New cooler!!

I know...nothing to really get that excited about.  But a good cooler that doesn't look like you should be driving a big rig is a big deal.  : )  Found this baby at Walmart for under 20 bucks.  Has a nice big spot in the bottom to put ice packs and all my containers.  Up top is a separate section for my dry goods.  And they won't get squished up there either!  The things we get excited about.  HAHA

All kidding aside.  If you don't have all the healthy food you need to get you through the day, what are you going to do?  Grab something at the corner store, go to a fast food place, get something out of the vending machine.  All good things to do ONCE IN A WHILE but  if it becomes a habit because you don't have those good options readily available...well, you won't get all that good food into you or worse still, you may not eat at all!  Contrary to what some think, not eating does not make you lose weight...at least not weight you can keep off.  And never mind all the bad stuff not eating does to your body and internal organs, including your heart.  Not eating = BAD!!

Can't wait to pack my cooler Monday morning!  The small things in life.  hehehe

Love the one you're with!  XO

Lunches

Always the hardest thing...lunches.  I do a cooler.  Yup, remember me mentioning the soft-sided cooler with the ice packs.  Here is what's on the docket for tomorrow.  Nothing earth-shattering but wanted to give you a couple ideas.

Starting at the top, a nice little chocolate Lifestyle cookie (gotta have a little sugar - hehe), fat free pudding (I dip my fruit in it, tomorrow it will be pineapple and strawberries), 0% fat Greek yogurt with dates and organic granola (I'll eat that for breakfast when I get to work), an All-Bran bar, the long thing, banana with all natural peanut butter wrapped in a flax seed whole gran wrap, the fruit, a fibre 1 bar for after the gym, those yummy spelt cakes, lettuce with tuna and shaved almonds (mixed fat free Italian dressing in with the tuna), my K-cup of tea.  I'll also add a GNC Lean Shake.  That too will be to drink on the way home from the gym.

Jbird has a condensed version of this.  Portion sizes are appropriate for her.  And no tuna.  I haven't got her to that yet.  Salmon, yes.  Tuna, no. HAHA


I eat every two hours.  Keeps my mojo going.  : )  Hope this gives an idea of what goes in my belly during the day.

Love the one you're with!  XO
 

Love this!!

Nothing like an ancient grain. Spelt contains about 57.9 percent carbohydrates (excluding 9.2 percent fibre), 17.0 percent protein and 3.0 percent fat, as well as dietary minerals and vitamins.

 

Jbird LOVES them which is fabulous!

 

Bought mine at Bulk Barn.

Let's do 100

PUSHUPS!!

Do a hundred pushups.  No really, just get them done in as many sets as in necessary. Try to start in the neighborhood of ten sets of ten and see how far you get. Hell, I don’t care if you do fifty sets of two and it takes you two hours and a snack break – just get 100 under your belt.

Let's do it!!!!!

One of my faves

Thank you Costco....

Don't let someone else rain on your parade

It's been one of those days.  Actually one of those weeks.  I've been dragging my ass and my mind.  It's hard to stay focused when your mind is going a mile a minute.  Not sleeping so really not feeling up to exercising.  Wanting comfort food, not a carrot.  But I've still made it to the gym.  Still had the carrot...and maybe one handful of corn chips.  Hey, they have flax seeds; they're good for me.  ;)

It's okay to have those off days.  It's okay to slip into a rut.  Just make sure you don't wallow there too long.  And especially don't stick there too long if you were tripped and knocked in or straight up thrown in.  Don't let someone else's mental debt be your mental debt.  Don't let them rain on your parade.  So up goes the umbrella.  I've got one more day to get in and the week will be over.  New week starts on Saturday.  Always nice to use Saturday as the beginning of the week.  Sure beats the hell out of a Monday!


Love the one you're with.  XO

 

Physical activity

My goal....more cardio.  I LOVE lifting weights.  Love how it makes my body look and feel.  Cardio...lucky if I get my five minutes in at the first of a workout.  But I'm going to push myself.  I want to do the 5km Army Run in Ottawa in September.  Gotta have a goal.  Even if it's just getting your ass off the couch.  Couple of pushups.  Run around the house a few times.  Just keep it moving.  It will make a huge difference.  I know.  Helped me drop that winter weight.  hehehe