Dinner anyone...?

I just have to brag because the dinner I made tonight was super yummy, and helathy!! It was a whole grain pasta with ground turkey, chopped onions, and this philidelphi cream cheese flavor stuff...I will have to look at what its called but it was the italan cheese and herbs flavor and it was so good!! I'm not quite sure how my husband felt about it. He said he liked it...but his remarks before we stared eating were, "So...are we going to be eating healthy no?" But Its not my fault that he can eat whatever he wants and still be a twig and I actualy have to be careful about what I eat.

I also made this easter cake today too. The recipie picture looks much better then mine but I think that happens a lot. And if the beater dont fail me it is going to be very yummy. I changed a couple things to make this cake healthier. I used egg whites instead of the whole egg, and apple sauce insted of vegetabe oil. Instead of store bought frosting I made this frosting I found on pinterest where you mix vanilla pudding(I used sugar free) and whipped cream togeter. Its a win win with the frosting cuz its not so fattnig and my husband mught actually try it because he doesnt like forsting...I know weirdo right!! Who doesnt like frosting?The inside of this cake has the same colors as the frosting. I will have to report the verdict Sunday.

POPCORN

I love popcorn, and one thing I never thought about, that I learned on Rachel Ray( yes I said Rachel Ray) Is that no matter how "natural" or "low fat" the bag says it is, sometimes that doesnt mean anything. I also had no idea that you could use a brown paper bag to pop popcorn kernals in the microwave. But it really does work!! All you do it put your kernals in a brown paper bag, roll the top over a couple times, and put it in the microwave for 2-2 1/2 min. Now, what are you going to do for extra taste...? Add a little bit of garlic or cinnamon sugar(i used cimmanom and splenda) and you have a really yummy really healthy snack

I was afraid of that...

So as I said in my last post, i spent the last couple days in Provo with Wesley. I was really afriad of what it was going to do to my weight loss plans, and my fears happened. It was so so nice to be up there and closer to him for once. We havent been able to see him right after work and have dinner together that many days in a row in a looonnngg time. But I didnt eat very good at all!! And I didnt get to excersise like I do here either. HOWERVER...I learned a few things watching tv with my grandma. We watched Rachel Ray, and Dr. Oz(two shows that I never watch but let her talk me into them.) And I actually learned some interesting things that I'm going to post about tomorroe.

All I need to say is that I ate at chilis, texas roadhouse, and toco bell for you to know how terrible I did. Plus add the fact that my grandma went and bought us some sugar cookies, which just so happened to be the BEST!!!! sugar cookies I've ever had. But the way I see it, no body is perfect, and nobody sticks to a diet perfectly. And thats one of the reasons I am doing this, to show that its ok to screw up once in a while. And I dont think that you have to sacrifice eating out, and getting what you want at a resturaunt to loose weight. I really do think its ok to spurg once in a while. Just not in two days the way I did. And believe me I dont feel good about it. I feel so crummy not excersising and eating the way I did.

The whole time I was gone, I kept thinking that I'm going to have to answere to all of my over eating when I get home. And I have. So...no matter how nice it was to be with Wesley for a couple of days, its going to be nice to get back to reality and feel better about myself again.

Its the weekend!!

I was worried about what Saturday would bring. I do really good with my eating habbits during the week, but on the weekend that all ends up going to crap! However, this weekend, keeping in mind that I was going to have to write down everything that I ate, I think I did pretty good!

I started off the day with a piece of whole wheat toast and two turkey sausage patties.( I LOVE turkey sausage. I especially love that it is only 120 calories for two patties or 3 links) I went on a completly up hill walk to my in laws house where we spent most of the day basking in the wonderful sun. For luch we all had sandwhiches. I made mine on wheat bread with a couple pieces of turkey and ham. I did have a cookie afterwards. Like I said, I cant turn down sweets. With the weekend comes eating out. Lucky for me, ever since I had Kastyn, every time we eat out and I get something greasy(no matter how good it tastes) I get super super sick. So I have no problem at all getting salad.

Yesterday was so nice to relax in the sun and get a little color. The Easter bunny was at Wal Mart, so we took Kastyn go get a pitcture with him. It was so stinkin cute. We thought he might freak out, but he loved it!! He smiled the whole time!!

So far today I havent gotten a chance to eat anything. Its staring to get cold outside so I woke up and went for a walk right after I fed Kastyn so that I could get that in before it got to cold. We are planning to cook dutch oven with a friend later today. So I'm just going to snack so that I can eat that.

Kastyn and I are going to go to Provo with Wesley for a couple days this week. Thats going to be hard cuz I know its going to be a lot of eating out. So I'm going to take my stroller so I can still get my walk in and make sure that I choose wisely what to eat.