Taking time for breakfast never tasted so good

The icing on the cake to my overnight shift. Heart of palm, spinach, mushrooms, summer squash, bell peppers, egg whites, artichokes. I love life. P.s. Saturday was 9 miles plus weights Sunday was 10 miles plus weights. Today after breakfast I will go for a mindblowing run, weights; then follow up on paperwork. Happy Veterans’ Day.

 

 

Over and out.

Breakslow con double entendre wheatgrass shotties.

Breaking the fast

Egg white omelet with avocado, mushrooms, red bell peppers, asparagus, onions. Going to chase it with a box of blueberries and some cran water. Tally hoooooo! ~(‘-‘ ~ )

Pan-Fried Eggplant and Eggs

2 eggs
1/2 chinese eggplant
Dash of garlic salt
Parsley
Cayenne

Delicieux

ε=ε=ε=┌(；ﾟヮﾟ)ﾉWeekend Flash Recap

Saturday and Sunday went by fast, as always.
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130lbs
Saturday
1. 6 glasses of cran water (not all a once, just total for the day, plus 2 psyllium husk caps total)
2. 2 glasses lemon water
3. bowl of nilaga with no rice.

So good!
4. Raspberry protein shake + ezekiel bread
5. 2 cookies
6. a bite of an ube red bean popsicle.

+ ran 1 mile in 11 minutes
+ did 2 sets of free weights
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129 lbs
Sunday

1. Long life cocktail with 2 caps psyllium husk
2. warm water lemon
3. 2 eggs with spinach, nutritional yeast, cumin, cayenne. I love nutritional yeast.
4. Big spinach salad with garlic, flax oil, cayenne, apple cider vinegar + ezekiel bread
5. cran water
6. strawberry protein shake
7. spinach salad + 2 ezekiel bread
8. 2 waters + vitamin e + evening primrose oil + vitamin c
9.4 cran waters + 2 caps psyllium husk + ezekiel bread
10. 1 table spoon of carob chips.

+ran 5 miles in 1 hr 10 min
+2 sets leg machine 30 lbs
+ 2 sets free weights 10 lbs
+2 sets free weights 5 lbs
+100 jumping jacks
+75 sit ups

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Warrior Dash and Tough Mudder are obstacle courses in mud I’m interested in doing. In conclusion: I need a job —because those activities are not free. T_T

The theme of this year life is ‘endurance’.

d･_･b Day-11 Phase-1 I like apple cider vinegar

135 lbs

1. Long Life Cocktail with 2 psyllium caps
2. warm water with lemon
3. 2 eggs with cayenne, mushrooms, parsley + cran water
4. cran water and water
5. cider chicken with mushrooms and cider salad with garlic and cayenne + cran water
6. 2 waters + vitamin c, e, evening primrose oil
7. 1.5 small coconut choco thing (baad..)
8. prunes
9. cran water
10. Water with lemon
11. Cran water + leftover cider chicken + leftover quinoa & sesame tofu
12. 2 miles in 25 min (elliptical), 2 sets 12 reps 30lbs leg machine 5 min
12. Water + long life cocktail

I’m going to try the 12 hr fast track phase 2 detox tomorrow… we’ll see how it goes! I was looking forward to making avocado protein shakes (because they are abundant in my house and are in season… and btw they were in yesterday’s pic and were the ‘look-alike’ limes hehe). The avocado protein shakes will have to wait until tues or wed. Ahh can’t wait til then.

Today’s events:

Breakfast

 

Lunch Prep (was very yummy)

 

Ever since I began The Fat Flush Plan, I have  renewed motivation and joy for cooking a new found love of apple cider vinegar and red peppers.

 

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~(`･ω･´)~ Day-6 Phase-1 Highlight: Pinky’s Garden Chicken Soup

135 lbs

1. Long Life Cocktail (2 psyllium husk caps)
2. 8 oz warm water + 1/2 tbsp lemon
3. 1 cran water + 2 scrambled eggs (with asparagus, cumin, parsley, crushed red peppers) + water
4. water
5. strawberry protein shake + water
6. small-medium bowl of Pinky’s Garden Chicken Soup (not bad… nice for a change of pace) + cran water + water
7. 2 waters + 1/2 cup prunes + 1/2 cup prune juice
8. 1 cran + 3 waters + Pinky’s Garden Chicken Soup + spinach salad with flax oil-garlic-cayenne-lemon dressing.
9. Ran 6.15 miles in 72 min
10. 1 cran water (2 psyllium husk caps) + 4 waters

The inside of the omelet pouch was still a little gooey. After the first bite, I decided to add more cumin, more parsley and crushed red peppers. (Note the shadow puppet) It turned out alright. :]

While eating breakfast, I decided to prepare lunch/dinner in the crockpot. I’ve had a hankering since the night before to try making one of the soups in the FFP recipe chapter. I wanted to try the Friendly Italian Wedding Soup but I didn’t have any ground meat. So instead, I supplemented the ground meat with shredded chicken leftover from the weekend. I decided to add some zucchini and tomatoes, and leftover chopped red and green bell peppers and green onions (just because I had forgot all about them and thought it might be worth a try) The final product ended up being something I mostly made up, I like the sound of that!

