Fat Pants

You know the ones.

 The elastic/stretchy I can't tell how fat I am kind. With my second child literally turning one tomorrow, I think it's time to ditch the fat pants and get serious about my health.

Two things are spurning me on.

1) I have taken my blood pressure TWICE at a publix pharmacy and each time it is borderline hypertension. With my family history, it won't be long until it is full-blown hypertension.

2) I looked in a mirror yesterday at the mall and honestly did not recognize myself. I am the heaviest i've ever been un-pregnant.

So I need to get back to basics and I'm taking my own approach from all i've learned over my 33 years of being the chubby chic.

EATING:
I"m going to be doing a week of Dukan Diet/South Beach ( Lean protein, low fat, no processed carbs). This will help ditch my cravings for chips and pizza and hopefully I will feel motivated by all the fluid/fat loss that comes quickly when you deprive yourself of the glorious carbohydrate. 

MOVING
I"ve already gotten the exercise thing going. Thanks to my MIL I have joined curves and have dedicated myself to going 3-4 times a week so far for a month. I feel stronger, and in great shape...just not thinner.  

Monday Menu

B:
Two eggs scrambled with tomatoes and Turkey Bacon
Coffee with half/half

L:
Chicken Salad
Spinach and Carrots

D:
Baked Chicken breast with light cream cheese and salsa

Snacks will be almonds or fat free greek  yogurt.

Holding Pattern

Weight is something that infiltrators your entire life.

Even pregnant life.

Here I am nearly 13 weeks pregnant and already thinking about how much i'm going to weigh at the end of this journey.

With my first baby I gained 55 pounds. FIFTY-FIVE.

I remember having to tell the anesthesiologist  my weight and asking her if i could write it down b/c i couldn't BARE to say it outloud.

I don't want that to happen again.

This pregnancy I started 10 pounds below what I did the last time. And due to incredible morning sickness I'm down another 7. So i have a real advantage heading into my second trimester.

As my appetite returns I hope to continue what I started. More veggies and fruit, less junk.

But right now i have only an eye for carbs and juice.

Wish me luck.

Dreaming of Dinner

I"m very hungry today. So I've been thinking about what I'm going to have for dinner tonight.

White Pizza.

I miss pizza.

miss WHITE pizza more than anything.

Here's how I'm going to adapt it to my plan.

1 Whole Wheat Sandwich thin
1 tsp of olive oil
1 oz low fat Ricotta Cheese
.5 oz of FF mozzarella
Minced Garlic
Chopped Spinach
Chopped mushrooms.

Preheat oven to 400. Saute mushroom and spinach and garlic in pam. Brush sandwich thin with olive oil and top with ff mozzarella and ricotta. Toss on mushroom/spinach/garlic mixture. Salt and pepper. Bake until melted.

I can't WAIT.

Stuffed Peppers

I love stuffing things.

Stuffing things gives you the illusion that you are eating copious amounts of food.

That's why I really enjoyed making stuffed peppers last night.

1 Orange Bell Pepper with top cut off( scoop out the seeds and white stuff)
1 spicy black bean burger (morningstar farms makes great ones) crumbled.
1/4 Cup black beans ( rinsed)
1 Can of diced tomatoes with green chilies
Handful of chopped mushrooms
Red onion
Minced Garlic
1tsp of olive oil
Cooking Spray
1 oz of 2% cheddar cheese

Preheat oven to 350.
Saute burger, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and onion with garlic and olive oil until tender and onions are transparent. Spray aluminum foiled pan. Stuff burger mixture into pepper and top with cheese. Bake 30 mins or until pepper is very soft. Top with FF sour cream or salsa verde.

FANTASTIC

Monte-Cristo Grilled Sandwich

I love grilled sandwiches. But I don't love that they go directly to my THIGHS.

So to quell my craving last night I created this.

1 Whole Wheat Sandwich Thin
1 WW cheese wedge (jalapeno flavored)
2 low sodium slices of turkey bacon
1 oz of ff deli turkey
.5 oz of ff cheddar cheese
Horsradish mustard to taste
Spray butter
Bake in the oven for 10 minutes to all melty and yummy

I had a side serving of Zucchini Fries.

Love -Hate

I have a love-hate relationship with diet soda.

I LOVE IT.

But I know it's not good for me, it makes me hungrier, it takes up space that water could be filling, and it's expensive. But sometimes, I just REALLY REALLY need a fountain diet coke.

I went to subway today for lunch. Ordered the buffalo chicken salad....with spinach instead of iceberg. All the veggies including hot peppers.  No cheese and fat free ranch on the side. I then took half the chicken off and will use this tomorrow on my own salad. Sounds good doesn't it?

But the part of my meal I was most excited for was......

My fountain diet coke. It just makes everything taste better and today i felt VERY SICK OF WATER.

Top 3

Top 3 things I love about today.

1. Even after a week traveling across the country I am down 3.5 pounds.
2. My official weigh in today brings me to a weight that I haven't seen for TWO and 1/2 YEARS.
3. I weigh less today than I did BEFORE I got pregnant.


What I learned as that it's okay to indulge ( b/c I did in San Francisco) but as soon as I could I jumped right back into my healthy eating patterns. No lingering around in the land of ..."I'll start tomorrow". Because weight loss is not ruined by ONE unhealthy meal, or even TWO! But little by little, meal by meal.

Now onto my Veggie Inspiration!

I was CRAVING CRAVING CRAVING pizza.

So I made this!

Portobello Mushroom Pizzas

Scoop out brown stuff of a two mushroom caps.
Diced tomatoes &  Red Onions sauteed with garlic, pepper and basil as your sauce.
Turkey Pepperoni chopped up( 17 slices is one serving!)
1 oz of low fat cheese split between BOTH pizzas.

Totally  hit the spot and feels like so much food because you get TWO pizzas. You can even make one traditional and one buffalo chicken ( my fave)