All about meal planning

I've been buying a lot of frozen edamame lately. It's cheap and easy to make. I steam them and have them as a healthy snack.

Once again the key to staying on track is meal planning. My busy schedule leaves me falling off my track a lot! So planing my meals is key.

Thank you all for the BF suggestions. I may go back to the yogurt with granola BF that I use to do. (my doctor had told me "only yogurt for BF that's all you need and a apple for snack, salad for lunch") I'm sure that will get me to my goal faster but I would be one cranky lady. I like my carbs, I need these incorporated ahha! I'm not looking to be very thin, I love my lady curves Ha! Just want to drop 10lbs. Seems easy enough right.... but my MC in June set me back and since then I've been on and off track a lot! I'm more concerned about being healthy. So healthy is my main focus.

I am increasing my veggies(steamed or raw) and fruit intake. Especially now that it's flu season. I've had a headache and earache all day! :(


This weeks Goals:
*Switching back to yogurt with granola for BF
*Only 1 coffee a day (going well!)
*Increase veggies and fruit as snack and with meals
*Drink lots of water everyday! I really need to increase my water intake!
*2 cups of tea in the evenings
* 3 bite rule on sweets or no sweets at all!
*4 /20 min workouts and at least 2 /45 min workouts
* Weigh myself weekly.

Breakfast suggestions?

My schedule feels like it's getting tighter and tighter and I really want to incorporate more workouts in my week! So I decided to bring my gazelle up to one of the spare bedrooms where I have my trampoline. This way I can sneak in workouts in the mornings.

My goal this week is to have at least 4 /20 min workouts and at least 2 45 min workouts. Oh It's on!

Breakfast has become an issue for me. I really love having smoothies but since it started getting colder I just can't do them brrr! I was having oatmeal for a while but now I feel bored with it.

So I bought these 100 cal bagels, they are cute haha! pretty good with a little bit of peanut and jelly!
But I'm looking for some variety... any suggestions for a quick healthy BF?????

Our last bbq of the season

Sunday we had family over for a BBQ. Our families are pretty large on both sides so we always need to do things separately! So this weekend we had my family over for the last BBQ of the season. My next house must have a very large basement to fit our whole families together :) because all these dinner parties are a lot of work!

We had lots of food! I was cooking all morning! I also made Stuffed Peppers in the slow cooker. Slow cookers rock!


My husband was a good sport BBQing in the cold and it started to snow yesterday morning...
This morning we woke up to this!
A winter wonderland!
Love the snow!

Happy Monday!

Snowflake Sunday

Let's talk synchronicities...

Today I went out grocery shopping and made sure to buy a lot of fruits and veggies. I've been low in Vitamin B before and been feeling a little sluggish lately so I must make sure I'm getting those much needed nutrients!

I also bought persimmons. I haven't had these since I was a kid! I was reminded of them lately.... What do you think of these synchronicities.

2 weeks ago while grocery shopping I got the feeling and the taste in my mouth of a persimmon. (weird right!). It reminded me of my grandfather. He use to eat them all the time but I couldn't remember at all what this fruit was called or even what it looked like at the time but I could taste it! So I just forgot about it and left it at that.

Then this week at my mom's house, my sisters fiance was eating this different looking fruit (soo weird that he brought that fruit from home to begin with!)... he asked if I wanted some... I said what is that!? And then he told me it's a persimmon! My memory went straight back to 2 weeks ago and how I was strangely tasting that fruit. So I had some to be sure, and sure enough it was that fruit!

I know our souls live on and I know our loved ones always send us signs.

I didn't even connect this all until yesterday. I was driving to work and I thought of the whole situation and just knewwwww it was my grandfather saying hello! and possibly telling me to eat more fruit Ha! I was getting a little emotional about it and then it got more interesting....

My SIL sent me a email yesterday morning. She said she was talking to a cousin of mine that was always close to my dad. He was telling her about things my dad would say about me. He told her that my dad would tell him that anything I do in life, I would succeed. That I'm eager and luck is on my side. (I started to cry when I read it)

This was so random and so strange that I had just put together the persimmon fruit situation. So I took a longer lunch and went to the cemetery to visit my grandparents and my Dad. I miss them all so much! My grandmother was such a sweet kind hearted lady and she loved my dad so much, he was her little baby. They are all together and I KNOW the 3 of them are our angels. If I ever have a little girl she will be named after my grandma. :)

Pretty cool huh!

Hope you all have a Happy Weekend! I am having my family over tomorrow to celebrate being chosen for little M's Godparents. We are excited. I love my family!

Oh and I added some more Christmas decor. Our Stockings! For me, husband and Zoe. Lets see how long they last. Last year Zoe would play with them until they fell off haha!
Sorry for the longer than usual post Ha! But I had to tell this story!

