tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43189671488132259522024-03-13T05:30:03.856-07:00Losing it with ShannonLosing weight with THMShannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02489659464323402950noreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318967148813225952.post-10040496864576624022019-07-14T13:36:00.001-07:002019-07-14T13:36:23.481-07:00Easy THM Meal planHello!<br />
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This week I've fallen off the wagon quite a few times. I am still dealing with headaches but the fatigue is better. It might be the heat and dehydration.<br />
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<br />Lunches: Leftovers or XO deli meat sandwich. It's not much but it all depends if I am feeling nauseous. If I feel good, I am trying to eat the bulk of my calories mid-day.<br />
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Snacks: I am not really doing snacks right now. I am trying to eat at 5 and stop eating. Although I did eat some S snacks at 8 because I was hungry. I made a double batch of cowboy bites a week ago. I've ate way too many of those this past week.<br />
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Deals: There wasn't much in my area. I did get a few ibotta rebates: Bai, Pace salsa, and RX (which isn't on plan really)<br />
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Dinners:<br />Monday:<br />Crack chicken<br /><br />Tuesday:<br />Chicken fried double rice<br /><br />Wednesday:<br />Deconstructed stuffed peppers<br /><br />
Thursday:<br />Deconstructed fajitas<br /><br />
Friday:<br />Crazy easy curry<br /><br />Saturday:<br />Tootsie bell burritos with chicken meat<br /><br />Sunday:<br />Tuna/salmon patties<br />
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Exercise has been hard for me! The headaches just don't help me at all. I did mention it to my doc (or the one I saw) and no worries I guess for now? I have done 5 miles of walks this week and one workin. If I don't exercise, I try to at least do 100 squats. I feel so incredibly lazy right now.<br />
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This week was pretty decent. I've been having some headaches from lack of carbs. So I have to find my new balance for my 35 weeks of pregnancy. I will also be adding in dates this week which is not on plan. Although some mamas have/will use RX bars for a not exactly on plan choice but it's better than some of the other choices available. When you are a nursing mama, it's easy to only eat S meals out and about. I find it impossible to get a pure E out. Some places like the zoo, it's even harder to get even a good XO. Sometimes those RX bars are life-savers when you feel the icks coming!<br />
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I did eat off plan on the fourth. My head was hurting and I was hoping it would help me a bit. Like I said, I need to find a better balance between XOs/shelpers without gaining all the weight. As of this morning I was 210. Monday I was 208 still. Although I am worried the dates will be weight promoting. :(<br />
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<b>Breakfast</b>: I don't think I will be making on-plan gravy again. I felt sick the last two days when I ate it. Actually a lot of foods are making me sick. So eggs and kale seem to be my life right now. I am half tempted to see how my body treats oatmeal as a XO though. I miss oatmeal a bit.<br /><br /><b>Lunch</b>: Lunch is usually leftovers. Although if I feel sick or too full, I have been skipping lunch. So I may start eating Big boy shakes for my lunch if I feel bad. Or deli meat sandwiches. Or even a simple yogurt bowl if I am feeling a bit off.<br />
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<b>Snacks</b>: I haven't been eating much in snacks lately. I've been trying my best to get kefir in some way. Sometimes that's just throwing sweetener in it and just chugging it. I've also been doing bad with not snacking some days.<br />
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<b>Deals:</b> Kroger: ground beef<br />Sav a Lot: Pork steak and ribs<br />
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<b>Monday:</b><br />
Mommy's Meatloaf from Briana's blog<br />
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<b>Tuesday</b>:<br />Pork steaks<br />
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<b>Wednesday</b>:<br />
Ribs for me/leftovers for my husband<br /><br /><b>Thursday</b>:<br />
Spaghetti-I usually just puree some okra lately and add it to sugar free sauce. Mine will be on zoodles. Regular noodles for everyone else<br />
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<b>Friday</b>:<br />Potsticker patties<br /><br /><b>Saturday</b>:<br />Salmon/tuna patties<br /><br /><b>Sunday:</b><br />
gumbo, THT, page 89<br />
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Someone told me this morning that I really should become a THM coach. Like I have said before, that is my dream! One day I hope! I did not tape a video at all this weekend. Much like the last few weeks, I just didn't feel like it. The fatigue has hit me so hard these last few weeks. Exercising and cooking is a massive challenge.<br />
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This week was a much better week for me. The scale is being kinder. I swear, I just look at offplan foods and gain a lb at the least. I don't feel like I have been so motivated to workout. I started to at least try to get 9k steps a few times a week. Although my fitbit died today so after I hit 3k steps, I have no clue what today is like. I wrote that sentence and then ate off plan for dinner that night. The bulk of my dinner was on plan. I just love quac so much right now. I ate my weight in it! Today has been a really bad snacking day. When they say sleep is important, they aren't wrong!<br />
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My husband is going to start keto again this week. So we will see how well that will go. If I go into labor in the next few weeks, he won't. This week has been plagued with being lazy and obviously with my late post, it's everywhere! I've been feeling a bit uterus-achey which has affected my movement. If I was past 36 weeks, I wouldn't worry so much.<br />
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<b>Breakfast</b>: I have been obsessed with sautéed kale with eggs and bacon. Actually, I have had that meal for half my meals. I haven't done much in e meals other than adding one slice of sprouted bread with breakfast a few times this week. This week I might experiment with baked eggs in the air fryer. I tried a recipe today but cooked it too long. I did try the buttah pancakes from the first cookbook and I felt they were dry. I might have to try a different keto recipe for pancakes.<br />
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<b>Lunch: </b>Lunch is usually leftovers. If not, I have been having eggs, bacon and kale. A lot of meals are making me feel icky. Eggs and bacon don't for some reason. I made sausage balls this weekend. I was only able to get 60 out of them. I am not sure if there will be any left for lunch tomorrow. I've been trying to do my XOs or shelpers at lunch or breakfast.<br />
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<b>Snacks</b>: Yogurt, yuck yum or kefir shakes. Last week, I snacked on bacon leftover from breakfast a lot. I might make faux starbucks egg bites since I have so much bacon.<br />
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<b>Deals of the week:</b> Nothing really. I will be getting Nathan's hot dogs. Well, I went shopping and got some ground beef. I might get porkchops from Sav a Lot later in the week before the new sales ad.<br />
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Dinners:<br />
<b>Monday</b>:<br />
Whoop whoop soup, THT/chicken breast salad for husband<br />
Budget friendly!<br />
Low on special ingredients.<br />
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<b>Tuesday</b>:<br />
Pork chops and veggies<br />
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<b>Wednesday</b>:<br />
Good grub, THT. This isn't my favorite but my husband did like it (but doesn't remember it).<br />
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<b>Thursday</b>:<br />
Actually it's fourth of July. I will be at my mother in law's. I am bring Briana's mac and cheese. If not, I was making keto hot dogs<br />
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<b>Friday</b>:<br />
Crack chicken on a salad<br />
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<b>Saturday:</b><br />
Pizza Casserole, THT. I am adding a lot of yummy meats into this. Italian ground beef, diced ham, etc.<br />
NSI<br />
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Fryer chicken and salad/veggies<br />
NSI<br />
Budget friendly (although I can never make this stretch like other people)<br />
