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Dinner?

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

SWEET POTATOES BRAISED WITH CREAM, ROSEMARY AND NUTMEG

2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup finely chopped shallots
2 1/2 tsp minced fresh rosemary
2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled & cut into 1/2-inch-thick rounds, halved
1 can low-salt chicken broth
1/2 cup whipping cream
fresh grated nutmeg
coarse salt and fresh ground pepper

HEAT butter in large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Add shallots and minced rosemary and saut� until tender, about 3 minutes.
ADD sweet potatoes and broth to skillet and bring to boil. Cover skillet, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until potatoes are almost tender, about 15 min.
ADD cream and sprinkle lightly with nutmeg. Simmer uncovered until sweet potatoes are very tender and liquid thickens and coats them, about 10-15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

with a nice green salad…  YUM!!

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Cycle 2 – Week 2

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

I DID IT!  Today is Sunday and that happens to be the day I step on the scale for some sort of measure of progress.  I now weigh 139 pounds… YAY! Less that 140!  At the end of Cycle 2 I think I am going to have my mom take another picture of me (I do have a before picture, but I didn’t want to put that up all by it self) so I can put them both up.

Dear Coach:  Here is a list of things I ate this week that were not on the approved to eat list: Flourless Chocolate Torte, Panda Bar, one small bag of original Lays potato chips (but they ONLY have 3 ingredients) and I shared a plate of french fries at a restaurant with someone.

This cycle I have decided not to have ANY wine or cider (unless I go out dancing) to see if it helps me feel better or drop weight faster.  So far I seem to be losing at the same rate.  I have also started doing to exercises right when I wake up in the morning… ok ok ok so I do them after my first cup of coffee.  My body is more sore this week than it has been in the last 2 weeks (this is NOT a complaint.  Being sore from working out is a good kind of sore), so maybe I pay more attention when I work out in the morning.  I also learned this week that while doing 1 set with the jump rope bare foot is fine and dandy, 2 sets hurts my feet!  So this week I will start out with shoes on (BLEH!)

Now… where is that Hula Hoop…

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Cycle 1 – Day 6

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Today was a day of rest on my calendar from Coach Jeff… BUT I had too much to get doing for there to be rest.  I walked something like 3 miles with a backpack that had to weigh a good 10 pounds with the water, laptop, resumes and PB&A snacks *smile* … okay so maybe it was closer to 8 pounds… but still way heavy.

As far as what I had to eat… apparently getting laid off and having nothing else to do (HA!) causes invites to get food.  So here we go – Coffee, water, eggs (made at home fried in a little olive oil), hash browns from a local Cafe, coffee with half&half (the coffee is not good at the cafe so black is not an option), water, Tomato Bisque soup (from Soulful Soups… YUM!), water, cabbage soup and brown rice, wine, popcorn (air popped at home with a little salt and melted not butter)

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Cycle 1 – Day 4

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Today my instructions said to walk for 30 min holding the 4 pound weight balls.  This was the perfect day for it!  I took Rashell to the park after I put the soup to cook on the stove and walked the field in bare feet.  This was harder than it sounded because my hands are still a bit sore from yesterday, but it was a LOVELY day today.

I left the paper at work that I write everything I eat on so I will do my best:  Today started with a breakfast Mimosa to celebrate a birthday at the office, Stonewall’s veggie Jerquee (say flour, water, soybean oil, spices, yeast, liquid smoke, potassium sorbate), an apple and cream cheese, panda bar (brown rice flour, brown rice syrup, honey, peanut butter, cane juice, soy oil, salt, molasses), OY I almost forgot ALL the coffee and some water, for dinner I made Cabbage Soup (vegetable broth, water, cabbage, onions, spices) and brown rice.

And that should be pretty close to accurate…

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Cycle 1 – Day 3

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
This really was harder that it sounds…
My weight balls are 4 pounds and one has a little more air than the other.  I really noticed the difference in the way they felt in my hands as it got harder to raise my arms.

