My post titles aren’t very imaginative, eh? Have any ideas for me?

It’s 6:45 and all is well 🙂 Kids are up, uniforms on, my pants fit 🙂 All good stuff.

Here’s breakfast:

Blueberry oat custard. 1 cup almond milk, 1 egg, 1/2 cup oats, 1 Tbs stevia (cook together while whisking) then stir in 1/2 scoop vanilla whey powder and 1 cup frozen wild blueberries.

Workout completed at 9:30, hooray. I did January workout of the month A. It was even more challenging today than the last time I did it. (I had friends with me last time and working out with them makes me push myself without thinking about it. We talk and laugh the whole time and “poof!” The workout is done. Then the next day I wonder why I’m so sore, lol.

After workout snack:

6 oz Greek Yogurt and 3 oz blackberries. Now off to answer the 80 emails that have poured in since midnight, write the menus for Grocery Shrink Plus, and fix some technical issues on some new sites. Hopefully I’ll fit in some housework too….the floors are scaring me.

Lunch: 2 oz canned chicken over gourmet lettuce (from Aldi), .5 oz almonds; 2 oz apple; 1 small chopped orange; 2 Tbs craisins and 3Tbs rapberry viniagrette.

My emails are answered, dishes half washed and floors are still scary. But I did some Kindergarten stuff with Brandon which was fun. Baby is still asleep from the night. Keep checking to make sure he is breathing. It’s after noon already!

While making lunch, I cut up a ton of lettuce to use later this week. Saves time. And I do just use a steel knife on it. I’ll eat it before it goes bad.

And my dressing had so much oil in it that it was gross. So I sucked out 75% of it with my baster and replaced the volume with water.

After lunch my appetite was still asking for attention. So I’m going to try one of these:

This will count as a PI since it has splenda, eww. A PI is a planned indulgence (I get 3 a week) and includes any food not FYM approved.

Here’s the size, smaller than I expected from the size of the box. The taste is decent with a slight aftertaste of fake at the end. Not sure I will rebuy.

The afternoon got away from me with blogging and a little housework. We got the Christmas trees down finally! My afternoon snack was a detour protein bar, 1/2 an ounce of beef jerky (2 hours later) and 1/2 cup of freeze dried strawberries.

Grant got up at 1pm from the night and I fed him some eggs. He did not keep them down and has been moaning all afternoon. I just want to hold him. But the rest of the family appears to be helpless when it comes to dinner. They should subscribe to Grocery Shrink Plus, lol.

I found myself scrounging in the kitchen for something to eat and was gravitating towards the leftover caramel popcorn from Christmas.  Knowing I would have to write that down stopped me in my tracks and I chose the jerky and strawberries instead.  My sugar cravings instantly disappeared.  I learned something about myself.  When I’m craving sweets my body is really just hungry for real, healthy food to help stabilize my blood sugar.

And now I’m in a quandry.  I’m tired; I’m hungry.  I’m making spaghetti for my family and am not sure what to have for myself.  My usual self would just fill up a plate of spaghetti.  It’s all super healthy for those who aren’t trying to burn fat, but that many carbs at night won’t support my fat loss goals. If I had thought ahead I would have spaghetti squash already cooked up in the fridge ready to microwave.  We’ll see what I do in a bit, I guess.

Dinner: 1 cup Dr Tagues protein chicken noodle soup. Broccoli and salad with fat free Italian dressing.

The soup is from my Dr. And comes dry in packets like this:

It’s expensive and tastes like Lipton cup of soup so I save it for emergencies.

Here’s today in a nutshell:

I may have some mint tea for a snack tonight.  I’m feeling like I may be a victim of the flu soon.  Two more of my boys mentioned not feeling right in their bellies….Oh, boy.