3 Day (Military) Diet Day 3

So I have been surprised about how much food you eat each meal and how full you really feel from them. The only thing is I am use to not eating half as much for breakfast and lunch. So I am not sure how that is gonna play out here. I can see how for people who do not diet or watch what they eat can lose up to 10 pounds. I just don't think I will be one of those people. 

For almost two years now HIM and HER have made a major overhaul on our eating habits.  We have gradually taken out a lot of the really bad stuff and gone to more natural and lower calorie products. We try to regularly count our calories and be conscious of what we eat. Though HER is not as good as HER should be. We usually use Stevia in the raw instead of sugar or Splenda but the past few times I have been to the store they have been out of Stevia so we compromise. Some of those little changes have been fresh or frozen veggies rarely if ever do I get canned veggies anymore. We also do a lot of turkey like turkey bacon, turkey burgers,  turkey pepperonis etc.  And bread we do not eat much bread. :(  When we do it is the 35 calorie white bread. Sometimes I might splurge and buy a fresh loaf of bread from the store or at subway get the Italian herb and cheese but that is rare. There are other changes, but those are the big ones. 

Anyways here is the break down for day three.

Day 3: 185.1

Breakfast - 5 saltine crackers, 1 small apple (the hubby and I halved a large apple), and 2 ounces of ham (about 4 slices of thinly sliced lunch meat) 

• After yesterday I just had to have some coffee with Splenda (still no creamer, I can not wait until tomorrow to have some yummy french vanilla creamer in my coffee!) 

Lunch - 1 hard boiled egg and 1 slice of toast (35 calorie white bread)

Dinner - 1 cup tuna, 1/2 banana, 1 cup Vanilla Ice Cream

• I had to have a Diet Mtn. Dew again today. I just can not seem to go with out at least one soda a day, but especially after yesterday I need all the pick me up I can get.
• Now I almost couldn't get all the tuna down. I did not add anything to it this time but really wished I would have. 

Day 4: 

Saturday morning I woke up a weighed myself and.......I came in at 183.8!  So like I thought, I did not lose 10 pounds. But 2.8 pounds in three days is still pretty good. Not to mention a healthier weight to lose in three days. But as I mentioned above I can see how someone who is not currently counting calories, dieting, or being food conscious could be able to lose 10 pounds in these three days. So by all means please try this diet and share your results with me. I would love to hear about your experiences. I may also try to do this diet again here in a week or two, to see if I have different results the second time around. Also I will make sure that I do not have plans for these three days so I will not have to deviate from the plan. 

Also here again is the link to the full 3 Day (Military) Diet breakdown. Please go there and read all about it. There are substitutions to most of the foods and helpful hints as well. 

3 Day (Military) Diet Day 2

So I wasn't thinking when I went shopping for and started this diet. I have had a girls day-night out planned for a while and completely spaced it when preparing to go on this diet so I had to improvise just a bit. I tried to be as true to the diet as I could considering I was in a movie theater for over 12 hours.


Why you ask would I be in a movie theater for more than 12 hours, I must be crazy right. No I am not crazy, I was just in need of some girl time. It just happened to take the form of a twilight marathon ending in a 10 pm premier of Breaking Dawn part 2. Yep I was one of those crazy people along with four other great girls. Not that I am that obsessed with the Twilight saga like many out there are. I just find the whole experience fun. If you have never done a midnight premier or an all day showing then I recommend you do it at least once. The excitement in the place is contagious and so entertaining. I think I enjoyed the audiences reactions just as much as I do the movies themselves. It also helps that I did like the books, they are not the best literary work out there but they were enjoyable. Plus the movies aren't that bad either, but I have to say the final one is by far the best. It differs some from the book, but I think it made the movie that much better.  

Anyways enough on Twilight, here is the break down for day two. And remember I am not sold that I will lose 10 pounds in three days, especially since I only lost 1.5 pounds in one day (which is still good). The outcome is not looking as promising as they suggest, but we shall see.

Day 2: 185.6

Breakfast - 1 egg (fried), 1 slice of toast (35 calorie white bread), 1/2 banana

• I had coffee with splenda too (no creamer which is KILLING me. I love creamer it takes my coffee to the next level.) 

Lunch - 1 cup cottage cheese (fat free), 1 hard boiled egg, and 5 saltine crackers.

