A Few of My Favorite Things (And Mayhem's)

I apologize for my blogging break lately. Over the weekend people commented on my blog (in real life) and it made me feel weird about it for some reason. Yes, the whole point of blogging is for people to read it but in an effort to be really honest and myself, I try not to think about it while I'm sitting on my couch typing it (like I am now). It's kind of like watching Social Network and then immediately checking your Facebook. Weirds you out right?

 Anyways, it's Wednesday so you know what that means! I know that talking about your food is kind of weird but its actually a really good accountability check for myself and I love seeing food blogs on the ones that I read. I'm a foodie! And a stalker blog reader.

I was talking to Kyle earlier about how I always feel like I eat 5,000 times more often than him but then he pointed out that he eats a couple of huge ( calorie dense) meals and I eat lots of lighter meals. So I only feel like I'm eating a lot more than him. Unless I'm out to eat, I rarely have meals are over 400 calories. My eating actually looks like breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner,and one more snack (Bob Harper *I think that's his name* says you should go to bed hungry but who seriously wants to do that?!?! It's miserable. Please don't do that). I also make sure to eat back the calories I lose when exercising to make sure that I never eat less than 1,200 a day. I've tried not to weigh myself too often since I've started working out more lately because my weight fluctuates a lot and as I  gain muscle, I gain pounds on the scale. I  don't want to freak out about these little fluctuations so I just check myself in the mirror and see how my pants fit. If you're a guy reading this you are thinking "blah blah blah. where are pictures? blah blah blah." If you're a girl, I know you can relate.

I decided just to post a bunch of some of my eats this week so far:

 Typical breakfast of coffee/gluten free oatmeal + chia seeds+peanut butter. Kyle also fixed me some eggs on Monday. Love him. Monday night's dinner was pork roast + potatoes.I LOVE sweet potatoes. I usually eat the whole potato, skin and all. I baked a sweet potato for me and a regular potato for Kyle. Last night we had chicken/green beans/carrots. It looks like I have tiny portions in the pictures above but I really just have really big plates. 

Today's lunch was some leftover chicken/ apple/greek yogurt. My snack was a protein shake with light soymilk. My lunches pretty much always include and apple and greek yogurt. You like what you like!

So there you have it! I promise I will write a serious non-food related post really soon. Probably tomorrow!

But for now, Mayhem is enjoying his favorite things....

  

   A piece of trash, a string toy that Kyle made and a green bean.

And I'm off to relax and watch a few of my favorite and Halloweenie shows... 

Weekly Work Outs:
Monday- Jillan Michaels dvd
Tuesday- 3 mile run
Wednesday- 2 mile run + elliptical ( I only did 2 miles because I sped up my pace and my knees needed a break) I'm not going to tell you how fast I went because I am SLOW! But I'm getting there.
Thursday- either off or Jillian DVD in the PM
Friday- Long run + weights of some kind