of my tupperware drawer
so good! so full of meat. also we used bacon grease on the pan. yeah. so the crust is made of ground beef and some italian ground turkey mixed with an egg. bake the “crust” first. add pizza toppings and bake until delicious.
I got the recipe from the paleo diet and living blog. i highly recommend the recipe and i like the blog a lot as well. follow this link: http://www.paleodietandliving.com/paleo-diet/the-ultimate-meatza-recipe/
i made the “crust” a little too thick. definitely don’t need to chicago style with this pizza.
also the guy at trader joe’s gave me some tips on making the pepperoni less greasy after i had already told him i was making a meatza. i said um i’m making a meatza using bacon grease so the pepperoni is probably the least of my worries. we had a good laugh.
there are way too many pictures in this post, but it was bunny bonanza. we discovered bunny bonanza last year so i anxiously awaited it this year! good times! iain and ken joined us this year. the kids had fun. of course the animals were a big hit and so were the slides! plus they managed to make a little of their own fun by rolling down the hills.
ready to take on the world! he fell asleep on the way to the bunny bonanza so he took a little warming up to the situation.
the obstacle course had nothing on indie!
just a tad too short for the bike, but that didn’t stop him from trying.
he climbed up and over and climbed down all by himself!
he went down the big slide outside and the big one in the barn this year. the squeals of delight were adorable.
i love the pigs!!!
the staff at busy barn adventure farms are so great with the kiddos. they happily take the animals out for the kiddos whenever they notice the kids have an interest. here indie is petting a baby chick.
one of the friendliest llamas ever. she was the sweetest.
rolling down the hill!
no indie! that’s the wrong end of the bunny!
iain action shot!
on the horse
all the boys around the tractor.
attempting to share…
me and the bear! i’m not super sure what i’m doing with my hands there…
oh do you need the tractor pushed somewhere? no worries, indie is all over it!
oh cousins!
of course indie ran off right when i was about to take this picture, but i still think it’s a cute picture of iain.
look at these kids on the tractor.
and of course the bunnies!
i don’t know if my weight loss/inches loss is actually stalled, but i feel stalled. i felt very unmotivated last week and like i wasn’t making any progress. so as i start month 2 of insanity, i thought i would make a few changes that i’ll keep in place until we go on vacation in May. so really for about 3 weeks.
- get enough sleep. last week i wasn’t good at going to bed before 11. i think that had a big impact.
- cut out the chocolate. i like to justify a few pieces of chocolate at night, but i think it has negative effects on me. it may be just psychological, but that’s enough to derail me right now so it’s best to just leave it alone.
- no nuts or nut butter. it’s just really calorie dense and may be causing me to stall so i thought i’d experiment.
- only 1 serving of fruit a day. thinking that i may be getting too many carbs from fruit. just an experiment to see. and my one serving will be of berries.
- track my food intake. just to see if there are any patterns. doesn’t have to be perfect and i don’t really care about calories. i’m more concerned with my carb intake and my fat/protein percentage.
so we’ll see if there is any difference based on these changes and month two of insanity.
on monday mornings i do measurements for tracking my fitness progress. i don’t have a scale at home because i have some psychological issues with the scale so i don’t do an official weigh in. (there’s a scale in the fitness room at work that i occasionally check in with). and since the last time i did progress pictures was at the start of all of this in april, i decided to do a new round of pictures today. which i’m not quite ready to share with the interwebs so they aren’t included in this post. sorry! But here’s an update in inches lost from the beginning of february, which includes 1 month of whole 30 with minimal workouts and 1 month of insanity with low carb/paleo eating. i usually measure myself weekly, but i’ve decided for the next month of insanity i’m not going to do that and i will measure at the end. i’ve noticed that my loss has slowed a little and i don’t want to get discouraged because i’m measuring too frequently. it’s the same reason i can’t have a scale in the house.