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<b>Exercise</b>: The new workins challenge is starting this week. So I plan to do that. I still need to walk 30 more miles before baby. It's been hard on my achier/cramping days to exercise, like I mentioned before.<br />
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Hello! Welcome back.<br />
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This week has been a big struggle for me. I have really noticed that if I don't have a XO or Shelper midday, I will veer off plan. I have been off plan a few times this week. Or eaten way too much on plan items. Sorry about the late blog post!<br /><br />If you follow me on IG, I may start incorporating dates in my diet. Yes, it's a few weeks early but I am known to go 2 weeks late. So I may need to start this a bit earlier. Not every day but a few times a week. I had an RX bar this week which is 2 dates. I need to increase my red raspberry leaf tea, too. I can't believe it's only 7 weeks away till my due date.<br /><br /><b>Breakfasts:</b> I have been alternating eggs with sausage and veggies, omelette and a protein/fat packed oatmeal this week. I need to maximize the fats in my oatmeal to make sure that my sugars stay good. I still haven't made breakfast gravy even though I planned it this week. Eggs are on sale at Kroger. So I am going to grab them while they are hot! I really need to explore more egg recipes. Maybe I need to make a breakfast casserole that the boys and I can enjoy all week?<br />
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<b>Lunch: </b>Leftovers. Or deli meat sandwiches with veggies. I feel like this week I have been hurting for leftovers/lunches. I really want to try the West African Curry from the big THM book. I have tons of salmon to use.<br />
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<b>Snacks: </b>Yogurt, yuck yum and random stuff in my fridge.<br />
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<b>Deals this week:</b><br />
<i>Sav a Lot:</i> Porkchops and fryer chickens. I haven't been to Sav a lot yet. I will probably do that Tuesday morning.<br /><i>Kroger:</i> eggs, peaches, berries, real good foods buy 1 get 1 free, kroger cheese, smithfield bacon. I stocked up on a ton of bacon!<br />
<i>Ibotta</i>: halotop, kefi, reddiwhip, true lemon packets, ON protein powder, zevia, high brew coffee.<br />
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<b>Monday</b>:<br />
<a href="https://mrscriddleskitchen.com/sour-cream-chicken-enchiladas/">Sour cream chicken enchiladas</a>, veggies<br />
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<b>Tuesday</b>:<br />
Instant pot <a href="https://damndelicious.net/2019/01/15/instant-pot-rotisserie-chicken/">Chicken</a>, veggies. I may make mac and cheese for my non THM family.<br />
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Spaghetti, I already have sugar free sauce. So I plan to bulk it up with okra and hacked beef.<br />
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<b>Thursday:</b><br />
Porkchops, veggies<br />
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<b>Friday</b>:<br />
tuna patties/salmon patties<br />
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Tootsie bell burritos, THT<br />
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This past week I went camping. I feel like my circumstances are a bit unique. When I search the groups or online, all the THMers seem to have campfires or RVs. Nope. I am car camping with two kids and a single burner unit. This was my gameplan!<br />
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<a href="https://www.budgetbytes.com/smoky-white-bean-shakshuka/">shakshouka XO</a><br />
skyline chili S using dreamfields<br />
smoked kielbasa, veggies, cooked in skillet, XO. I don't have a recipe. Just throwing it in a skillet and shrugging.<br />
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I actually left my skillet at home. So I had to use the spaghetti pot. It was a bit crazy and weird.<br />
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<b>Breakfasts</b>:<br />
oatmeal with eggs- XO (ran out of eggs but I had thrown collagen in the baggie and we left early)<br />
Eggs, sausage and veggies, S<br />
I wound up having just scrambled eggs with cheese, sausage and veggies most morning.<br />
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<b>Lunches</b>:<br />
Frozen leftover carnita meat on wraps or sprouted bread deli meat sandwich, cheese, with veggies and fruits, XO<br />
Peanut butter and jelly and veggies, XO (I forgot my bread, so no PB for me)<br />
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One day, I had Jimmy Dean's protein pack with yogurt, S<br />
My lunches were the days that I did most of the XOs/Shelpers.<br />
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<b>Snacks</b>:<br />
yogurt and fruit<br />
wasa, LCC, pepperonis<br />
babybels/babybel ropes<br />
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hardboiled eggs<br />
Beef jerky or sticks<br />
Collagen drinks<br />
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<b>Some personal choice items:</b><br />
ONE bar<br />
Quest cookies<br />
RX bar<br />
Super coffee but it was super gross! I wouldn't recommend.<br />
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<a href="http://natureamy.com/2016/05/25/camping-with-trim-healthy-mama-a-weeks-worth-of-on-plan-camping-menu-ideas/">http://natureamy.com/2016/05/25/camping-with-trim-healthy-mama-a-weeks-worth-of-on-plan-camping-menu-ideas/</a><br />
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<a href="http://natureamy.com/2016/04/26/thmweekendcamping/">http://natureamy.com/2016/04/26/thmweekendcamping/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ruckusandrubies.com/2015/06/trim-healthy-mama-camping-and-vacationing-tasteful-tuesday/">http://www.ruckusandrubies.com/2015/06/trim-healthy-mama-camping-and-vacationing-tasteful-tuesday/</a><br />
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<a href="https://threeteasandacoffee.ca/2017/08/22/preparing-for-camping-the-trim-healthy-mama-way/">https://threeteasandacoffee.ca/2017/08/22/preparing-for-camping-the-trim-healthy-mama-way/</a><br />
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I stayed 90% on plan and I call that a success! Do you like camping? How do you stay on plan while camping?<br />
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I quickly went shopping today and this will be a quickie meal plan for this week. I was about 90% on plan when I was camping. I did about 15k steps every day I was camping.<br />
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<b>Breakfast:</b> My kids are demanding eggs most days. Although when I was at the store, I did get some sausage to make gravy. I also want to try this <a href="https://thebigmansworld.com/healthy-vanilla-cake-batter-oatmeal/">recipe</a>. I am also planning to test my sugars more this week and maybe make a video for my channel.<br />
<br /><b>Lunches</b>: Lunches tend to be leftovers. Today I grabbed a salad on clearance at Walmart and made a XO sandwich with cheese and deli meat. Part of this week will probably be carnita meat. Wonder how I can repurpose that more than tacos? I might be doing more XOs at lunch or breakfast<br />
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<b>Snacks</b>: Yogurt, lunch meat with cheese, or maybe some frozen treat I have in my freezer. I haven't been doing snacks lately. I also need to do more yuck yums for the baby/good flora. I really need to make donuts though!<br /><br /><b>Deals I grabbed this week: </b>Kroger: those keto pizzas were buy one get one free with ibotta rebate! Stocking up if I can. Ground beef and chicken was on sale. Grapes and strawberries were an amazing deal this week. Nathan's hot dogs were also buy one get one free.<br />
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<br /><b>Monday:</b>I never made that pork roast from last week. I started it too late yesterday. So I warmed it up in the oven, broiled it with spices. I had with with bell peppers/salsa/cheese dip, jicama fries (which were gross but maybe it was me?).<br /><br /><br />
Carnitas/S meal<br />
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<b>Tuesday</b>:<br />Mommy's meatloaf with veggies, S meal<br /><br /><b>Wednesday: </b>Buffalo Chicken from the THT book, THM S<br /><br /><b>Thursday</b>:<br />Sausage balls, veggies on the side. Yeah, another one I never made last week.<br /><br /><b>Friday</b>:<br />Hoping leftovers. If not, pot sticker patties from the first cookbook.<br /><br /><b>Saturday</b>:<br />Tootsie bell burritos (and I finally found pickled jalopenos!), THT cookbook<br /><br /><b>Sunday</b>:<br />
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First, you will want to figure out your basic proteins. You have the choices between lean protein and fatty proteins. Your lean proteins will fit in your E meals. If you choose a fatty meal, that means you want an S meal. If you want a carb in your meal, you will want a lean protein.<br />