Pinky’s Garden Chicken Soup ~{ ﾟヮﾟ~   }

4.5 cups of unsalted all-natural chicken stock

Meat from 3 medium chicken drumsticks, shredded

2 tablespoons  minced garlic

4 dashes of cumin

2-3 tbsp parsley

1 small-medium zuchhini, sliced

1 small tomato, diced

a little bit of chopped red and green bell peppers

a pinch of sliced green onion

3 heaping handfuls of fresh spinach

-Makes 5 big servings

 

I set the crockpot to high for now, but I’ll continue to check on it so it doesn’t get too dry or anything. It might be ready in time for lunch. Illegal cheat: The chicken had skin on it and it was from El Pollo Loco. Otherwise, all other ingredients are FFP-Friendly. I’ll tell you how it turns out and if I add more ingredients to it.  after about 30 minutes I peeked inside and it smelled pretty good. Wish me luck!

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~( ﾟ- ﾟ~ ) Day-5 Phase-1 Monday

136 lbs    (I think the extra pound or so may be from water weight. Been drinking about 16+ glasses of liquids per day now.)

1. Long Life Cocktail (and 2 Psyllium Husk capsules) + glass of water
2. 8 oz warm water + 1/2 tbl spoon lemon
3. Cran water + scrambled egg with mushroom, cumin, parsley, crushed red pepper, cayenne
4. 1 cup teecino herbal coffee chocolate mint flavor + 1/4 scoop whey protein + 1 packet of stevia extract
5. 1 cran water + 2 waters + vitamin e, c, prenatal, evening primrose oil
6. 2 cran waters + spinach artichoke salad + 3 oz lemon herb tofu + water
7. 2 cran water + 1/2 cup prune juice
8. 1 cup prunes
9. 2 waters + 2 cran waters
10. strawberry protein shake + large spinach & artichoke salad + cran water
11. 2 waters
12. Ran 2.33 miles in 30 min
13. Long Life cocktail (Cran water + 2 caps psyllium husk)  +2 waters
14. 4 waters

Breakfast on the skillet & The finished product

 

 

The herbal coffee tasted different from the average cup of joe. The Chocolatey-Minty Flavor help make it palatable. And it has about 6 g of protein from the whey powder, which was kind of nice.  ~_o

Herbal Coffee provides no energy boost whatsoever. I think I’ll try drinking organic tea. Or maybe even organic *coffee.* Caffeine is prohibited though, as it works the liver too hard and distracts the liver from burning/ metabolizing the fat. Herbal coffee and tea it is.

 

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Behold:

Not the most delicious juice, but not terrible either. I prefer *eating* the fruit. The juice is more effective, as they say. It’s still considered a carb-y fruit, so it’s not entirely FFP-Friendly. I’m having it in small, limited amounts, I hope that will be okay.

 

 

And now to prepare dinner. I am very tired. It might be because I didn’t get enough sleep yesterday from sleeping late + waking up intermittently from taking care of River. I miss coffee. I’m starting to miss cheese. I miss chocolate.

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Meet my dinner, smiling up at me. Not bad. I was satisfied.

 

“Do you know that the harder thing to do, and the right thing to do, are usually the same thing? “Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life… to get anything of value, you have to sacrifice..” -Weatherman

—-  a mantra not unknown to me.

 

 

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{‐＾▽＾‐}Day-3 Phase-1 Results are beginning to emerge.

135 lbs                                  I feel ready to take on today! Viva Saturday 😀

1. Long life cocktail (8 oz cran water + 2 capsules of psyllium husks) + 3 glasses water
2. 8 oz warm water with 1/2 lemon concentrate
3. Glass of water, 2 scrambled eggs with mushrooms and cayenne, 8 oz cran water, evening primrose oil, vitamin E, prenatal vitamin
4. 1 small orange
5. 24 oz cran water, 11 oz strawberry protein shake, organic spinach salad (with the usual fixins/ spices), vitamin c + evening primrose oil
6. 16 oz cran water
7. 8 oz cran water + evening primrose oil + marinated artichoke salad on bed of spinach + Cumin Sautéed Scallops
8. 2 glasses of water
9. 5.1 miles in 1 hr and 10 min + 160 crunches + 2 glasses water
10. Long Life Cocktail (2 psyllium husks capsules) + 2 glasses of water

Papa Bear has hash browns, Mama Bear has mushrooms, and the Wee Little Baby Bear has cheese.

 

 

Breakfast was a success. Cheers! （ ﾟヮﾟ)o自自o（^∇^ ）

 

 

Sautéeing the scallops in the veggie broth, garlic, cumin and green onions. Aroma was wonderful.

 

 

Tonight’s dinner plate. The scallops look like corn…. very yummy. Plenty of leftover Artichoke salad to be had in the days to come.

 

 

Josiah (hubby) and I took the kids to Boomers today, it’s a mini golf, arcade and rides place by our house. It was fun :0)  On the way back  home we went to Carl’s Jr (it’s the West Coast Equivalent to a Hardee’s).  I was sooooooooo tempted to get an order of fried zucchini (my ultimate Carl’s Jr fave) but I resisted… although the only thing I caved in for was one—measley—french—fry.      (,_,)     I was determined to go home and cook my FFP-friendly dinner. I felt that since it was Saturday everyone should have a fun and enjoyable dinner– it’s not often that we eat out or get take-out (It’s been a while, and usually when we do it’s twice a week at most.) I had been the one to suggest to Josiah that we get drive-thru fast food for himself and Shane. I didn’t have the heart to impose my FFP regimen on them– even though I would LOVE for them to.  It’s something that I’ll slowly introduce to them, and in other types of dishes that are both healthy and in their taste-range…. (recipes that I will research in the future). For now, I’ll just take it one step and one day at a time.

 

❤