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Sunday Breakfast and Weekend Cards

This weekend’s big breakfast was scrambled eggs, papaya, and a croissant. I ditched the home fries. My spouse and I were at the dentist last weekend and they checked his blood pressure, it was high (and I had a cavity). It was not good news. We’re making changes. I’m cutting way back on sugar and he’s cutting down on salt. This past week we’ve been eating a lot healthier. Way more vegetables, whole grains, and less junk. My sweet tooth is still raging, so when I want chocolate, I have dark chocolate. If it’s over 70% I can have it in the home without obsessing about it all day.

I’ve also worked out a few times this week, and not just walking (although I did that too, a 9km-10km walk through the woods). I went for a jog and lifted some weights as well. It’s been a long time since I’ve worked out. I’m really proud of myself.

I made cards this weekend. You might notice I ended up gluing the happy paper upside down on the card above. OOPS! I messed up that one, but the dog is cute.

The butterfly is a 3D one, that is propped off the card, but presses down to fit in the envelope. I wasn’t sure about that one at first, but now I really like it. I made the left one with an embossing folder. It’s pretty. I will make that one in pink too, with black ink.

The left card in this one is a gift card holder. I really like the paper on that one. The top slides off and reveals the gift card. The second one is an easel style card. There were no instructions or score lines to help. I had to guess and I have no idea if I made it right. I like the card but it was a pain to put together. You can use the dies to make a house in the Winter, or a Halloween house too. I really like how they all turned out, not so much the upside down gumball machine, but the rest were great. I’ll post a link to a video of the supplies I used below.

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Fake It Till You Make It And More Cart Smugness

This was the spoils of my grocery cart and I’m feeling proud of it (if that container of potato salad wasn’t in there, I’d be downright smug about it). I’m trying the “Fake it till you make it” approach to healthy habits. I’m pretending I’m a health nut, someone like Chris Traeger on Parks and Recreation (which I’m currently binging), so this came home with me. I bought more healthy Power Bowls for those times I don’t make lunch, and fruits and veggies.

I made a meal that I’m calling Weirdy Bowl. I cooked cauliflower, eggplants, kale, and mushrooms and them added them to tofu in a coconut milk broth that I seasoned with curry powder, garam masala, turmeric, and salt, and put it over steamed quinoa. I topped it with a dollop of hummus and potato salad (yes the potato salad is very weird, hence why I called it Weirdy Bowl). The hummus though… pretty good. I’m currently fermenting sauerkraut and growing sprouts, the potato salad will be replaced by these things in the future. It was easy to make and didn’t take too long. I’ll be making more things like this in the future. May my inner Chris Traeger cook all my future meals.

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Lunch Dilemmas and Sleepy Sundays

I’ve solved my lunch problems. I have a horrible habit of not pre-making a lunch, getting hungry, and then buying chips. I’m likely to continue with that pattern, so I bought some frozen dinners.

It turns out these bowls are really good AND healthy! Way better then most of the other frozen meals. Vegetarians usually end up with only the option of some crappy frozen pasta dish that leaves you starving a short time later.

These bowls actually have some sustenance to them and good ingredients. From now on I’ll take one of these with me for lunch. I really like them.

This weekend I went for a couple short walks and my spouse did all the cooking (and cleaning! I’m a lucky lady). Usually on Sundays I make us a large breakfast, but this time he made it. He made his usual egg and cheese sandwich (using the new cheese of the month!) and it was really good. He uses the Hamilton Beach egg sandwich maker and they are so great. It’s our favourite appliance and we got it from the classifieds. Score!

We went for a couple short walks, but most of the weekend I was sewing. I’m still working on the cloak and I have most of the outside put together, but now I’m second guessing whether I want to make the alternative version with the shoulder flaps. I’m sure I have enough fabric left to do it. I’m no longer in love with the fabric I bought. It sheds horribly and frays like crazy (even after washing the fabric), but I’m going to see it through. I’m hoping I can make a matching skirt with any leftover fabric. I may still fall in love with it.