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<b>Here are some ideas for you:</b><br />
Bacon<br />
Sausage/smoked sausages/lil weenies<br />
Eggs<br />
Ground beef (note, you can rinse it hot for an E)<br />
Ground turkey (96% fat free for E)<br />
Eggwhites (for e meals and some baking)<br />
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Remember, things like deli meat and cured items are naturally cured in sugar. I believe when you get these items, look for under 2 gram of carbs. Watch beef jerky! I don't really look at the deli meats (unless it is like honey ham) or sausage. Beef jerky always gets me!<br />
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<b>Condiments:</b><br />
Pizza sauce that (no added sugar)<br />
Pasta sauce (no added sugar)<br />
Mayo (yes, you can get regular mayo/whatever you can afford)<br />
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<b>Fats:</b><br />
Coconut oil<br />
Red palm oil (or not. It took me months to try this one)<br />
butter<br /><i>These are a bit extra and not needed for basic plan uses:</i><br />
Avocado oil (I actually only bought this a few months ago but I have used it for NSI carnitas)<br />
Toasted sesame oil (For Chicken fried double rice in THT)<br />
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<b>Drink additives:</b><br />
Oolong tea (I get mine at Kroger or amazon)<br />
Apple Cider Vinegar with mother (but you never need to drink a GGMS)<br />
Cottage Cheese (I mostly use this in shakes when I make one)<br />
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<b>Dairy:</b><br />
0% plain greek, you can use full fat but for my budget, 0% with mixins works with me.<br />000 yogurt is on plan if you are in the USA. It's pricey and gives some people stomach issues<br />
Lifeway Kefir (double fermented makes a FP) or make your own with 1% or less milk<br />
Unsweetened almond milk or whatever lower fat alternative that you prefer (cashew, whatever). Oat milk would be an E from what I gather<br />
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Coconut milk from can (for some recipes)<br />
Cream (coffee or some recipes)<br />
Cream cheese<br />Nutpods are on plan but I rarely use them<br />
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<b>Sugar replacement:</b><br />
Pure stevia, You may need to search around for the best pure stevia. Personally, <a href="https://store.trimhealthymama.com/?ref=264">THM </a>is the best.<br />
Pyure<br />
Truvia<br />
Stevia squirts.<br />Aldi's green stevia packets are on plan but not the bag.<br /> I prefer the walmart version that is like 3 dollars.<br />
You have to watch the brands and ingredients. The baking blends are cut with sugar. Or sugar by another name. Yes, the Splenda naturals is on plan.<br />
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<b>Spices I use a lot:</b>Pink/mineral salt (By the way, this helps stevia so much!)<br />
Paprika<br />
Chili<br />
cumin<br />
onion powder<br />
garlic powder<br />
minced garlic<br />
parsley<br />
Black pepper<br />
Butt rub (it's sugar free)<br />
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<b>Sweets:</b>Unsweetened cocoa powder<br />
Lily's chocolate and/or chips but really in the beginning I cut up 85% dark for chips (I can only get Lily's at Kroger and chips at a health food store).<br />
Dark chocolate 85%<br />
<br />While you are in the baking aisle, look for some almond flour, coconut flour, ground flax seeds (golden may be harder to find) to make S desserts. Another item that is in the baking aisle is xanthan gum. It is on the top or bottom shelves. I couldn't find it the first 8 months. This will thicken stuff but it's not as boosting to weight loss as gluccie.<br /><br />
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<b>Personal choice items:</b><br />
Reddi whip fat free<br />
Dreamfields noodles<br />
Low carb wraps<br /><i>You can also make chips with low carb wraps or Joseph's wraps.</i><br />
Laughing cow cheese wedges<br />
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Coconut oil spray<br />
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<b>Grains:</b><br />
Brown rice (Aldi's has brown basamati and I have found Jasmine in my walmart at times)<br />
Wasa crackers (I can only find multigrain in my stores locally)<br />
Oatmeal<br />
Sprouted bread or true sourdough (hard to find in stores). It is getting harder and harder for some people to find these. Pepperidge is in the bread aisle but Ezekiel is usually in the freezer section. Ezekiel does have a sprouted english muffin.<br />Beans are great for E meals<br /><i>Some walmarts may not stock wasa or sprouted bread. ***</i><br />
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<b>Veggies:</b><br />
Okra (this is in some shakes)<br />
Cauliflower<br />
seasoning blend<br />
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Fruits and veggies you can eat.<br />
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You never have to eat a veggie you don't like. I only started eating avos a month ago because of pregnancy. You will want to watch the starchier veggies and stick them in E meals. Veggies make THM shine. Lots of recipes use yellow squash, zucchini, seasoning/mirepoix blend, cauliflower, and okra.<br />
Frozen and/or fresh berries<br />
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<i>These may not be found in your area. I can find them in my area. So this is the not so special but might be special for you:</i><br />
Matcha powder (I used to find it at Kroger)<br />
Nutritional yeast (at my Kroger)<br />
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<i>These are not important for your journey but could help. Also harder to find according to my fellow THM friends:</i><br />
Collagen peptides (walmart and not at all of them!)<br />
MCT oil (walmart or Kroger)<br />
On plan protein <i>flavored </i>powder (only at Kroger in my area)<br />
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Would you like some ideas for a week of THM meals?</h3>
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<b>Breakfasts</b>: <br />
<b>Oatmeal/overnight oats </b>(when I worked, I lived on overnight oats)-. Remember oats are an e fuel. So you have up to 1 tsp/5 grams of fat allowed. Don't forget your creamer fats when having an e meal. So for me, the first six months, most my breakfasts were: oatmeal in the instant pot (vanilla, oats, pumpkin and applesauce with a spritz of eggwhites for added protein). I would cut a half of banana on top. I would use pyure on top. Some people will do a touch of butter but remember to count that fat! If you need a XO, add an egg or sausage. Or way more butter which would be a great easy burning XO<br />
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<b>2-3 Eggs with okra</b>, cooked with coconut oil spray or in butter/coconut oil. If you need a bit more add egg white to your eggs or a sausage. You won't want to make it so protein heavy every day. If you have an airfryer, you can throw the okra in the AF and boom. While you cook the eggs, the okra is cooking but okra sauteed in coconut oil seems to take forever for me on the stove.<br />
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Here are some web links:<br />
<a href="https://www.briana-thomas.com/blueberry-baked-oatmeal/">Blueberry Baked Oatmeal</a><br />
<a href="https://www.briana-thomas.com/french-toast-for-one/">French Toast for one</a><br />
<a href="https://www.briana-thomas.com/pumpkin-stuffed-french-toast/">Stuffed french toast</a><br />
I started most of my THM journey doing mostly E meals in the morning. Add more fats if you need a XO if you are EBF/pregnant or maintaining.<br />
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<b>Lunches:</b><br />
<b>Deli meat sandwich with lots of veggies.</b> You will want sourdough or sprouted bread. You won't want to use cheese here unless you use a laughing cow cheese wedge. You can use up to 1 tsp of mayo for added fats. Other condiments are much more free like mustard. You can pile on some things like spinach. Lots of veggies on the side of your deli meat sandwich. Watch the carbs in the deli meat.<br />
If you need a XO, add sliced cheese or mayo. Whatever your hearts desires!<br />
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<b>Egg drop soup. </b>This is what I find super simple. Cook up some broth with toasted seasame oil and green peppers. Drop some eggs while you whisk them quick after it boils. I really don't have a crazy recipe for it. This would be an S. Add a carb if you need a XO<br />
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Leftovers. I did this before I followed THM. Leftovers to work the next day. Weeeee!<br />
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Weblinks:<br />
<a href="https://northernnester.com/cream-of-mushroom-soup-thm-s/">Cream of mushroom soup</a> - I scaled this down once for a single serving.<br />
