Sunday, February 14, 2010

Snow Day, Sick, Weekly Menu, New Recipe Plans

Thank you all for your sweet comments and musical ideas!! I would LOVE to see Wicked, Billy Elliot, Annie and more! I’m going to look into that place Jacey mentioned, too! And thank you guys for your calorie feedback – the idea Kimmi posted was great so I’m going to try that today!! Thanks you guys – hope I don’t get too whiney about my weight I am happy with where I’m at, just feel like I’m getting a little more casual and my pants are getting tighter – eek!

Backing up to Thursday, ‘Mamma Mia’ night, I ended up at 1,781 calories, 225 carbs, 37 fat grams and 97 protein grams. Here’s what I ate.

Friday was a bit of a doozy on the exercise front. I drove into work – in zero traffic might I add – and everyone was like “we’re going to get to leave early – snow!” Our parent company confirmed we would leave at 2 p.m., so me and Stacy worked, went down and walked 4 miles, worked then headed out. Traffic was rough coming home but I got home around 3 p.m., worked from home until 5 p.m., then got out and took some Snow Day pics!

Snowy house

View of the neighborhood

Me and baby shih poo - to answer your question, Em, no - Reuben dislikes the snow! We have to carry him out to a pinestraw patch to use the restroom!

Austin shot some video in the backyard!

I tried to get artsy again

I thought the trees looked beautiful

Our bench looks like it's in CO or something Love it!

More snowy tree pics

The view from my kitchen window - what I spent a lot of time looking at the remainder of the day!


After our photo session, I got to cooking:

4 servings of pasta in creamy sundried tomato sauce

4 servings of chicken fried rice

8 servings of potato/egg/sausage breakfast burritos

And I prepped a few things for future meals! Then Austin got home, it snowed harder and I just never made it back to the gym. Oopsie! We had a nice night though – playing pool, playing games and hanging out with little Reuben. Good family stuff! I also took a ton of pics, and worked on my January video a good bit. Great night! I ended up at 1,973 calories, 231 carbs, 49 fat grams and 114 protein grams. Here’s what I ate.

Saturday I woke up feeling sick. Dang!!! My throat hurt, I was achey, I had a cold and felt totally crummy. However, I was PUMPED to try some new recipes. But which to try?! I decided to weave 4 new recipes into this week’s meal plan:

  1. Buffalo Chicken Chili from Biz
  2. Chicken and Roasted Garlic Lasagna from For the Love of Cooking
  3. Breakfast Tortilla Strata from Cooking light
  4. Spinach Mushroom Pizza from Fitness Magazine

My Menu

Sunday: Sausage/egg/potato burrito; buffalo chicken chili; chicken & roasted garlic lasagna

Monday: Muffin breakfast pizza; creamy pasta; chicken & roasted garlic lasagna

Tuesday: sausage/egg/potato burrito; margarita pizza; chicken souvlaki

Wednesday: Muffin breakfast pizza; chicken souvlaki; tostados

Thursday: sausage/egg/potato burrito; sweet and spicy tacos; baked shrimp in tomato sauce

Friday: breakfast tortilla strata; chicken & roasted garlic lasagna; buffalo chicken chili; spinach mushroom pizza

Saturday: breakfast tortilla strata; margarita pizza; easy thai curry

Sunday: breakfast tortilla strata; tostados; easy thai curry

I worked on this a good bit Saturday, as with new recipes I have to get them into spark people and tweak them for servings to figure out nutritionals, etc. Then I had a Big Love marathon, made a grocery list and Austin drove me to the grocery store, and by Petco to get Reuben a few things. When we got home I threw Biz’s Buffalo Chicken Chili into the crockpot and took a long, restful nap. Then I felt I was feeling a bit better so we did the usual: played some pool, played some games, had a few drinkies In retrospect, probably not the best idea as I don’t feel too well today. Duh! Oh well, I ended up at 2,136 calories, 244 carbs, 40 fat grams and 84 protein grams. Here’s what I ate and drank.

Today I’m just chilling, weighed 121 so better than 123 earlier this month! I'm SUPER excited to:

· Try Biz’s buffalo chicken chili (It smelled amazing!)

· Make For the Love of Cooking’s lasagna

· Cook some more stuff!

· Finish up the laundry

· Do some things around the house

· Hang the dining room project

· Finish my video

· And maybe hit the gym, buy a TV for my scrapbook room, and start reading my book club book (still waiting for the Amazon delivery to get here!)

What are you doing today?

What’s one thing you’re looking forward to this week?