On to my health

So it's official, we are not pregnant and will not get pregnant again for at least a few years. What does this mean? It means I can work on me for a while. I'm still nursing so I have to eat for two for a while, but an empty stomach means that I can www.crossfitmiramar.com my heart out and not worry about damaging any growing babies. Yeah!

I started last week doing about 10 min of rowing a day. It's a start considering that I haven't "worked out" for over two years now due to being pregnant, nursing/husband being deployed, then being pregnant again. I do about 15 rounds of 20 seconds on 10 seconds off. It doesn't exhaust me but it's all I have time for. I'm going to see if I can up it to twice a day on the days when we are home the most. We'll see how well we do.

I've also started a food blog that just puts what we ate that day. I think this will help me keep from snacking out of boredom. My biggest problem with the Three Question Diet is learning when I'm really hungry vs when I'm bored. I have to work on that. I think I can mostly tell the difference because when I'm just hungry out of boredom I look at the healthy stuff and think "nah, something more snack like" vs when I'm really hungry I want the fruits, veggies, or meat we have. It def makes it easier that I only buy good stuff. That way I'm not tempted by sugary treats or typical wheat filled snacks. I also am trying to replace my boredom snacking with drinking instead. If I'm gonna sit on the couch and nurse it's better for me to have a drink than a snack anyway (need to replenish the fluids).

Tonight my husband has "mandatory fun," so we are just eating some fruit and lunch meat. Tomorrow night I think I'm gonna try the mustard pork...and then Friday night I'm gonna put together the bluecheese bacon stuffed burgers. It should be yummy. I'll let you know.

Breakfast bake

Chris put this one together this morning since he didn't have to be at work until noon

9 eggs

1 cup milk

1/4 cup cheese

6 slices bacon

3/4 cup broccoli pieces

Start by frying the bacon until somewhat crispy. Beat the eggs with the milk and cheese. Break up the bacon into pieces then mix with broccoli into egg mix. Pour everything into a 9 inch round baking dish and place in the oven at 350 for 15 min. Pull it out and sprinkle cheese over the entire top. Let it melt and dish up.

new ideas

-pork with brown mustard, heavy creme, and garlic

-meatloaf with peppers, cheese, onion

-turkeyloaf with olives, basil, pine nuts, sundried tomato, and garlic

I'm also going to start working on my snack bar recipes again. wish me luck

New Roast

My husband complained that in my attempt to find a really good roast recipe that he's tired of roasts. The last one was not bad, but we ended up not eating it. The past couple of days we've been mixing it with other things. We added the meat to chili, which was very good. This morning I added it to scrambled eggs and that was pretty good too. For dinner/lunch I put leftover ribs, chili, and some water in the crockpot. I let it all cook on high for 5 hours then I removed the meat from the ribs and it was pretty good. None of us are really "hungry" so no official dinner is being made.

I have some leftover beans in the fridge and some ground beef in the freezer, so I think I'm gonna put together a pot of chili to cook overnight in the crockpot. Other than that, we have a lot of leftovers in the fridge so I'm gonna try to use all of that up in some way or another.

pineapple beef roast

Things changed a little because my husband decided he wanted to go to bed early and apparently we are out of cinnamon. But here is the recipe I used

1 beef bottom roast

2-3 cups pineapple juice

worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp pepper

1 tbsp garlic powder

1 tsp salt

5 cloves garlic

2 chopped sweet potatoes

2 coarsely chopped onions

I placed the onions, sweet potatoes, and whole garlic cloves in the bottom of the crockpot. I but in the beef bottom roast and poured the pineapple juice on top of it until the juice sat just at the bottom of the roast. I then sprinkled the pepper, garlic powder and salt over top. Next I sprinkled enough worcestershire sauce to coat the roast. I put it on low for the night (12 hours). We'll see how this one turns out.

new roast

The last roast I made I left off the bbq sauce and it was dry and terrible and not all wonderful and flaky. I think it needed the sugar in order to break down that much more. I am going to try a new recipe with pineapple juice. I am going to make my own version of a hawaiian roast. I am going to put the roast in the pineapple juice for about 2 hours then place it in the crockpot on top of a layer of onion, whole garlic cloves, and cubed sweet potatos and just fill with pineapple juice to the bottom of the roast. I'll then put worcestershire sauce, cinnamon, garlic powder, and a little brown mustard. Since the crockpot tends to let off enough heat to warm up our whole condo I'm gonna do this one overnight to be ready for a lunch time thing. I'll put up the full recipe once I actually do this.

The chicken was really good. just kinda fell apart scooping it out. a little salt and pepper and yummm. my husband added some cheese to the top.

so my friend said the chili needed more chili seasoning and maybe more tomato, but she admits that she likes lots of tomato taste (she also puts ketchup on a lot of stuff). i thought a bit of salt pepper and cheese on top, as intended went a long way.

tonight we are just having leftovers but i have a couple of ideas for future recipes.

-burgers stuffed with bacon and blue cheese.

-pork, apples, and garlic in the crock pot

-pizza with peanut butter crust