Tis the Holiday Season

The holidays are just around the corner, 14 days until Thanksgiving and 43 days until Christmas Eve to be exact. Wow, they are coming up fast. I am still working on doing a challenge for myself. My plan is to start on Sunday Nov 13 and end December 23rd. This will give me 40 days of action!!!! I will let you know on Sunday what my plan of action is going to be. I didn't focus on food this past week and ate what I wanted, I didn't lose weight but I think my head is lighter. I feel like my brain isn't always in overdrive wondering if what I am eating is a good choice. Don't get me wrong I did make some unhealthy choices. One thing I know I need to work on and will be in my challenge is eating on a schedule of some kind. I still struggle with breakfast, have lunch at 10:30 then eat crap around 3:30 because I am so hungry and feel guilty about it later.

Today I had the day off so I checked out 2 of the P90X dvd's,(borrowed from Gym Girl, thank-you) (Ab Ripper and Shoulders/Arms) Let's just say it was hard, very hard, but in a good way. Then I went to the gym and did 35 minutes on the elliptical. I had done 55 minutes on the elliptical last night so my legs were really sore today. I did make an AWESOME PUMPKIN SMOOTHIE this morning. HERE IT IS COMPLIMENTS OF HUNGRY GIRL. Yummy!!!www.hungry-girl.com

1/2 cup canned pure pumpkin
4 oz. Diet Snapple Peach Iced Tea (I used Dt Tropa Rocka Snapple Tea)
4 oz. Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze
cinnamon, nutmeg and/or pumpkin pie spice (to taste)
1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
Splenda (to taste)

The changing ingredient is 1 tbsp. of some sort of vanilla protein powder (Jay Robb's Whey Protein rocks!) OR 3 oz. of fat-free vanilla yogurt. And sometimes I'll throw in a splash of Torani Sugar Free Syrup in Brown Sugar Cinnamon. I just toss all of the ingredients in a blender with lots of crushed ice (about a cup and a half of it) and blend it all for about a minute. YUM -- this smoothie is so good, I can't stand it! And, the most amazing part is that it only has about 100 - 120 calories, depending on exactly what you choose to put in it -- and it is SUPER-filling! Try one of these no-name peachy pumpkin drinks and you will be HOOKED. I can almost guarantee it!

Happy Hour tomorrow, this is the make up one from when I was sick, so there won't be any gym and because I know myself so well I will not make good food choices. We are suppose to get snow on Saturday and Sunday, if that happens I will get some of my exercise in shoveling the drive way!!!!!