Refocus

Generally I am a happy person. This time of year is always hard for me... school is starting and another year is going by that I am not a teacher. I found this quote via a little Pinterest stalking... I think it is a good reminder.

Monday Check-in

I will be checking in every Monday during this journey and setting new goals for myself each week. I've heard that writing your goals down makes them more real and it makes you more accountable... which is exactly what I need.

I weighed in this morning and was the exact same as last week. I did very good staying on track with eating last week (until Friday when I had a serious date with a pan of brownies junk food) but I didn't make it to the gym.

This week I commit to:

1. Exercising 3 days
2. Drinking a minimum of 6 8oz. glasses of water
3. Write down everything I am eating

Holy Zucchini Batman!

Check out that zucchini! It is huge... and it's mine. all mine! One of my customers at the bank brought in a bunch of veggies from his garden and this beauty was in the bag. I literally pushed one of my co-workers out of the way to grab this. It was worth it. I made the most delicious *healthy* zucchini bread/muffins!

Yummy! I did a few substitutions and additions to this recipe but the guts and glory was found on all recipes.

Here is what you will need for the bread:

• 3 eggs
• 1/2 C. vegetable oil
• 1/2 C. applesauce
• 2 C sugar
• 2 C. grated zucchini
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 3 C. flour (I used whole wheat flour)
• 3 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. nutmeg
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt

I started by preparing my zucchini and because I am far too lazy to grate a human-baby sized zucchini, I cheated. I peeled my zucchini and then cut it into chunks and threw it in my food processor.

Ok. So now you can begin to mix together your eggs, oil, applesauce and sugar. Mix well!

Add your zucchini and vanilla! Then add all of your dry ingrediants.

Your batter will look like this! You can then pour the batter in to a greased loaf pan or into lined muffin tins.

Now this is the secret weapon, a crumbled topping! To make this delicious crumble you will mix 1 C of brown sugar, 1 C flour, and 2 Tbsp melted butter. Sprinkle this over the tops of your muffins/loaves of bread. Now pop them all in the oven at 325. The muffins took about 20 minutes and the loaf of bread took about 45 minutes.

This recipe made 1 loaf of bread and 10 muffins. I like to make both because the bread is yummy but the muffins are a good option for someone who is perpetually late a girl on the go!

Today... actually yesterday

So yesterday I decided that I was going to make a big change in my life. I am going to take control of my body.

I'm not sure when it happened. In college, I was healthy, active, comfortable in my body. I graduated from college, couldn't find a job, got depressed, ate to make myself feel better. I also met my wonderful husband. We went out to eat A LOT... restaurants are such a great place to get to know one another! My hobbies changed. I began to enjoy cooking and baking. I began to eat what I was making. I became less active.

Now, you'd think the wake-up call would be the climbing numbers on the scales, the scariness of how difficult physical activity was becoming, my wedding, looking at myself in pictures, my clothes not fitting correctly... but no. It was none of these things. It was a stretch mark forming on my arm.

I guess whatever the reason is, I am doing something about it now.

My goals for Week 1:

• Write down  everything I eat... even those pesky BLTs (bites, licks, tastes)
• Exercise 4 times this week
• Find one new "healthy recipe" and blog about it for you all to see (and try!)
• Drink water!

GO TEAM KIM!

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