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.
I do not understand elimination communication at all. I think that would be traumatic to a child. I tried to read about it but just got stressed out. This is probably way I don’t have kids yet. haha
Amanda, I meant to email you that I saw an owl tea kettle – couldn’t remember if you had one or not – let me know! 😀
Oh really? I do not!
The elimination communication thing had me laughing for days. Holy rude awakening when the baby is born!!! I’ve had 3 kids and never read or did the insane amount of research she has done and guess what? They are still alive and I didn’t drive myself crazy with research 🙂
P.S. My husband’s favorite meal to cook is sliced kielbasa and red beans and rice.
Oh, this is fabulous! Definitely not a KERF/BERF fan. She is the most annoying , smug and misinformed person on the internet.
Hahahaha……..Mr. Biz is funny! You got a keeper there…lol!
Never read the blogs that were mentioned here………and never heard about these new concepts to getting the baby to poop and pee in the toilet at 4months……geeeze, what next, honestly!!!
Sodium is a scary thing when you read how much sodium is in everything we eat. I am always checking the mg of sodium on labels…..even Lean Cusine is high in alot of sodium. I try to stay under 1500mg of sodium a day but it ain’t easy. Then there is the sugar content of everything….ouch when watching blood sugars every morning plus watching the calories and sodium it sure can be a challenge.
PS I have 19 more miles to go on the 100 mile challenge!!!!
Louise – I am so proud of you!! Way to go – you’ll have no problem reaching your biking 100 miles this month! Now if I could only get rid of this cough, I’d be with you – hopefully soon! 😀
Hahah perfect answer Tony! team Biz > team KERF anyday
I drink coffee so my eliminations are regular. I drink beer so my neck skin is smooth and pliable.
Ha – love it Tony! I love you! xoxoxoxo
Ha ha ha…Mr. Biz you rock too!! 🙂
Tony, you are awesome!
He also drinks vodka to keep his balls crunchy. He wanted to type that the first time but chickened out – I said the blog readers could handle it! 😀
I don’t follow Kerf or Berf (Kath Younger Monson) anymore either. Her posts are really mundane (and poorly written).
Your meals look so good! Very creative with the leftovers, delicious!
Biz, I had never heard of that site and of course just had to check it out. I swear I felt the energy being sucked out of me!! There’s no way I’d be able to read her blog everyday! And I agree, once that baby is born all her planning is out the window!! And those that cried “why are you bashing?” umm this is Biz’s blog, she can say whatever the hell she wants…You’d think they would’ve realized this by now if they have been following you. Whatever, continue being you. I love your blog and seriously the food always looks delish!!
Thanks Aide! 😀
Yes Biz, I’m pouting about the weather…lol! Though it’s getting a little bit warmer each day this week. Maybe, just maybe, my pool water will warm up enough not to freeze body parts!! I don’t know KERF but, by reading the comments I’d feel the same as you. And the elimination communication…what a freakin’ joke! And who the hell has time for that??? I find some of the rude comments to you on here quite ironic, they are telling you not to ‘bash a blog’ and here they are writing comments ‘bashing you’ on your blog….how clever…NOT!!! You go girl, you rock!! They’ll always be stupid people, we need entertainment from someone 😉
Well if I had a pool that I couldn’t use because its too cold, I’d be wishing for warmer weather too! 😀
Bahaha, love you! KERF is boring and sounds like a huge bitch IRL. Instead of giving her pageviews, you should check out the recaps on http://www.smugnom.com They’re hilarious and honestly, it’s a better way to get your fix! Enjoy!
I am so glad I have that link now – woot! 😀
I don’t read KERF anymore. Boring. Someone told me about BERF, I looked at it, and added it to my feed because I need a little humor in my morning. I can’t wait until she has her baby and realizes that all her carefully laid plans are going to go right down the toilet.
I love that you brought up KERF and BERF…I say BARF! Unbelievable the amount of naval contemplation she can pour into one small poorly written paragraph. I’ve not seen smugdom, but I’ll be checking it out. My daughter told me about gomi.com, (get off my internet), which is another gossip site about blogs and such. Pretty funny.
I can’t wait to see how she posts after her baby comes – pretty pictures of every oat she consumes? She’ll be lucky if she can get in the shower – though I’m sure she’ll have a vast network of family and doting wannabes to help her out.
See? I can trash talk with the best of ’em! You rock Biz, and to the naysayers about playing nice, I suggest they lighten up. We all usually play nice, but sometimes ridiculousity simply has to be showcased!
Great comment Leslie!! And I doubt she’ll have time to set up her lighting at dinner time when its dark outside.
I don’t know what a KERF is and have no plans to find out 🙂 That sausage and rice dish looks awesome, I need to do more with rice, I tend to gravitate toward pasta way too much.
I love you, and agree completely. SO supporting your blog from here on out.
I am a fan of KERF. It is not cool to talk bad about others, right? Karma, remember that.
I am okay with what I wrote – no worries about karma from my neck of the woods. 😀
I really can’t comment because I feel like I subjected everyone to the longest pregnancy ever too, but you are hilarious.
But yours was much more tactful Lara! And interesting!!
I like to hear about the bakery so I still read. But I don’t read the baby stuff.
Never heard of KERF.
…and why would you “stock up” on stool softener??!! The hospital will give you a couple if necessary, I’ve never known anyone who needs more than that! Certainly not something to stock up on.
Not sure if my other message showed up. 🙂
Not a Kerf fan – I used to read her when I first started my diet/blog, but she got boring really fast. I figure there’s enough room in blogland for everyone, even the annoying ones – I just don’t have to read them.