This post is sponsored by Arla Lately Daniel and I have been talking about buying a house. Next spring when the lease on our apartment ends, we’re planning to pack up and head back home to Massachusetts. Just thinking about being closer to our family and friends makes me happy. When I look around our...Read More
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Seven years ago, I lost 50 pounds and started this blog to chronicle that journey.
I’ve gained back anywhere from 10-20 pounds of that, depending on the day.
The first few years of weight maintenance were GREAT. It was still novel, I guess, and I loved eating healthy and was good at being relatively strict with my diet. But a few years ago, I don’t know if I started emotional eating through some tough times or I just didn’t care, but I slowly let those super healthy eating habits slide, thinking “but I work out a lot! I run marathons!”
LOL. Hi you can’t out-exercise a bad diet, no matter how hard you try. Damnit.
Looking back, the number one thing that helped me lose weight was tracking what I ate. And especially since I was tracking it in such a public way, no way did I want to show y’all I wasn’t eating as healthily as I “should” have, and I’ve never been one to only present the good.
Over these past few years, I’ve tried quite a few times to lose some of that extra weight. By the end of last June, I felt really good. I started thinking recently about what I was doing then. 1. Lifting with our LTF program at work. 2. Tracking everything in MyFitnessPal. To be honest, I had mixed feelings about MFP, or at least how I was using it. I was getting too competitive with myself as I compared myself to my coworkers’ eating habits and progress.
I’ve been trying a service called Rise, which matches you 1:1 with a coach who reads all your food logs and gives you feedback (basically, virtual RD.) In full disclosure, I’m paying for this with my own cashmoney (it’s about $48/month or $12/week, which is more reasonable than seeing an IRL RD) but that linky there gives both of us a free week.
The app doesn’t use calories, which is actually sort of nice. This post isn’t meant to be a review of Rise, by the way, though I might once I’ve done it longer/if I stick with it. I’ve been doing this for not even a week, and I can already tell it’s making me reconsider what I’m eating since I’m logging it AND helping me identify habits I hadn’t even realized (i.e. I really like something sweet in the afternoon.) I’ve already been making a really conscious effort for the past month or so to cut back on wine, and I’m ready to add on the healthier eating habits now. (Although it is easier to eat healthy when there is less wine in my life, just saying.
I’m also already realizing how to not beat myself up for a “bad” meal (which is usually when I’m tired/stressed/etc) and let it go, realizing it’s just one meal out of the 21 or so I eat all week. I’ve also already noticed I rarely eat more than two meals on the weekends, what about you? I’m already feeling closer to moderation, and I’m now trying to figure out solid goals for myself to keep me on track through my Hamptons weekends.
tl;dr: It’s a pain in the ass to track, but it really works.
I have so many questions for you:
1. Do you track what you eat? How/where?
2. How do you stay healthy through fun summer weekends? Loosely, I think my current plan is to ensure I DEFINITELY get in a Saturday morning workout while I’m away, and making sure I keep Friday night just tame enough that that can happen. I can be hungover and running, just as long as I’m running.
3. Do you eat three square meals on the weekend? My college roomie Lindsay and her mom made fun of me her wedding weekend because I. needed. every. single. meal. or. else.
After almost two weeks in Florida I can home last week to a pretty empty fridge. I usually try to keep grocery shopping to a minimum before a trip and/or EAT ALL THE THINGS! So when I got home jet-lagged and hungry I ate PB out of the jar and figured I’d have to stock up asap. But, I also had a ton of work to catch up on – with deadlines hanging over my head and stressing me out.
Luckily I had arranged for a Blue Apron order to be delivered the day after I got home. It was perfect timing!! Suddenly I had all the ingredients for two delicious healthy meals delivered to my door.
I was most excited that there was a fresh vegetable in my house! I had no veggies and wanted something fresh.
Vegas was most excited that I was making fish. He isn’t a huge beggar but if I’m making fish or eating turkey he will stand there and meow until I cave and give him some. I’m usually a bad pet owner in that I don’t share ‘people food’ with my dogs but I figure Vegas has 9 lives so he’s fine.
I appreciate that Blue Apron makes an effort to create meals with sustainable seafood. When I saw that the salmon was wild caught I sent a picture to SR.
Did you know my one and only friend SR grew up in Alaska and hails from a family of fisherman?! Yes. She full on worked on a boat for several summers when we first met. I thought it was the coolest thing. Anyway, I told her to thank her dad for the salmon. It was good!
The first night I made Salmon Rolls with roasted potatoes. Salmon is one of my favorites but I don’t really know how to cook it well. I have only ever thrown it in a pan and cooked it with a few random spices I have.
This salmon roll taught me a new way to enjoy it. This dish reminded me of something I would have on vacation somewhere near the ocean. Loved it.
