Short day 2

Luckily I only had to go to work for a few hours yesterday to do some presentations. I did some Exercise TV yoga before making some yummy pancakes and heading out. I used 1/2 cup mix with some water, almonds, and blueberries to make these and made my own Skinny Caramel latte!

When I got home it was time for a spinach salad with hummus, cottage cheese, blueberries, and mango slices.

After a nice walk with puppy by the water and a watermelon margarita, it was off to Wegmans to stock up on cottage cheese!

We spent the night with some good friends and family for a birthday party. We had some fun apps, I just had some beer bread I made (recipe soon).

Dinner was pasta salad, sausage, and BBQ chicken.

For dessert we had a fruit tart that was so yummy! It was a fun night although I know I ate a little too much desserts I am ok with that...

-Jacqui

Day 1 take 2 and some good news

Today was another day 1 of orientation so it was a muffin and tea to start the day followed by an apple around 10 AM.

Lunch was this awesome salad with spinach and spring mix, red onion, carrot, mushrooms, chickpeas, cottage cheese, and sunflower seeds. I am loving cottage cheese on my salad (as you can see here and here). It just makes the salad so creamy tasting.

Later in the afternoon was some Pretzel M&M's (why do you temp me so!) I got home and did a fun Exercise TV workout, I just felt the need to mix it up a bit today. Hubby and I went to the store to get some fun sale items (forgot to take a picture, but we did get plenty of frozen veggies as the last a lot longer with our often crazy schedules!) Then we hit up Chick-fil-a for some dinner (had a coupon for a free sandwich). I got the nuggets and we split some fries (with mayo because that is what you do with waffle fries).

So on to my good news, if you read about my issues earlier in the month, I wanted to let you know that Aunt Flow finally came (medically induced but hey it is a good step). So now hopefully I will be back on track! Thoughts and prayers would be much appreciated and again thanks for all the support of the previous post. In celebration of being back on track I wanted to share my current "bible" with someone else.

If you would like a copy (for yourself or to give to someone else) of What to Expect When you are Expecting please send me an email or message me on Twitter. Thanks again and have a great weekend all!
-Jacqui

Orientation day 2's

Our seconds days of orientation are a little better for me foodwise (at least I have time to eat breakfast at home). This morning was Chobani pomegranate with pineapple, blueberries, and wheat germ to add some fiber. 

With a side of Earl Grey it is a perfect start to my day.

Lunch was a spinach salad with carrots and celery, hummus and cottage cheese. (Can you see the continued cottage cheese obsession lately?)

Yes that was a little small but because I knew this was in my future....

Nothing beats soft-serve on a warm day!

Nothing special tonight, I hope to do some cleaning, get in a good workout, and maybe watch some DVR Dinner tonight will be Chicken Helper Alfredo with added veggies (normal for us to add veggies)

And tomorrow is back to a day 1.... only 6 more days to go....

Time to get oriented

Over the next 8 days we will be running Orientation at work so my hours and meals will be on a 2 day cycle. Because of that I may not be posting all my meals to bore you with. However I will post today's meals as it is the first day:)

Breakfast was a muffin (because I was not feeling like a bagel) and two mugs of tea.(Speaking of tea check out my friends giveaway for some fun teas!)

Lunch was this yummy chicken pesto panini and an apple. With some M&M's later in the afternoon (why do I eat you M and M's when I know it is so hard for me to stop?!?)

Dinner tonight is going to be some veggie chili from the freezer and Food Should Taste Good Chips (review really soon 2 more bags to try).

Tonight will also have a Lower Body workout with the my slimdown and hopefully some time to relax!

Here's to hoping the week goes quickly...

Thank yous and dinners

Hubby asked me to take a picture of dinner last night because it thought the veggies we added made the Asian Hamburger Helper look "blog worthy".

This was actually really tasty. Light on the veggies but that is always an easy fix!

After workout time Hubby and I sampled some of our "thank yous" for watching my aunt and uncle's house while they are away. (One good thing about living around the corner from family is there is always someone to ask a favor from). They brought us some beach treats!

Boardwalk Fudge and Caramel Popcorn (If you are a Philly/Jersey person you understand how important these items are to a complete summer!) We each had a small piece. Mine was the Rocky Road second from the left. Yummy.......

Breakfast this morning was more of my new love of cottage cheese, blueberries, pineapple, and a homemade caramel latte.

The latte was easy thanks to my Tassimo Single Serve Coffee machine. I took a Skinny Cappuccino disc and added some Sugar Free Caramel syrup to it. The latte was actually really good and covered my craving for a Starbucks for much cheaper and lower in calories!

For lunch today I grabbed the extra salad we ordered at work yesterday.

Grilled chicken, artichoke hearts, onions, tomatoes, and plenty of lettuce. The croutons got take off, but other that that is was a nice filling lunch.

We are headed out to dinner tonight to meet up with some new friends at Red Zone Sports Bar. It's a new place for us, I am thinking of getting the veggie sandwich, but only if it comes with fries of the sweet potato variety! Hopefully I will get some pics to post tomorrow!

Have a great Tuesday!