Learning to be hungry....

I decided to join a co-worker on her pre-boot camp diet. It's called The Fat Smash Plan and it's by the doctor from Celebrity Fit Club. The guy who runs the boot camp suggests it on his website. It's a 4 phase program and the first phase is the most restrictive. So, for the past 8 days (today is day 9) we couldn't have meat, cheese, bread, white potatoes, whole eggs/egg yolk, dessert/sweets, soda, coffee, caffiene, pretzels/tortilla chips, fried food, fast food...I think that's it. Anyway, I've been getting pretty creative with beans, brown rice, egg whites, yogurt, all fruits and veggies (except avocado), skim or low fat milk (which I hardly ever drink), tahini paste (process with chickpeas and lemon = hummus), hot unsweetened cereal (i.e., oatmeal, grits, cream of wheat), water. I've lost 2 lbs since the beginning and have put a major dent in my sweet tooth. I've even got the boys eating whole wheat bread (even though I can't yet)...Reece's idea. He said if JD eats it, let's stick with it.

Tomorrow, I can add back to the list of food you can eat for any given day: 3 oz of lean meat or fish, unsweetened dry cereal, 1 oz of cheese, coffee (YAY!), 1 whole egg, 1/2 avocado, and peanut butter! There may be a few others, but these are the ones we're excited about. LOL So this phase lasts for 3 weeks...which will include our OC beach week. We'll see how I do. Gonna really try to stick with it as close as I can. Fresh fruits and veggies for snacking and with meals....not too many desserts/treats...BUT, how will I resisit the yummy Seacrets frozen drinks at the bar at the beach in the campground???!!! Well, if they are like the ones at the main Seacrets Bar in downtown OC, then their price will keep me from drinking more than a few.

Switched back to running and P90, since that's what seemed to work the best for me. They have water aerobics and Zumba at the campground and I can always bring my running shoes for a morning jog.

Looking forward to turning around how and what we eat at home and to our week at the beach. Oh yeah...not gonna give up steamed crabs while we're there either. :-)

UPDATE: Lost 5 lbs from June 18 to July 6 and it really wasn't that hard to follow. It really did lessen my sweet tooth. However, being on vacatino and drinking lots of beer didn't help. Getting back on track with Phase II food list.

A new rule...

This happened a little while ago and I never posted about it. It's too funny not to share. I had been reading a book called "How to Tuck in a Superhero" that I found on Pinterest and a friend recommened. It's about a woman who has 5 sons and the crazy life they have and the crazy rules she never thought she'd ever have to make. I laughed alot reading it and then I had to laugh at myself, because I had the "I can't believe I had to make that rule" experieince. One day at grandmom's, JD decided he didn't want to put underwear on when he got dressed, so when he got home, he decided he should. When I got home, that's all he was wearing...his underwear...backward. Okay. So later in the evening I saw him taking small toys and things and putting them down the front of his underwear (remember, they're on backward so he's got lots of room). Okay. Then he comes to me in the kitchen and tells me how much he likes collecting things and walks off to the living room and starts removing his "collection." And I'm in the kitchen listening..."I've got a car, and another car, and a bunny, and a block, and a truck and a trash can (from his Trash Pack toys)...and a PIECE OF CHEESE, and..." "What?! Please tell me you don't have cheese in there" I call to him. He comes to the kitchen with a big goofy grin and a mashed up Kraft Single, still in the wrapper...that he had "collected". (I had asked him to put it away earlier after he took out more pieces than he could eat and left it on the coffee table.) So, I told him, "New rule, no collecting food in your underwear!" Really.

Life is never dull.

And the summer madness begins...

We're 6 days into June and I'm already updating calenders and checking dates, seeing where we can squeeze everything in. Then on top of that, how do we pay for it. Fun, fun!

In the next 4-5 weeks, we've got soccer camp and then Wee-Chefs camp for JD; a playdate with friends after work; dinner with a friend (hopefully); a scrapbook crop day; Swinefest (BBQ and beer festival in Frederick, MD); Father's Day; 4th of July and our week at the beach. I'm also trying to find time to get together with April and Karen and their families while April is visiting from FL. It's been a few years since I've seen her and it would be nice to see them and meet their new little boy.

It's kind of looking like Rennfest is going to be a short season for us this year with JD starting before school care the last week of August and having to pay $200 a month. Granted, that's not alot compared to what we could have been paying for the last 5 years in regular daycare, but with the new truck payment and Reece back to smoking, it puts a dent in the "fun" funds. I think I need to go through a bunch of the baby stuff we had for JD...the big stuff like strollers, exercisers, and such...and get it to a consignment shop to sell. That should help a little with the "fun" funds.