Chest: -2.5
Waist: -3
Lower Tummy area (below belly button): -4.5
Hips: -3
the other significant progress i have made is that this week i’ve started getting all the way through the insanity workouts with minimal stopping, which is bananas because that program is hard. of course after this week i start the max training so i’m probably back to resting.
and the thing that i’m probably most proud of is that i can do push ups on my toes now! i made eric give me high fives the first day that i did them. this was really just last week that i could do them on my toes, but still this is the first time ever that i’ve been able to do push ups on my toes. even when i was thinner before i wasn’t strong so pretty exciting!
so i’ve kept away from making any lists of what i want to do before i turn 30 this year or really even freaking out about it at all. i’ve accomplished everything i wanted to before i turned 30 and a couple extra things along the way. but then i started on this whole let’s eat right and get in shape thing in february. and to be honest, i’m quite enjoying it. but then i thought maybe i could do something more than just “eat healthy and be thinner” maybe this is the time to finally dedicate to working towards becoming a bad ass. i’m pretty sure i could become a bad ass by december. anyone else want to be a bad ass with me? mainly i’m looking for someone to go to the crossfit place with me for the first time to help calm my new place anxiety… probably should go on my own and conquer the anxiety, that’s more bad ass. i have until june to work up the courage. i will finish insanity around mid may and then i probably need to figure out how to do at least 1 pull up before i go to crossfit so as to not be such a girl. so anyways, get excited!
indie likes to play jokes on us. his favourite joke is taking our spots on the couch and laughing maniacally that he’s in our spot. so last night he took my spot and i said “move it! scoot your boot!” and he said “say pwease” and did the sign language for please at me… sassy… damn him and his manners. this is what i get for constantly telling him to say please.
below are some random pictures for you that have been sitting on my camera for the last month
say cheese!
sitting in a box, like you do…
from our trip to chicago. someone loves hotel beds! i tried to get him to stay up late with me so we could watch tv until 10pm but around 9 he demanded i turn off the tv so he could sleep. he woke up at midnight looking for his baby (he lost his baby tiger) but then we slept until morning.
what my handsome date wore to see the lorax with me while we were in chicago. i love the little cardigan. it’s american apparel. yes, he dresses better than eric and i.
a certain little bear turned 3 this weekend! his nana and hops came to visit! this post is super picture heavy. enjoy…
at the zoo on dad’s shoulders. looking at the tiger.
looking at the rhino with nana and hops
monster eye cake pops for the bears birthday cake
monster birthday cake!
that’s the same 3 we used for eric’s b’day cake. we’ll likely use it for mine this year too. oh so old!
green velvet cake with a cheesecake layer! num nums…
daddy bringing the cake to the bear
num num cake pops! indie immediately took them both out of the cake.
the real party started after everyone left. indie decided to wear his “hat”
playing in the sleeping bag that nana and hops gave him
playing in his new tent or as he likes to call it “my house.” occasionally we are invited into the house.
it was a good birthday weekend! indie enjoyed seeing his nana, hops, oo oo and big. on sunday morning he work up and said “i want to see hops.” he enjoyed the visit!
the workout, not the mental condition you must have to actual do the workout. so today i started the insanity workout. it was just the fit test. it was already insane. i do feel like i already accomplished a lot for the day though. watch out summer time fun. this year i might actually go swimming and not wear leggings all the time.
in other news, it already feels like early summer here. it was in the low 60s this weekend. the bear and i spent the morning at the zoo yesterday. i forgot about my sun allergy and got a nice lovely hive on my face. first one i’ve ever had on my face. but it’s already gone this morning so thank goodness! guess i need to purchase a nice big sun hat to wear out. it’s supposed to be in the 60s and 70s all week this week. good for us because mom and dad will be in town plus it’s indie’s birthday party this weekend.
i have about 5 posts that are written that i haven’t bothered to post yet. why? because my old theme was stressing me out. i don’t take a ton of pictures and i don’t edit my pictures very often so it was silly of me to pick a theme that relied so heavily on pictures. so in an effort to enjoy blogging again, i went back to a much simpler theme. so look forward to more posts from me with minimal pictures! woohoo!
