The First Week

This first week has been interesting. We love the meals and food, but attempting to cook all 3 meals everyday is a little of a hassle. Neither of us are morning people so cooking breakfast is a bigger deal than it should be.

So far we have been eating the cereal we purchased (see meal plan) and fruit in the mornings. Simple lunches such as turkey pita's and veggies. The meal that I found the best was oddly the turkey slices, cheese slices, nuts and carrots. I convinced hubby I couldn't eat carrots naked, so he took some greek yogurt and added some spices to make a delicious non-ranch dip. I was surprisingly full after this meal too. I was totally satisfied.

Drinking water has completely gone down hill. I am back to diet cokes and coffee. I get so little sleep most nights that I need that pick me up or I can't get through. The idea was to go to bed early and get up early with 8 hours, but my design work has picked up and I spend late nights working all this week.

The soda's are keeping me from falling asleep at my day job!! It's a vicious cycle! :/ Do you have issues with this? It's like a snowball it just keeps rolling in the wrong direction with every choice.

We did cheat Tuesday and grab Chilis for dinner. I had chicken crispers (aka fried heaven) and he had cajun pasta. We both devoured it like we were starving which we most assuredly ARE NOT.

Lately I have been listening to old cd's and it has been reminding me of my past issues with weight and how I overcame it before. Typically after a bad break up I would shed tones of weight only to meet the next boyfriend and gain it all back and then some. :/ Another vicious cycle...Although now happily married I have the opportunity to actually choose a healthy lifestyle versus diving head first into bad habits to cope. Thats life...

Today we made the strawberry smoothies for breakfast (see meal plan) and I really liked it. It wasn't very sweet, but still good. The hubs has reconfigured the recipe to be sweeter for future smoothies. He agrees it's awesome and we need to make these all the time. I like the idea of having the protein whey mixed in. Which if you don't know anything about that you can read more HERE  or  HERE.
We have the chocolate flavor...so no complaints!! lol

I am going to focus on praying and working on the water/soda issue. I will let you know!