A place to showcase my health journey.
Repost: February 4, 2016
or me, it sounds like a sigh, and not one of those cute “ahhhh”. More like a “grrrrrr”.
So, as promised, I’m being honest here. I went to my weekly weight watchers meeting. After taking off my boots, coat and the required restroom visit, I stepped on the scale. I gained. Continue reading “What does embarrassment sound like?”
Repost: February 3, 2016
This will be a short post, work is busy but I wanted to express how I both enjoy what I’m eating and show that I do eat what I make.
Enjoying the fruits vegetables of my labour. So this week I made three different types of mason jar salads: Chicken Fajita, Black Bean & Quinoa and Mixed. To be honest, the last one was created from what I had in the crisper. My oldest son really enjoys vegetables so I knew he’d like this one. Well, so did I. Continue reading “Enjoying the vegetables of my labour.”
Repost: February 1, 2016
I do love the convenience and the of course, the deliciousness of the mason jar salads. But my journey to eating better doesn’t stop there. A friend of mine at work, an inspiration to physical fitness, asked me what I had had for breakfast one day. Well, on that particular day, I had forgotten my oatmeal on the counter at home, so other than a tea, no breakfast. She looked at me in complete shock. What? No breakfast? Plus, the one you were going to eat had no protein. You can’t do that. She then cut our meeting short and suggested (strongly) that I go get something to eat. So I did. But in doing so, I realized the options at our cafeteria held little to no interest, and next to no healthy options. Continue reading “Not just mason jar salads”
Repost: February 1, 2016
Week 4 is here and so are two new salads (and one from last week). My family really loved the Chicken Fajita salad. So good.
“Plan for tomorrow, because tomorrow you won’t have time”
Repost: January 25, 2016
Week 3 is here and so are two new salads (and one favourite). I just ate the Chicken Fajita salad. YUMMY!
Karenlee
“Plan for tomorrow, because tomorrow you won’t have time”
Repost: January 22, 2016
Thought I’d share the document I created last week for Katie and I to make our salads.
I’m a list type person and I found that having this document made it really easy to know what was going in the jar next. Continue reading “Week 2 Mason Jar Salads”
Repost: January 21, 2016
There would be a picture of all three but the boys ate all the Asian Sesame (or so they thought, see below) Continue reading “Week 1 Mason Jar Salads”
Repost: January 21, 2016
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