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<b>Dinners:<br />Simple dinners:</b>Steak and veggies. You can make an easy mac and cheese recipe if you want. Or a cheesy side.<br />
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Porkchops and veggies. We don't bread porkchops here but you can bread with pork rinds and egg wash.<br />
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Pork steak and veggies.<br />
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Fryer chicken cooked in a slow cooker/instantpot. You can line the bottom with potatoes for XO or those that need XOs. I really don't do anything crazy with this one. I just toss it in. I think recipes I used to follow had you throw a lemon or whatever inside. Veggies as a side.<br /><br />Pulled pork with veggies/on a salad. I usually pull mine out before putting sugar bbq sauce on theirs. Or they will mix it in by the bowl.<br />
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Weblinks:<br />
<a href="https://mrscriddleskitchen.com/sour-cream-beef-enchiladas/">Sour cream beef enchiladas</a><br />
<a href="https://www.briana-thomas.com/mommys-meatloaf/">Mommy's meatloaf</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thecoersfamily.com/trim-healthy-mama-style-dirt-e-rice/">Dirt E Rice</a><br />
<a href="https://mrscriddleskitchen.com/lentil-soup-for-the-soul/">Lentil Soup for the Soul</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thecoersfamily.com/trim-healthy-mama-black-bean-quesadillas/">Black bean quesadillas</a><br />
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Have you noticed I started this journey mostly using THM bloggers awhile I read through the book and waited for Trim Healthy table?<br />
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<b>Snacks:</b><br />
I don't have a high powdered blender. So I don't use a lot of shakes. I also like to eat my food<br />
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When I am out, I eat some of these meat packs or protein packs that don't have fruits in them (JJ's protein packs and kroger brand protein packs by the cheese). Cheese and meat and add a veggie if you can.<br /><br />
PB and celery. Remember that apples and PB would be a XO.<br />
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Yogurt is an easy and cheap snack. Add in mix ins like nuts or seeds that can make it an S. You can add in fruit to make it an E.<br />
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You can make THM as simple or as hard as you want it. This is why I pretty much rotate through 2 basic breakfasts, 2 basic lunches (when I don't have leftovers), and stuff. Before you go grocery shopping, figure out a few meals that you want to eat this week!<br />
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I hope this helps. I also have a video on beginner items.<br />
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This will be a different week. I will tell you what I am having but you may not want it. This week overall was okay. I had a few cheats offplan this week. Restart in 3 hours. I am adjusting to the no full E meals and the first half of the week, I actually lost a lb and lost 4 lbs at the doc office. I got terribly sick with a sinus infection/head cold. It's Thrusday and I am just now feeling a touch better. As a pregnant lady, there are no good meds. I will be going out of town on Thursday morning. All the things I am planning are easy to do at home because I won't be camping with a campfire. That is why it is so hard to find THM tips that don't include a campfire or RV. Evidently THMers are big campfire and RVers. I will have a blog post on what I am packing food wise. So stay tuned!<br />
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Since it has been a rough week, I put my fryer chicken in my instant pot. Boom. It never came to pressure. Two days later, I didn't use enough chicken breast to make crack chicken. So I am pushing some meals around to try to avoid getting new food. I am trying to get stuff out of the freezer. But it's not working when I found sweet potato fries and cauli rice on an amazing sale. My doc says I need to stop worrying about my sugars. I will continue to check in and just include s helpers and XOs through the week.<br />
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<b>Deals this week: <br />Kroger: </b>Boneless chicken breast (1.69/ lb), ground beef (1.88/ lb), pork boston butt (0.99/ lb), gogurts-my kids aren't fully THM (0.99 each Friday and Saturday), Halo top (3/10), medium avocados (0.99 each), mio (1.99 if you buy 5 or mix and match).<br />
<b>Ibotta</b>: True Lemon packets, reddi-whip, hellmann's mayo, JJ protein Packs, and probably a bit more that I won't need.<br />
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<b>Breakfast:</b> Like I said, I am steering clear of pure E's but I need to work on more S helpers. I am still wanting to keep my weight down as long as I possibly can. I absolutely need to refresh myself over what a good S helper is. I really do want to try some oatmeal for an S helper one morning. That would be 1/3-1/2 cup potion or 1/3-1/2 cup cooked quinoa (because breakfast quinoa is yum! Try it!). Most of my breakfasts lately have been unlikely heroes, omelette, and random eggs/veggies. I am working on those veggies this week. I got really bad about it last week.<br />
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<b>Lunches: </b>Leftovers for the most part.<br />
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<b>Snacks:</b> yogurt, or random stuff in the fridge. Although when I was sick, yogurt was not what I wanted. I think I lived off trimtastic cake, eggs, and avocado toast.<br />
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Dinners:</h3>
<b>Monday</b>:<br />
Crack Chicken, I use the spices from THT but I prefer the simpler keto recipes that do not have yogurt in it. Here is a <a href="https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a26845155/keto-crack-chicken-recipe/">version </a>if you want to try it. Actually, I seem to not do anything right. I haven't seen one that does what I do.<br />
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<b>Tuesday</b>:<br />
Sausage balls or potsticker patties (freezer items). There is a sausage ball recipe in THC and potsticker patties is in that same cookbook. I haven't tried Briana's sausage balls yet.<br />
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<b>Wednesday</b>:<br />
<a href="https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/keto-carnitas">Carnitas</a> using pork butt roast, use this on topping of a salad, in wraps. Your imagination is the limit. These make a whole bunch. So leftovers for days! It's best to broil it after a bit. It turns out amazing once you do!<br />
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CAMPING</h3>
<b>Thursday:</b>XO shakshouka<br />
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<b>Friday</b>:<br />
Smoked sausage and veggies<br />
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<b>Saturday</b>:<br />
Dreamfields and skyline chili from cans<br />
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Home:</h3>
<b>Sunday</b>:<br />
Freezer meatballs that I made a few months ago.<br />
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Exercise wise I feel like that I am way behind on my workouts. I took a real rest day and then only did yoga one day. Next week I plan to exercise till I go to Playthink Festival. Hopefully I will have enough walking to make up for no workout. Maybe I will hoop and do squats at my campsite. There is a THM workins challenge happening right now but I am not sure when I will squeeze one in. Next week is the last week of Glow Body PT schedule. I can't believe it! Of course, I will continue with workins or Jessica Smith. I won't be doing the full week because I will leave on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and coming back on Sunday. Man, wouldn't I love it if my kids let me take a class or two at Playthink. I will probably not have a blog up before I leave. I will probably have to figure out my meal plan on Sunday. I might be able to figure out a loose one for Monday-Sunday.<br />
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How are you this week? This week I was mostly on plan. Although I have had some frustrating sugar checks this week. I may have to experiment with more S-helpers than I normally do. The holiday messed me up on my taping and exercise schedule and all that. This is my second week with my kid out of school and we are definitely still adjusting. All he wants is sausage and eggs. I also have been struggling with my veggies. I am just so sick of trying to be perfect and have all these veggies. I am exhausted. I am also going to go back into the nursing book to refresh myself on gestational diabetes/what I call fat burning XOs (versus cheesey XOs). I did try earth milk for the first time and it was okay! It did blend in my Oster blender well! For a few days this was as close to greens as I got.<br />
