Month: March 2013
Calorie Counting Thursdays!!!!
When you feel lonely and sad:
1. I feel the love of those who are not physically around me.
2. I take pleasure in my own solitude.
3. I am too big a gift to this world to feel self-pity and sadness.
4. I love and approve of myself.
When you feel terrified (without your safety being in danger):
5. I focus on breathing and grounding myself.
6. Following my intuition and my heart keeps me safe and sound.
7. I am making the right choices every time.
8. I am drawing from my inner strength and inner light.
9. I trust myself.
When you feel insignificant:
10. I am a unique child of this world.
11. I have every bit as much brightness to offer the world as the next person.
12. I matter and what I have to offer this world also matters.
13. I may be one in 7 billion but I am also one in 7 billion!
When you are nervous:
14. I trust my inner light and intuition to guide me.
15. Nervousness surrounding what I want to do is a good sign.
16. I know the situation will work out for my highest good.
17. Wonderful thing unfold before me.
When you are angry:
18. The anger does not reflect who I am.
19. I let go of my anger so I can see clearly.
20. I accept responsibility if my anger has hurt anyone.
21. I replace my anger with understanding and compassion.
22. I offer a sincere apology to those affected by my anger.
When you feel hopeless and at the end of your rope:
23. I may not understand the good in this situation yet but it is there.
24. I can muster up a little more hope and courage from deep inside me.
25. I choose to find hopeful and optimistic ways to look at this.
26. I kindly ask for help and guidance if I cannot see a better way.
27. I refuse to give up because I haven’t tried all possible ways.
When you feel conflicted about a decision:
28. I know my inner self will guide me to the right decision.
29. I trust myself to make the best and smartest decision for me.
30. I receive all feedback about a decision with love but make the final call myself.
31. I listen with love to this inner conflict and reflect on it until I get to peace around it.
Happy Hump Day Recipes
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- Combine first 6 ingredients, stirring until sugar dissolves
- Heat a large non stick skillet over medium-high heat, coat with cooking spray
- Add onion, sauté for 3 minutes
- Add tomato, sauté for 2 minutes
- Place onion mixture, lettuce, cucumber, and mint into a large bowl, toss gently to combine
- Cook pasta according to package directions omitting salt and fat
- Drain, reserving 1 cup cooking liquid; keep warm
- Drain tomatoes in small sieve over a bowl, reserving 2 teaspoons oil, slice tomatoes
- Heat a large Dutch oven over medium heat
- Add sliced tomatoes, reserved 2 teaspoons tomato oil, onion, and sausage to pan;
- Cook 10 minutes or until sausage is browned, stirring to crumble
- Add garlic to pan; cook 1 minute
- Add seasoning pepper, and broth to pan
- Stir in kale;
- Cover and simmer 5 minutes or until kale is tender
- Stir in pasta, reserved 1 cup cooking liquid and beans
- Sprinkle with cheese
Challenge Tuesdays
Happy Abdominal Monday
Here are my weekly pictures… Enjoy
- Kick
- Kick
- Punch
- Punch
Confessions Friday!
I wish I wasn’t this emotional. I wish, no matter what size I am, that I felt beautiful no matter what. I do feel beautiful, but I inherited my mother’s body image issues. Its something I am constantly working on. I even started performing some life coaching techniques on myself, so I can get over some of my issues, but everything is a slow process. I know one day I won’t be so attached to my body image, but currently with no kids, no husband, and just me to worry about I get the luxury of freaking out weekly.
Calorie Counting Thursdays!!!!
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Happy Hump Day Recipes
- Rise, scrub, and clean sweet potatoes
- Dry Potatoes and rub each one with olive oil
- Puncture potatoes with fork a few times
- Place potato in microwave one a time and cook them for 4-5 minutes until done
- In small bowl place butter and brown sugar
- Stir together until butter is soft and brown sugar is completely mixed in
- Once all potatoes are done place equal parts of butter mixture in each potato
- Pre Heat oven to 375 degrees
- Rise, scrub, and clean potatoes
- Coat potatoes with olive oil and season with salt and pepper
- Place potatoes on aluminum foil lined baking sheet, and coat with cooking spray
- Cook potatoes for 30 minutes or until tender and smash-able
- Take potatoes out and poke with fork
- Gently smash potatoes with fork or palm of hand *Don’t worry if some break apart, you can still use them
- Spray with cooking spray and place smashed potatoes back into the oven at 400 degrees for 20-30 minutes, or until potatoes are crispy and deep brown around the edges.
- Serve HOT
Challenge Tuesdays
- Lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (the “bad” cholesterol)
- Raise high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (the “good” cholesterol)
- Lower your blood pressure
- Reduce your risk of or manage type 2 diabetes
- Manage your weight
- Improve your mood
- Stay strong and fit
Happy Abdominal Monday
Here are my weekly pictures… Enjoy
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- Lie on back, bend knees placing them at table top position
- Place arms straight, in line with ears
- Simultaneously lift shoulders and hips off ground, moving knees towards hands, and hands towards knees
- Try to connect hands and feet in air
- Slowly return back to starting position, arms straight, knees at table top
- Engage your abdominals throughout the entire exercise.
- Complete three sets of 12 reps