“Beautiful” “Encourage” “Family” “Fit” “Healthful”
”I choose” “Incredible” “Kind” “Optimistic” “Success” “Thrive” “Affirmative” "Transform” “Blessed” “I Can” “Inspire” Thankful” “Whole”
These are positive words I like to try and use daily when talking to my children, my finds and even me. We all need positive affirmation form time to time and think we fail to see we need to be that way to ourselves. 
So I ask you…What positive things do you use each day? Do you say them to yourself?
The water is still not back to where it is consumable, it is being worked on but we now need to wait for another specialist to come. I hope he will be able to early this week. So for now I am still using bottled water, though have been assured it is OK to use to wash the clothes and the dishes, I at least now have a clean kitchen, that is very helpful. I also bought paper goods so we can use those a bit until water gets back to 100%
How have I done?
I do not like this question this week. I do not feel as though I accomplished anything that I set out to do. I am moving forward, I do accept the decisions I have made for the good or the bad. I accomplished moving more via the Shred, but other than that not so much.
How do I feel…
I feel like poop. I have eaten that way the past few days and you know over and over again I keep re-living this whole scenario. What I eat directly effects how I feel physically, mentally and the outlook I have on myself. I wonder how many more times I am going to need to feel this before I only eat what my body needs. Onto a much better week! If nothing else I am persistent! 
Meal planning…
Breakfasts: Fruit, eggs, oats, corn mush
Lunches: Leftovers from dinner or veggie soup or beans and brown rice
Snacks: fruit, yogurt, popped popcorn
Dinners…
Monday ~ Baked Pasta with steamed veggies
Tuesday ~ Red Beans And Rice with steamed Broccoli
Wednesday ~ salmon cakes with Rice Wheat berry Bake and steamed broccoli
Thursday ~ Night Out
Friday ~ pizza night
Saturday ~ roast beef, rice & wheat berry bake, asparagus
Sunday ~ Pulled pork, roasted sweet potato, brussel sprouts
Goals:
I Really liked this sugar alternative. So much I have agreed to share the wealth not once but twice. I am having 2 giveaways for Truvia™, the first you can find the details further down this post. I do not use a lot of sugar anymore but do enjoy my coffee sweet as well as a treat now and again. I not only used the Truvia™ in my coffee but baked with it as well. It turned out well. I made Blueberry Oatmeal Bake and I also made some cupcakes for my kids. They never knew the difference. I would not use splenda when making my kids anything or any sweeteners like that, but I felt comfortable with this. First they get sweet treats once in a while and second I am good with what Truvia™is made of.
Things you might like to know about Truvia… (taken directly from their site here.)
Truvia™ natural sweetener is refreshingly uncomplicated. Sprinkle it on your grapefruit. Spoon it in your coffee. It won't end up on your conscience or your thighs.
One packet of Truvia™ natural sweetener provides the same sweetness as two teaspoons of sugar.
Truvia™ natural sweetener is a great alternative for people with diabetes. It is also kosher certified.
You can find more information about the ingredients here on their site.
I am first disclosing Truvia™graciously sent me some product to try and to giveaway, no money compensation was given and the opinions here are solely my own and have not been influenced in any way by receiving the free product. This past week I have been busy trying and experimenting. All have tasted great! No after taste, and sweet as sugar, but I have noticed I am not craving sweets…that is very good.
This giveaway is for 3 boxes of Truvia to 1 wonderful reader!
So this is the first of 2 giveaways I will be doing with Truvia™and you might be wondering how do I enter? So glad you asked!
How to enter:
Head on over to the post here to enter.
Contest ends Sunday at midnight EST. I will draw a winner from qualified entries and announce Monday. The winner will have 24 hours to respond or another winner will be drawn.
Giveaway open to US residents only, sorry.
I will see you there..
I feel good about what I am eating these past few days and doing the Shred has been really hard…which also is good. However today I am having a problem. Let me explain.
