Today

Man it's difficult being back on the wagon but difficult in a great way if that makes sense. I am really trying to get used to the eating all the time again thing. I feel stuffed right now but it's stuffed on the right stuff like carrots and broccoli.

For breakfast I had the strawberry oatmeal it was Eh I need to find a better strawberry preserves instead of the one I bought but that's doable. Roo gave it a total thumbs down and only ate a couple of bites before taking off.

The roast beef open faced sandwich was out of this world good! I used a slice of whole wheat bread, spread a light laughing cow on it, some low sodium cajun flavored roast beef, spinach, and 3 green olives. The recipe only called for two but I put three on because well I love olives LOL! Roo LOVED this and ate over half of one which is a lot for a 17 month old.

Lunch was a crispy taco salad and again it was out of this world good. We made taco meat our of ground turkey and we seasoned it to our tastes even though the recipe didn't call for any seasonings in the meat sorry I'm from Texas taco meat better have flavor. We added in the ranch style beans which were ok but next time I'll use black beans as I prefer the flavor. Ranch style isn't bad and I love em but in Mexican black beans are just better to me. The rest of the salad was lettuce, tomato, a little bit of cheddar cheese, 1/2 tbs of sour cream, and I used quite a bit of salsa, and some green onion. YUM YUM YUM! Then on top for the crispy part of the salad I crushed 1 serving of baked doritos. Roo really enjoyed this meal as well and actually ate lettuce. I hadn't given her that much but she was happy with what she had. Then of course the tomato, salsa, and cheese were inhaled. She dipped her chips in the sour cream and thought that was super silly.

Afternoon snack was a ranch dip made out of cottage cheese and seasonings. We didn't have the seasonings in the recipe so it was not that great but we know now and will get the right stuff for next time. It called for 1 cup of cottage cheese, some green onion, and italian seasonings. You blend those together and it's two servings. You serve it with toasted pita bread and veggies. Our store didn't have pita bread yesterday (not surprising) so I got flat bread and it was honestly healthier and had a great flavor. I also had it with broccoli and carrots. Since we didn't have the right seasonings I thinned it out some with fat free sour cream and then added some franks buffalo sauce to the mix which helped it a LOT. Franks buffalo sauce and I are good friends LOL! Roo had hers without the buffalo sauce and seems to be enjoying. She's eaten the toasted bread and broccoli and keeps going back for more dip dip.

I have not worked out yet today I'm going to have to come back and report on that later. Roo did not sleep well last night and since I'm on vacation I am taking care of her at night which is killing my sleep. I woke up with a major headache that would not stop so when she took her afternoon nap I decided it was in my best interest to get a nap myself. I woke up and the headache was gone YAY!

The workout plan for tonight is the 20 minute shred at level 3 and then 30 minutes of lower body weights. I can do this!

I'll be back about dinner and evening snack and how they were. It feels so good to be back on plan and doing what I know is best.

There might be some who are questioning why Roo is eating what we are if we're dieting. Well Roo is not dieting but she is learning a healthy lifestyle. That's really what the body for life food plan is it's a healthy lifestyle and paying attention to getting in the major food groups as well as healthy portion sizes. And in our house Roo eats what we fix she is getting plenty of food and healthy choices. As she gets older she will have a say in the menu planning and get to pick meals and snacks for us to fix that she enjoys. I tried the lettuce with her today just to see what she would do as we have introduced it in the past to mixed results but today she liked the crunch.