We have a plan!

I love having fresh chives for adding flavor and to add some color to my food!

Lunch at the cafe again. I ate a bunch before I remembered to take a picture. The patties were gluten free but they did have oats in the recipe. I think the sauce had maple syrup, but we pulled them out of the dish taking as little sauce as possible. 

I am ok with these fuzzy lines in this situation. 

Supper was quick. It was late, I was hungry, and I didn’t want to wait long for my food to be ready. I’m sure enjoying the fresh garden tomatoes!!

I’ve been struggling to find a yogurt that isn’t full of additives and sweeteners (and that I like) and this brand was suggested. This is a massive container from Costco so I wanted to portion it into 1/2 serving sizes (4 oz.). These tiny storage containers were on sale at my local market and I thought they would be perfect!

The container said 48 oz. I got 44 oz plus about 3oz. I put the extra in the freezer and will use it in a smoothie for my guys. 

I have 2 of these in the fridge and the others are all in my freezer. I haven’t tasted this yogurt brand yet. Crossing my fingers that I like it!!

Another day in the books!



 How to build your breakfast FAST and in one bowl. 

Put a bowl on the scale and clear it to zero. 

Add 4oz of plain yogurt. 

Add 1oz cereal. 

 Add 6oz berries. Start with one type…

…then keep adding till you get the weight correct on the scale.  4oz yogurt + 1 oz cereal + 6oz berries = 11oz.!

Then add 1oz nuts and you’re done!!

Breakfast is served in no time at all!!

Lunch at the cafe today. I did my best with what was available. 

Supper

Another bright day in the books!

I love starting a new week in my wellness/food journal!  I’m part of all sorts of planner Facebook groups and I was inspired to draw lines this week!

I had a good food plan today. 

And breakfast went exactly as planned. (Can we say YUM to all those berries from our garden?)

My table was even clean (another struggle here…keeping the table free of clutter).

I love this table so much. In the spirit of Kon Marie, it brings me tons of joy every time I look at it!!

I also got my grapes into a jar today. I think the reason this works so well is because the food becomes sort of vacuum sealed into the jar. When the room temperature air cools down, it shrinks inside the jar which seals the lid. I don’t know the scientific reason why this happens, but when I open the lid to eat some grapes, it kinda has that pop sound. And it does it every time!  It’s like the sound of “fresh” every time you open the jar. I like it!

After breakfast…well…that was it for food today. I went to my classroom and got engrossed in my work. I felt hungry a few times but I’ve learned to ignore it and I was so absorbed in all that I was accomplishing, food was definitely secondary and mostly not even on my mind. 

I know this is not a good thing to do. It’s something I’m working on. I seem to be working on a lot of personal growth right now. 

When I drove home at 10:30pm, I decided to just call this a fasting day and wait till morning to eat. 

Another day, another chance to have bright shiny lines. That’s what I love about this program. It’s real life and you just don’t ever give up and always try again. I don’t beat myself up over my short comings. Tomorrow is a new day. 

Can we just admire this rainbow planner layout though?  It’s giving me all the feels right now as this is a fun hobby that I’m just completely obsessed with!!

In case you like to see planner stuff, I have a whole different blog about it at http://www.myerincondren.com. Enjoy!

I knew I would have a hard time blogging once I went back to work. Oh the joy of being a teacher and having summers off!  But I’m back now, and blogging this a day late. After a few days of fuzzy lines, I decided to go back to my tried and true breakfast. 

Lunch was grab and go. I waited too long And I was too hungry to make something. It’s a bad habit that I am still working on changing. At least now, I’m not grabbing junk food (which was totally my pattern before).

I did get inspired for my supper from this post in the BLE Rockstars FB group. 

I got busy immediately to duplicate it!

Garlic from our garden. 

Zucchini from our garden and onions and red peppers from my mason jar storage in the fridge. I did the onions on July 15th and they were still good!!

Sauté’ all the food in a bit of oil. 

Growing up vegetarian, I was introduced to a lot of “meat” substitutes. I’ve been using this taco filling in different ways since it’s a soy base and the BLE plan does say “vegeburger”.  I’m not sure if this is an ok food but maybe someone who is more experienced can let me know by looking at the ingredient list. 

I don’t use a lot of meat substitutes anymore so this does feel a bit like a treat. 

My oh so delicious meal!!  Green beans and tomatoes also from the garden!!

I want to mention again how much I love storing my fresh food in Mason jars in my fridge. I bought this package of sweet peppers at Costco and immediately put them in this 2-quart Ball jar. 

Not only does it keep longer, the food is so pretty this way!!!

My Cavachon, Scarlett, watched me the whole time!!

Another amazing week in the books!!

I keep forgetting to post this!  My measurements have been doing great things!

This sticker is from Planner Chick Designs. She’s one of my favorite sticker shops and a great friend of mine. She’s also on this journey as well and doing well!!

Today was a very relaxing day!  It’s Sabbath so I went to church today. Somehow I totally forgot to eat breakfast even though I knew exactly what I was going to eat!

When church was over I had to grab my friend who got me going with BLE in the first place. It was selfie time and time to document some progress.

Between the two of us, we’ve lost 36 lbs and still counting!  We both feel fantastic and I will forever be grateful to her for talking to me about her new food plan, even though I thought she was nuts and it took me a month to finally wrap my head and heart around the idea and get on board. 

For potluck today, I eyeballed my food, ate in my categories, except that there were no fat options by the time I went through line.  Since I had failed to eat breakfast, I decided to eat some rice for lunch, otherwise there would have been very little food on my plate. 

(Those strawberries were ours, frozen, from last year’s garden!)
For supper, I had a grab and eat fast meal because I was feeling lazy and I wanted to eat that peach that was planned for breakfast. The peach with the yogurt was heavenly and the crunch of nuts was perfect. 

The only problem was that when I was done I was still super hungry because I had grossly undereaten today, so I grabbed a pickle and called it good enough. 

I’m not sure how I want to handle a skipped meal. I think I’ll leave my plan in pencil and not go over it with pen like I normally do. Today was a little off, but tomorrow is always a new day!

That’s a wrap!!

I’m getting a lot of questions about my food journal!  I actually did a whole blog post about it on my other blog and you can check it out here. 

I love filling it in each day and tracking my core exercise, water, and Fitbit goals (which are semi on hold right now since I’m still on weight loss focus).  

I don’t remember if I talked about where I buy my stickers from. I try to post planner pictures on another IG that I have just for my planners (yep, an IG for planning is a thing!). You can follow me at myec_kristy. 

Let me know if you have any questions about the planner!  I love helping and sharing how things have worked for me. This is my 3rd year using the planner as a health/wellness journal, though in the past it has been very hit and miss. 

My most recent full week!