An amazing dinner and a look at food porn...

Woke up this morning with a smile on my face!  I rarely wake up in a good mood but this morning I managed to do just that! I had this song stuck in my head when I woke up: Hold Me by Jamie Grace.  If you have never heard this song go You-Tube it right now. No seriously stop reading my blog and go you-tube this song you will love it! Then come back and finish reading because there are great recipes and rants ahead!

Wake-up: 5:40am

Coffee: 1 TBSP SF creamer +2sweeteners+ a dash of cinnamon

Smoothie: 1scoop vanilla whey protein + 1tsp SF Metamucil + 6 ice cubes + 1 cup of water

I cut my finger on my magic bullet smoothie maker! :’( sad….. I later spilled said smoothie all over my white PGH Steelers jersey L.  I think that God really did not want me to have that smoothie this morning!  I thought I was going to have a rough day and I kept praying God would turn it around for me.  Of course he did! He’s great like that! I just needed to lean a little harder on Him this morning.

Breakfast: A serious blast from the past!  I can remember when I was a kid that I had this oatmeal with little packets of jelly that you swirled on it. So I got to thinking wouldn’t it be great if:

Recipe Alert: I took a ½ cup of old fashioned oats 1½ cups of water 1 TSP of SF creamer and 2 packets of sweetener 1TBSP of vanilla extract…cooked all that together on low heat on the stove until thickened.  In the mean time I place 3TBSP of Smuckers SF Strawberry Jam in a sandwich bag and ‘mushed’ it up! Once oatmeal was done I poured it into a bowl and swirled the oatmeal on top(cut a hole in the tip of one bag and squeeze it through)…. Next time I will do two things different! 1 a wider bowl so I can make a prettier swirl J and maybe just a tad less jam.

Exercise: 10minute walk around the building

Snack 1:  2 cups of fresh broccoli and 2 TBSP of Bolthouse Honey Mustard dressing for dipping…

Lunch: Oh no you are about to notice a pattern here…. Broccoli Chopped Salad from Taylor Farms…. Ok I know broccoli twice in the same day??? I have tons of it that needs ate up and since I refuse to waste food I will be choking down mass quantities of broccoli over the next few day!  J I actually enjoy raw broccoli so this won’t be too hard of a task for me. In addition to the chop salad I enjoyed a Dannon Light&Fit Blueberry Yogurt.

Snack 2: ½ of a 100calorie bag of popcorn and 1 strawberry Nutri-Grain Bar

Exercise: 45mins at approx 2.0mph on the treadmill 15minutes on the recumbent bike at an approx pace of 8mph plus my 10minutes walk from earlier in the day!

Dinner: Sweet tater n black bean stuffed chicken burrito

Recipe Alert: Oh sit back and prepare for your taste buds to be tempted! Tonight I took an Alexia brand veggie mix that included sweet taters, black beans and other veggies, grilled chicken, and a fiber one tortilla and made the most amazing and tantalizing burrito.  The taste from the chipotle oil in the veggie mix with the grill flavor on the chicken lent to a smoky savory flavor of something you might get at a top notch Mexican restaurant.  I also love the cool tangy flavor of sour cream to cut through the heat and smoke and to the deliciousness of any Mexican style food. 

Here is how it looked:

Seriously go buy this right now! It's amazing and worth every penny... wait get all the items to make this it will amaze you and you will thank me!

Awww my BF grilled the chicken while I was driving home! It was actually edible too!

Makin' my two burritos

After I took a bite out.... mmmmm.... the layers.....

2 Fiber One Tortilla, 1 cup of Alexia Sweet Potato Veggie Mix, 6oz of chicken, and 2 TBSP of FF sour cream

Here’s how it tasted: 

Ok Maybe not that good but pretty darn good!

Now the above brings me to my next topic: Food Porn! That’s right you read that right.  Have you ever been sent a recipe or link for a website or a magazine by a friend and told ‘look how good this is’…. Food P-rn! AHhhh! It makes me hungry, lustful, and binge! Even if I have just ate the biggest salad in the world and drank 2 smoothies show me a picture of chocolate cake and it throws me in to stomach pangs and deep dark lusty desires for ‘devil’s food’ do you ever wonder why they call it ‘devil’s food cake’ because it isn’t good for you! It’s a temptation from the devil! Ok maybe that’s not why it’s called that, but now you will always associate it with that J I just want you to know you are not alone in the love of reading, looking at, smelling and browsing unhealthy and gluttonous foods.  However it must stop! Just like a man looking at the real deal kinda porn isn’t good for his relationship with his wife and his God neither is it good for us to look at food porn with the same lustful heart. It destroys our relationship with normal foods and breaks our trust with God.  So I’m going to do my best to not look at food with a lustful heart. May Jesus give me the strength to look at food only as fuel and nutrients for my body. I pray for you he gives you the same strength because I know just like me you are a closet food porn addict!  Also no more food magazines unless they are healthy food magazines!!! Grrrr!!!

Calorie issues: I realized today after not losing as much weight as I was hoping for that my calories needed adjusted.  Hoping and praying this helps the weight start coming off again!

Now it’s time to chillax and watch some football!!  Also plan out all my calories for tomorrow since they’ve been cut again! 

Praises: Soooo thankful for a heavenly Father who is always right there with me! I was begging for some help today while banging it out on the treadmill and God was right there giving me the strength I was asking for!  I was about to give up and I knew I could keep going I knew He was with me! 

 Calorie totals:

Totals	1,660	207	52	125
Your Daily Goal	1,705	234	57	63
Remaining	45	27	5	-62
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein
	*You've earned 425 extra calories from exercise today

XOXO