Tuesday weight ball: this is the one that will need tweaking. Start week one with this. Standing with legs shoulder width apart and a weight ball in each hand:
1) lateral raises  - just how it sounds, raise arms out to the side to shoulder height and GO DOWN SLOWLY. 10×3   45 second rest between.
2) forward raises – same thing to the front  10 X 3
3)  Overhead press. Arms bent and even with shoulders and one arm at a time fully extended over the head. Down slowly. 20 (10 each arm) X3
4) Take one ball and hold it out in front of you with one hand. Move that hand around to you back where the other hand is waiting to receive the hand off so the ball is moving clockwise around you. Do this quickly for five minutes then do the same in opposite direction for five minutes. Then send me an email and tell me on a scale of one to ten (ten being really hard) how difficult this was and if anything hurt.

OK Coach Jeff, the roundy roundy ball thing-a-ma-jigger hurt my hands.  I had a VERY hard time keeping the ball in my hands by the middle of the second 5 min.  Is there something else we can try next week? Aside from my hands hurting it did work out my shoulders *smile*  So there was an upside.  I will have to let you know how the sets of 10 went when I wake up in the morning.  I am sure there will be sore arms in my future.  For the Lateral and Front Raises do you want me to hold the weights, weight down or weight up?  Weight down seemed to be more of a workout but weight up was easier on my hands…  This is a work out for my grip as well *grin*

As far as what I had to eat today here you go:  Coffee, water, brown rice with salsa cheese and kale, coffee, raw walnuts, string cheese, coffee, mimosa (Orange peach mango 100% juice and champagne), one little Dark chocolate square (it was a Dove bliss and it was thrown at me at work so I HAD to eat it… and went rather nicely with our lunch time Mimosa), water, coffee, Emergen-C with water, corn pasta with fried kale and onions (a little olive oil and a little Braggs), I am only planning on having water for the rest of the night.

I am thinking about owning a scale and doing a weekly weigh in… but I have never owned a scale.  I guess I would also measure my progress by measuring my waist line instead of getting a scale.  What would you recommend?

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Cycle 1 – Day 2

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Today I don’t have any exercise.  But since I still have to tell coach Jeff what I ate today I am making an entry…

Eat -I started my day with a soy latte, brown rice with butter kale and onions, string cheese, coffee, raw walnuts & cashews, quesadilla (cheese, corn tortilla and salsa), water, coffee, mini Bella cheese wheel… Dinner was red wine, corn pasta with fried kale and onions in olive oil and Braggs amino acids.  I also had cheese pop corn after dinner.  Now I am drinking water and getting ready to go to sleep.

How did I do today?

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Cycle 1 – Day 1

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Today is the start of my next adventure.  I now have a Personal Trainer who is based out of Hawaii.  He has made me a schedule to follow and asked that I tell him everything I eat on a daily basis.  My goal is to drop 30 pounds and swim across lake Cour d’Alene with my aunt this summer.  I am going to put everything down here daily.  If anyone is interested in reading more about this wonderful trainer feel free to visit his website www.kozhawaii.com.

Today I was to walk for 45 min and I did.  I took Rashell and her friend to the park and walked around there picking up trash… I am allowed to add picking up trash to my walks right?  We try and do that every time we walk around…  I was disgusted and amazed at the amount of trash in the park!

What I had to eat -Water, coffee, 2 eggs, hash browns with onions and bell peppers, water, fried rice (white rice, onions, potato, kale, olive oil and herbs), wine, Fritos and salsa, Brown rice with onions kale and olive oil, wine.

And now I am going to go to bed with this last bit of wine and get some lovely sleep… or maybe I can read some since it is early… I am headed to bed!  *grin*

Ya’ll Sleep Sweet When you get there…

Just in case you were wondering what my rules and  guidelines are I am putting the instructions I was given below:

Shannon,

Here we go!
I’m sure this will need a bit of tweaking in the first few weeks but . . .
Rule # 1. FOLLOW THE SCHEDULE!
Rule #2  Push through feeling tired but STOP if you are feeling pain.
Rule # 3  FOLLOW THE SCHEDULE
You are on a four week cycle. The first 3 weeks of each cycle get more difficult each week – then you get an easy week.
If you think some of this is too easy . . .do the math and figure out what things will be like in three months. If you are confused about anything remember rule #1 and #3 then email me for clarification.
Guess what? You get to write down everything you eat during week one, too.I don’t care so much yet how much you eat just what you eat. EVERYTHING. Send it to me.
At the end of every week send me a note telling me how things are going and if you missed or cut short or deviated in any way from the schedule.
Let me know when you join the YMCA. (this has been put on hold until after the play)
After reviewing rule #1 and #3 feel free to ask any questions you want.
Coach Jeff

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