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This week my husband will be starting keto. He does keto in a very unhealthy way. I am also slowly preparing for PlayThink Festival in 12 days. All my dinners will be either S or FP meals. He is so picky and it is harder to have anything nice like a soup.<br /><br /><b>Breakfast</b>: Since my sugars are acting so wonky, I will be focusing on more S helper or XO meals. So probably not a lot of oatmeal/straight Es like I would typically do. I will probably alternate eggs, unlikely heroes with egg, Kate's eggs, and egg omelette. I will try to add a fruit or slice of bread for my carb source.<br />
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<b>Lunches:</b> These will be leftovers. I will test again to see if I can handle pizza sandwich, if I don't have leftovers. I guess I could make it a XO with skillet green beans.<br />
<br /><b>Snacks:</b> I still have a ton of yogurt. I really still haven't ate it. I also need to be doing more kefir shakes for sure! Maybe some S yuck yums?<br />
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<b>Deals of the week: </b>I was in the big town. So I hit up Meijers for their 99 cent eggs. Other than that, I plan to get a fryer chicken, bacon, avos, zucchini/yellow squash, grapes, endangered species chocolate from Kroger. Kroger also might have tostitos baked on sale. So I may try that.<br />
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<b>What I got today: </b>Since my ibotta is connected to my kroger card, it takes a bit more to process. Sometimes it misses things like blue plate mayo earlier this week. <br /><br />Kefir (IR), True lemon was on sale plus rebate, reddiwhip(IR), any item 20 cents, Halotop (IR). Lots of THM things are buy 5 and get some random deal on price like cauliflower rice, True lemon, etc. Chicken drumsticks, fryer chicken, chicken breast, lettuce heads, mushrooms, some fruit, butter, parmesan, heavy whipping cream, etc.<br />
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<b>Monday</b>:<br />Fryer Chicken, veggies, maybe a sweet potato for a carb source.<br /><br /><b>Tuesday</b>:<br />
BLTs. There is a BLT recipe in THT. Honestly, just making some bacon throwing it on some lettuce.<br /><br /><b>Wednesday</b><br />taco or trim mac salad. Not really sure which one but it's simple and using some freezer meat I think<br /><br /><b>Thursday</b><br />Crack Chicken (I think the THM version is called something else...page 104 in the THT but I use a random keto recipe online)<br /><br /><b>Friday</b>:<br />zucchini fritters<br /><br /><b>Saturday</b>:<br />Chicken cakes, veggies. Did you know these are amazing on a salad crumbled up? SO GOOD<br /><br /><b>Sunday:</b>Tuna patties but I will eat the chicken cakes. I hate tuna. Although I really want to make the salmon patties for myself. I can't do that with husband home.<br /><br />I also have sausage balls on my list. So maybe no tuna patties. There is a sausage balls recipe in the original book. It makes 80 balls. I think I will be using that one. I was using the recipe from Necessary Food but I figure this would be better for Keto Husband.<br />
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Exercise wise: My husband switched computers on me and I had to redownload my prenatal Glow Body Calendar. Evidently it was updated with her new videos. So this week has been a mess and I haven't really hit my goals for any of my exercise. I am still active for sure! Just not hitting all my goals with anything. As I get used to the newer versions of the plan, I will sub any that I don't like/don't work with my body with things that I love like barre and workins.<br />
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This weekend there will be an added challenge of the family reunion. I plan to bring some veggies in a bag, a wrap in my bag, some fruits and pray for the best. I think there will be BBQ there like last year. If I have time, I will try to do workins before we leave. I plan to have a heavy XO breakfast that morning. It may not be perfect but it is what it is!<br />
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I recently found out strawberry True Lemon is a great GGMS with powder. I've slowly been gathering items for Playthink. Quest cookies, Amazing grass single serve powders, etc.<br /><br />I didn't tape any new videos this week. Monday I should have a new weigh in video!<br />
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How are you this week? I believe I have been 99% on plan this week minus a few bites I have snuck here and there. I have been working out. Although right now is the time I should workout, I am so exhausted at the moment. My coffee was burnt and disgusting!<br />
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<b>Breakfasts</b>: I will try to do more e meals in oatmeal form. Although that flopped this week. I made a double batch and the kid that loves oatmeal refused it. I also did egg bites in the instant pot. Those were a hit. I added spinach to the kid's. They had green eggs as snacks or breakfasts this week. If I don't do oatmeal, I will do eggs, unlikely heros, and what not. I haven't done the egg gondolas lately though.<br />
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<b>Lunch</b>: Lunches will be leftovers or my easy go to meals. My easy go to meals as of late are: egg gondolas, deli sandwich with steamer bag veggies, or eggs/okra. It just seems too hot to make egg drop soup or ramen. Although throw some protein in some alfredo dumped on broccoli. That would be easy if I had easy protein like that hanging around. I typically don't. Doesn't change the two cans of alfredo I have for that "just in case" meal.<br />
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<b>Snacks</b>: I need to eat more yogurt because I have like 2 tubs. So yogurt bowls! Other snacks have been cheese sticks, beef sticks/jerky, cottage cheese. Green peppers and deli meat. Nothing crazy hard. Egg bites is another simple snack.<br />
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<b>Deals of the week:</b><br />
Kroger: Strawberries, cocktail shrimp, eckrich smoked sausage, kroger greek yogurt 4/3 dollars, avocados, vitamin water, boneless pork tenderloin<br />
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<b>Ibotta</b>: True Lemon rebates, good culture, wandering bear coffee, reddiwhip, let's blend mushrooms, halotop, lifeway kefir, JJ protein packs, hellman's real mayo, duke's, blue plate mayo, cracker barrel cheese, and probably more that I just don't need.<br />
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***remember to balance every meal with veggies. I aim for half or more of my plate filled with veggies. My current veggie kick is zucchini, yellow squash, spinach, and mushrooms. As a pregnant lady, veggies are the main key of how I am still able to do single fuels. Plus strawberries. Deep s is absolutely the hardest thing for me. I don't write veggies in most of this meal plan but veggies are the main reason that THM works.***</div>
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<b>Sunday</b>:<br />
Husband changed things on me and wanted to do a big meal on Sunday with step son. So hot dogs and brats. Veggies and guac for me. Maybe a XO.<br />
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<b>Monday</b>:<br />
Carnitas (meat from freezer), XO because I think I want some beans with mine.<br />
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<b>Tuesday</b>:<br />
Trim Mac Salad (meat from freezer), S<br />
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<b>Wednesday</b>:<br />
Tenderloin with mushroom gravy, FP.<br />
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<b>Thursday</b>:<br />
Burgers and hot dogs. Burger meat in freezer, S<br />
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<b>Friday</b>:<br />
Dirt e quinoa/quinoa goes cajun. Whatever the name is, E<br />
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<b>Saturday</b>:<br />
Leftovers or this will be whatever day I am induated with leftovers. Maybe Tuesday?<br />
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<b>Sunday</b>:<br />
Spaghetti, regular noodles for them, zuch noodles for me, S<br />
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This week I have mostly been on plan. My mom and I checked out a new restaurant. I did try the seafood bread, a few bites of okra and a hushpuppy. Other than that, my main meal was an on plan XO as much as I know regarding going out food. Other than that, I have had at least one or two days where I have struggled with staying decently feeling okay for 2.5 hours. The other day I had to have a local honey stick just to make it to dinner. Although I count it as the medicinal amounts we are allowed in THM. I am having to sub way more in the Glow Body PT program.<br />