Yesterday we noticed our water getting really cloudy and when I went to do laundry…whites using bleach to be specific… the water turned orange. thankfully I did not put my clothes in, not sure if they would have picked the color up but I am betting they would have. SO thankfully I always keep a few gallons of bottled water in the event of emergencies in our storage. This was an emergency well because we were not drinking the water AND I did not have my van so could not get to the store. SO we at least could have water to drink…that was good!
This morning we have it figured out, but it is going to be an all day thing…after the filter gets changed we need to keep running the water to clear the pipes of the residue. You know until you have to do without something you do not realize just how much you rely on it without even thinking! Water…clean uncontaminated water…is one of those things! Coffee…boiling vegetables…rinsing blueberries…ugh the healthy habits go on… So lat night we I did just fine. This morning I am not fairing so well..I have a dirty kitchen, I HATE a dirty kitchen! I have gone to make a yogurt parfait…nope can’t rinse my blueberries…I was going to make eggs…nope I used the pan last night and could not yet wash it…So how about grits, nope I need water! We are down to a half a gallon and I have to get to the store! So in my now frustrated state I made toast. Granted the toast is a 12 grain healthy bread, it is NOT something my body deals well with, but I was really hungry! So I had toast with…wit for it…butter! *SIGH* I am out of peanut butter too. Boil eggs…nope again need clean water to do so!
So No clue what the remainder of the daily eats will include…you can be sure eating out is probably going to be a necessity for at least lunch…if not dinner as well!
I am a bit frustrate, but not discouraged. I know as soon as the water is rectifies all will be good, I just will not take the ease of turning on the faucet to get my water again!
Have you ever had to cope with something so frustrating that you would normally just take for granted? How did you deal with it?
Another morning with a Blueberry Oatmeal Bake for breakfast…MMM. Have you seen the recipe yet? It is here and while you are checking out the recipe be sure to enter the Truvia Giveaway, it ends Sunday.
I love when I have leftovers…leftovers that are good, tasty and easily considered a “whole” or “clean” food. So that is what my lunch was. I had leftover couscous, peas and sautéed squash. I added 2 triangles of Sonoma Jacks Light cheese. No it is not a clean food but it is not entirely horrible either. It gave me 
that little bit of 
protein I needed…until..around 3 and I felt my tummy rumbling.
So what is one to do? Grab a frozen Vanilla Fiber One yogurt from the freezer! oh I love me some Fiber One yogurts…especially frozen. They taste like something 
sinful!
Do you eat frozen yogurt? Not frozen yogurt as in the “ice cream” version, but rather true yogurt that you put in the freezer to make a delish not so guilty pleasure?
Dinner I visited Bell The Cat and had and chicken avocado salad that I do not have a photo of because...well…I forgot my camera at home. It was delish though. It had avocado, porcini peppers, tomato, chicken and croutons on a bed of romaine. I had olive oil and balsamic vinegar over for my dressing and water to drink..it was very tasty.
I made Oatmeal Blueberry Bake for breakfast that turned out really good. Looking for the recipe? You can get it here.
It was leftovers from the night before for lunch accompanied by cut up strawberries. A lovely pair! What was dinner the night before? Well you can check it out here.
I sautéed up some summer squash and mushrooms and paired it with some cooked sweet italian sausage over whole wheat couscous and then a side of sweet peas. Dinner was really good!
What you do not see pictured was an apple I had for snack before dinner and a bowl of popcorn I had later while watching the biggest Loser and do my Last Chance Tworkout! along with the Shrinking Jeans Sister Hood. Am I sore this morning? You betcha! Between doing day 2 of the Shred and then last night ouch!
So this is the first full week of the Spring Fling Challenge and I am updating my progress . I was Three seventeen last week and this morning I weighed three fifteen for a loss of two pounds this week! Yay me! I am chipping away little by little. I so look forward to being below three hundred! Then I will need to be determined to get FAR away from it because I have been there before and plateau and wind up back up over it again. I will no…I CAN NOT allow that to happen this time around…I just can’t!
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