Goals and so on Yada Yada Yada

So it looks like my husband and I will be trying to take a holiday in Oregon during Christmas.  My mom is pretty ill, recently had a total knee replacement surgery and my BFF from High School said it was probably a good idea to go down after she visited my mom in the hospital.

So my new financial goals are:

Flights: Approximately $1100
Car Rental: 2000 Airmiles
Condo: about: $900-ish
Food & Misc $600-800

We're renting a condo instead of a hotel as I want a kitchen so I can save some money making our own meals and plus so I can cook our Christmas dinner too.  I'm hoping our meals will be on the lower end of my scale and I'll shop the sales when I'm there too.  We'll also try and leave my mom with a stocked up kitchen so I can make sure she is eating for at least a month after we're gone.

Losing weight is going to get a lot easier too as I'll be cutting our food budget down and making some other cuts to save up money.

I'm pretty horrid at saving money too so I need to somehow make this a game like for a 6-year old LOL

Also, I picked up some fresh veggies at the Farmers Market this morning but I'll talk more about that tomorrow:)

Much Love & Healthy Living!!

I'm just a klutz!!

My toe is not broken.  I waited for 5 hours between my local walk in clinic and at the x-ray place to find out. So of course the 1st thing I did when I got back was grab my bike and go for a short ride...Wearing a shoe kinda hurt I soldiered on:)


Supper tonight was sloppy joes, with regular ground beef for my husband and with Yves Ground Veggie meat for me. I adapted our favorite recipe from the Pioneer Woman website.

Much Love & Healthy Living!!

Stupid Toe

I'm already bored and even a short walk was pretty damned painful this morning too..I may try some bike riding though this weekend if I can get a shoe on without crying  lol

I picked up some cherry tomatoes,feta and rotini pasta for my supper tonight..I'll halve the tomatoes and roast them with some olive oil and S&P and toss with with the cooked rotini and some feta...I wish the store had fresh spinach as I would have wilted some down and added that too.

I've also been on the hunt for Fall shoes.  I have the hardest time fining shoes in my size here in Canada. I usually have to order up from the States.  Payless Shoes Fall line looks really nice though so I'll see if they have them here in my size or can order them for me.

Long weekend coming up with hubby too:)  Lots of movie watching and maybe if the Doctor ok's it I'll go on a ride too.  I'm going tomorrow morning to see my own Doctor and hopefully get it X-rayed as I'd like a second opinion

Much Love & Healthy Living!!

Broken

I actually managed to break a toe today so I wont be exercising or working out or biking for awhile until my toe heals up a bit...It really hurts to put weight on it right now and shoes make it even worse


I'll still try and post meals and other stuff in the meantime:)

Motivational Tools

I love pretty clothes. For the longest times I could only shop in stores that sold larger sizes and while they mostly tried to be hip, a lot of times it was a big fail.

I decided to use pretty clothes as motivation to stay on track and eat better and exercise as much as possible.  Its starting to pay off too:)

As mentioned in another post I found out that Ricki's goes up to a size 18 in tops and 20 in bottoms and I was soooo happy.  Today I put their clothes to the test.

Bear in mind that I'm bloated and crampy as its my TMO so I wasn't' feeling pretty or confident that anything would fit even with major sucking in of the tummy.

Ha!!!  The cropped pants fit great, just a bit snug but I figure in a week they'll be perfect. Also I purchased a pair of cool and comfy black linen Bermuda shorts.

I also picked up some clothes this past weekend at Old Navy and Wal-Mart too.  I think my size 18 shopping is now complete and now I wont shop again until I'm down to a 14/16

Tomorrow I'm going to start the Couch to 5k program. I downloaded and app on itunes and I'm so excited too.  I'm not looking to become a runner or do any races but I do feel it will help me be more fit and even help with endurance for long walk/hikes and bike rides.


What is your motivation for being fit other than the normal reasons?

Much Love & Healthy Living!!

Five Days Later

After my short bout of sickness we had horrible weather here, rain and thunderstorms galore. I got lazy and haven't been exercising much but I have been making the conscious decision to ride my bike anytime I had errands to run so I am still getting some activity in.

I also had to meat "oops" well I did make the decision both times so it was totally on me.  I had pizza with some shrimp and then yesterday on my birthday I had bacon with my breakfast when we went out.   I didn't get sick and while I did/do miss bacon I'll make the effort to make sure I have the veggie bacon stocked in the house just in case. Breakfast is always my downfall anyways:)  

For my birthday I got a bike basket for my vintage bike, some clothing and a box of chocolates. It was a thoroughly enjoyable day with my husband too.

Today for breakfast I had locally made sourdough bread, toasted with some raspberry jam I picked up at the Farmers Market on Saturday.

Lunch was a Greek theme: A wedge of Spanakopita from Planet Organic followed by some Greek Yogurt with 1/2 a peach and some fresh organic strawberries sprinkled with a bit of hemp seed.

Dinner is Vegetarian Beanie Wienies and some sauteed Swiss Chard.  I couldn't decide between Chard or Collards today but Chard won out:)

BTW for those that read my blog that are vegetarians how do you explain to friends & family that you eat more than just tofu??

Much Love & Healthy Living

Sickness

I've suffered on and off with migraines and headaches since after the birth of my son 22 years ago.  One thing I've noticed is that I eat and pee a lot when I am suffering, and yesterday was no exception.

I was horribly sick yesterday and slept on and off all day. I also ate A LOT when I was up and yesterday evening totally paid for it with a visit to the porcelain god..Ugh  I totally hate throwing up and it didn't really make me feel any better either.   I wish I could understand why I eat so much when I'm migraining. 


Today I feel a lot better though I am still a bit nauseous and I can feel the head pain there lurking in the back of my head but hopefully food wise its better today.

Much Love & Healthy Living!