The Alteration Of Me

Lazy Sunday's are the best. The girls (my dogs) and I didn't get out of bed until, after 9am today. It was a cloudy. rainy. dreary morning. It was fabulous! When Don finally coaxed us out of bed, I went to weigh myself and I was down 2.5 lbs from last week. I started transitioning to a whole food plant based diet last week. To start my transition, I started with only my breakfast. I usually have eggs, for breakfast. Last week it was multigrain pancakes with fruit and pure maple syrup. Ya, know they weren't half bad. The thing I like is that you eat until you are full. For the most part I didn't need a snack before lunch.  This week I prepped more pancakes for the mornings I am busy. I am also going to try some smoothies as well. I will let you know how that goes. Also, on top of the breakfasts. This week starts lunches with no meat.  I am a sandwich lover. This may be a bit harder than breakfast. After dinner tonight, I will be prepping black bean and brown rice burri...

This morning I briefly woke up to a cold wet nose on my face. I quickly went back to sleep after that. 30 minutes later I wake up to snoring. I roll over and realize Don has already left for the day. I wonder who could be snoring so loudly. I turn on the light and there are my two dogs. Of course it is the weiner dog, comfy and relaxed, snoring like a freight train. I quickly moved her and tried to get back to sleep. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to. I got up and decided to make breakfast.  I decided to go with oatmeal and fruit. This is a risky choice as I have a hard time with certain textures, and cooked oatmeal is one of them. I told myself it won't be that bad. I managed to eat maybe 5 spoonfuls with a large banana. I just couldn't do it. Iggy, will have a great stick to the ribs kind of dinner tonight. I have been curious to see if I lost any weight this week. I always remember to weigh myself after I eat breakfast. This is why it only happens once a week. ha. I ...

I would just like to say, keeping up with this blog is a bit challenging at times. I was actually able to sleep in this morning. Which is both good and bad. Sleeping in was amazing. But, missing my gym day was bad. I know I could have gone after work. But, I work till 6 and I have about an hour and a half with my hubby each night. On Wednesday, I walk with my neighbor. I just didn't want to give either of those things up. Plan for tomorrow is to get up early and get my hour at the gym, before work. Work was crazy today. So, much drama when there doesn't need to be. I work in a small call center. It could be a close knit group. But, today's threats sure blew that out of the water. Anyway, my hubby made a great dinner again. Sausage and zoodles. One of my faves. I have over 9000 steps for the day. Now, I want to go get some cuddle time, with Don before he goes to bed. Over all a pretty good day! This photo always makes me smile.

Today was one of those days. Ya know the kind where you wake up and you just don't feel like doing anything. That was me. I woke up a little before 5am. I wasn't feeling the gym, at all. So, I Heard my husband leave and decided I needed to do something with my morning. I accomplished a lot. I scrubbed all the tile floors, I did a load of laundry and got some quality snuggle time in with the animals. I wasn't really worried about my steps today. I had a great day at work. Took some walks. My coworker brought doughnuts in. I had one, it was so sweet. I am trying to cut back on the sugar, I couldn't believe how sweet that doughnut was. Then my other coworker took me to lunch for street taco's. They were amazing. Of course I walked on my last break. When I got home the hubby had cauliflower shrimp fired rice. It was delicious. Don always tells me that he can't cook. I now know, yes he can! I was missing about 800 steps to hit my goal. I took out Gretel and we walk...

Off to an interesting start..... I woke up early today, and went straight to the gym. My feelings towards the gym have definitely changed. I used to begrudgingly, go and do my 30 minutes on the treadmill, and hate every last second. Let me just say my smart watch has had a lot to do with this change. I have a goal for steps on a daily, weekly and monthly level. I am sure Dr. T will be happy to hear of this change too.  Let's get back to the events of my morning. I was walking on the treadmill and a woman a little older than me, shoot maybe my age, I am no good at guessing a persons age, got on the treadmill next to me. I just kept going on with my walking. Then I saw her start her workout with the trainer. Now, in my mind this woman was a bit larger then I am, or at least that was what the voice in my head was saying. Again, we were probably the same size. I watched this woman do as she was instructed by her trainer and she did well. I have been thinking since our gym moved and...

Weigh in day, used to stress me out. I know I am my own worst enemy. I have high expectations for myself. I rarely meet those expectations. Which causes frustration, anxiety, even some anger. Let me be real, it also makes me feel like a huge failure. With that being said, I am not going to fail at this lifestyle change. I just need to remind myself that I don't need to be perfect everyday, just try my best. My weight this morning was 207.8. I take Sunday's off from the gym, but I generally try to do something else, to get my steps in. It is about 3:30 right now and I have 10,008 steps, for the day. I have a few happy places, I like to go. The main one being the Phoenix Zoo. I have a membership there and I am constantly working on my photography skills there. We spent a few hours there this morning. I captured some great photos, got some steps in and just enjoyed being outdoors. When we got home I was starving. I made a wrap with roasted red pepper hummus, black beans, ...

Good Evening, What a nice day we had. It is back in the 80's here in Phoenix. Perfect weather to be out and about. I started my day off at the gym. I was going to do an hour but ended up hurting my foot, this morning, so I did 30 minutes. After the gym we went to the Gilbert Farmers Market. Lots of great businesses there. If you ever get a chance to go, I highly recommend it. After that, we went to the Superstitions Market. Have you ever been there? We brought home 7 bags of fruit and vegetables and it was under $30. I love this place. I am ending my day  at 11,737 steps. Not bad with a sore foot. I really just spent today getting things done. I am currently dehydrating pineapple, so that I will have chips to snack on this week. I love them for their crunch factor. I will probably do more tomorrow while I am food prepping. Tomorrow I will be making cauliflower rice and zucchini noodles,then I will freeze them for easy meals during the week. I hope to be trying some new recipe...

Here we are, March 2nd. Most people tend to start a new lifestyle on January 1st. It seems, it is the thing to do. Well, I was sick with the flu for almost the entire month of January, so literally nothing happened. February was so busy at work, that again nothing happened.  That leads me to today. Before, I start talking about today, let me give you some background,on myself and the lifestyle I am hoping to ditch. I have an office job, which requires me to sit at a desk in front of a computer for 8 hours a day.What do I do all day? I sit and eat and make phone calls. I am 47 years old and considered obese. Last year was a pretty rough year. I think I went through two jobs and finally landed where I work today. It was a year of poor choices all the way around. But, those choices helped me to grow stronger and learn. I had a scare last January. I was having severe chest pain. I went to the E.R. immediately. They did an EKG and everything was normal. They had me sitting in a curt...