New Workouts

Today I'm feeling pretty good. I started my new workouts on Tuesday. I'm still working in "The Book of Muscle" book but I've moved into the intermediate program. It's a 6 months program like the beginner and I must admit it seems really similar. But I'm sure there is a reason to redo what feels about the same. One difference though is you do legs and arms on the same day so that means no more 2 days in a row for me which I'll kind of miss since I could fit in a 4th day of weight training if I wanted to. I guess that means I need to kick up the cardio which as you know I'm not all that fond of lol.

Glad I gave everyone a laugh about my poopy dryer story lol. I read someones blog that said they thought an animal came along and crapped by their dryer vent lol. I'm thinking that could be my trouble too since our dryer just vents under the house and the crawl space there is very low. Anyway, I will work on it over the weekend to get it figured out and hopefully less smelly lol.

I made stir fry again last night. I don't think I've ever listed the recipe here so here it is:

Dawn's stir fry

1 large onion chopped
1/2 red pepper
1/2 orange pepper
1 cup carrots (I use the little pre-cut match stick ones)
1/2 bag frozen sugar snap peas (cooked in microwave)
1/2 can black beans (rinsed)
1 cup brown rice (I just use the minute stuff you nuke for a minute in the microwave)
1 1/2 cups baby spinach
2 packet salt free chicken bouillon
1/2-3/4 cup water
lots of pepper
sprinkle of season salt

Put snap peas in the microwave to cook. Saute onions, peppers, carrots in frying pan sprayed with pam. When about half done I sprinkle on the chicken bouillon, lots of pepper, a sprinkle of season all and add about 1/2 to 3/4 cup of water. Put a lid on it and let it cook till everything is tender (I'm not one that likes crunchy veggies). While that's cooking I nuke the rice once the snap peas are done. When cooked tender I add the snap peas, black beans and brown rice and stir around till beans are warmed. If it's getting dry I add a bit more water. Then I throw in the spinach and stir around till all wilted and incorporated. You know I had never had spinach before this but have found I could eat it in this dish everyday. This makes 2 good size servings or 1 really large one.

I really think the stir fry is what helped me lose weight this week even after my Friday and Saturday of eating poorly. I think for as long as I'm liking it I plan on eating this often. Last night I put a chicken breast in it too which was yummy. I really think for me the food part is about trying to eat more veggies.

Yesterday was a test to my parenting. As some know I've been struggling with my son for a long time. I just don't know what to do with him and his disrespectfulness seems to get worse and worse. So yesterday morning he called me a stupid person and then before he walked out the door he said "well at least I'm not dumb". So within a 5 min span he called me stupid and dumb. It really upset me to think he could do that when I've never ever called him stupid and neither has hubby. I know the boy is always calling the girl, stupid, dumb or retarded. Sometimes I hear her calling herself that now too. I've just never been one to name call so it's really upsetting to me.

So when the kids got off the bus after school and we were heading home I had a calm talk with the boy about how it really hurt me that he called me those names. I also told him that from that point on it just wasn't going to be tolerated. I also told him he would be writing 500 sentences when he got home "I will not call people stupid, dumb or retarded". I told him if he didn't finish them by Sunday he wouldn't be going to his friends Birthday party. So he did work on them and I must tell you writing for my son is a struggle so I really think this does hit him where it hurts. I'm hoping it will teach him a lesson. I told him this would be the new punishment for bad behavior (writing sentences), of course he wasn't to excited to hear that. Lets hope it works.

We did read our slips out of the appreciation jar last night and the only 2 people that even wrote any were me and the boy. I was happy to see he does write things in there. So I'm going to make an effort to write more things in the jar so that maybe it will motivate the rest of them to write things. The nephew said he hadn't ever wrote anything so maybe he will this time around. I really do think we need more positive things for sure.

I'm not sure what the plans are for tomorrow but maybe if it's nice we will get to the water park. It's hard to believe it's only 3 weeks from today that we will be heading to Disney World. I'm still in the planning process but I'm making progress. I bought tickets for Seaworld yesterday and started a chart for what to do for each day.

Well I better get to work.

Till tomorrow...