I just finished my second meal for the day and I couldn't be more satisfied...and floored...at how delicious it was! I've got some downtime, so I figure I'll get started on today's post and finish up tonight!
This morning...wah wah...I slept in. But you know what? That's the beauty about YOUR journey is that YOU get to decide what YOUR body needs. NOT anyone else. So yeah, I slept in until 7:15am and got up to get my husband breakfast and make his lunch. I almost told him to go buy lunch today, but then I would be sabotaging HIS goals. So I threw some things together, made him a delicious egg sandwich with a banana and sent him out the door. I ran a flight of stairs in the meantime to get him his "daily hug". A "daily hug" is a term used by Heidi Powell that she shares on her blog, her twitter account, and her most recent book. Basically, it's a healthier alternative to your "must have" in a day's time. For Heidi, it's her specialty coffee. For my husband, it's Mountain Dew. We've done a LOT of compromising and he's finally excited about his daily Diet Caffeine Free Mountain Dew that he gets each day. Yesterday he "broke protocol" and bought chips and a soda because he was stressed. He text me and let me know right away. I wasn't mad, though in the past I would have been frustrated. WHY THE HECK AM I MAKING YOU LUNCHES IF YOU ARE JUST GOING TO GO TO THE STORE ANYWAY AND BUY JUNK?!? Nope, I thanked him for being honest, and was SO PROUD of him that the soda he DID buy was a DIET soda!! In the past, he would have bought something full calorie and so the fact that he bought a DIET soda, is DEFINITELY a victory! See? Every step counts! So just to give him a boost, this morning I told him that if he felt he needed to do a soda and chip run again to cope, look for the individually wrapped cheese sticks and get an apple. He nodded and told me he loved me, and went to work. Yes, coping with food is something he is striving to work on, but like we ALL KNOW...it's a TOUGH habit to break!
After the hubby left it was my turn to enjoy breakfast, and that came in the form of a delicious egg sandwich. Usually I'll melt some mozzarella cheese, but today I used The Laughing Cow Light Swiss Cheese Wedges (1sp) instead. I would put this as a FLAVOR FAVE, but it's pretty expensive and so I don't buy it that often. The only reason I have it in my fridge is because another grocery store was having a Super Bowl Sale, 2 for the price of 1. Snagged it. (Yeah, check those annoying grocery sale newspapers that come in your mailbox...One day I decided to check for kicks and saved $30 on tons of meat for future use! Scan over them and if you see something that you would NORMALLY buy, look a little deeper and you may find some good stuff!)
I was almost at my "eat within 30 minutes of waking up" time limit and so I started eating before I even remembered to take a picture! Today is a HC day and so I allow myself fruit with my meals even though it's an extra carb. Today was 2 mandarin oranges (0sp), 1 Bubba's Lite English Muffin (2sp), 2 slices of Hillshire Farms Buffalo Style Chicken Breast (0sp-yeah! For 1 more slice it would have been 1 smartpoint, but we ran out, so I saved myself a point!) 1 The Laughing Cow Light Swiss Cheese Wedge (1sp) and 1 egg (2sp) for a delicious 5 smartpoint total breakfast. And it only took me like, 5 minutes to prepare. I put the muffin in my toaster oven when I was making my husband's breakfast, and let it sit in there to stay warm until I was ready to start making my own. While the egg was cooking, I took the muffin out of the toaster oven and spread the cheese wedge on one side. Then, I flipped the egg, took it off of the stove and placed the meat slices inside the egg pan and placed a small plate on top. The plate move I use all the time. It doesn't further burn the egg, or cook it till dry, but rather helps with steaming and either melts the cheese or warms the meat. The pan is still hot enough to cook the egg fully, but doesn't dry it out. I did that process and then spread the cheese on the other side, tested the temperature of the meant, and slid the egg concoction onto my muffin and topped it. Sat down and immediately dove in...hence the 2 bites you see in this picture before I remembered to snap a shot. It was so good...That Laughing Cow Cheese was sure a treat.
My second meal of the day was a mixture I never would have tried and got the recipe from Chris and Heidi Powell's book Extreme Transformation. If you want the real true blue recipes, I again HIGHLY suggest you look into them and purchase their reading materials. They have changed my life! Here is the deliciousness I consumed:
Spread the above mixture on 1 The Original-100% Flourless Ezekiel 4:9 New Mexico Style Sprouted Grain Tortillas (4sp) and slice away at 1 banana, decoratively placing as you go. I LOVE the Ezekiel 4:9 brand because of the density and health of the tortilla itself. I have a loaf of their bread in my freezer and can't WAIT to try it out. If you so choose, sprinkle your banana with some cinnamon (I forgot because I was too excited to roll it up and try it out) and then roll up your tortilla and enjoy. Seriously, enjoy. And this only took like maybe 10 minutes with getting all ingredients and putting everything together.
Fast food for a fast morning, but make sure to eat it slow!
Camille
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