(the) Jebbica

Breakfast is generally the hardest meal of the day for me to stay on task.  Half of the time, I skip it altogether, and the other half, I’m tempted to just swing by McDonald’s on my way to work and grab a $1 Sausage Biscuit (Lately, I’ve switched to the $1 Sausage Burrito, since it only has 300 calories or the $1 Fruit-n-Yogurt Parfait, but making it at home is always a better option!).  I used to read in diet books that the Egg McMuffin was the best thing to get at McDonald’s for breakfast, which has 12 grams of fat.  So then I found some Egg Muffin frozen knockoffs at ALDI that had half the calories and half the fat.  They were better looking and tasted better.  The problem for me was, though, I don’t really like Egg McMuffins.  I think English muffins are kind of strange with their powdery texture, and I just cannot eat an egg if I can see that the yellow is separated from the white.  I’m a weirdo, I know.

So, in trying to alter my eating lifestyle, I have tried to make breakfast the “most important meal of the day”.  Here are some healthy options I have been eating lately:

Peanut Butter Banana Whole Wheat Pita

How I make it:  Cut one whole wheat pita in half.  Spread insides with Smucker’s Natural Peanut Butter.  Slice banana in half, then in half longways.  Place two quarters into pita.  Toast in toaster oven on “light” setting.  I squeeze a little natural local honey onto it when it’s done.  This has become my new favorite breakfast because it really stays with you until lunch! (more…)

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You will need:

1 can of black beans, drained and rinsed
1 can of garbanzo beans/chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 bag frozen steam-in-bag sweet corn
1 cup pico de gallo
Lemon juice


Directions: Steam corn in microwave, and then combine all ingredients in bowl. Splash with Lemon Juice to keep fresh. Feel free to change it up, used canned corn, red beans, cook in a skillet or eat raw, chop up the tomatoes and onions yourself…go wild! This is great in pitas, with chips, in a burrito, or on salad.


I mentioned that I would post this recipe when I wrote about the turkey pita I ate the other day for lunch, which was delicious! Just thought I would share!

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Flowers.  I’ve never really seen the point of getting them.  They seem like an extreme waste of money for something that are just gonna die soon.  I mean, you can buy a goldfish for a quarter, and even it will probably stick around longer.


This was my theory, anyway, until I got some.

 

There’s just something about the way they spruce up my cubicle, the gleam of envy in my coworkers’ eyes.  They’re already jealous enough that I have someone who does the cooking and laundry, who takes out the trash, pumps the gas, and will fix a broken headlight.  Of course, he’s also impossible to buy for, a pain to deal with at parties, and super-cranky in the mornings.


But who is to say I am without flaw?


So, even though I was a bit jaded towards Valentine’s Day, it is still nice to have a special romantic day with your sweetie.  Of course, my romantic day was on the 15^th, since my sister’s birthday was the 14^th (and besides: everything is half-off by then, anyway, which I’m totally cool with.  My theory is, don’t be a sucker. If you can get twice as much for half the price, why wouldn’t you? The candy still tastes just as nice.)  In addition to the beautiful pink rose and alstroemeria bouquet, my Someone Special got me some new bras (fyi: he was totally unabashed in regards to searching through the lingerie section alone), and my favorite, Milka bars.  Now, of course I’m on a diet, and now we have two bags full of candy (and $15 worth of doughnuts, which is what he wanted for V-Day!).


Most of the candy should keep awhile, so I’m trying to think of ways I can still enjoy a little now and then while still maintaining my healthy eating regime.  Today, for instance, for my 10:00 a.m. snack, I mixed a few dark chocolate M&Ms with a few cocoa-dusted almonds.  Just enough to feel like I was eating something sweet while still getting in that delicious protein.  As much as I love carbs and sweets, I am also adoring the high protein-high fiber-low carb eating.  I already cannot wait for lunch, which is black bean salsa (recipe coming), turkey, provolone, and spinach on a whole wheat pita with a side of celery and hummus (everyone I know seems to think hummus is gross, but I think it’s good if you get the right kind! (Here’s a photo) The Sabra Roasted Red Pepper is delicious and tastes a lot like pimento cheese, a celery staple). 


I am even starting to exercise a bit.  I’m not athletic, and I’m certainly not graceful.  I can barely walk without falling over.  So last night, my sister Maegan (my Valentine’s Day-born sis) came over to play some Wii Fit.  I suggested that we try Just Dance, the game that I was kind of awful at.  She, The Boyfriend, and I took turns playing a two-player game, the odd one out squaring off against the winner.  It was so much more fun that way!  Maegan won a lot, and The Boyfriend sat a lot of them out, so it was mostly just the two Wallin girls in competition (me, getting my fat ass handed to me time and again).  Before we knew it, an hour and a half had gone by, and we had shed several layers of our clothing and were panting into the snow-filled air outside thinking, wow, it’s not so cold out here!  She definitely kicked my butt at most of the songs, but I didn’t care.  The point of it is it’s a great aerobic workout, and I am starting to understand the rhythm of dancing a little more.  There’s no fluidity to my moves whatsoever, but at least I didn’t fall down this time.


I’m not sure I can see a difference on my body just yet, but I can definitely tell that I feel better with the things I eat, and I already lasted much longer on the dancing game this time than I did last time.  I’m getting full a lot sooner, too, which I’m taking as a good sign.  I wish results were immediate, but as long as I keep on this path, I think it will slowly but surely start to pay off.  Now if we could just keep those post-holiday candy sales at bay!!

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