SatisfACTION!

Libby

Cori and I getting all patriotic

Last week was all about taking action.  I identified specific goals. I was honest about obstacles, my fault or not. I also was fair to myself and discussed the progress I had made in all of my goal areas. I also asked you last week to be my accountability partner.  My sister responded and said, heck yes and maybe some of you said this in your head while you were reading it.  I mentioned a few areas that I felt were going well.  They were my new eating lifestyle Paleo with a kickoff of the Whole30.  The second item on my agenda was to walk my puppies at least twice this week.  Let's get on with it so I can let you in on what happened during my week.

My Whole30 experiment is going GREAT! I have not cheated at all.  The program is basically eating anything that is a fruit, vegetable, proteins.  There are no certain foods that are not allowed in these areas, they are all allowed.  There are cooking fats allowed such as olive oil, coconut oil, a few others. You are not allowed to eat anything that you can not pronounce and no dairy or whole grains.  Oh and NO sugar in any form, even sugar alternative.  The one thing that sold me on this program was you can drink coffee.  I take my coffee with half and half and stevia.  I can not have either.  I had coffee black on day 1.  I texted my husband and said, "black coffee sucks, I quit".  I found out that I could use almond milk and I am loving that and not missing the sweetness at all.  In order to find almond milk with no sugar, even unsweetened almond milk, I had to get it in the organic section at Giant.  You really have to read your labels, for instance, the almond butter I purchased had almonds, salt, and cane sugar, why?  There are some really great snacks that I came across such as Larabars.  They are good even if you aren't living the Paleo lifestyle.  If you are interested in more information on the Whole30 you can check out this website: Whole30 Right Here!!  A little FYI, my husband said he started last Tuesday but he cheats all the time, and he says, "oh no, I didn't know."  Right, you didn't know!

I walked the puppies twice this week.  The first time it was just the pups and I.  We went to a local park near us that has a walking/biking path and a creek.  We went on Friday and Sunday.  It was so hot on Friday their tongues were hanging down to the ground.  We went to the creek and they were a little wary but they got into it. The second time it was the whole family.  We were more prepared, I brought a huge water cooler, treats, and poop bags.  The dogs were awesome.  The kids were not.  We said they could go in the creek and look for tadpoles.  I said, "do not go near that big tube".  Second time around the track, I yelled, "where are you guys"?  They said,  "We are right here!"   I said, "sounds like you are near the tube."  The kids said, "Oh yeah, we are."  I walk back in those trees and there they are standing in stagnant water, where I quote, "the tadpoles are way more over here".   I don't think I heard correctly did they say...flesh eating amoebas are way more over here?.  A little mom freak out happened, that's all.  Stinkers. 

We never really walked the dogs before this because we have an electric fence and they have about an acre to run around on.  The walking though is extremely therapeutic for me and them, it brings us closer...AWWWW.  My Teddy and Cori.

Teddy is the Yellow and Cori is the Brown Lab

Monday my husband I are going to check out Power Train, a gym in East York.  This week I will focus on keeping the new eating lifestyle, Whole30, maintain the dog walking and fit in 3 days of exercise. Wish me luck!