Only Wednesday?

Burr, it's getting cold here! (eyes are closed in my pic as usual! haha!) But I bought a new hat! I love it. My mom and sister loved it too, so yesterday my sister and I went to get a black one for my mom and my sister bought a purple one.

Yesterday sister and I took the day off work to hang out and shop. We went wedding dress shopping and my sister tried on some beautiful dresses! The sales lady was using me as her assistant, I didn't mind one bit!
Today I decided to add 5mins of the trampoline, I'll be doing this every morning in addition to my 4 workouts. It's quick and gives me some extra energy in the morning before work.

It's the time of the month (tmi i know) but I was one grumpy gal today. I was annoyed and emotional and felt like my world was falling apart. At work I held on to my rock and repeated, GOD is not trying to destroy me (lol) so dramatic but I was serious ha! But! I'm ok and in a much better mood tonight :) Whew!!!

Hurry Weekend!

Adding Extra Workouts This Month.

These pics have nothing to do with my weekly goals but I had to show my little niece. We went to my moms house tonight to visit.
Mom had surgery on her hand. She is doing well just in a little pain, but was happy that we were all over tonight.
Oh I just can't get enough of her cuteness!

So today after stepping on the scale and not seeing ANY change I decided that it's time to pick it up a notch. For the next 4 weeks I'll be doing 4 workouts a week.

This weeks Goals:
*Oatmeal for Breakfasts (It's so cold, I like a warm BF!)
*Only 1 coffee a day (going well!)
*1500 Calories/day
*Veggie filled Salad for lunch
*Drink lots of water everyday! I really need to increase my water intake!
* 3 bite rule on sweets or no sweets at all!
* 4 workouts a week.
* Weigh myself weekly.

I read in a magazine something that I always enforce with myself... Snacking! Having little snacks throughout the day so you don't over indulge at meals. I find this very important for my drive home. I usually have a banana on my way home so while I cook dinner I'm not falling over! Ha!

Time to finally lose these nagging 10lbs!

My Weekend Fun!

This weekend was so fun. Friday night my family and bff came over for a little get together. We bought sooo much food! and Wine! We had all different types of foods Colombian, Mexican, Portuguese, Italian.. and wayyy too many desserts!
Bff is pregnant and my SIL was over with the kids. So we had a lot of baby talk! She was giving us all lots of pointers. She is also very pro breast feeding so she was educating us all. We had some funny stories which may have scared the younger cousins just a little ahahah!
I can't get enough of my little niece! She is just so so cute!
Saturday night the MIL turned 50! So they had a little party. We stayed at their house until 3am!
We slept in today which was totally needed and went to Lowes this afternoon for our Christmas tree! I love Lowes! they cut the bottom of the tree for us so all we had to do is put it in the stand when we got home! So easy! It smells great!
Fingers crossed Zoe stays away from it....
As for my weekly goals... lets just say another weekend of not following my goals has happened again! All in the name of fun!

Some great buys at HomeSense

Both yesterday and today I left work late :(... As drive home I always think"I really rather eat out!" Yesterday we almost ate out, but I repeated in my head that I only need to cook 3 days this week Mon-Wed. So far I have Monday and Tuesday down ahah! Yesterday was shrimp stirfry and today I made chicken with tomato sauce and chickpeas with mushrooms and peppers, yum! One more day to go ha!

When I plan my meals I do really well with staying within the calories I want for the day. It's when I eat out I lose track! So planning meals is key!

After dinner I went to Homesense to buy picture frames to put pictures of my adorable nieces!

But there was so many great deals going on! I couldn't resist!
I bought this cute ceramic Santa House that lights up to add to my Christmas Decor, it's so cute! And Christmas Cards too.
I also bought a new tea mug with a lid, a new wine opener and a spoon for the stove to hold cooking utensils. I was always meaning to get one of these! So finallyyy I have one!

I also bought some gifts for my Kris Kringle's :) couldn't post those here but let me assure you they are cute!!!

Holiday decorating!!

We are almost done with our holiday decorating!

All we need is our Christmas tree!

Yesterday we put up all the lights outdoors. My Husband did a great job! (let me add that yesterday was sooo cold here too!)



I love love the Christmas Holiday's!! And love to give back. Every year my sister and I sponsor a family at our church, we are so excited to give back and make a family happy with wonderful gifts.

I received a gift yesterday from my cousin, she is so sweet and saw this inspirational rock and thought of me. This quote and the serenity prayer helped me a lot when I had my Miscarriage.
Jeremiah 29:11 " I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring out the future you hope for" I trust God :)

I'll be carrying it around in my purse!



Hope your holiday plans are coming together!!