• I had water and some Diet. Mtn. Dew 

Dinner - 2 hot-dogs no buns (all beef/meat ones no fillers) 1 cup broccoli, 1/2 cup carrots, 1/2 banana, and 1/2 cup Vanilla Ice Cream

• So here is where I had to deviate from the diet some. I was able to get the two all beef hot-dogs at the movie theater. Then I brought the broccoli (lightly seasoned with salt and pepper) and carrots both raw not steamed. I felt that would be easier to eat and not as smelly or easily spoiled as steamed veggies would have been. I did not have the ice cream, but did eat the whole banana instead of just half. 
• Also I brought with me some almonds to snack on through out the day. This helped curb those sudden cravings that came with the enticing scents of popcorn, candy and pizza. I had maybe 15 of them.
• I tried to drink water but lets face it 12 hours of movie watching I needed the caffeine that soda provides. I did stick with Diet Mtn. Dew. I am sure this has to have some effect on the diet, just not sure what. 
• I also did a short work out in the morning on the elliptical so don't know how that will play into it either. And did not get to bed until after 1 am. 

These are all of the factors that I felt I should let you know of. Sorry no pictures of the other two meals. But go check out the original site for more information on the 3 Day (Military) Diet.

3 Day (Military) Diet

Okay so I have been trying to lose weight for a little over a year now. And in the beginning I did really good losing around 30 pounds. Yeah for me right, I was so excited. But then I put back on a few pounds and have been hanging out around the 188 - 186 mark. Yikes!!! I so can not believe I am announcing my weight for all the world to see. It is more than a little terrifying. But in the spirit of full disclosure I feel I must be honest about my weight. Anyways, the word DIET makes me (like most people) totally cringe. The thought of not being able to eat the foods I like or feeling like I am starving all day does not sound very appealing. So while I was browsing pinterest one day I came across a pin that said

"3-day military diet. apparently you can lose up to ten lbs. in 3 days, with this special diet."

I was like yeah right, 10 pounds in 3 days, that's only possible if I starve myself. I am so not willing to do that I may be overweight but I refuse to starve myself. But to say that this pin didn't intrigue me would be a lie. So I opened up the link and started reading about this so called miracle diet. And to my surprise it seems legit with the best part being you eat a good amount of food too. Yeah to no starving!!! As I was reading the allowed foods I was surprised when I got to the dinner list and saw Vanilla Ice Cream listed yes you read that right Vanilla Ice Cream is allowed in this diet. By now I am sold! Below is what I ate and the above link has where I found it and how it breaks everything down. I followed the program pretty close any additions or changes are listed and explained.

DAY 1: start weight 186.6

Breakfast - 1/2 Grapefruit (with splenda), 1 Slice of Toast (35 calorie white bread) with 2 Tablespoons of Peanut Butter (crunchy), and Coffee (with splenda) you can have tea.

Lunch - 1/2 Cup of Tuna (single serving package, the lemon pepper seasoning), 1 slices of bread (35 calorie white bread), and Tea (Green Tea Tropical by Mighty Leaf)

• The single serving size packages are only 2.6 ounces so instead of having two packages, I supplemented with 15 almonds. I also added a tiny bit of light mayo with the tuna along with a Diet Mtn. Dew. 
• You can also have coffee instead of the tea. Also any variety of tea is okay as long as it is caffeinated. 
• When I say tiny bit of light mayo I mean tiny. Think an orange leaf spoon scoop. But not the heaping scoops like you would do with the frozen yogurt when you first get it. But the tiny scoops that you do when you are almost done to savor every last bit of the orange leaf goodness that you concocted. (I am almost drooling thinking about all that goodness yum) Anyways just enough mayo to make the tuna stick a little creamy. 

Dinner - 3 ounces Chicken breast lightly seasoned (salt, pepper and a lemon juice), 1 Cup of Green Beans (simmered in chicken broth with salt pepper, garlic and onion flakes), 1/2 Banana, 1 Small Apple, and 1 Cup of Vanilla Ice Cream (YUM)!!!

• I cored then baked the apple with splenda and cinnamon then topped it with the Vanilla Ice Cream. We had this as a snack a little after dinner not with dinner (not sure if that will matter) 
• And I didn't even have the whole cup of Ice Cream either, I just wasn't that hungry and so I did a little over a half a cup. 

