One thing I’ve been doing lately is on Sunday afternoons, just baking up 4-6 baked potatoes just to have on hand. Whether to make hash browns, or rosemary potatoes for dinner, or french fries.
Yesterday morning I decided to make them my breakfast – I scooped out the insides and scrambled them with 1/2 cup egg beaters, 1 ounce diced ham, put them back in the potato jackets, sprinkled each half with 1/2 ounce of cheese and put it in the toaster oven. I then put 1/2 teaspoon of my homemade pesto on top. With watermelon on the side, this was a really filling breakfast!
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I went to the gym – really pushed on a 6.3 mile run not only to beat the pacer bike (by 4 minutes!) but also my last ride by 1 minute. Then a 1 mile cool down and then 5 minutes of abs on the ball – 40 minutes total.
Lunch with leftover beef stew and an apple with a teaspoon of reduced fat, no sugar added peanut butter – its Skippy brand and one of my favorites. Lunch comes in at 413 calories, 40 carbs, 17.1 fat, 19.4 protein, and 6.5 fiber.
Late in the afternoon I could start to feel my blood sugar drop. Once I get back into the exercise routine, it takes a while to dial in how much insulin I need in terms of working out.
Instead of reaching for a candy bar at the front desk, I drank half of this:
In retrospect, I should have drank the whole thing, because while I was making dinner I could still feel it dropping. Hence, my shitty dinner pictures 😀
I made my version of Rachael Ray’s sloppy joes. You can go here to see what adjustments I made to hers, number one of course leaving out the onions! I also don’t make hers as sweet – her original recipe calls for 1/4 cup brown sugar for just 1.25 pounds of meat – I reduced mine down to 1 tablespoon. Dinner comes in at 603 calories, 64 carbs, 52 protein, 14.5 fat and 6 fiber.
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Amanda and I have become email exercise buddies to keep each other on track. I had every intention of doing Level 1 of Jillian’s 30 day shred when I was side tracked with a deep clean of my refrigerator. I took everything out, scrubbed the sides, the shelves – even removed all my condiments.
When I counted them all . . .I am ashamed to say that I had 62 condiments in my refrigerator! No wonder I need two refrigerators! I am proud to say I’ve whittled the amount down to 30 – and that includes salad dressings. I won’t show case my hot sauces yet, but I am proud to say that I have reduced my mustard to just 7! 😀
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So the other night, Hannah decided to die dye (thanks Tony – he’s the best proofreader!) her hair again – basically the same color, like a dark auburn. She gets out of the shower, its still wet so you can’t really tell. All of a sudden Tony and I hear her say “Oh shit!” She runs into the living room and its a bright auburn? I am not really sure what color it is, but we both liked it. It was just kind of a shock to her because it seemed like a drastic change.
So Tony is now calling her Kelsey, since that’s her middle name, since he thinks she looks Irish. And he may or may not sing “Kelsey with your hair so bright, won’t you guide my sleigh tonight!” when she’s home. She loves it now that she’s gotten used to it for a couple days. I love it too! 😀
More bad news. We have AT&T Uverse. We get postcards in the mail periodically telling us of channel changes, etc. We got a post card saying that if negotiations aren’t met by October 31, 2010, I will no longer have FoodTV, Food Channel or HGTV! WTF is that all about?! So Tony keeps telling me – “watch it now because pretty soon you won’t have it!”
I am pretty sure I can’t Hulu FoodTV either. 🙁
Stats for Monday
- 1583 calories, 193 carbs, 100 protein, 45 fat, 17.9 fiber
- 25% of calories from fat
- 40 minute work out at lunch
- 30 minute deep clean of fridge (yes I am counting that as exercise!)
Before I went on my summer trip I really did a good job cleaning everything out and I actually now have not that many condiments, maybe about 10 which is pretty amazing; normally it’s matching your count 🙂
i love the hair! both hubby and i dyed our hair blonde (streaks) in college. ugly.
Hope you don’t lose any of your favorite channels!
Oh no! Losing the Food Channel?? Biz, I hope you are able to keep atleast one of the food channels! That’s just awful! I have a condiment problem to! Lol, Who knows what I have lurking in my refrigerator when it comes to condiments. The hair looks good.
All these meals look delicious! I would love to eat like you every day 🙂 Esp like the breakfast.
If it makes you feel any better, J is a condiment whore too. I just made him throw out a bunch of bottles because it was out of control. I,on the other hand, am the complete opposite. Ketchup, BBQ and Soy are all I need!
Love Hannah’s hair color, I used to wear my hair that color all the time, but have toned it down since. She can totally rock it though! 🙂
Kelsey is lovely – and love the hair. Our 13 year old is forever changing hair colors [no black tho’] and I love it – everyone gets a kick out of it. Fun, right?
You do amazing things with potatoes. I STILL have to make my husband these potato egg jacket doohicky things. hee…but I am getting around to it. They look so delish.
And beef stew is my all time favorite. And so few calories? Nice. Your’s looks luscious. YUM.
Good news: “Hulu is proud to have Food Network as a content partner”
http://www.hulu.com/search?query=food+network&st=1
THANKS TINA!!!!!! Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that – thanks for finding that for me though! 😀
Oh No on the food network I would switch
I love Hannah’s hair!!!
I like a lot of condiments, too. But sometimes I get “sick of them” because they take up so much space in the fridge. Plus, I usually “forget” some of them in the back in the fridge and by the time I “re-discover” them, they are not so fresh anymore…
I love that hair color! That’s the color I used to dye my hair back when I could find the non-permanent color. Sadly no one is carrying it anymore and I’m so bummed out! I want purple hair! 😀
Hannah’s hair looks incredible! I love it!!!
Oh man, Andy and I are such condiment whores too. It’s a problem. Especially me and my salad dressings. Right now I’m obsessed with ranch, salsa and tapatio mixed together. YUM!
You always make such creative breakfasts! I would never have thought to have potatoes like that. I would love to try that out, looks very filling and healthy!! 🙂
Love Hannah’s hair!! She’s still young, she can pull it off!!
No Food Network? I would die!
Whoa Lady! Back away from the condiments!
I would be less than thrilled if someone took my cooking channels away. That is predominently what I watch! I’m also impressed with your # of condiments. I have quite a few, but definitely not that many. However if you were to ask me how many spices I had or odd varieties of baking ingredients like various chips and such, that would be a lot. 🙂
Aww Hannah’s hair is super cute. Occasionally I dye my hair w/ a temp dye that is called Cinnaberry that is kind of like htat – but not as bright.
I’d call AT&T and negotiate w/ them. J did that a few months ago and got our bill lowered $20 – well, that was w/ Comcast. But it’s at least worth a try!
Thanks for the tip Christina – hopefully it won’t get to that though! 😀
ok now i’m craving sloppy joe’s! i’ve never been daring enough to dye my hair, good for hannah 🙂
What a tasty breakfast. I love the idea of baking up a bundle of potatoes for use throughout the week. pre-prep makes my life so much easier. I’ll have to try this. I like the hair! The color is fun 🙂 Bahhh- I <3 food network. I watch it almost daily
I hate to admit that I don’t clean out my fridge as often as I should. I really need to. I am sure I could probably throw out quite a few condiments.
That breakfast sounds amazing! What a clever idea to use the potato!
Love the hair-change is always fun!
No foodTV? 🙁 Definitely enjoy it while you can!
And I always count cleaning as exercise! 😛