Clean eating, exercise and an update ....

It's pretty hot around here in Virginia.

the temps in the 90's but the humidity is awful.

First, we had tons of rain, all of the time

now we have the heat and humidity

which means we have lots of mosquitoes

So needless to say, we are not enjoying the outdoors very much

 

I stayed in all day today canning tomatoes with 2 of

my friends from work, Melissa and Cheryl.

we had a good time, lots of chatting and laughing

 

And because we're all doing the clean eating, lunch was clean!! 

I had fixed squash with onions the night before

Cheryl brought tilapia and seasoned it so perfect

we also had cut up tomatoes and a bowl of grapes and blueberries

a perfect lunch

 

I am finding out a few things about clean eating......you aren't hungry

very much but you have to eat your 3 meals a day regardless.

And each meal has to include a protein

I feel like I eat more now than when I was trying to lose weight

and I'm losing more weight now....isn't that ironic. It really is about

eating the right foods.

 

I haven't been posting the past few days because they would just look the same each day. I really do eat

a lot of the same things .... but I'm ok with that

For each meal I have either chicken, beef, fish or eggs

I always have one or two veggies. Some meals I might

include a fruit, like with breakfast and I usually have something

like a few cherries or watermelon at night.

I love making omelets and just coming up with different ways to season

my meats. And I've gotten to where I love roasting all veggies!

 

And I'm dropping a lot of weight. It just amazes me. I feel fantastic and

have great stamina when I work out at Jazzercise. My clothes are not

fitting anymore....so that is great except at this rate, I'm going to need

lots of new clothes for winter.

I feel really good about this way of eating and I'm almost sure

that I won't go back to the old way.

Now the best part will be when I have my physical at t he end of August

and have really good numbers on all of my labs, then I know

I won't go back to the old way of eating!

 

I have lots of recipes that I want to try out but have really

just been so busy I haven't tried them out yet!

 

later.....