If you follow me on Instagram, you will have noticed that I had an impromptu day off on Friday. Sadly, there was another suicide on my line, and it happened on the train in front of me. I got on the train at 7:40 a.m. – the accident happened down the line at 7:45, and within minutes of leaving our station, our train ground to a halt. They finally got us to a station ten minutes from my house by around 9:00 a.m. By the time the trains would have started running again, it would have made all the stops into downtown and I wouldn’t have gotten to work until 1:30, so I took PTO. I read yesterday that it was a 32 year old woman who took her life. So sad! Thankfully Hannah and Jacob were working later on Friday, so they came and picked me up and took me back to my car.
Hannah and Jacob decided to go Vegan for a couple weeks as a sort of “detox” after vacation. I started to make myself waffles, and realized that I’d have to tweak my recipe to make it vegan friendly so I could feed them before they went to work.
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I used my very berry sauce for a syrup, so with the bacon, this was an 8 point breakfast.
I went to my local WW meeting on Saturday. I hadn’t weighed in for 2 1/2 weeks, and with my vacation, I knew I’d have a gain.
Remember how I talked about indulging in just ONE thing a day on vacation? Within minutes of entering my Aunt’s house on vacation, she showed us all these delicious pimento cheeses she bought – jalapeno pimento cheese being the best of them all. I didn’t eat any, and my brother asked “are you going to try it?” I said I couldn’t break the seal yet, meaning if I started eating stuff on Day 1, all bets were off and I would continue to eat the whole weekend long.
Um, it took me until that first night. I woke up around 12:30 with a blood sugar of 53. When I went into the kitchen and saw Triscuits on the counter, I suddenly remembered the pimento cheese and ate that instead of grabbing a banana. And so it began. Jalapeno bacon for breakfast, burgers for lunch, wine at dinner, gelato – you get the idea. So here I am –10 pounds lost on the year when in April I was already down 20!
I’ve realized that I have to get back to basics – almost boot camp style, to refocus. I know what to do, which is the weird part – but old habits kind of sneak in and take over if I am not paying attention. I’ve decided that while I’ll continue to go to the Thursday WW meeting because I love the leader, I’ll also be going to my Saturday meeting for my weekly WI – Mickie the leader there is funny too, and I won’t have to worry about not getting to the meeting because of work.
Friday night we had super bad storms. I have an external pump that I plug in when we get a lot of water. I checked the water level (too hard to explain, but I have a water “basin” under the front of my house). If that fills up, the water comes in my basement. It’s rare – we have to have either a lot of rain at once, or if we get a weird rain in the early spring when the ground is still partly frozen. I went to bed at 10:30, and apparently the storms went on for hours, and as I left for WW Saturday morning, realized I had three inches of water throughout my whole basement.
The river is so high – higher than it was in 2013, the last time I got a ton of water in the basement – that time the water in my basement was 6-8 inches deep!
This is the channel across the street from my house. The water is all the way up to these people’s back doors – they had a giant sandbag station down the street for anyone who needed it. I didn’t notice it until I walked after the storm, I would have been happy to help my neighbors.
After we pumped out all the water in the basement and did an initial clean up, I had no desire to cook. So I picked up a Lou Malnati’s frozen spinach pizza. This slice set me back 15 points but it was delicious!
Yesterday morning Hannah and I did a quick Sam’s Club run – she had to do a pick up for work and I had to pick up just a few things – paper towels, egg whites, baby spinach and a rotisserie chicken. So I made a quick iced coffee with the chocolate Premier Protein. So good! Two smart points and 30 grams of protein, this kept me full for a few hours.
I love Sam’s Club rotisserie chicken. It’s been a few weeks since I bought one. It’s $4.98. First thing I do when I get it home is to pick off most of the meat and make Rummy and Roman happy by letting them eat some of the chicken skin.
With the chicken I will make: chicken tikka masala, chicken enchilada soup, chicken tacos and a Chicken and spinach Caesar wrap for lunch one day this week. The chicken tikka masala turned out amazing if I do say so myself – I’ll share that recipe later this week – I actually used jarred pasta sauce as the base for the tikka sauce and it turned out so good.
After doing more laundry, I finally hit up the grocery store to buy the rest of my stuff for my meal plan. I spent $38. When I got out of the store, the storm clouds were back – luckily the storm only lasted an hour – but it was 89 degrees when I went into the store and when I came back out a mere 20 minutes later, the temps dropped to 68!
I have all my food packed today – I bought a new lunch bag so I am testing it out this week. I’ll post a picture later if I love it. I am also restarting Insanity. I was on Day 11 the Wednesday before vacation, but I haven’t done it in over a week, so I’ll start over. I also lost the piece of paper that had my Fit Test stats, so that’s what I’ll do tonight.
How was your weekend? Happy Monday – make it a great day!
Of course I stalk you on Instagram, and was floored that once again someone jumped in front of the train. I can’t imagine how the family and friends left behind feel when something like that happens.
On a lighter note, your eats for today look so good. I want that pizza and when I visit Chicago , I’m making that one place I must visit. I drool over the pizza every time you post a photo on here and I’m not even a big pizza person. You guys are having some crazy stormy weather like we did in May. Every day we had storms, flooding and now we are back to normal Florida summer with our quick afternoon thunderstorms that roll by.
Isn’t it crazy – I think it’s the 7th one and 17th overall on the whole Chicago metra line in 2017. I can’t even imagine.
Come to Chicago! We can go thrifting and eat meat and deep dish pizza! 😀
I usually have to adapt all my recipes to gluten-free, so I’m gonna try making this one, but with rice flours and potato starch.. Let’s see how this will turn out cause it sure looks delicious!
You got this! I’m going through a “restart” “bootcamp” mentality too. starting with a 3 day detox, thennnn hopefully i’ll be back on track. xoxo more about it in the group later!