Not Ready for the Holidays

Thanksgiving is next week and Christmas is a little more than a month away. I am not ready... Christmas is always a rough time of year. Usually the holiday seasons are a time of family gatherings, love and happiness.. All I see is Stress, being broke, and traveling! It was hard enough to have two sides of the family to make happy and now having three, I was asking about Thanksgiving before Halloween. Who is hosting?, Who are we going to upset if we don't go? Thanksgiving is really not a holiday that I want to run around and make sure everyone sees me. I want to pick a house, go there and only there and eat a ton of food, and not have to worry about driving to someone else house and eating more until I explode! Totally not what I need when trying to lose weight. :( Christmas is a different story.. I want to be able to see everyone that I call family and have fun and exchange gifts and talk about everything we plan to do for the New Year! Speaking of gift I have no idea what to get for ANYONE! Christmas is my run around holiday, and thankfully Steve is a good sport with helping me celebrate with my family's, and his own!

Update for Weight Loss Goals:

As of 11/9/2015 I have gone Vegan.. Its only on a trial base. I don't plan to go Vegan for life.. I love meat!(Harsh). I am doing this to see how my body reacts and how I feel. So far its going good, I feel Good, I feel like I have more energy. I will see how long I can last with all the holidays and traveling going on right now. (Fingers crossed) I would like to hold on for a least a month. I will try to get some recipes on here and let you know how my progress is going.

One of my First dishes was a Soba Noodle bowl! It was so good and great start to being Vegan.

A New Season a New me!

This week we celebrated the first day of FALL! Fall is my favorite season! I love the colors of the leaves changing. I can spend all day outside without feeling like I am about to die in the heat! Perfect weather to run and play some lacrosse. Pumpkin patches, apple picking, corn mazes!  I love everything about fall, Don't you! You have two great holidays Halloween and Thanksgiving!!! Candy and TONS of FOOD! How could anyone not be happy!

Everyone usually waits until New Years to do their resolutions.. But I figured a New Season is just as good as a New Year.. I'm making the decision now rather than later. There's no day like today!!

My Resolutions
Lose another 15 pounds before Christmas.
Start meal prepping in order to stop eating out and save some money
Save all the money from my coaching and really work on saving it to go Germany!

That's it!

I know it doesn't seem like much. But I already know that its going to kick my butt.  With the lacrosse season in full swing and work I am already running around and trying to get my visits in at the gym. Dedication is key and so is having something that pushes you and hold you what you say. Hence why I am writing my resolutions on a blog, the world will hold me to what I am saying!

Stay tuned for updates on my Progress!!!

HAPPY FALL!

2 countries 1 post

So for all of you that actually read this.. if anyone. I do apologize for not telling you about my meal last week. I was way too busy to blog about my post, but I did cook don't you worry.

 First we Went to Ireland- with an Irish Coddle And then we went south to the islands of New Zealand with a chicken and root veggie
meal. .

New Zealand

The New zealand Wine, with which I cooked with and drank!

Chicken ontop of the  onions and hearbs

Yummy Carrots, leeks and potatoes.

The finished product.


Ireland

My Lovely Shamrock, to celebrate the Irish pride

sausage, bacon, onion, and potatoes. Sounds like new zealand

this meal steamed for about 3 hours

An Irish dinner turned into and Irish breakfast, just add eggs.

I know I didn't talk about the meals all to much,  but im so busy. All i have been able to do is cook and take pictures!

The meals were great! Just did a Canadian meal. Ill post soon!!!