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I have already did my grocery shopping. So I can actually show you my groceries! You may think that I pictured milk in my own plan picture of foods. I use 1% WIC milk to make FP milk kefir. You may also see that I have a full fat kefir. They had no low fat today. I can only get the low fat plain at Kroger. So I got the full fat. I guess....S Yuck yums for me this week!<br />
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<b>Ibotta:</b> I didn't check out much of iBotta before I left. It kind of fell out of my mind. While I was standing in line, I did check a few of the items off like Lifeway Kefir and reddi whip topping.<br /><br /><b>Sales this week: <br />Kroger: </b>ground beef, whole chicken fryer, and pork boston butt. There were also more deals like mio (husband), Core free friday download, strawberries, zucchini, yellow squash, blueberries, oscar meyer hot dogs, wright bacon. There is an amazing deal on Prego(also on ibotta). I did find some sale deals and clearance items. Mostly for the kids.<br /><b>Sav a lot: </b> Pork chops were 1.ish a lb but I didn't get those this week.<br />
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<b>Breakfast</b>: My other son is out of school this week. So we will start doing more oatmeal in the mornings. He loves oatmeal and I feel like it's cheaper/quicker overall. Occasionally, I might change things up with some eggs/veggies. He also loves THM approved gravy! I did make that this morning using the cheapest sausage from Kroger. That sausage is so greasy and makes it hard to make anything. It is super frustrating. I love using my instant pot for oatmeal. I need to start making more than a full cup of oatmeal because he eats so much now! Last summer 1 cup was perfect for both kids, myself with some leftovers.<br />
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Quinoa goes cajun, pg 69 (I think). I have the digital version of the THMC. Usually I choose to use the Dirt-E-Rice version on the Coers blog. I am trying quinoa out to see how my sugars do for this meal. This is gonna be a freezer meal for me since I didn't buy lean meat this week.<br /><br />Tuesday:<br />Carnitas, using the pork boston butt. Veggies for me. Regular wraps for my kids and either low carb wraps or wonder wraps for myself. Or on a giant salad.<br /><br />Actually I planned it for this week but I will probably scoot it to this weekend. I know the carnitas will make a ton to feed my stepson and rest of the family. But I am sharing it with you now! I am still trying to find my favorite carnitas version of a recipe. So I will flip whatever I didn't make this week for this meal.<br /><br />Wednesday:<br /><a href="https://www.briana-thomas.com/mommys-meatloaf/">Mommy's meatloaf. </a>Mashed potatoes for the kids. Veggies for me<br /><br />Thursday:<br /><a href="https://mrscriddleskitchen.com/sour-cream-beef-enchiladas/">Sour cream beef enchiladas,</a> this will be a new recipe for me to try.<br /><br />Friday:<br />Freezer surprise. So most likely drumsticks. I still have those in my freezer<br /><br />Saturday:<br />
Trim Mac Salad.<br /><br />Sunday:<br />Basically this is something using ground beef. I am not sure I will be making mommy's meatloaf this week and it seems crazy to have it again and again. So I am thinking taco soup, keto taco pie or something like that. Those are all things I should have all the stuff for right now.<br />
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Welcome back! This week I had my GD test and it was awful. Awful as I fell off plan and then gained 5 lbs. As of this morning, I am back at 208. So hopefully this is a good sign. It's another reason why I hate getting off plan and feel so stressed to stay on plan. I don't remember gaining so much overnight getting off plan before pregnancy. Plus I don't feel like I could "work" it off. I know you can't exercise off bad choices but....you know what I mean! Pregnancy you just cannot go as hardcore!<br />
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<b>Deals:</b> There wasn't much in deals this week. I needed some camping stuff from Aldi's from Playthink 2019. I chose to go to Aldi's this week. Aldi's ad said 50 cent leg quarters but they were 95 cents per pound when I got there. Kroger has grapes for a dollar, eggs for 88 cents, and chicken breast for 1.88 a pound.<br />
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<b>Lunches:</b> I always say leftovers but this week I rarely had leftovers. So one day I concocted this english muffin pizza using the pizza sandwich as a base recipe. Also you can cook an amazing sweet potato in 45 minutes in the airfryer. If you have the time at least. I have to remember to throw it in when I want one. Another day I threw a frozen salmon patty in the airfryer and put it on 20 minutes. It worked and was so delicious!<br />
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<b>Snacks:</b> Some of my go to snacks in my fridge are yogurt (I rarely buy triple zero), cottage cheese and meat trays if I am out and about. Remember snacks can be even meals, like a bowl of oatmeal. One day this past week I had an apple crisp for one. Just eat something!<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">If you ever want to learn more about</span><a href="https://store.trimhealthymama.com/" style="font-family: "times new roman";" target="_blank"> THM</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">, the books are an absolute must to understand the entire program. I first checked the books out of the library and bought the Table book. I searched youtube for real testimonies on the plan. They own all the rights to these funny letters and sayings! I am absolutely not a THM coach. I am just a mom that wants to help others! I am absolutely not the best THMer and I have my moments of rebellion.</span><br />
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<b>Monday</b>:<br />
Bangin ranch drums using leg quarters<br />
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Mommy's meatloaf, Briana's website/cookbook<br />
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<b>Thursday</b>:<br />Buffalo Crockpot Chicken, pg 92 in THT<br />
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<b>Friday:</b>Sweet lime tacos, pg 93 in THT<br />
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<b>Saturday</b>:<br />Lentil soup<br /><br /><b>Sunday</b>:<br />Sweet n spicy drummies, pg 221 in THT<br />
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Welcome back to my blog. I am from Kentucky, I was very active in FCCLA (formerly Future Homemakers of America) and that meant I took a lot of FACs classes. One thing my teacher always had us make was the famous Hot Brown. I’ll be honest. Something covered in cheesy gravy is amazing. The other day, a friend of mine posted that she was eating a hot brown. I did a quick google search and didn’t see any Kentucky Hot Brown recipes for THM. This could also just be a pregnancy craving that I knew I could make into an on plan item!<br />
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So here is my version. You can make this Low-carb/keto/THM-S or THM-XO. I personally was super hungry by the time I got home. So I chose to use this drive through sue bread that is not perfectly on plan. As of a quick search of the FB groups, the low carb bread company products are less than ideal/frankenfoody. They can work on plan for occasional use. This one only had 3 grams of fat for two. I used 2 plus the skinny/half broke bread butt-end. If you had time, make the WWBB, keto bread of your liking, Swiss bread, nuke bread, what not. Or if you don’t mind a XO, use your favorite on plan sourdough or sprouted bread.<br />
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<li>1/4 Parmesan cheese- Percorino Romano would be best but I was trying not to spend too much + some for garnishment</li>
<li>3/8-1/2 tsp Gluccie.</li>
<li>Salt and pepper to taste</li>
<li>Pinch of ground nutmeg</li>
<li>Paprika for garnishment</li>
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3. While the bacon is cooking or after it is fried, start boiling 1 cup of chicken broth. Once it is boiling, whisk in 3 TBSP of cream cheese quickly.<br />
4. At this point, I lowered the temp to the stovetop to around medium-low (or my 4). Add 1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese into the broth.<br />
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6. Let this simmer while you start placing your meat. Use an oven safe dish. I used a bread dish. If you had a small cast iron skillet, go for it. I just eyeballed how much I put in it. I did use most of an entire container of Oscar Meyer thick sliced. After that, I added the tomatoes sliced thinly on top of the turkey meat. I am not much of a tomato person, but feel free to load up if you want!<br />
