Memorial Day Recipes – You Win Some, You Lose Some

I was SO excited about this coleslaw recipe and making it for our Memorial Day/Birthday Bash last night.

Memorial Day Weekend Warrior

I get super pumped about finding ways to make our favorite foods healthier for our family and friends.

But Greek yogurt as a base for cole slaw was NOT a winner!  It was awful!  The only good think about it was the fresh cabbage and carrots.  Oh well, you don’t know until you try, right?

It was so pretty to start with!

I am not deterred!  I am still on the search for a good cole slaw recipe.  I think I might stick to Broccoli Slaw with oil and vinegar.  Cant’ go wrong with that.

I had my cheat meal last night and it was DELISH!!! I failed to take pictures, because I was separated from my phone, but that was intentional.  We had a lot of friends and family over to celebrate Matt and Kevin’s birthday, and it was so wonderful!

I ate a cheeseburger, some crack dip, a few chips and even some pecan pie and ice cream. And it tasted great!

And today, I made these two fabulous dishes that were SPOT ON!!!

Cucumber and Tomato Salad

Clean Fruit Pizza

I’ll share those recipes this Week!

I truy believe in balance.  I eat clean 80% of the time and allow myself treats the other 20%.  And that totally works for me!

I had a sweet and very concerned follower message me this weekend telling me that she was concerned that I exercised too much and deprived myself of food.  As I assured her, I eat a LOT of food!  I just skip out on the junk the majority of the time.

Two years ago, you would catch me at the drive thru no less that 10 times a week.  Eating chicken biscuits for breakfast, Big Macs or Wendy’s chicken sandwiches and fries for lunch.  Sonic Blasts every weekend.  At LEAST two Diet Cokes every day.

Living that way, I was depriving myself of anything nutritional and good for my body!

I am so thankful for this journey!

And today, I definitely don’t eat that way.  But I DO eat a lot of food!  I actually eat more meals now than I did before. It’s just Food that fuels my body, my brain and my soul!

And honestly, I workout typically I don’t workout more than 30 minutes a day.

I used to spend HOURS at the gym and I saw no results.  I didn’t know how to lift weights, and I spent lots of time on cardio. Having no idea that weights could change my body so drastically.

But now I know.  I know that I don’t need to push my body to the limits cardio wise to lose weight.  I don’t need to crash diet to see the scale move.  I don’t need to deprive myself of food to lean out.

And I’m in the BEST shape of my life!  Literally!  Mentally, physically and spiritually.

This has been a journey GOD led me on.  To realize that my worth and value do not lie in a number on the scale or a pants size. But on HIM!

I haven’t stepped on my scale in TWO weeks, and it has been so liberating!  And on top of that, my clothes fit better today than they did two weeks ago.  Because I stopped obsessing.  And eating based on what the number told me.  Read more about that here.

I meal plan according to my portion control containers.  I eat food that fits into them and that I know will make me stronger.  And I’m NOT hungry.

I workout 30 minutes everyday.  I find the time and use my weights because I know it works! And honestly, it’s summertime, and I don’t have a lot more time to devote to it.  I’m home with my boys, and our day starts early and with gusto!

Mommy Fuel. One of my snacks

All that to say, that I have learned a LOT about healthy eating and exercise in the last two years. And I have learned to make lifelong changes. No crash diets or bursts of exercise and then returning to what I was doing before.  This is IT for me. The 21 Day Fix and Shakeology are two things that changed my life!

And because of that, I love to pay it forward as a coach!