It was 57 degrees when I woke up yesterday. Glorious! Sorry Suzie, but I love this cooler weather. I am just pissed that this cough is preventing me from doing anything active. I’d say I am about 75% back to normal. Just sometimes out of nowhere I’ll start coughing my head off.
I made a breakfast hash yesterday for breakfast. 4 ounces of baked potato, 2 ounces deli ham, 1 egg, 1 cup baby spinach and 1/2 an ounce of cheddar cheese. On the side was 1.5 ounces of bread I made over the weekend with a pat of butter. Breakfast comes in at 486 calories, 20 fat, 46 carbs, 4 fiber and 33 protein.
Still no exercise for me yet – it would have been a perfect day to go on a walk. The other bad part about not working out is that my work day seems about 10 hours long – I miss the break of going to the gym.
I had leftovers for lunch. And it was delicious! I took 3 ounces of the leftover turkey breast from the weekend and tossed it in a ziploc bag with about 1 teaspoon of taco seasoning and 1 teaspoon of water. Then I took 1/2 a cup of leftover baked beans and added 1 tablespoon of Frank’s hot sauce and mixed that together.
On the bottom, 2 corn tortillas, 1/4 cup of baked beans per taco, split the turkey breast, then a sprinkling of cheddar cheese and put them in my office toaster oven until everything was heated up. Topped with lettuce and grilled cherry salsa, and had 1 ounce of chips and more grilled cherry salsa on the side. This plate of deliciousness comes in at 487 calories, 11 fat, 73 carbs (wow!), 12 fiber and 26 protein.
I have Tony to thank for dinner. Now ladies, if your husband can’t cook (mine definitely can though!) this is a meal for him to make. Take a package of smoked sausage and 1 box of Zataran’s red beans and rice. Put them both in a rice cooker and run it through one cycle. So simple and I loved that dinner was ready when I got home from work – thanks Tony!
I had mine on a bed of baby spinach. Dinner comes in at 550 calories, 26 fat, 64 carbs, 10 fiber and 25 protein.
And I am proud to say, no night time snacking! So while I did good yesterday calorie wise, 1523 calories, um guess how much sodium I had yesterday? (Skippy, you should skip this next sentence!) 5,941! Holy shit, no wonder I’ve been so thirsty lately! I plan on drinking a gallon of water today to flush out all that sodium, I really need to put that on my radar.
Alright, I may be upsetting the apple cart with this next topic, but can KERF have her f_cking baby yet?! I’ve never known anyone to research more about giving birth, or how her uterus feels, or buying maternity pants 8 weeks into pregnancy in my life. Her latest BERF topic was how to prepare for the mother, which including buying stool softeners, because you never know.
http://www.babykerf.com/38-weeks-props-for-mom/
I’m trying to be conservative introducing the tea. The tea is thought to tone the uterus and prepare it for efficient contractions – it isnot supposed to induce labor.
Really? She’s drinking tea so that her uterus can have more efficient contractions? I know she’s super Type A, but she’s going to have a rude awakening if she ends up giving birth to a colicky baby.
She’s also talked about potty training:
Elimination Communication
But perhaps the answer to the question of how to handle the poop is to not using either disposables or cloth. I was recently introduced to something called Elimination Communication. Have you heard of it? Parents train their infants to go to the bathroom in the toilet while they hold them over it. And to put it simply, it’s kind of like dog training. You watch your baby closely for cues that they have to go and hold them over the toilet, make a ‘ssssssss’ noise and they let it out. They do still wear diapers because there are usually some “misses,” as they call them, but the diaper changing is much, much less of a strain and potty training usually happens much earlier.
There is information on this site, and I also met a woman in Cville who started doing it at 4 months at a baby fair. And Pregtastic did a very helpful episode on it that explained it in everyday language.
It makes a lot of sense to me. According to the episode, babies are aware of when they are going to eliminate. They are in control of their bladders and bowels. But we train them to ignore these cues and go in a diaper whenever they want. That makes real potty training pretty difficult because we have to un-train the behavior of going whenever they want and re-train what was natural to begin with!
The experts recommend starting EC around 4 months, but you can start earlier, and there are a variety of ways to do it. Since an infant can’t sit on the toilet yet (or even a potty chair), the parents sit with the baby backwards on the toilet and make the sounds (ssss). Watch this video to see it in action!
How the hell are babies aware that they are going to eliminate?