7. Once the cheese gravy is thickened, pour it on top of the open faced sandwich. Spread more cheese on top. Put it in your oven under broil. Stay close. You will want the cheese to become nice and brown but it can happen quick.<br />
8. Plate if you are replating. Place 2-3 pieces of bacon on top. Sprinkle paprika if you want. I forgot.<br />
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One of the reasons I love THM is because I can find a way to have all my favorites on plan. It takes either a quick google search or a bit of thinking. This may not be absolutely perfect but it tasted pretty great for me.<br />
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<b>Nutritional</b>, according to iTrackbites: Everything but the bread: Calories: 450 / Fat: 33.1 / Net Carbs: 17.5 / Protein: 29.5g (if you follow THM, all those net carbs are ones we do not count. This was made with all on plan items)<br />
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Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02489659464323402950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318967148813225952.post-36476943183761791582019-05-03T12:56:00.002-07:002019-05-03T13:08:55.123-07:00THM Meal Plan 5/6-5/12Hello!<br />
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It’s another week and I hope you had a fabulous one. As of writing this blog post, I have been 99% on plan. I feel like I can successfully say that I didn’t gain any weight the entire month of April! AS much as I want to not gain weight this month, I have a feeling it will be much harder. At least today, I have been starved all day. Yet it is snack time and I have no clue what I want to eat! Like the kid's donuts are softly calling my name.<br />
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This week I have been testing my sugars and tracking via iTrackbites. I have learned any rice dishes either spike up my blood sugar like crazy or need to be fully XOs. My other sugars have been fantastic other than that. It still makes me very worried for Tuesday. Either way, I know using Trim Healthy Mama principles I will be able to control my numbers. One thing pregnancy has done for me is to increase my veggies intake and use less frankenfoods in regards to dreamfields at least. I feel really bad when I don't have heaps of veggies in my main meals.<br />
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<b>Deals this week</b>: Kroger has whole fryer chicken for 99 cents a lb (or other types but husband hates those types), boneless pork tenderloin at Kroger, and more cheap strawberries. Sav a Lot has pork ribs and chicken (frozen) on sale.<br />
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<b>iBotta deals:</b> Wandering Bear cold brew, butterball turkey products, Good Culture, Prego Sauce, Splenda zero, coconut oil, ghee, Duke's mayo, Cholula, Halo Top, Strawberries, Chobani greek yogurt. Nothing interesting on coupons.com app or checkout51.<br />
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<b>Breakfast</b>: Lately I have been trying to use up THM pancake syrup and yogurt I had. So I have made big blueberry pancake this week. Although Saturday I plan to make more sourdough pancakes. So I have been trying to do more E meals. So either E pancakes with veggies or eggs with veggies. I try different types of eggs like the eggs n hash from Trim Healthy Table or Kate's spinach eggs from Briana's blog. Since it's becoming liquid coconut oil season, I have been trying to use that for the metabolism benefits more than ghee.<br />
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<b>Lunch</b>: Leftovers. If it's not leftovers, I use my staples like a deli sandwich, egg drop soup, or ramen. Well, my sprouted bread was bad! So I had to use the sourdough which was not what I wanted the day I wanted a grilled cheese sandwich. Didn't grill like I wanted. One day this week, I think I may work on a THM Friendly Kentucky Hot Brown. It's amazingly not a thing already.<br />
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<b>Snacks</b>: Butter me up banana bread, coffee, BAM cake, yogurt, mini meat trays, cottage cheese, etc. Lots of options if I feel like eating them up! On the right hand side, here is a random, on the go snack I had. I have gotten a lot of Good Cultures lately due to iBotta rebates.<br />
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Monday: Pork ribs with veggies, Others will have baked potatoes<br />
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Tuesday: Pork tenderloin, I might make <a href="https://40aprons.com/paleo-carnitas-whole30-crockpot/">carnitas</a> with this. I haven’t decided yet. So either Pork tenderloin with mushroom gravy or pork carnitas. My husband prefers Mexican, so it could be a hit.<br />
Low carb or will be a mix of low carb/healthy carbs/NSI if you do carnitas. If you do the mushroom gravy you would need xanthan gum<br />
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Wednesday: Whole fryer chicken with veggies and maybe potatoes. I am hoping the chicken can stretch for the quesadillas and chana dal soup.<br />
Low Carb/NSI<br />
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Thursday: Chana dal soup from THC<br />
Healthy Carbs/NSI-I can find chana dal and nutritional yeast at my local kroger, usually I omit aminos if I don't have it. I know for me, it's a hefty price. I have seen soy sauce used in replacements<br />
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Friday:<a href="https://iwillnoteatoysters.com/chickencurry/"> Yellow curry</a> with rice, veggies<br />
Very heavy low carb meal or I might mix it with healthy carbs like rice/NSI<br />
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Saturday: Crispy <a href="https://www.briana-thomas.com/crispy-chicken-cheese-quesadilla/">quesadillas </a>(S), beans for the side for the kids, chips/salsa, and veggies.<br />
Low Carb but can be easily changed to a XO with healthy carbs like rice or beans/NSI<br />
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Sunday: Taco soup or <a href="https://trimhealthymama.com/recipe/trim-train-taco-soup-fp/">trim train soup</a>. Mainly I have ground beef I want to use up!<br />
I am leaning towards low carb/NSI<br />
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My goals this week are: continue following the Glow Body Prenatal plan, add in barre and workins as needed. I am also doing a walking challenge. I notice this week I am using a lot of low carb meals. I will be fasting for my appointment on Tuesday. So I am not sure. I know I will be starved and may walk off plan momentarily. I also plan to try to make another attempt at sourdough.<br />
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I hope this helps! Sometimes I feel like I am talking to myself here. I've decided to start highlighting the NSI recipes I am using. I mostly try to be NSI for dinners.<br />
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Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02489659464323402950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318967148813225952.post-39299671391780927352019-04-26T11:50:00.000-07:002019-04-26T11:50:11.806-07:00THM Meal plan for 4/29-5/5Hello!<br />
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This week was going well till date day. I did not bring something to snack like I meant. There was a long wait for my doctor appointment. My husband didn't want to eat when we got to Cattleman's. Then we had to wait again because it was too crowded. So I ate two rolls and when I got home, I ate off plan too. After eating off plan, I gained a pound which seems to be normal for when I eat off plan. Other than that, I am doing the bare minimum for working out. It's like my hamstrings just cannot get rid of the DOMs. My body feels exhausted sometimes. Then again, Glow Body PT does a lot of squats.<br />
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When I started writing this meal plan I was doing pretty well on plan till last night. My car broke down. I had a need-some-carbs-headache and caved to some pizza between some tears. It just makes it worse when you have kids in the back screaming/crying to go home! Today I reset with a deep s. So hopefully, it will be a better week next week. This morning I attempted to make a sourdough. I need to find a recipe I really like or plan it out better. I am not sure it turned out well.<br />
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I do plan to make sourdough discard pancakes this weekend. I believe half my issue right now is I am not doing enough E's in my life.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">If you ever want to learn more about</span><a href="https://store.trimhealthymama.com/" style="font-family: "times new roman";" target="_blank"> THM</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">, the books are an absolute must to understand the entire program. I first checked the books out of the library and bought the Table book. I searched youtube for real testimonies on the plan. They own all the rights to these funny letters and sayings! I am absolutely not a THM coach. I am just a mom that wants to help others! I am absolutely not the best THMer and I have my moments of rebellion.</span><br />
