Cheers to a MUCH happier day! I forgot to mention yesterday a huge thank you to my dear friend, Erin, for her referral to http://stuffimakemyhusband.blogspot.com/! Great recipes!! I cannot wait to try the cauliflower pizza crust. I really, really appreciate all of the tips I get! Some come here and some on Facebook. Thank you very much.
FOOD AND DRINK: Shake for breakfast, Meal bar for dinner, snack bar for morning snack, snack bar for afternoon snack, and I just finished up 30 pistachios. At the grocery this evening I bought some 100-calorie yogurts, so I'm super excited to try those tomorrow! For lunch today I made a can of Progresso Light Beef Pot Roast soup (160 cals) and added one 4 ounce piece of chicken, shredded (110 cals) and 1/2 cup of macaroni noodles (210 cals). It was really, really yummy and quite filling. I felt like I was missing something, so I did round the meal out with a sugar free 10 calorie jello cup. Perfect! Had one cup of coffee this morning and water all the live-long day.
EXERCISE: The boys had daycare today, so Zoe and I did a little bit of shopping and then came home to play outside! We took a walk down the street, played in the yard, did some household chores. She took a nap that ended right before we needed to leave and pick up the boys at 3. After we got the boys, we met up with a friend and her two children at the park. We ended up staying until almost 6!!! Very fun and the kids ran off a lot of energy. I mean A LOT. I had to go to the grocery store this evening during their "dinner", so I didn't get a chance to take my own walk, but I am sufficiently worn out this evening so I must've done something right!
ISSUES/TIPS: Nothing really new to report today. I am loving my cup with the straw still. Makes water SO easy to drink. I have been looking a little longingly at Shaun's cup with ice and soda pop, but it's not an overwhelming craving. I have been thinking a lot lately about the kids' eating habits and how I can maybe alter them a little bit to make things easier on me when I don't have such a structure eating plan. I realize this may sound a little bit selfish, but I also would like for my kids to grow up with a healthier view of food than me. Last night they accidentally didn't eat their dinner until almost 7 o'clock. I really didn't think anything of it until this morning when they slept until 7 am!! Henry is regularly up by 5 and Jack usually comes out by 6...you can see why the 7 am sleeping in was very exciting to us. This led me to brainstorm some ways we can change our routine of eating meals in order to have them eating something substantial a little later in the evening. We have a routine of heading to bed between 8 and 8:30, so I have now decided we will do snack at our usual dinner time of 5:30 and I will plan to begin making dinner around 6:30 or 7:00. I am also planning to simplify our meals. I bought some Ziploc storage containers with compartments today and each child now has one that is their own. I filled these with "snacks" (today was leftover pizza, cheese cubes, and grapes; when that was eaten, I refilled with dry cereal and bananas) and instructed the boys that they are allowed to get those out of the fridge any time they want to snack during the day. I plan to put lighter snacks in these (the pizza was just because I had a couple leftover pieces, won't be typical snack food) so they will not feel so tempted to ask for a bowl of cereal as a "snack" or spaghetti and meatballs. Henry's favorite. :) Anyway, we shall see how these work out! I am hoping the food being in containers will also help to make it less appealing to me! Ha, ha.
I have a few pictures to post, but am a little too sleepy this evening to find the computer/camera cord. Sorry!! Tomorrow, for sure.
Good night!
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