Day 43 - I'm sorta enjoying this!

I found some bread - finally - that fits the CLEAN EATING category.  Check this out!

Ingredients: Stone ground whole wheat flour, water, yeast & salt.

I made homemade tomato soup w/ basil & garlic, and baked up some "grilled" cheese w/ reduced fat cheddar, part skim mozzerella and a sprinkle of shredded parmesan on 1 slice of this bread, halved.  I also baked up/toasted some croutons from this bread to throw on top of the soup.  It was divine!!  I love getting psyched for a meal and feeling so great afterwards - my belly and my mind, all while staying on track.  Talk about feeling in control!  

Today I consumed 32 pts - most very healthy, except those 3 big bites of crappy carrot cake.  (It was crappy - from a box mix. Soooo not worth the bites.)  

Exercise:  Tae Bo, Firm Abs and 50-ish butt crunches w/ 10lb dumbell on my hips.  (-6 pts)

TOTAL: 26 pts  (w/ 4 flex pts)

Motivation pic - THANK YOU to the faceless chick who 1st posted this online.  You clearly rock!

Day 31 - Clean Eating?

Just chugging along.  Noticing how many things I habitually eat are processed crap.  Fiber 1 brownies - full of ingredients I can't figure out.  Splenda in my coffees, which I have always felt a bit ashamed about using b/c I know it's garbage, but I like the 0-calorie, 0 point thing...That's done with now.  Gotta buy the natural type of peanut butter.  Gotta switch breads.  It's a little overwhelming trying to think of all the things I have to re-think when grocery shopping...and things I just can't eat when I'm eating my mom's meals, which is very often.  (She's a big fan of Sam's Club frozen meals, anything w/ sauce or dressing packets included, Wonder bread, etc...and seems genuinely annoyed if I prepare my own brown rice or whole grain bread to go with a meal, or request she leave pre-pkgd sauce or dressing off my portion.)

If I was an experienced blogger, or somewhat tech-savvy computer chick, I'd link to Annie The Amazing Shrinking Girl's blog post about clean eating.  But I'm not.  So I can't.  But thanks for the info, Annie.  My health/fitness/weightloss goal - as well as my blogging - takes on a new dimension now for Month 2 of my journey.

Today I ate 26 pts
Exercise:  The Firm Complete Aerobic & Weights, and Firm 5 Day Abs  (-5 pts)
TOTAL:  21 pts