The Road so far...

The past year has been a struggle, getting sick and injury, but 2015 is the year. I have motivation. There is a person that used to be in my life, that has given me the motivation to reach my goal. I also look like a beached Whale in my Jared Padalecki Photo Op. And I don't like it.
So I digress, here I am on Day 2 of Body Combat 90 Days.

I did Day 1 yesterday, had to modify some stuff, since it's been my first day in forever to actually workout. But I made it thru the 30mins and I felt awesome. I didn't feel like i had to take a nap. And after the workout I cried. Yup I cried, but not because I hurt, but I felt bad. How could I have let myself go? How could I have let this person, control my life? Why did I ever quit working at the gym? All these guilty feelings came up and I cried.
But then I stood up, shook them off and was proud, I made the first step. I finished Day 1.

I am about to do the Day 2 workout and then hit the Grocery Store. I have to get food to fuel the fight. I really like that Les Mills has Combat now to do at home. I missed doing it and I wanna stay with the good fight and eat right again.

I can do it. I don't want to go thru drastic measures like surgery. Cause after surgery you still have to change your whole lifestyle which you have to do anyways to loose weight.

I can do this... I've done it before. My goal is to get to this again:

I know it's a long road, but I will get there eventually. Thanks for sticking with me reading all this. I try my best this time around to blog consistently.

Breakfast and headaches...

The Importance of Breakfast...

This morning it occured to me, how important breakfast is. When I don't eat breakfast which doesn't happen that often anymore... i start craving "stupid" foods and will eat them. But when I make myself a good breakfast I don't... hmmm wonder why.
I have some standard Breakfasts that I make, I love spinach and mushroom omelets, oatmeal. When we are at the Faire, I precook an egg scramble with some Turkey sausage and whatever veggies I have. Heat that up some days I just eat it as a scramble some days I eat it in a Tortilla. But yes I need to remember to eat breakfast, it gives me energy, it makes me eat right for the rest of the day.
I really enjoy cooking it.

Now my headaches...
I don't know why but sometimes when I work out really hard I get a headache afterwards and not just a small one, pretty bad ones too. They don't occur often enough for me to stress out about them. I think it's just that I went harder than I thought. It's a throbbing headache, but they usually go away after a nap and drinking water. I think hydration has a lot to do with this as well. I know I didn't hydrate properly yesterday and I am sure that had something to do with it.

Other than that I am still on the train... I am enjoying Body Combat again and look forward to those classes...

So drink your water and eat your breakfast.

Gluten Free (I hope) and Low Carb Shepherds Pie

So I wanted Shepherds Pie, but cause I am trying to stay away from starchy foods, the Potatos were not an option. So I was thinking of this all afternoon and then had the Idea. I made fake mashed potatos before with Cauliflower. Well guess what? I went to the store and got Cauliflower and frozen corn, cause those where the only two things  I did not have.

Fake Mashed Potatos:
Cut the Cauliflower into pieces and boil them till very soft, drain. Add a tbsp of butter and season then use your handmixer and mash them up like you would potatos. Don't add milk, since the Cauliflower is a veggie, it still has some liquid in it.

Meat Filling:
Brown ground beef (I used grass fed, that I got a sprouts the other day), season with what you feel like, I usually trow in some mushrooms and carrots but didn't today. Then make a brown Gravy, I am spoiled I have a sauce my mom brought me from Switzerland it's called "Braten Sauce" and it's from Knorr. But regular Brown Gravy will work.

So then you get a deep oven safe dish, heat oven to 350F, put the meat mixture in, then the bag of frozen corn, then the Caulifower Mash and top it with Cheddar Cheese.
Put in the oven for 30minutes and enjoy.

Both my kids and my husband got seconds. So there something healthy.

Enjoy!!!