So here I am at the end of day one and still not 100% sold on this whole lose 10 pounds in 3 days thing. But I guess we will let the results speak for themselves on Saturday morning. Even if I lose a few pounds, and this helps get me over the hump that I have been battling since July then I am okay with it.

And sorry for not having pictures from the whole day I didn't even think about it until I was almost done preparing the apples as you can see. But seriously they were so so good.

Halloween

Okay so I apologize  I  am still getting the hang of this whole blog thing and really need to stay on top of this better. But here is the Halloween post. 

Since we no longer live on campus there are a few things about dorm life that I really do miss. Like having your friends close by if you ever get bored, or always having something to do. But I think the things I miss the most are the holiday events. Trick the halls being one of them. Where all four dorms work together decorating their  hallways and dressing up to put on a fun and safe Halloween experience. But lucky for me Him is in charge of the dorms and we still get to participate in the activities just from a different point of view. 

We found the cutest monkey costume for Little miss S and even though it was a tad bit too big, we just had to get it for her. Which worked out perfectly because our first foster placement left his banana costume from last year at our house. So Little miss S was such a stinking cute little monkey and I was her big banana!! We had so many complements on our costumes while we were at trick the halls on the Oakland City University campus. 

Now HIM was not apart of our group costume, even though some people thought he was a gorilla  When he was obviously a ghoul. But that is besides the point. If it was not for HIM having to be at the campus for trick the halls, then we may not have not have gone trick or treating. Little miss S is not quite old enough for all that candy, plus Halloween fell on a Wednesday this year. We don't like to cancel on our youth group, but as since it was for HIM's job we made an exception. Little miss S did really good at only picking one piece of candy from the bowls and she even got to enjoy some of it. While HIM and HER got to enjoy the rest (not that we needed any of it )!! Perks of being a parent of babies. 

We had a really great time experiencing what Halloween is like with little kids. Last year our foster placement was 14 so it was not quite the same as this year with a 17 month old girl. She was so excited and was hamming it up for everyone. Squealing and laughing at all the people in costumes. I was a little nervous that Little miss S would be scared of HIM's costume. But HIM laughed at the mask and made her think it was funny before HIM put it on and she was good. I was so relieved it would've made for a bad night if she had a bad reaction toward his costume. This whole learning life with a baby is a challenge, but a fun one that's for sure. 

Covered Bridge Festival

So on last Saturday Him and Her got up super early and headed out with the Hose's for our second annual Covered Bridge Festival excursions. Last year we were joined by the Denning's who were not able to join us this year due to their new little addition miss Adelae Elizabeth. So it was just the four of us since we got a sitter for Little miss S, and boy did we have a good time. Even thought we live in Indiana, we are still in a different time zone than the festival so I had to get up around 5 am so that I could get me and Little miss S ready.  Most people that I have talked to, say that the CBF is a "chick" thing and they are surprised that HIM even wants to go. But we all have so much fun I think the guys get just as excited about going as us "chicks" do. The food is probably the best and the worst part of the whole experience. Best because there is so many different and delicious foods to eat and samples everywhere. And the worst because you totally blow your diet out the window and gain about ten pounds even with all the walking that you do all day.

We started the day off at the Bridgeton festival and spent several hours there before we headed on the back roads to the Mansfield festival. Bridgeton is a lot smaller than Mansfield and a lot less crowded, but still just as fun. We got the most delicious fudge and roasted nuts from Bridgeton. Both places gave out as many samples as we wanted and were so very nice we couldn't just not buy from them. When we were at the nut booth, I had like 6 different kinds in my hand and he was still giving us more. HER bought honey roasted cashews and HIM got the white chocolate roasted almonds. HER's are gone already, they were just too good. The fudge was pretty much the same they were like have as many samples as you want, they had so many good flavors but I just couldn't decided so I went the safe and got chocolate peanut butter but HIM got chocolate mint. And that is all we bought at Bridgeton, there was a couple items that we would have bought but the sales people were really rude so I just walked away. I mean really your goal is to make a sale and you want to be a jerk then I will keep my money safe in my pocket and walk away. And I did right in the middle of their pitch and all I just left.