So here’s the question of the day: KERF fan or not? I am definitely not.
HOW in the world did I miss this? WOW. I like the analogy to a reality show – and your blog, your rules. I can’t wait to go read this lunatic, now that she has had her baby. I wonder how the whole “elimination” thing worked out. BWAHAHAHAHAHAA
oh, sorry. it’s not nice to laugh at the delusional. Love ya Biz!
Love you back J!! Hugs and Love!
I cannot tolerate KERF. It’s not so much her posting but her smug and know-it-all attitude. I’ve left comments or read other comments that ask a question or disagree and her attitude is always like “uh huh, f*ck you, I’m right and have it all figured out”. I’m very type A and if I had a blog, I would keep some of my type A stuff off the internets. She’s also a walking contradiction — BUY LOCAL but it’s OK to shop at Wal-Mart and sell bread made with flour in India. I also love that she’s SO FRUGAL but will buy insane and unnecessary shit. Don’t claim to be on a budget where you can’t buy a baby product but then drop hundreds of dollars on a fugly lamp shade. Ugh, I hate this girl and now I feel my blood pressure rising.
PS – to the people who left comments that question you saying anything about her site — would they feel the same way if you disliked a reality TV show? That’s essentially what a blog is and if you put it out there, you open yourself up for criticism.
Ah, this is why I love your blog. 😉 Your husband is hysterical too. And he can come cook my family dinner anytime!
All I will say is that I give a major eyeroll to “elimination communication”. Seriously? Does it make me a bad person that I think that’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard? Kids hit puberty years and years earlier than ever before, why do we need to potty train them at 4 months? Totally unnecessary.
I’ll admit, I was a little taken aback at first, because you don’t usually get that snarky here, Biz. But I *also* admit I would probably have the same feelings about the KERF/BERF blogs. You know what the really sad part is? There are probably a lot of pregnant women reading that blog and fretting about doing it all wrong and getting down on themselves because they don’t have the time/energy to obsess about those types of things, or their best laid plans for labor, breast feeding, etc., didn’t work out. 🙁
P.S. Tony’s comment cracked me up. 🙂
It will be funny to see what she writes when she actually has real life child birth & child rearing experience. As a mother of 3, I found it pretty hilarious (in a clueless sort of way). I have never read her blog before, so I don’t know what it was like pre-pregnancy, but I think she is in for a rude awakening! And that whole potty training thing?! Yeahhhh, let me know how that works out for ya.
And OMG! This is YOUR personal BLOG, write whatever the f*ck you want!
I don’t read KERF but my question is…if you’re not a fan, why are you reading?! LOL! It doesn’t sit right with me that you’re blasting another food blogger on your own, esp putting so much of her blog on yours. Just sayin. I know you keep it real, so I wanted to keep it real too. That was my reaction–I mostly skipped the last part of your blog.
I love that red beans and rice mix–the photo brought back childhood memories–it was one of my favorite things mom would make but I’ve only had it like twice as an adult. Must get some this week.
I used to read her…til I saw the link to GOMI (Get Off My Internets) here a while ago. I spent days LMAO! I stopped reading Berf when she tried milking her own breasts a few months ago. Yikes! Way to bring on early labor dumbass. Oh, and she eats sugary crap for breakfast every morning, yet for her glucose test (something SUPER important) she ate eggs for breakfast! Umm that does not give a real reading imo. Why would you try and ‘fool’ an important test??
Your blog is way more fun 😀
If Kath would lighten up and tell Matt something tasted like ass I would def read her again
Thanks Mary!!! OMG, I can’t believe I missed the one of her trying to milk her own breasts!
Wow, Biz, you really struck a nerve there. Hope you’re thick skinned. I’ve never heard of this person and after looking at one page, I know it is not for me. I really came over to say that temperatures in the 50’s sound like heaven to me right now. Pay no attention when I gripe about being cold. 🙂
Thick skin? Check! Hooray for another cool weather friend! 😀
Oh Biz, that’s some major pot stirring. I don’t read KERF but elimination communication would not have worked in my house!
I am a fan of KERF, and I am also a fan of your blog–I was so surprised to see your post as it feels like some personal animosity…that’s disappointing to me. (I realize I’m in the minority here, but it’s my honest reaction.)
Say it like you feel it Denise – everyone has their opinion – and I appreciate yours!
That’s why I keep reading your blog 🙂