This week I've tried 3 new recipes again and have just loved them all. The first one was Slow Cooked Sweet Barbacoa Pork. My family went crazy over this one. It was really sweet but the chipotle chile with adobe sauce really added a great flavor to the pork. I had it in a salad and a small burrito (it was so good). Everyone else made burritos with theirs. Dallin made nachos today with leftovers and that worked too. I think I put more of the chiles in and I used whole canned green chiles that I cut into small stirps-which I thought added a nice touch of color and taste.
The second was a recipe I liked because it was so easy to throw together. It was one of those 30 minute type meals. Plus I had everything it needed which was great. I'm trying to not spend anymore money than I really need to. Anyway, this recipe was One Pot Mexican Skillet. I used shells instead of elbow macaroni and I used ground turkey. I think this was one recipe where you really couldn't taste the ground turkey. It was liked way more than I thought it would be. I thought of it as just a homemade Hamburger Helper but my family really liked it.
The last one I made tonight because I had almost a full can of chipotle chiles in adobe sauce that needed to be used. I LOVE anything that www.skinnytaste.com has on her website so I just googled her web site to see what else she'd made with those chiles. I found Crock Pot Chicken Enchilada Soup. I ended up doubling the amount of adobe chile I used and used diced tomatoes with green chiles instead of just plain diced tomatoes. It turned out just a little too spicy. I was fine with a little sour cream (light) mixed in but if it sits in the fridge for a few days it's going to be hot!! Everyone liked it and I'd make it again but it didn't get the "This is Great!" like the other two did.
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I still haven't been the best about eating. I'm now up to 161 lbs. 5 lbs from where I want to be and 7 lbs up from where my work program wants me to be. I'm not happy at all with where I am. I can feel it in a my clothes; I can see it when I look at myself...but so far I haven't found that push to make me start eating better again. I know I have to get back on track but it's so hard!! I'm trying to at least track what I eat each day and write it all down but I haven't even been that great about doing that! I've been so tired, so out of it, just so...blah. Then the other day I noticed my hair felt weird. Like it felt more course, it wouldn't sit down like it use to, it was being really weird. I talked with a couple people at the gym Thursday and discovered they'd both had the same type of problems. The main thing they both said: I need to be taking daily vitamins. At the least a multivitamin, if not more. They both said with my age (they're a few years older than I am) and with the amount of exercise I do I need to have something more in my diet.
So today I bought a bottle of daily vitamins for women. I hope this helps at least a little bit. I'm really tired of feeling the way I've felt. I have no desire to do anything. I'm tired. I just want to curl up in bed and sleep all the time. I'm short with everyone. I want to eat everything in site. It's like PMS but it's constant. And my hair is just bugging the heck out of me!
Exercise is getting harder too. The reason I started talking to Deb and Casey at the gym was because I made a comment about how I felt like I was getting slower instead of getting faster. And I do feel like that right now. Today was a perfect example. It was sunny and around 50 degrees so I did an afternoon run today. I decided to run all the way into a gas station in Payson and have Kim pick me up (we needed gas in one of the cars anyway). I thought the run would be around 5 miles and it would have some small and med hills in it.
Let's just say it was an awful run. My legs hurt, my feet hurt, I felt exhausted the whole time and I stopped to walk. Twice. The second time was to watch for traffic as I crossed a large street but I really didn't need to (it was totally clear). By the time I finished my run I was defeated. I felt like I'd never run a day in my life...like this was my first long run ever. I was so mad. And to make it all better (not) it only ended up being 4.5 miles not 5 like I thought. Now the one good thing out of all of this was my time believe it or not. Even with the two stops (really the second one was so short but it was a stop) my time was 40 minutes. That means my mile is down under 10 minutes on avg. I'm OK with that. But then I started the "well how fast could I have done it if I hadn't of walked?" talking in my head and putting myself down for that.
Anyway, it's over and done with. It was a bad run. One of the worst I've had in a long time. I need to get myself back together. I've started the vitamins and hope they help. I need new shoes too. My toes were really hurting by the end. I'm sure it would feel better during the run to have shoes that were newer. I also know that even though this was a bad run there have been good ones; and great ones. I know I can have that again because I've had it before. But boy was this a bummer today. Kind of made my whole "down on myself for the last couple weeks" even worse. I just need to figure out what's up with me and get back. Get back to the me I was last summer. I felt the best then. That's my goal. Now to just do it.
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