How did it get to be Monday already?  I do feel good and rested,  th0ugh.  My sleep has been good lately.  Taking magnesium at night has helped my insomnia so much!  Plus happy dreams with my 2 favorite teams moving forward in the playoffs.

As much as I am a Broncos fan, I do have to go on record that I am not that wild about Tim Tebow.  I don’t see him as the long-term answer at quarterback, but then you just never know.  He seems like a nice enough guy and I hope I am wrong about his skillz.   That said – come on and beat the Patriots and Bellicheat!

Today was a non gym day, so it was just riding the trainer and a nice breakfast.

This is apple cranberry topping on coconut flour waffles.  Good stuff.

I don’t think I mentioned yesterday, but I had a good weekend food wise, and I was really happy about that.  I was within my calorie range (which I did bump up a couple hundred calories to compensate for the weekend *if I wanted*) and got in a lot of exercise.  Funny how I actually can be really focused if I put my mind to it.  I do it in other areas in my life quite regularly, but my eating is the area I struggle with until I get in a zone.

Lunchtime. This is sauteed pototao and sausage.  This sausage is really lean, so it is hard to count calories for, but I do  use venison sausage calories in Livestrong and call it good enough.

Plus blueberries!  They are in big packages in the grocery store this week and pretty good price.  I love blueberries.   I remember last year they came into our stores in the winter as well.  I’ll take it!

I had an almond milk latte in the afternoon along with one of my chocolate cookies.

These have about 120 calories each (by the size I made them) and really hit the spot.

The day went by pretty fast.  Always good when work goes fast, isn’t it? I find it interesting in the clinics that I have been doing that a lot of people are coming in to get checked out before starting Medifast. I didn’t know that people actually took the suggestion to talk with a physician before starting any program (be it food or exercise)! It also surprised me a little bit that it is Medifast that I keep hearing about.  Of course, it is only a small sampling of the visits in a day that I do, but I did notice that trend.  Usually I hear more about Weight Watchers.

After finishing up, I cooked up a quick dinner.  I had a taco redux.  Turkey cooked with taco seasoning on top of tortilla chips with some sour cream (the real stuff, not fat free).

Now it is out with my hubby tonight for some tasty coffee!

Love the free Wifi – and catching up on blogs.  No Pinterest tonight!!  😆

Tomorrow is the review on Wheat Belly, which I got done in between messing around on Pinterest and the football games this weekend  

Almost to the end of the week. This week has seemed long to me.  It was also so cold yesterday, as you saw from my photo.  I could not stay warm all day!  My mother and I went out for coffee last night as well to no avail at keeping warm.

I couldn’t get myself to go in the cold to the gym this morning and since I would have had to search in the dark for my gym clothes, I decided to stay at home and ride the trainer.  But first was breakfast:

Banana bread pudding with peanut flour and jam.  Unfortunately, I think I overcooked it because it was a little dry.  Don’t you hate it when you make a regular item and it doesn’t come out right?

I ate within my calories yesterday, and my indulgent meal was breakfast out where I had a blueberry scone (no bagel).  It was really good, too!  I have been on plan since Sunday, which is good for me and really helping it sink in that I am working hard at it again.  Once I get past this weekend, I will feel like I have got this down again.  It’s really amazing what just cutting out my nibbles and snacks has done.  I was getting a bit careless with it.  I was hungry before lunch, though, and instead of a bunch of nuts or chips, I had a hardboiled egg:

With a pinch of salt.  I haven’t had a hardboiled egg like this in ages!

Lunch time and I wanted something warm.  It is cold again today, but 30 degrees, so a bit warmer than yesterday.  I mixed some cooked ham into that sweet potato soup so that it flavored it up more.

Pixie was all puffed up from the cold.  She has been wanting a lap big time, but some days it is too hard to work with her there.  So, she watched from afar and nodded off:

I did hop on the trainer for 15 minutes in the early afternoon, which I found is a great way to get just warmed up enough.  Our house is very old and kind of drafty, so we can’t keep the heat up too high or we would never be able to pay for it.  We did get a new furnace and new windows, which really helps, but it doesn’t help poor insulation.

Something else that helps?  Latte!

I drank this while watching the snow come down.

Just a little dusting.

Colorful plate for dinner today:

BBQ pork, fingerling potatoes and broccoli.  Tasty.

I have been wanting to snack a little more today.  Possibly from the wheat yesterday with my scone?  Who knows.  I do have a review of Wheat Belly coming up.  I have not nibbled much, though, which is a big victory.  Old habits really do die hard.

John had kettle corn tonight, and while that would be good, I stuck to my plan and had some yummy clementines, which are sitting next to me as I write this post.

Although I did have to taste test the kettle corn!

I will leave you with the fun little meme going around Facebook to find the song that was #1 on the day you were born and find a youtube video.  Mine was Mrs. Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel.  I like that song!  I actually like S&G a lot.

Now that tune has been going through my head for the afternoon. To heck with Mrs. Robinson, here’s to me!! 

I am glad you all liked the 2010 recap.  I have enjoyed reading about them on other blogs as well.  I find those posts so much more interesting than resolution posts.

My schedule is all flippitty-flopped this week.  Is it the same for any of you?

The snow kept me home Monday, so I didn’t lift.  Instead I went yesterday.  That meant today was not a lifting day.    I decided to hit the bike trainer this morning instead.  I rode for 16 miles today after having a protein drink.  All I could think about during the ride was a bagel, too.  It is Wednesday after all!   I showered before we left the house, which was really weird. Normally I am all scuzzed out on Wednesday for breakfast after working out.  And here I thought no men hit on me because John was with me…

We stopped at North Country Cafe and I had a wheat bagel with coffee (egg nog flavor).

Those are coffee beans in big candy jars.  How cute.

Work is also weird this week.  It is light, so that means there is very little morning work and I am having to work evenings to get in my lines.  One would think I could be more productive with those free morning hours, but that is not the case for some reason.

One thing that is not topsy turvy this week is my eating.  I am really focused this week.  Getting on the scale the day after Christmas raised an eyebrow… Okay, it raised both eyebrows.  I know what to do.  No freak outs, just get back to routine.

Now that I have said that, I will show you my odd lunch 😀

I didn’t realize until after I plated it that all the food was in slices.  That is a Balance Bar.  I wanted protein, but could not decide what to have and didn’t feel like cooking up the pork that was thawed out.

I am doing some reading during the down time.  I am working through the WGAD by Geneen Roth.  I hate to say that I am not really liking it all that much so far and I am about halfway done.  I’ll review more once I finish.

Snack time!

It looks like my latte is in Morse code.  What would it say, I wonder?

I won the football picks again this week.  Poor John.  He doesn’t complain very much when he loses.  I, on the other hand, gripe and moan about it and feel very competitive.  I think we can see who is the better person in this relationship at times 😳

So that meant dinner!  I chose to go back to Rock Hill.

Our table had lovely decorations.

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I really wanted some soup, but they were out of the kind I wanted.  So  I had a havarti grilled cheese sandwich.  Rock Hill does the best bread.

Yum.  Will have to try to win again this weekend 😛

Time to work tonight.  Sigh…  At least I can work in my PJs.