I have made a decision

Well, I have been thinking about it the last few days and I think I am just going to take the plunge. I am going to attempt a round of P90X when I am done with Turbo Fire. That will make my first day July 4th. What a way to kick off Independence Day! I have been looking over the nutrition guide, and The hardest thing for me will definitely be the eating. It's a hard pill to swallow not eating hardly any starchy carbs for 30 days. I will definitely begin to prepare for that starting now. I don't want to start the workout and be going through withdrawals as well as trying to handle getting used to a grueling workout schedule. So that is the plan. For right now, my ongoing journey is still to clean up my eating. I am such a wuss sometimes and I won't just say no when I should. Definitely working on that. I have started journaling my food so that I can actually what I am eating. I think that is definitely a step in the right direction. We will see what the next 4 weeks brings for me.

What's for breakfast?

Well, I have been eating eggs every day this week and I was craving pancakes this morning. So I decided to throw together some ingredients and see what happened. The result was not too shabby.

So I started with some eggs, since that's what I try to eat in the morning. I then added some salt, cinnamon, vanilla and a touch of agave. Next I put in some oats. I got out my stick blender and whizzed it all together. The resulting mix was quite runny, which I knew it would be, so I added some almond flour and coconut flour to thicken it up a bit. I cook

ed them on my griddle and served them with a bit of maple syrup. A trick I learned is that if you cut up your pancakes first and then drizzle on the syrup, you can get away with using a lot less

of the stuff. I used about 1 1/2 tablespoons on mine. So, me and my 2 year old ate them. She approved and even asked for seconds! Ahhh, success.

I used a 2 tablespoon measure to ladle them onto the griddle and ended up with slightly large silver dollar pancakes.

The finished product

My 2-year-old is camera shy

So, here is my thrown-together recipe:

In a blender, place:

4 eggs

1 tablespoon agave nectar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 cup oats

Blend until combined, then add:

1/4 cup almond flour

1 tablespoon coconut flour

Blend again until combined and cook on a nonstick griddle or in a pan, if you prefer. Enjoy!

Success and contemplation

Well, I have had tangible success now. I have dropped a bra size! When I began my journey back in January, I was in a size 38 bra. I am now in a size 36! Yes!! Now I need to work on my post-baby belly. So, now onto my contemplation. I am seriously considering trying P90X when I am done with Turbo Fire. I am really enjoying the Turbo Fire workouts and am hoping that they will begin to melt the extra blubber that has taken up residence in pretty much every part of my body. I really feel that the gains I have made in the last 6 weeks are largely due to this program. I am going to try my best to stick to the eating plan for the second 6 weeks and really see what kind of results I can get by doing the program the way it's supposed to be done. I have not weighed myself yet, maybe I will get around to that sometime this week. I also have not taken any measurements, although I do know that I have lost some inches at least around my chest! I am definitely going to take a closer look at the eating plan for P90X and see how much work it's going to require on my part. I will definitely have to make a decision soon as I like to plan ahead on things like this.

May update

So here it is May already and I am not exactly where I wanted to be at this point in time. Big surprise! I can say that I have lost some weight. My clothes are visibly looser than they were when I began this journey. I have not gotten on the scale yet. I refuse to do that until I can safely get into one size smaller than I am right now. My XL clothes are definitely to the point of being baggy now. My L clothes range from slightly snug to noticeably loose. I tried on 2 pairs of pants that are size M (they are maternity, but I will have to stay with them until I lose more of my pregnancy gut) and they were to say the least, extremely tight. Well, that was a month ago. I tried them on again on Saturday and they were still tight, but not like the sausage casing that they were the first time I tried them on. So I am making some progress, albeit not as quickly as I would like. That is my own fault, unfortunately. The biggest stumbling block at this point continues to be my eating. I just don't understand where all of my willpower went! Seven years ago, I was a size 4 and I had wonderful willpower! I would just look at the way my clothes were fitting and say to myself, "Okay, no more junk food!" And then I wouldn't eat it anymore. I could actually pass it up! Of course, I had a helping hand back then that was banned a couple of years later. You know what I am talking about. The gloriously effective ECA stack. For those of you that don't remember ephedra, it was "stacked" with caffeine and aspirin and it kicked ass at helping me lose weight and conquer cravings. Oh the good old days. I have been doing some research into other products to see if I can find anything comparable to the effectiveness of ephedra. I have found some that look like junk in a bottle and some that actually looked promising. I will definitely keep you posted on those developments. Signing off for now. I will be continuing my weight loss endeavors this morning with another Turbo Fire workout. It's Fire 55EZ this morning.