The potatoes came out perfectly too! This was a winner all the way.
And if you’re wondering about Vegas…
I gave him the salmon skin. After cooking the salmon the instructions were to remove it from the skin and flake into a bowl. He totally scored on the fish!
The next day I packed up dinner #2 and headed to my parents’ house. I hadn’t seen them in a while and missed my people!
My Blue Apron delivery serves 4 people so it was perfect to cook for my mom, dad and brother. Last time my little brother helped, this time he just supervised. They offer two types of plans, the 2-Person Plan and Family Plan and I am on the family plan right now (I’ve tried both).
You boil the potatoes and then cooked them in a little butter and seasonings. Ah-mazing. Like crazy good.
I was excited about this meal because I feel like I keep seeing amazing recipes for Smashed Potatoes but haven’t tried them. This meal gave me a crash course in how to make smashed taters and they were so good I’ll definitely make them again.
They were so good, I’m definitely getting on board the smashed potato wagon.
You can choose from a few options each week and I usually pick the chicken or fish recipes because I’m not a big red meat eater.
But you can check out a ton of the Blue Apron Recipes here to get an idea of how many different cuisines and the variety of dishes they offer.
I want to make ramen next time!
Blue Apron is offering the first 25 RER readers three FREE meals on their first order. <- use that link to sign up
Me: I think super easy quesadillas… which seems kind of anti-climactic after those meals.
This post is sponsored by Blue Apron. All opinions are my own.
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The pictures on the left were taken 8 weeks ago. Back in April I committed to shaping up after winter, but I had NO IDEA just how much I had slacked off. (…whoa, Josie). I hereby nominate myself to be the poster child for how fitness has its ups and down. Despite being consistent with my workouts in the winter, my food choices were less than ideal due to the holidays, and also because of Gracie’s competition schedule that required me to travel and eat out a lot.
On the day that I snapped my before pics, when I saw the reality of how I had slacked off, I was honestly feeling down and disappointed in myself. I had a pity party for about 24 hours, received encouragement from my wonderful family, and then quickly refocused to take charge and get it all together.
I knew what it was going to take to whip myself back into shape WITHOUT dieting. I went into the next 8 weeks like a warrior princess hell-bent on reclaiming my body. And I did just that!
Here is my video that goes into details on why I gained weight, how I was able to quickly lose the weight, what workouts I did, the food choices I made, my Intermittent Fasting technique, and how to bounce back when you screw up on your weight loss journey.
LINKS REFERENCED IN THE VIDEO:
Relentless Jake’s Youtube channel
Video: Why You Don’t Need Flat Tummy Tea
Yum Yucky’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting
Video Playlist: Easy Dance Workouts to Lose Weight
Subscribe to Yum Yucky on Youtube
For all the mommies out there who need some encouragement: I’m 43 years old. I have 4 kids (3 of them were by c-section). My kids are ages 23, 20, 11 & 7. I’m also a grandmother to a 21-month old little girl. I am not a special case when I comes to all this weight loss stuff. There is no difference between you and I. Just dig deep and pull out the unrelenting determination you already possess to get it done!
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Before I introduce you to my new FAVORITE thing I want to say hello to the lil ducks. They are so cute! I’ll probably fall tomorrow looking for them instead of looking at the sidewalk in front of me, but it’s the price you pay for cuteness. The lil duck mom always tries to rush them away when I stop to look at them so I have to stop and enjoy the view super quick. I’m not even that close to them, but she doesn’t trust me. I don’t blame her.
I know you’re supposed to eat your colors but I feel like Cauliflower Rice and Chicken is not colorful yet still pretty healthy. I get tons of greens and reds and various other colors from fruits and veggies. So this bland looking meal is okay with me.
This morning I am doing a tempo run. It’s a good way to get faster without having to torture yourself on the track (at least that’s what I tell myself). Here’s an easy to follow 5 mile tempo run:
How to do it: Warm up with an easy pace mile. Run the tempo miles at half marathon pace if you’re training for a full marathon. You can also run it at a 6 to 7 effort if you don’t know what pace. Cool down with a mile at the end.
Want to know why I am so excited!?!?!?!!!
I now present my new running partner….
No, not Vegas. He is not super into running or really doing anything. I keep trying to get him to read Women’s Running but he insists he’s not a woman so it’s not applicable to him.
I got a Garmin 235 Running Watch! After a lot of peer pressure from my running friends I bought a new running gps watch because it’s just the easiest to use and I’m very set in my ways. My first running watch was a Garmin-o and I used it until it literally fell off my disgusting sweaty wrist.
Anyway I needed something that gave me a breakdown of my pace at the end of each mile which my Tom Tom Running Watch didn’t do. I’m really bad at pacing so I need that extra little info. So this watch will be my new best friend and I shall name him Garmin-o (just like the first one because I’m not original).
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