At Mansfield I got my apple dumpling which I wanted so bad last year and never got one so the first thing I did when we got there was buy one. And it was sooo good!! But the best thing about Mansfield was the fresh warm homemade Amish pretzels. They were the best thing by far I could have ate three of them but I contained myself and shared the ONE with HIM. The only thing we ended up buying at Mansfield was a hat for Little miss S. There was so much that I should've and could've have bought for Christmas gifts and all, but I kept second guessing myself. That or I didn't want to carry it all day so I said I would get it on the way out and forgot. But that's okay we had a blast even with our minimal purchases. The Hose's on the other had now they got a deal on this huge block of Amish butter cheese all because it was closing time and they wanted to make a sale. Heather loves cheese and was so excited about their purchase!!!

The weather was pretty much great the whole day. It was not too windy, a little cloudy, but that kept it from getting too warm. There was about a ten minute rain shower around 4 o'clock but it wasn't too bad and thankfully didn't make things too muddy. We stayed there until about 6 o'clock their time and then headed out taking the back roads again to avoid the crazy two mile an hour traffic. On the way home we stopped in Terra Haute for some dinner at Fridays and I had the best salad yep it was the bomb. We made it back to our house around 8:45 our time.

Football game Disaster

Okay so we are still pretty new at this whole parenting thing since we don't have any kids of our own and all. And with Little miss S as our first infant placement. So to say that we make a few mistakes here and there is pretty accurate. But none quite as bad as last night. We were definitely not thinking like people with a baby and the possible disasters that might occurs on our little outing.

 My not so little, sophomore in high school  brother had a football game last night that we went to. It was the only game that we are probably able to make it to, so even though it was cold we went. BIG Mistake!!! I have ordered a coat for Little miss S but it hasn't came in yet so I bundled her up real good in layers and brought with us some blankets to keep her nice and toasty. Well it would have been okay if she would sit still on her own and stay snuggled up but she wouldn't so we had to hold her mistake #2. Then to top it off the game started late and it lasted well past Little miss S's bed time and she so did not want to snuggle mistake #3. Then even though I feed her before we left, when HIM got us food from the concessions she wanted ours and got mad when it was all gone (we both shared ours with her too). I even had snacks for her but they didn't quite cut it for her mistake #4. 

Now if all that wasn't enough her teeth started bothering her. Good thing I had the oragel with me but I did not pack any pain reliever for her BIG mistake #5. The oragel only helped for a little bit and after the third time putting it on she was over it and didn't want any of it. I tried my hardest to tough it out until the game was over but that did not work unfortunately. There was a little over 3 minutes on the board and Little miss S cracked. She started crying, screaming and kicking oh man was she giving it her all. We just got up a left, without even saying hi to my little brother. But at least he knew we were there that was the main thing. This was the first time she has had a melt down like that in public and man was I embarrassed and mad. As soon as we got to the car I changed her diaper and put her in her car seat and low and behold the little stink starts smiling grrr. Well like they say you live and learn and boy did we get a lesson in parenting last night ugh.

Auction

She has a monkey on her back

Auction's are so exciting! I have been to a few when I was younger but last year was my first time actually participating in one. Our Alma Mater has their annual Athletic Auction every September.  We really didn't want to bring Little miss S with us but she did surprisingly very well. We had to pick up a child restraint backpack which is just a fancy name for a child leash. But she loved it, she was able to still have her freedom and still not get into too much trouble. And then there was the food, the one way to keep her happy and calm is to bribe her with food. This girl loves to eat she gets so darn excited when you mention "bites" that she starts to squeal and dance on her tippy-toes.

There were four silent auctions where the items were supplied a combination of sport teams. It allows for a nice mix of items there are even some pretty nice foreign items. Then there is a  meal that is followed by the live auction. We only won  one item from the silent auction which was a bummer. There were a few items that we really wanted but were outbid on them. We don't participate too much in the live auction but the excitement of it all is still well worth the time. Though there was this one time that I almost bid $500 on a trip that we so did not want all because of those stupid nats that were swarming our table. They would not get out of my face and I was swatting them away when the auctioneer thought I was placing a bid YIKES!! Good thing someone else placed a bid because HIM was about to have a heart attack. Under no uncertain terms was I allowed to swat those nasty nats from my face the rest of the evening.