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What’s Happening With OMAD

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

Not a thing. I was doing one meal a day before the Christmas holidays, but things fell apart. I had a rough holiday (I had to put my dog down) and I ate my feelings. I gained back the seven pounds I had lost and I haven’t been attempting to eat healthy at all. After the holidays were over I didn’t restart OMAD. I was back to eating breakfast, but usually skipped lunch (mostly because I was too lazy to make anything) and then would eat dinner (and a lot of junk food. Cadbury Creme Egg season is here and that sweet sweet sugary goo egg is irresistible to me. It’s one of my favourite candies).

My spouse is back into intermittent fasting (skipping breakfast) and as I like to sleep in for the mornings, that means I am too. I’ve been getting really hungry during the afternoons and have been getting chips for a snack. It’s not the healthiest of lunches. Lately, I am way too hungry to stick with OMAD. Switching to intermittent fasting (skipping breakfast) and having lunch and dinner, seems like the right decision for me, right now.

I’m going to have to find the time to cook a healthy lunch, or I’m going to keep buying unhealthy snacks instead. I’m going to focus on eating healthier, unprocessed food. I get a lot of takeout, but there are still some fairly healthy options out there.

This was my dinner tonight. I love love love the Pita Pit Halloumi pita. I don’t feel guilty when I get this, It’s full of veggies. When I got home I split a Founder’s Tequila cocktail with my spouse. We went to the liquor store and I bought a bottle of Bailey’s Espresso (it’s a flavourgasm, my favourite). I’m probably going to have some tonight, it is almost guaranteed.

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OMAD Week 5

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

It was a great week for me. I’m now down seven pounds in total and even crossed into the next 10lb section. I hadn’t lost any weight for the last two weeks, so I’m really happy about it. I ate OMAD (one meal a day) Monday to Friday, and then whatever I wanted on the weekend (I did use a little more restraint this weekend). That being said, I still ate pie, cookies, and went to Montana’s for dinner.

I’ve been loving Hello Fresh. The meals were SO good and also really healthy. Unfortunately, it’s just too expensive to continue on, but I’m going to try and keep in the spirit of it and eat less takeout and cook more at home. I do love the idea of someone choosing your meal (especially if it’s full of veggies and healthy) so I can try new things.

So far, I’m loving this way of eating. I still get hungry a lot during the day, but it passes. I haven’t had problems with dizziness in awhile. It’s something I think I will be able to stick with.

I saw a genius post on Facebook with someone using string to measure their waist one a month and comparing the string size. I’m going to do that. I wish I had done that from the start. Here’s to week six!

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OMAD September 8/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

Today started out easy enough. I didn’t eat until evening. I had some coffee and tea in the morning. I went out to eat with a friend for dinner. I was doing okay during the day, but by the time I sat down at the restaurant I was starting to get dizzy.

I ordered a pretty healthy meal from the Graffiti Market in Waterloo. I got the Phat Bowl. I found out pickled onion can be super tasty. I liked this bowl and felt good about ordering it. I got some take out for my spouse, a mushroom pizza and I ate almost a whole slice of his pizza. This isn’t ordinary pizza, this is super deep dish (over an inch thick) pizza that was drizzled with truffle oil and cheeses. It was crazy decadent.

I also had a handful of BBQ chips when I got home and chocolate chips. I must be craving sugar because I don’t actually like chocolate chips until they are baked into a cookie. I wanted a peach, but they had already turned. Every peach I buy is rotted in the middle. I’m having no luck with them. Right now I’m enjoying a glass of wine and I’m finished eating for the day.

I think I might bring crackers with me places in case I feel dizzy. I won’t feel bad about breaking the fast in that instance.

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OMAD Day 4 September 3/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

Today was so hard. I woke up with a splitting headache that lasted all day. By lunch time I felt really nauseated. I decided to break my fast early and got a snack.

I got this granola bar, but I still didn’t feel any better. Later on someone brought cookies for us (I swear I’m a magnet for cookies). They were pumpkin flavoured wafer cookies. They were super delicious too. I had one and still wasn’t feeling any better. Near the end of the afternoon I had two more.

