinner.

Creamy Shrimp Stir Fry

First things first folks: Check out that header! I did that bad boy all by myself after I did my button through the help of Hubby Jack's tutorial! I was so proud of myself! I still want to have him design my blog sometime in the future, but my little changes will do for now.

I survived Monday.  It started off kind of rough with that whole not wanting to get out of bed thing. It probably had a lot to do with the fact that after I went to bed at 10pm, Diesel wanted to go outside at 11pm, 2 am, then at 4am whined just enough to get me out of bed and walk over to the bedroom door while he walked over to Danny's side of the bed and proceed to jump up on the bed JUST missing Danny's face by about a half a centimeter. It was like it happened in slow motion and I held my breath the whole time. Quite an eventful morning.  Although a baby requires more attention, Diesel has been a great test run.

I signed up for Erin's DietBet today on my lunch hour. I don't know who invented these things but GENIUS! I was talking about motivation the other day, and this girl is motivated by money. Hopefully in a month this picture looks a lot better. Don't mind the dog, he is such a nibshit and I normally don't weigh myself in the living room by the front door and take pictures of myself. He was all confused.

Anywho, back to Sunday. The hubs and I went on a breakfast and errands day.  We went to Bob Evans and had a decently healthy breakfast. I had an omelet with egg beaters and home fries. Not bad for 570 calories and it lasted me until late afternoon.  After breakfast we roamed around Target and picked up a bunch of random shit that we needed. It was absolutely hilarious when we checked out and Danny said in pure shock "How the hell did we come in here and just spend $100 no problem." The cashier and I both, almost simultaneously, said "it just happens." Its so stinkin' easy to just fill that cart up, not even realizing until you get to the check out and you're just like wtf happened?!

After we got home I lounged a bit, we went to Danny's dad's to visit, then came home and I started dinner. I'm pretty freakin proud of it if I do say so myself.

 Ingredients include:

• 10 shrimp, I cut the tails off before cooking
• 1 small zucchini, sliced
• 1/2 cup mini peeled carrots, I cut them in half
• small can of mushrooms
• 2 tablespoons Philadelphia Cooking Cream, Santa Fe flavor

Throw it all in the skillet and cook until shrimp is done and vegetables are tender. I removed it from the heat then stirred in the cooking cream. Picture is before the cooking cream. Serve over a cup of whole grain rice and you have yourselves a tasty and filling meal for 310 calories!

I doubled the recipe so if you're thinkin "girl's crazy if thats ALL thats in there" The hubs has to eat too so I threw enough in there for the both of us.  This was his first time eating shrimp that wasn't fried and, well, he didn't love it. He's a "texture" person.

My other accomplishments for the day were Easy Blueberry Peach Cobbler and Zumba toning sesh. The Easy Cobbler was just a bag of frozen peaches, some blueberries I had in the freezer from the fall, a box of yellow cake mix and 12 oz of Sprite Zero. Spread the fruit over the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan, top with cake mix, then pour the sprite over it and bake for 30-35 minutes. Viola! 1/12th of the recipe is 164 calories. Not bad for something so tasty. I've eaten quite a bit of it and feel a lot less guilty knowing its not TERRIBLE! Zumba wasn't bad, it was just ehhh. My legs are sore and the bod got worked, but it could of gone better.

 

Time for bed! Its way past my week night bedtime.

Mr. Summers = the best

I am dedicating this post to talking about how wonderful and amazing my husband is.  I've mentioned in just about every post that work has been nuts and I've been super busy.  Its a good day at work if I can make it home before 6. I try really hard to get home by 5:15 on days that he is off work but sometimes its not possible. We aren't use to me being the one with the crazy schedule.  From August 2010 until May 2012, Danny was the one that worked like his life depended on it. Don't get me wrong, I worked a lot too and had a lot to juggle with school and running my dad's companies, but I was generally home everyday by 4:30. During this time Danny was balancing paramedic school which required crazy clinical hours. This led to him doing a lot of sleeping and not a lot of housework. I did all of the laundry, which his needed done multiple times a week because of nasty patient germs, all of the cleaning and all of the cooking.  He's always been responsible for outside chores, like mowing. Fast forward to present day, and the roles have totally reversed. 

This amazing man that I married has been doing all of the cleaning for the past few weeks. I ran the sweeper and dusted a couple of weeks ago, and thats pretty much it. I still do all of the laundry and most of the cooking.  I'm a little better at making dinners in a healthier way and since we're both on the lose weight train, I handle it.

On two separate occasions this week, he made me feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I came home after a stressful day at the office on Wednesday and the living room was neat and tidy, the dining room/office area had been swept and mopped and the kitchen was spotless, smelled heavenly and dishes were done and put away.  Oh wait, it gets better. I got stuff out to make taco salads for dinner and he just took over. I just stood in the kitchen and watched as I relished in how fortunate that I am. So that was Wednesday. Yesterday, I had a GREAT day at work. Things are starting to turn around and I'm finding my groove. I had a great meeting with a potential customer. My husband is always great at letting me know how proud he is of me, and sometimes he does a great way of showing it too.

 

 

A clean house, dinner and beautiful flowers, all in one week.  It really is the little things in life that matter. 

Alright, I'm done bragging out my husband now. He might read this and think he's off the hook for a while and we don't want that happening :) Time for me to indulge in hours of recorded tv and see if I can make some shit happen on this blog to make it look more legit without screwing it up.  I can't wait until the day I have enough readers to justify a blog design by Hubby Jack !