June 30, 2010

One Month Weigh In … Day 31 of 101

So I started this 101 days of summer challenge at 169 and I lost a whopping – 1.6 for the month.  I remeasured myself, and while my hips, waist and chest stayed the same, I lost 1/2 an inch on my bicep and 1/2 an inch on my thigh. While I was expecting a better result, two things came to mind while reviewing my food...
June 30, 2010

Gorgeous Day!

Wow, after what seems like weeks of thunderstorms, Chicagoland’s weather could not have been better yesterday!  In the 70’s, blue skies, and perfect sleeping weather – I think it got down to 50 degrees last night 😀 For breakfast I scooped out half of a baked potato, leaving 3.5 of the shell.  I scrambled 1 egg, 1.5 ounces of deli ham and red pepper and...
June 29, 2010

Monday again?

Weekends are going by way to fast!  Although I am excited about this week – Hannah comes home from Germany this week! We talked to her on the phone yesterday – her host family has treated her so nice and actually said they wanted her to come back to visit at Christmas! Since it was stormy yesterday morning, Tony and I decided to take our...
June 28, 2010

Another stormy morning and BSI – Bulgar Wheat

I couldn’t even turn the computer on this morning.  The storms rolled in around 8:00 a.m., and when it didn’t look like it was going to let up, Tony and I decided to go out to breakfast and run some errands.  We may get some more storms this afternoon so I have to be quick! I did not do Jilian’s Shred yesterday as planned –...
June 27, 2010

Farmers Market Bust = No Exercise

Okay, I was really grasping at straws and only had enough to put together my breakfast!  I can’t wait to go grocery shopping!!!  I haven’t been in three weeks!  Looks like I’ll be making a lot of pasta sauce and salsa!  Check out the price of tomatoes! For breakfast I had egg tostadas – 2 tostadas, 2 eggs, 1 ounce cheese and yes, pickled jalapeno...
June 26, 2010

Everything is better with bacon.

It was back to my good ole breakfast sammie, although this time I added cooked red pepper left over from our fish taco fiesta.  Breakfast comes in at 380 calories, 45 carbs, 21 protein, 15.3 fat and 10.1 fiber. With delicious strawberries on the side – these are so sweet! I planned on running a 5k at lunch yesterday.  While I love the bike machine,...
June 25, 2010

Sunset, Clouds and More Cheerleaders!

I forgot to post this picture yesterday from our drive home from seeing Toy Story 3.  I thought my friend Beth would enjoy it – turns out we can’t get enough cloud or sunset pics! 😀 Breakfast was delicious – I have South Beach Steve to thank for the idea of adding basil to my scrambled eggs – so good! Lunch was another addition of...
June 24, 2010

Stormy! and Cheerleaders Needed!

This is going to be a quick post because the storms are getting closer and I need to shut off the computer soon! So for lunch it was more “what can I make out of my fridge!”  I used two flour tortillas, 1/4 cup refried beans, baby spinach and an ounce of colby cheese to make a quesadilla, drizzled with my baja fresh salsa. And...
June 23, 2010

Oats?

I felt like Meghann today with my breakfast!  Not your typical Biz breakfast at all – still haven’t gone to the grocery store yet, but I love how I have to think outside the box 😀 I made oatmeal!  With fresh strawberries and a tablespoon of no sugar added peanut butter.  This actually kept me full for a long time – the only thing is...
June 22, 2010

Impromptu Papa Day Dinner

We had a really big storm on Friday, and we found out that my SIL was still without power yesterday!  So since we have a big deep freeze, she brought over stuff that could still be kept frozen, but a bunch of meat thawed and needed to be cooked up. She came over and then later in the afternoon my nephew and his son came...
June 21, 2010