What I'm Reading This Week #30
Happy Final Friday of July everyone! I will not be sad to see this month in the rear view. The Mr finished the HOA minion's job by checking on the basement wall crevasse of missing mortar pretty much every waking hour after he "filled" the hole. I gave him a bamboo skewer to see if it hit the long bottom we saw with the camera. Nope. source When he poked it, it drained away. Every hour, he'd do the same and it kept emptying. I had him check to make sure it wasn't pouring out the front of the house and thankfully it wasn't. But if you figure that water has been etching away at the stairstep crack leading from the top of the hole then that goes down the entire length of the wall , so it had a long way to travel. In the end not only did the Mr use one quart of the filler but had to buy another one and used 1/3 of the bottle before it finally started leveling off!! If we'd left it to the HOA dude, an eighth of the bottle woul...
We will take it easier and get you back on track with your foot. You know I am there for you when the break downs come and I know you're there for me too!
ReplyDeleteAs for the food I noticed was cut out, we didn't really set out to cut this but after eating clean for a good month or two when we first started out and tasting Taco Bell, I mean, REALLY tasting it, we pretty much stopped going there ever again. I think it was the fakey tasting cheese that made us realize what kind of crap that was and we have avoided it ever since. The only exception would be Hawaii where we tried the kalua pork quesadilla and that one time I had to try the doritos locos taco. Neither would be enough to make me become a regular there again.
Pasta got cut for me, too. I realized I was eating a couple boxes of mac and cheese per week for major calories. I'd rather have zero mac than a tiny portion so. . .bye bye pasta.
ReplyDeleteLunch meat, too. I still eat it a bit but not like I used to. Now it's more of a "junky treat" than a staple.
pasta and white rice got cfut forme...it wasnt filling me up anymore...and take out chinese
ReplyDeletepre-made foods and take out. I started cooking more at home so i stopped buying cans of soups, frozen meals, and i definitely don't buy bagels for breakfast every morning either.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately pasta gets pretty much cut for me. It's a shame because I looooove pasta and could live on the stuff. A proper single portion seems pretty skimpy though and seeing it on the plate always makes me sad. I've pretty much cut out bagels too, but I do buy those bagels thins instead so it's more of a replacement than a removal.
ReplyDeleteOne thing is that I always used to put a spoonful of hot chocolate mix in my coffee, or use those yummy flavored creamers and those have pretty much been cut. Now I use 1 TBSP of fat free half and half.
I pretty much cut out bread. It wasn't planned, but when a meal is served with bread/rolls I just don't have any. I used to buy a lot of bread...rolls, buns, French loaves, packaged sandwich bread and serve it with our meals. I hardly buy any of that now. Sometimes I do make burgers, but I almost always have mine without a bun. My one treat of the week is our cheesesteaks on Saturday for lunch. I get a small sandwich, no cheese, plenty of green peppers and it's served ON A BUN! It is so delicious. Last Saturday hubby played golf all day, so no cheesesteaks. The Cheesesteak Grill knows me know when I call in our order to pick up, they ask, "The usual?" I still enjoy bread, but really haven't missed it that much in my diet overall. I think it helps that I didn't just make an ultimatum and say, "NO BREAD EVER AGAIN!" That just paves the road to defeat for me. But I am a calorie counter, and bread adds up way too fast!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Back when I was getting OH SO CLOSE to my goal weight, I started cutting out ALL the bread, even on my cheesesteak. I would just take the meat out of the bun and eat my cheesesteak sans bread. Even today, if I'm trying to drop a few pounds (as I should be NOW), I will eliminate the bread from my cheesesteak. The dog loves that meat soaked bread!
Flour, anything containing flour. Like the post above, we used to buy a lot of bread: sourdough, wheat, flour tortillas, wheat tortillas, buns, rolls, and they could all be found at our house at any time. Now we hardly get through one before its past its prime.
ReplyDeleteOh, and flavored creamer, now its just half and half or straight cream. It's still good as long as you've got a really good coffee to have it with. I found that I don't miss the sugar and creamer when the coffee is yum enough on its own.
I don't not eat these things but cookies and ice cream are things that just call to me from the pantry. I had to stop buying these items unless they are in single servings, and that is tough to find with both, so just really don't eat either very much. Same with chips of any kind too. I eat them, but I can't have the bag in the house, so I get my fix with a single serving bag.
ReplyDeleteI love Walk Away the Pounds, great work outs and easy to modify to make harder or easier!
Hang in there, you will get back on your feet, literally!!!
I've cut out pasta (for trigger reasons), and certain processed foods that for some reason lost their appeal along the way. Too much salt, and yet not a lot of flavor. Weird, I know.
ReplyDeleteDon't be too hard on yourself. You were probably just tired and I know some days I can give more during work outs, and others I just can't. I'm feeling very discouraged with my running lately, because the heat and humidity make it seem so much harder.
ReplyDeleteI had to give up soda because I was so addicted to it, drinking 5-6 cans of coke a day. Once in a while when we go out I'll get a root beer or something though. But other than that, I don't even usually want it.