New Recipe, Sweet Tooth Solution, Back in the Saddle Again

Thanks you guys - I was really happy with how the snow pictures came out. I just think snow is SO pretty. I'm not feeling much better today but i'm going to head into work so we'll see! Supposedly traffic won't be bad since lots of peeps - including Austin - will be home today, and i'm thinking the office will be dead so why not go in and get some stuff done in the quiet?!

Backing up to yesterday - I started it out with my favorite breakfast – a potato/egg/sausage burrito. Nom nom nom. Then I got on Netflix on Demand and found a bunch of randomness – including an old favorite, Seaquest DSV!! Me and Austin both loved that show back in the dizzy so it was fun to watch! I also had Biz’s Buffalo Chicken Chili. It DID NOT disappoint – OMG. So good. Spicy but cool, flavorful, filling and I really felt like I was eating something really bad for me – but it’s not! I used all of Biz’s stuff – just cut it in half and decided to use the slow cooker...and was lazy and didn't puree the celery, garlic and red pepper!

Best Buffalo Chicken Chili by Biz over at Biggest Diabetic Loser

4 servings

1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 stalks celery, diced
½ large red pepper, diced
2 tsp minced garlic
2 ½ tbsp of chili powder
1 tbsp ground cumin
½ tbsp paprika
¼ cup Frank’s Hot Sauce
1 (15 oz) can tomato sauce
1 (15 oz) diced tomatoes
1 (15 oz) black beans, drained
1 (15 oz) chili beans in sauce (do not drain)
salt and pepper to taste
4 tbsp fat-free sour cream
Jalapeno, sliced thinly

Add all ingredients to slow cooker and cook on high for 3 hours. Shred chicken with two forks. Divide into four servings and serve with fat-free sour cream and jalapeno slices. Nutritional Information (including sour cream): 417 calories, 55 carbs, 3 fat grams and 40 protein grams.

So yesterday before we went to the store I explained to Austin that my sweet tooth is out of control. It’s just a reality now that I have to have something sweet after breakfast, lunch and dinner. There’s nothing wrong with that, but not preparing for it does me no favors. When I’m not prepared, I buy things in too big of portions, I eat 7 mini snickers at work, etc. So, at the store last night I picked up some new sweets:

Reduced Fat Chips Ahoy - first time trying these! While they're a little hard and not very "chocolate chipy" - they satisfy the sweet tooth and that's what it's about. Also, Publix had them at buy one get one free - nice!

Publix Frosted Oatmeal Cookies - My mom introduced me to these and they're SO good.. Kind of crispy but also chewy. They're like ginger snaps with something sweet on them. Love...

You can have THREE chips ahoy cookies for 140 calories. So I can have one cookie after each meal. Not bad, right? OR, I can have FIVE frosted oatmeal cookies, so 1 with breakfast, 2 with lunch and 2 with dinner. Hope this works for me!

I decided to work out. For real. I didn’t feel 100% but really wanted to do something. During yet another Big Love, I got the floor and did some abbies:

25 knee-up crunches

25 left/right crunches

15 bicycles (left/right is 1)

20 straight leg flutter kicks

15 sprinters

25 straight leg crunches

REPEAT

I haven’t done abs in way too freaking long a while, so I felt the burn fo sho! After that I sucked it up and drove over to the gym for 5 miles and legs. I was able to get in the 5 miles in 75 minutes burning 219 calories. Then I got home and made a lasagna. O. M. G. It was amazing - i'll post all about it tomorrow but i'm a fan and am no longer afraid of making it!

After stuffing my face with lasagna me and Austin watched more Big Love. I ended up at 1,653 calories, 209 carbs, 41 fat grams and 113 protein grams. Here’s what I ate. So I'm happy with this amount, but the sweet tooth solution is definitely a work in progress. As in I had 1 serving of the oatmeal cookies and 2 servings of the chips ahoy. Eek! Too much junk! Today is another day though.

Do you have a sweet tooth? If so, what satisfies it for you?

When you do abs, how many exercises do you try to do? How many sets of each? How many days a week?