Tuna steaks and an accidental candy bar

Yesterday I had another mostly perfect day of eating healthy. My day started with a breakfast of two scrambled eggs and two slices of bacon. For lunch I ate leftovers from the previous night, pecan chicken fingers and mashed cauliflower. Snacks of Olive and Sinclair Chocolate (with sea salt) and some mixed nuts.

I was nervous about dinner because I was going to a friends house.  I decided to check with her and see what are dinner plans would be.  Turns out we didn't have any so it was easy to force my eating habits on her.  I brought over what I would have cooked at my house and she made stuff from her fridge and it was awesome. I made tuna steaks and a small fruit salad and my friend made sauteed spinach.  

The only mishaps this evening was a 12 ounce coke with my dinner and an accidental candy bar from the gas station where I got gas on the way home.  My old eating habits sucked so comparatively yesterday was a huge success. All of my meals were paleo and healthy and my flubs weren't that big. 

I'm in no way going to let a candy bar and a small soda ruin my week. I'm in it for the long term.  This isn't the first cheat and I'm sure it won't be the last. ;)

Peacan crusted chicken fingers

So tonight for dinner I made pecan crusted chicken fingers and mashed cauliflower. My first bite of both seemed bland but I think it's just because I'm used to going out to a restaurant where they put God knows what on your food. After couple bites I really liked it and I would probably make it again.

So Day 1 has ended pretty well. I'm hoping to keep this up and I'm excited to see results by either losing weight and or just generally feeling better.

I'm including a picture of what I'm taking for lunch tomorrow and although its not visually stimulating its pretty good.

Snack Time!

Everyday around 3 o'clock I get the feeling that there is not enough candy in my life.  I am trying to be good and be Paleo so I went to the store to get some snacks.  I ended up with some mixed nuts and Olive and Sinclair chocolate with sea salt.  YUM!

I had one square, a few nuts, and some water.  I feel pretty satisfied.  Now comes the hard part.  Not eating the rest of the bar just because. For example: just because its tastes good or just because its there or just because I can.

So far so good...

Day 1

I had every intention of yesterday being my first day of really sticking to my diet or lifestyle change I should probably call it. It really didn't go that well since I may have had some cupcakes and some other items that will not be named.  Lets just say they weren't Paleo.  

Today is Day 1 and turns out Day 1 didn't start too great but is getting better.  I may have had a biscuit from Hardee's on the way to work.  I did eat a good lunch tho.  I had two baked chicken thighs and some sauteed mushrooms.  I also had a coke zero but mostly only to keep me from getting a raging headache after too much caffeine yesterday. I'm going to try my best to have eggs and bacon for breakfast tomorrow and bring my lunch again to keep on track.  

I have started to notice that since I've been cooking more of my own food, when I'm looking for something to eat out, nothing really sounds good. I guess that's a good thing that will hopefully keep me from going out too much. 

Actually this is supposed to be Day 1 for a lot of things.   I want to eat better, consistently go to karate, get to work on time, get my house in order, and fix my money woes just to name a few or a lot depending on how you look at it.  I'm terrible with managing my money.  I really need to get that under control. I'm also working on some house projects I just need to suck it up and do. I mean, I can't wait for the carpet in my house to be gone but I'm not looking forward to the fact that I'm the one that has to make it be gone. 

I just want to be skinny and gorgeous and Rich. But who doesn't. I will settle for healthy and happy. On occasion I find myself thinking about how great my life really is and have to remind myself that even though I'm not perfect things could be worse. I have great family and the best friends anyone could ever ask for.

Other things that are pretty great fact are that I actually own a house, I have two pretty great dogs even though they're pretty bossy and try to run my life. I have a job that pays pretty well I have a car that gets me to said job. 

I do have debt and most people do but I would really like to get rid of mine. Its really is easier said than done.

So going forward from Day 1 I'm going to be all about making a solid effort to do the things that I want to do like pay off debt, stick to my diet, go to karate and so on and so on. 

It's A Brand New Year!

Keeping with holiday traditions I have made several new years resolutions. One of the big and not so personal ones is to get healthy! Lots of fruits and veg seem to be the way to go so in with the healthy foods and out with basicly everything in my house.

I've picked my poison and it's Paleo. I know, to the naked eye it sounds like your average fad diet. I don't think of it that way. It just seems healthy.

The first thing I noticed was there are no packaged foods involved. This means I won't be having my morning pop tart. I think I can live with that.
Packaged foods are mostly just a convenience. Cheap and easy. Thats why I love them!  It's not going to be easy to make a change and put some effort into it.

The second thing I noticed is there is no dairy.  This probably won't be as hard to do since I dont eat a ton of dairy anyway. I do love cheese and I see myself having it on salads and such but I'm not going to go out of my way to eat it. 

The next items to be excluded are grains. This will be super hard. I like bread and rice and all that goodness but those of you on low carb/no carb know it's not that good for you.

So basicly all you can eat is meat, veggies, fruits, nuts, and good fats like olive oil.

I'm probably leaving something out and if you're interested you can find stuff on the internet about it.

I'm hitting it hard starting with lunch today.

Cobb salad: no blue cheese crumbles, yes to spinach, eggs, bacon, turkey, avocado, and just a pinch of ranch dressing. I really mean a pinch too.  I like to dip my fork in the dressing instead of slathering my salad in it.

PS My salad tasted awesome!

No this is My CANDY!

I'm so frustrated with my Mom's nursing home.  First of all I had to hunt and search for my Mom's social security check in October.  It went to the nursing home.  Why would it go there when its been coming to her checking account every month for years now?  Well.  The nursing home asked my Mom if she would like her check to come there.  Never mind the fact that she has dementia and has no idea what we pay out of the SS check every month.  Of course she wants it to come there.  

After determining all this and verifying that the check in fact went to the nursing home, I spoke with someone (in person) in an effort to get the ball rolling on getting the difference mailed back to me.  I thought we were all square.  I left a message in the middle of October when I still hadn't received anything.  I called again on the 23rd and the person I needed to speak with was on vacation.  I called back on the 31st and again I thought we were all square.  

I just felt like something was wrong.  I called today to see if my check had been mailed and it turns out they need an invoice from the insurance company to verify how much I should get back.  Now it seams to me that this process would have gone much smoother if that fact had been mentioned, oh I don't know, at the beginning of the month when I was there.  OK fine.  I can send you and invoice but keep in mind I have already paid this and desperately need the money back since it is now November and I will have to pay it again in a few short days

I have applied to be my Mom's Representative Payee which means that when that gets finalized, I will get her checks again.  

For now-

I'm so frustrated that I want to eat an entire bowl of candy with reckless abandon.

It may look something like this:

Chickens

Tonight I'm making chicken. Pretty simple recipe. Put chicken in pan spread some garlic on it. Sprinkle with goodness like thyme, basil, rosemary and marjoram. Cook for around 25 min. Yum