Sugar is my favorite!

Sugar!

You know you love it! We all do!
And this time of year, I mean Halloween, the house if filled with it. So why fight it? That' what I'm going with right now. Within reason of course. But come Halloween night! It's party down time. The grandparents are coming to watch the kids and we can stay out all night if we want to! Yep, I love to party on Halloween!

So don't expect much good behavior from me.

Thursday, October 29 2015
Everything bagel with butter
Yogurt with pear and a little sugar
DC coffee with whip cream
2 cup tea
Rice cake with peanut butter and jelly
Cheese rice cake with hummus
Cheese
3 fun size 3 Musketeers bars
Chili
Corn bread with bacon and butter
Squash
3 Oreo cookies
Chicken Cesar wrap
Cheetos puffs

Well what do you say to this Coke!

I've debated with myself about a calorie being a calorie. And now the research is in! Here is a study that shows SUGAR is the culprit.

"The findings add to the argument that all calories are not created equal, and they suggest that those from sugar are especially likely to contribute to Type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases,..."

So what do you say now Coke?  By removing the added sugar from the kids in the study diet, they effectively turned their health around.

Luckily I don't have to debate with my kid's school anymore. They got a new director, far better than the other one in my opinion, and she is on board with improving the kids snacks and reducing their sugar intake.

That said...I ate 3 fun size candy bars today. I'm working on it.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Bagel with butter
2 cup tea
DC coffee with whip cream
L/O Sheppard's pie with added mushrooms
Celery and dip
Rice cake
Cheese and crackers and bean dip
Chicken and squash
2 Oreo cookies
Beer and 3 shots whipped vodka

Gas and nausea

Nothing seems edible lately.

My stomach is in a constant state of nausea. I don't get it. It seems like since I caught that stomach bug I haven't been enjoying food. I feel hungry but nothing seems appetizing. Except candy that is.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Everything bagel with butter
Cottage cheese with pear
L/O Sheppard's pie
3 fun size 3 Musketeers
Meat stick
Cheese stick
Quinoa chips
Rice cake
L/O Shepard's pie
Snacks at Halloween party

On the south end of 210

Well, I got on the scale the other day which I haven't done in a while. It read 209. Well, I thought at least it is on the lower side of 210. I've said it before that I'm not focusing on the scale and I really haven't been doing anything to get my weight down. I tried the Couch to 5K thing and that didn't work. I just couldn't push through the pain. I don't think it was supposed to hurt that much anyway.

So what do I do now? I hate that my town doesn't have full access to a pool year round for working out. It just sucks! I love swimming and that is my choice of workout. But that is another excuse.

Monday, October 26, 2015
Bagel with butter
Rice chex cereal with cashew milk and strawberries
DC coffee with whip cream
2 cup tea
L/O beans and rice
Bread with butter
Olives
3 fun size 3 Musketeers bars
Brats and sweet potatoes
Rice cake
Jelly beans

I paid for my indiscretion

Well, first of all yesterday I was so looking forward to my fast food meals. But, when we got to McDonald's drive through the line was super long and it was not moving! I mean not at all! I waited 8 minutes at the back of the line (8 minutes is a super long time for fast food and when you want to get out of town). So I diverted and went to Burger King. That was a mistake. I paid for that with heartburn, indigestion and gas. By the time I got to Bismarck I had to shit!

Me and the kids did have a super fun time at Pappa's Pumpkin Patch

We played and ran around. I pretty much forgot about my stomach issues. The kiddos didn't want to go to Wendy's for dinner and frankly neither did I. My gut was still twisted and I could hardly think of eating anything. So we went to McDonald's for happy meals. I got a cheese burger and small fries and a water. Not the indulgent fast food meal I wanted, but it suited the mood I was in.

So today I'm going to try and be better remembering the gut ache I had yesterday. Although tonight I am hoping I can do some indulgent drinking and a little smoking (if you know what I mean). The husband is taking one of the kids to visit the Grandparent's farm and I'm planning on putting the other kid to bed early and watching TV! If you are a mom you know how precious having your own TV time is. I rarely get to watch what I want. It is with TV as it is with eating. We don't want our kids to watch too much and we strictly limit their intake. Consequently I don't get to watch that much TV and I've started to treasure it as much as my kids do.

Exercise =
Friday, October 23, 2015
Cottage cheese with Jelly
Roll with butter
2 cup tea
DC coffee with whip cream
L/O stuffed acorn squash
L/O spiced chick peas with yogurt sauce
Quinoa chips
Meat stick (these things are bad for me too, they repeat on me and I taste them all day), cheese stick and olives
Chocolate ice cream
Dinner?

It is bad that I'm excited about this!

 Ok, so today I have plans to take the kids to Pappa's Pumpkin Patch. It is a fun little attraction in Bismarck (1.5 hours away from me) that has a bunch of pumpkins all over the place and fun activities for the kids. There is a corn pit where the kids can play in a bunch of dried corn kernels and get it all down their pants. They have hay bail mazes and slides, a mini zip line and horses for them to look at. I am picking them up at their respective care givers after they eat lunch.

However, this means a quick lunch stop for me and that means Fast Food!!

I will probably get something from McDonald's on the way out of town. And we may stop at Wendy's for dinner with the kids. I am imagining eating a burger and fries right now. Is this terrible of me? It may be, but lately I just haven't been up for eating anything and this is getting my mouth watering.

Don't think bad of me. I once made a list of things I wouldn't eat anymore and fast food was on that list. But come on...swearing off that stuff forever is just impractical! Right?

Exercise = followed the kids around Pappa's Pumpkin Patch.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Oatmeal with peanut butter and jelly
2 piece cheese
Granola bar
Burger King - whopper and fries with diet cherry coke
McDonald's cheese burger and small fries

The dilemma of dinner

I'm in charge of food here. It is my lot as the Mom of the house. So that means I have to get creative and have a constant source of inspiration for meals.  My one go-to are these "Everyday Food" magazines that have been discontinued. They were a Martha Stewart production and I was super pissed when they stopped making them.

There are so many good tips and recipes in this magazine. Yes, they now have web stuff and youtube videos, but I don't use those resources in my kitchen. I'm happier with my paper bound cookbooks and non-electronic resources.


Exercise = none
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Oatmeal with blueberries and honey
DC coffee with whip cream
Celery with peanut butter 
Rice cake with humus
Spicy chick peas
Olives
Roll
Cheese quesadilla 
Grilled red pepper