I walked out to meet my spouse and by the time we met up I was feeling really lousy. He had some snacks in the car. Guess what they were. Cookies LOL. I had a couple bites of cookie, probably bringing my cookie total to 5, plus a granola bar.

I got this football sized black bean pattie pita for dinner. It was huge and I ate half of it with an Advil. I still had the monster headache. I must tell you about one of the weirdest sensations I’ve had involving food. I was starving and completely stuffed all at the same time. I’ve never had those two sensations happen at the same time. I ate half the sandwich and still ravenous, but also stuffed. I was so full I was close to feeling uncomfortable and my stomach still hadn’t clued in. It was weird.

It’s later on in the evening I’m feeling much better now. The Advil has kicked the headache and I’ve just finished my other half of the sandwich. It’s rare for me to get a headache. This one was a doozy. I’m not sure if it was from doing OMAD (one meal a day), or because it went from a sunny day to rain. Right now I’m drinking a cherry Bubly and feeling a million times better.

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OMAD Day 2 September 1/20

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Today went well. I was hungrier than yesterday, but I made it until evening. I went out to the Thai Hut and got this dish called Pad La Na. It was okay. I’ve loved everything from the Thai Hut, but this one wasn’t my favourite. I want to try everything on their menu, I love that place so much. I recommend the green curry and peanut noodle dish. I love them. I don’t usually eat out this much, but I’ve lost my cooking mojo. Tomorrow I’ll be going out for pitas. Hopefully after that I get back into cooking. I just haven’t felt like it lately.

I’m very thirsty this evening. I’m currently drinking hot, black tea. During the day I had a small coffee and two Bubly drinks. I don’t normally get thirsty. The Bublys make me pee like crazy. Maybe that has something to do with it. I want to drink another Bubly, but I do worry that much carbonation is bad for you. I also do NOT want to drink water. Even infused water is something I’m not very good about drinking it. It’s something I have to work on.

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OMAD Day 5

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

I bought one today. I already have one, but I have to step on it several times before it starts giving a consistent number. I snapped this one up at a Canadian Tire for $29.99. Hopefully the number on my old scale wasn’t way off and I have a wake up call tomorrow morning!

I also bought this ridiculous thing for $39.99. I’m going to need to write out my inner monologue here:

A “Oh cool it’s like a more fun push up”
B “Or you could do an actual push up… for free”
A “I can’t do a push up”
B “Even more of a reason to keep trying. Force yourself to do it
A “Yeah, I’m not doing that. This looks more fun and easier”
B “….”
A “This way I might actually do push ups… on this thing”
B “Maybe for a week, then you can put it with all the other fitness equipment that you don’t use”
A “But isn’t it better to try something new and see if it works. What if this is the thing that will set me off on a fitness lifestyle and I get ridiculously fit, all because of this pull up thingy?”
B “Is that what you actually think is going to happen?”
A “Pfft I’m buying it anyway”
B *sigh…

So I bought it. Now I have to use it because inner voice B is right way too often.

As for OMAD… At the office again, someone sent me home with some cookies. I am a cookie magnet these days! I totally ate a ton of them too, but I waited until the car ride home, after 6:15pm to get into them. I more of the leftovers from Muya’s (still delicious the next day!), and had some iced tea. I ate so much takeout yesterday I hurt myself. I was still down a pound this morning though (according to two out of five tries on the scale).

I always drink a coffee in the morning (black) and throughout the day I drink Bubly’s. Usually 3 of them. I don’t know if that many carbonated drinks is good for you. I used to drink tea, but that stuff is so full of chemicals, I don’t think that is the greatest choice either. If I try to drink plain water, I might drink a glass, but that seems to be all I will drink.

It’s the weekend tomorrow and I’m not planning to follow OMAD on weekends, just weekdays. I’m also on vacation now and have a feeling OMAD might not be in the cards until I’m back to work. I’ll try to somewhat behave though.