No more MOO MOO

Good Eats...

I seriously had the best lunch today! I was surrounded by some of my most FAVORITE PEOPLE!!!

My Pops was having nose surgery of some sort... to clear his airways, but I like to say he was getting a nose job! Haha! So we gathered in the waiting room and feasted while he was under the knife! Sorry Dad you missed out!

We had salads from my favorite deli in town! Shout out to Palmer's Deli: www.palmersdeliandmarket.com/ ... Although it is my favorite deli, I must say the experience was very hectic this time. The combination of a "to go" order and the noon hour rush was not a good idea. My salad had peas (SICK) instead of beets (YUMMY) on it... Hubs salad had the same confusion... Oh well! Even with the wrong ingredients, it's still yummy.

My sister (one of my favorite peeps) was excited to have feta cheese on her salad after refraining from it the whole time she was pregnant, but it's a short lived treat and once again she can't have dairy since her nursing son is having a reaction to it... Poor Weston!

She will miss her morning "wake me up" of cereal, with lots of milk. Poor Sissy!

So the VitaMix to the rescue... I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! our VitaMix! (Hubs uses it every morning for his smoothie breakfast!)

Anyway... I am going to make some RICE milk and OAT milk for sissy tonight!

I will post the recipes just as soon as I perfect them.

We also talked about natural protein powders for the VM... any suggestions?

PS... making your own oat milk/ rice milk will save $$ YAY YAY

FOOD and FINANCES

I love food, I enjoy making it, eating it, experiencing it, seeing it, smelling it... the list goes on. But this love can become very expensive!

How do you save money when it comes to food? whether is Grocery shopping or Dinning out?

Hubs and I find that we have to Budget both areas. When it comes to eating out we view it as a treat and our entertainment! We love fine dinning and like to find gift card deals... like on restaurant.com or other deal websites.

I do all the grocery shopping in the house and really enjoy prepping food. So here are some of my money saving tips of the day.

1. I buy meat on sale and freeze it or plan our menu's around the deals of the week
2. Make your own... snack packs, granola bars, anything package... even alternative milks
3. Enjoy the process of hunting for the best deal.
4. Dont stick to one grocery store.

This morning was Oats as always and for lunch I had steamed vegi's, brown rice, edamame, and miso soup... with my momma... we have not had enough time together so it was great to catch up! I LOVE HER!


JR

TRUST

Trust is just a five letter word, easy to say, hard to act upon! Where do you put your trust?

First and foremost I put my trust in the Lord! With that trust in God, I truly believe he designed our bodies to know what we need and to trust how we are feeling. Do you trust God when it comes to losing weight? Gaining weight? Eating what is right for your body? Not eating something? Choosing Healthy food?

In America, it is especially hard to do trust in this way. We are surrounded by options good and bad. Good ones are often more expensive and take getting used to. But trust your body to know what is good for it. The more you the trust the easier it will be! Learn how your body works. How you feel after eating certain foods (Good or Bad) Learn how you feel during your cycle when you are bloated and when you are feeling good. Learn when you are reaching for food out of emotion and when you reach out of Hunger.

For me I know if I eat too much salt or onions at lunch I feel sluggish the rest of the afternoon and often crave sugar. If I eat fruit and yogurt for lunch I stay awake in the afternoon and usually have a afternoon snack so I am not starved when I get home.

I have learned to start my day off with OATMEAL, because I will feel satisfied and full for hours, where if I have a smoothie it leaves me hungry in an hour or so...the exact opposite happens to my hubs. He has a smoothie every morning and cant stand the thought of Oats. Every body is made differently. Learn yours! Some need carbs, some need fat, some need meat... each person is different!

Trust your body because God created it exactly how it should be and you can learn and will learn with patience and practice what it needs and when it needs it.

Weight Loss without WORRY

Good Morning! Happy FRIDAY! It is beautiful out and I am wearing jeans and a light sweater! LOVE IT!!! Bring on Fall, but maybe stop before winter! Side note: I am not a fan of winter!

To continue on the theme of food and weight...

How do you loose weight with out worrying about it? It is a great question that is hard to answer and even harder to practice. My go to answer is in the book of Matthew

Do Not Worry

25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

Great scripture that I believe we can apply to weight loss and our own body image. Not worrying doesn't mean not carrying.... we are also called to take care of our bodies. with that I am not suggesting eat what ever when ever you want...

So today I am aiming to follow what Matthew 6 says...

On to the "not worry" food choice!

Pre-workout
1/2 banana with some PB

Post-workout
1/4c oats
tbsp Protein Powder
tsp PB
cinnamon

Later Apple and taking a friend lunch!

Then off to the Lake with Hubs to meet up with my Family! FUN labor day weekend!

When FOOD becomes your ENEMY

As a Counselor, I see many women each week. In the past few weeks the majority of my appointments have been women struggling with Food. It is a hard balance to find.
1. What food do I eat
2. Am I eating to little
3. Am I eating to much
4. Why do I have an emotional attachment to food
5. Why do I have a fear of food

How do you find balance in your relationship with food? These are the lessons I am learning as I listen to others and to my own personal struggle with this relatioship...

Food is to fuel our body... we need it! So if we need it, what do we eat.

Listen to your body! I encourage everyone to eat "real food" not "fake" processed food. Start a journal of what food makes you feel what way. This way you can learn what food is right for you and what your body doesnt handle as well.

Food should not be something to fill time, hurt, emotions.

Dont hate it! Because we need it!

Today... is a Hungry day for me... I can listen to my body and give it healthy food it needs or I can deprive it ending up moody, headachy, obsessing over food, and a number of other things....The best freedom is when you can not focus on food but focus on that God made our bodies to know when and what it needs... its a hard balance to find!

Happy Hump Day

I woke up this morning ready to go!!! I jumped out of bed to my alarm and went to the gym. I had a great work out, then came home to Hubs making a smoothie... that he so kindly shared with me! LOVE HIM!

I was slightly craving it on my drive home from the gym, but was meeting my Dad for breakfast an hour and half later... so the mini smoothie was great post work out, pre-breakfast snack! I truly believe God provides even little blessing like such!

Smoothie Consisted of...
Blueberry Yogurt
Protein Powder
Spinach
Banana

For Breakfast... you guessed it! OATS!!! and STARBUCKS!!!

I have been dragging all day, early morning rise maybe.... What do you do when your dragging?

I am going to go on a walk before my last appointment of the day!

Then off to a friends for dinner... Hubs and I are cooking for them!

Menu
Steak (for the boys)
Chicken (for the girls)
Broccoli and Red Onion with Garlic EVOO from our Wedding
Take and Bake Multi grain Bread
Fruit Salad (Cantaloupe, Grapes, Peaches, Bananas)

It shall be FUN!!!!