This morning was a blur. I skipped breakfast. I know, I know..total no-no. I didn't even get a coffee in. Total chaos and madness. Yet, amongst the madness I was able to get a workout in. I jogged 1.5 miles and walked another 1.5 at an incline. I felt pretty good. I could have jogged longer but my 3 year old boss had enough fun watching me and decided we needed to move on to something else. I honestly was motivated today by my super cool new gadget. I received a heart rate monitor for my birthday. Now I can see in real time where my workouts are at aerobically. It has a chest strap and a watch that transmit to each other. It allows me to set a minimum and maximum heart rate and tracks my calories based on my weight. It also tracks how long I was in the zone of my target heart rate during my workout. Hopefully this motivates me to work harder during my workouts.
Tomorrow is my meeting and weigh-in day. I'm still confused as to how I should be working the plan. Everyone says to eat your points. I don't think I'd ever eat my activity,but consuming my weekly points seems like a ridiculous amount of food. I don't want to not eat enough, but then I don't want to eat too much. ARGH! My leader is a pretty strong advocate of eating all your points. Last week i had like 35 left and this week I have around 30. Hopefully tomorrow the scale will tell me that it likes what I'm doing. Also, last week he touched on something that I wanted to talk about further in the group and didn't. He said "we didn't get fat by eating too many fruits and vegetables". Well, I believe this is true and un-true. For about 3 years now we have been trying to eat a minimal amount of processed foods. The problem with processed food is that it is nutritionally void and leave you feeling hungry for more crappy food. But if you eat healthy food you tend to stay satisfied longer. In theory. I realize that it was not the healthy food I ates fault, it was my portion control.I thought nothing about grabbing a handful of almonds a few times throughout the day, I would sit down at night to a hot mug or two of tea with at least 1T of honey in each one, Id make an entire bowl full of dates or dried apricots to eat. My gosh, I was probably consuming a ridiculous number of calories in really, really healthy food. Its basic and ridiculously simple in theory,but it matters. If you ate it then negate it. Write it down, track your points. Sounds so simple right?
I actually thought up my lunch before bed last night. I wanted a chicken salad, but didn't want mayo. Heck, we don't even have any mayo in the house if I did want it. So I created my masterpiece..Sweet Smashed up Chicken salad. Are you getting the idea that I'm not so good at naming my recipes? LOL. Isn't it pretty? It tasted so good, its creamy and has a subtle sweetness to it.
Easy as pie to make too!
7oz cooked chicken (I used some off of a roasted chicken I had)
3 stalks celery
1 apple
1T honey
2T chopped almonds
salt and pepper to taste
I chopped all the ingredients in the processor to a chunky consistency individually, add to a larger bowl and stir in 1T honey and salt and pepper to taste. I served in romaine leaves. It makes 6- 1/4c servings at 2 points each.
Dinner is still a toss up. We are either having beef and broccoli or we are having a repeat of the chicken florentine, as per my husbands begging. Right now its a race to see which meat thaws out first.
Happy Eating!
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