Day 20 Epic Life

Weekend Brunch - nom nom! A lovely veggie packed frittata is the perfect way to start the day! Seasoned with Epicure Greek Dressing seasoning - one of the great things about their seasoning blends that you can use them for other things than they are marketed for - I love greek seasoning in my omelette!

Afternoon went to the movies with my friend Kim and I succumbed to the movie popcorn today because I did not prepare and come with a snuck in healthy option from home! Fail to plan plan to fail!

Dinner - girls night out continued with dinner out after the movie. Brought the twice baked potato home for Paul to enjoy.

Move More challenge continues

Have an Epic Day!

Margaret

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Day 19 Epic Life Challenge

Breakfast ... with the weather turning lovely we are out and about heading to parks for the morning which means taking my breakfast on the go! I really love the Smart for Life protien bars for those on the go meal options!

Lunch leftover BBQ chicken with veggies and balsamic dressing and Chevre cheese

Dinner ... my childhood self would never have believed that one day I would grow up to like beets! That said as a child no one ever served them to be BBQ'd in all their caramelized goodness!

Move more challenge ... was hoping it would get easier the second month through this challenge however my back is resisting the concept of move more be stronger!

 

Have an Epic Day!

Margaret

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Day 18 Epic NSV

Breakfast ... there is something extra tasty about the combo of chocolate and cinnamon! Plus they say that cinnamon is a great metabolism booster!

Lunch leftovers to the rescue ... love that plain greek yogurt curbs the sour cream craving but packs a healthy punch of protien!

Dinner was a #NSV as one of my poor eating habits has always been that it’s too much trouble to cook just for myself so whenever my spouse travels (which is a lot specially in summer) than I tend to always go to the fast convenience food or get REALLY lazy and resort to Doritos and sour cream with salsa and call it dinner you know cause all food groups in there with protein and veggies and grains except I would eat the WHOLE tub of sour cream 😳

 I would also tend to binge watch chick flicks he doesn’t enjoy watching and mindlessly snack in movie snacks like popcorn and chocolate and drink my Baileys - I would literally go out and stock up on crap food I “needed” for my “me time” with challenge being that me time was often EVERY WEEKEND!

I really struggled my first challenge to break that bad habit but made strides with it each time making better choices - so its May and full swing reenacting seasons starting again and he’s off for 5 days and I used my Epic Life toolkit and I planned ahead to cook up proteins and have my veggies stocked and prepped and ready to go and tonight I whipped myself up Mini Chicken Fajitas with a side salad 💕 I am WORTH the trouble it takes - seriously it took 15 minutes to whip this together cause chicken was already cooked just needed to stir fry the veggies and reheat chicken and the mini corn tortillas

Move more Challenge ... putting the Cha Cha in challenge thank goodness for REST days cause my barking back was happy to only have to do a partial workout!

At the grocery store today that stupid autopilot brain if mine whose spent the past 15 years with the “me time” ritual ALMOST put some mini chocolates in the grocery cart for “movie time” they were in my hand before the other side of my brain said “hey you don’t need that crap to enjoy some me time put it back”

It takes a lot of mental effort to rewrite the brain to stop bad habits - I had gone into the store with my list and thought I was on fleck and next thing without even consciously thinking it the chocolates were in my hand!

Not this time brain not this time!!!

Thank you Epic Life 💕💕💕

Margaret

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Day 17 Epic Life

Day 17 - bam 💥 

Breakfast to go this morning cause beautiful sunny day to walk to playgroup with kiddies so needed to eat as I walked.

Finished off the second half of the Guacamole tuna from earlier this week for lunch! Nom nom marinating in the flavor makes it even better the second time around!

Nipped out for dinner after the visitation to a lovely little place called State and Maine and had a half the Burrito bowl cause came with like a weeks worth of rice in bottom 🤣

Definitely battling my inner sloth right now but got my exercising in at quiet time because I knew I would not be getting to gym tonight doing to heading to a visitation for my dear friends sister who passed away from cancer this week. 

 

Have an Epic Day

Margaret

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Day 16 Epic Life

Day 16 of the Epic Life Challenge and totally rocking the flavour palette with my balanced plates today! 

Lunch was lazy Cabbage Casserole - seriously just toss in some ground chicken, onion, celery and peppers diced and saute until cooked with some Epicure Garlic and Chili flakes add  a couple cups of shredded cabbage mix with a couple spoonfuls of low sodium tomato paste. 15 minutes from cutting board to plated.

Dinner BBQ chicken with sauteed Greek veggies and goat cheese topping.

 End of the day pain management craving - trying very hard to keep my cravings on plan with sugar free apple pecan crumble and salted caramel yogurt.

Seriously Epicure makes clean eating while loosing weight SO easy! Their spice mixes and meal kits make it a breeze to throw together a wide variety of flavour palettes so sticking to this lifestyle never gets boring - lots of variety so you can choose what works for you. 

Had to break up my move more challenge up today and do little bits throughout the day to cope with the joint pain but I did get them done eventually.  

Have an Epic Day!

Margaret

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Day 15 Epic Life Challenge

Nothing like starting the day with a Torani inspired Irish Cream smoothie ... seriously love how these syrups can pack a punch of flavor with no calories!

Lunch was a Tuna Guacamole Salad - thank you Epicure for this taste sensation! If you have not tried the Guacamole seasoning blend highly recommend it great for making homemade guac in seconds but also create for adding to tuna or chicken or even an omelette!

Dinner was comfort food - soup for a quick and easy meal solution on a day when my pain level is very high at the end of the day I was just done!

And evidence of both increased carb cravings and poor pain management in having a dessert with my spouse for dinner! I had bought him these little single serve options from M and M's because well figured it would help me avoid temptation of making him desserts from scratch and than not getting to eat them - but epic fail on that part!

Thankfully got my workout done in the morning because I was toast by the end of the day and am heading to bed early and at least I can feel a little less guilty with my food choices knowing I got my workout in!

Have an epic day!

Margaret

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Day 14 Epic Mother's Day!

Today’s day 14 - two full weeks into the 90 day challenge & its Mother’s Day so saved my “free meal” this week for today. 

Decadent Mother's Day breakfast totally on plan! Powerhouse Waffle recipe is on the blog here.  I flavor my Plain Greek Yogurt with Torani Salted Caramel Sauce ... great way to add a pack of decadent flavor without any additional calories. I sprinkled with some Epicure Tutti Fruiti Whole Food Topper and served with a side of fresh berries.

Packed my day full of comfort foods but “on plan” versions and portions. Because I ate a late brunch I opted for some apple pecan crumble for mid afternoon snack!

Dinner was delicious fan favorite using the Epicure Alfredo sauce mix and adding in chicken, bacon and veggies served over butternut squash noodles.

 Because I opted for no grains with dinner I had calories left over for a dessert for Mother's Day ... so even with today being my 'free meal' day I still stayed on plan calorie wise!

I completed day 12 of the May Move more challenge and went to give for 60 minutes of aqua fit class. 

Have an amazing Mother's Day!

 

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life