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<b>Breakfast this week:</b> I need to incorporate more E meals. So maybe this will be the return of oatmeal. If not, I will plan to make veggie filled plates like my veggie filled shakshouka, breakfast gondolas with extra veggies and stuff. Other e's to consider this week would stuffed french toast from Briana's website and blueberry baked oatmeal. Or that apple crumble for one with yogurt would be a great E breakfast!<br /><br /><b>Lunches this week:</b> Leftovers. Or my basics like egg drop soup, deli sandwich or pizza sandwich. I need to really focus on veggies and lightening up my meals a bit! I have also started adding FP yuck yums or some kefir derivative because of the probiotics. My goal is to prevent GBS in pregnancy which is why I try to include lots of fermented/cultured products at the end of my pregnancies. Plus I have been using my amazing grass as my super food powder and ceylon cinnamon for my blood sugars!<br />
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<b>Deals of the week:</b> Porkchops are on sale at Sav A Lot. I got 3 lbs today. At kroger, they are selling grapes, kroger ground beef, BIG pack of strawberries, and living lettuce. I also need to get a few things from WIC left like beans.<br />
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<b>Other deals of the week using coupon apps</b>: Ibotta: cold brew, let's blend mushrooms, chef's cut beef jerky, Splenda stevia squirts, good culture cottage cheese, butterball turkey sausage. Check out my link below if you want to try ibotta to help save some money!<br />
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<b>Here is my game plan:<br />Monday</b>:<br />S-Mommy's Meatloaf from Briana's website, with veggies and sides for non THM folks<br /><br />
<b>Tuesday</b>:<br />S- Spaghetti, either making the THT or using jar stuff that is no sugar added<br /><br /><b>Wednesday</b>:<br />
S- Pork chops, with veggies or/and sides for non THM folks<br /><br /><b>Thursday</b>:<br />FP pork tenderloin with veggies/sides<br /><br /><b>Friday</b>:<br />E-Black bean quesadillas from Coer's family blog<br /><br /><b>Saturday</b>:<br />
E or XO- Tootsie bell burrito night! This is one of the few that my husband actually likes.<br /><br /><b>Sunday</b>:<br />
Mystery fuel! Whoop whoop soup or chana dal soup. Basically, husband will have leftovers this night.<br />
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-daLPqMTFo74/XMNQv0Ewq3I/AAAAAAAAyzY/4xfivDgs5OMfZaBV9ECjbC770N6KyqTlgCKgBGAs/s1600/IMG_20190422_102643.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-daLPqMTFo74/XMNQv0Ewq3I/AAAAAAAAyzY/4xfivDgs5OMfZaBV9ECjbC770N6KyqTlgCKgBGAs/s200/IMG_20190422_102643.jpg" width="200" /></a><b>My goals this week include:</b> continue exercising, tracking my blood sugars, and eating at least 90% on plan. I will start week 26 of the Glow Body prenatal plan adding in workins, barre or/and walks as needed through the week. My left hip is hurting at times. I think I need to do more stretches or yoga. Also need to increase my core work. My GD test will be on week 27. So I wanted to get more data regarding my sugars before the test. If I fail, I would rather be prepared with my own data!<br />
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What videos would you like to see? What blogs will help you on your trim healthy journey? I do plan to tape another what I eat in a day while tracking my sugars this next week.<br />
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Welcome back to Hooplove.org. It is a late post this week due to internet issues at my house. Sick kids meant no running to the library. </div>
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This week so far has been 95% on plan but weekends lately have been tripping me up. So we will see come Monday. The last few days I have had great weigh ins. So maybe I have reached the point in pregnancy that I am eating enough to get in a small deficit. Next week is my next doctor appointment. So we will see how her scales are treating me. I am 5ish weeks away from my GD test. I am worrying a bit.</div>
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<b>Deals this week:</b> Ham at Kroger, eggs through the coupon app, some rebates for fresh bananas and strawberries through iBotta, prego pasta sauce through ibotta rebate app. Nothing crazy amazing that I saw. See below for an ibotta referral! </div>
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<b>Breakfast this past week has been: </b>egg gondolas, Kate's spinach eggs, oatmeal with veggies, and scrambled eggs. Nothing crazy amazing, Just the same old, same old. Like how many ways can I make all the dozens of eggs I have? </div>
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Lunches have been leftovers. When we went out to eat, I had a bunless burger, veggies and salad.</div>
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Chicken Fried Double Rice (THT) -E, make this into a XO by using an egg<br />
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This is some random sausage fry up with veggies my husband eats. I really don't know how it will be, S</div>
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Wednesday<br />
<a href="https://www.briana-thomas.com/mommys-meatloaf/">Mommy's meatloaf, Briana's website, S</a><br />
Thursday<br />
Chili, I don't follow a recipe, E</div>
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Chana dal soup, THC, E<br />
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Sunday<br />
<a href="http://www.thecoersfamily.com/trim-healthy-mama-style-dirt-e-rice/">Dirt E Rice, Coers website, E</a><br />
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Instead of the FP pork tenderloin, I am getting a ham and making an easter meal with my stepson and family.</div>
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Exercise wise I plan to follow the Glow body PT program, add in barre or workins as needed. I really need to increase my walks through the week. I didn't hit my 10 K goal most of this week. I have noticed my hips hurt the days I do. This week, when my internet went out, I was all geared up to do a glow body workout and then, it stopped right before I started. I didn't feel motivated at all after that. It's moments like that is exactly why the girls came out with DVDs, not streaming. I hate getting pumped for a workout and realize my internet or browser is not working for a workout. Would you like to one day see a workins review?</div>
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It is another week. I have seen that there are all sorts of challenges in all the various THM groups around facebook. Are you in a challenge? I haven't done a workins this week. Probably not the day today. I am gonna do a 3-4 mile walk with WATP.<br />
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This week has gone well. I feel like I have been 90% on plan with hardly any cheats. I have done the bare minimum of my workouts. We have spent a lot of time outside but now, it's gonna rain for like a gazillion weeks.<br />
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This week has had a few bumps but I have worked through them! Yesterday, I had an e meal and tested my sugars. It was 122. It kind of freaks me out. So I will be more mindful of my sugars today/future. Really look at what the E meals are doing to my body during pregnant. It is hard. I am trying to control my weight. E meals seem to be king on that front. I don't know if S-Helpers are the key to my life or what. I have to get more data before I make my final determination. FYI my doc wants 2 hours after foods to be 120. It's not crazy over but it could be the beginning.<br />
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This will be a crazy week. So I have 15 frozen sweet italian/spicey sausages in my freezer and ground pork. Husband hates anything that only has those two items. He says you cannot only have spaghetti with italian sausage. So my plan this week will be doing half the italian sausage with a mix of frozen ground beef or ground pork. It is what it is. We will see how much I screw it up this week!<br />
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<b>Breakfasts</b>: I don't talk about breakfasts in my daily meal plan. I really wake up and wait for what I want. Right now it is all about staying full 2-3 hours. currently, shakshouka brekkie is the thing for that! I have made it 3 times this week and my belly has been so happy. I add a ton of extra veggies and use canned diced tomatoes. I do eat 3 eggs. Sorry, Serene. If you have the membership, it is a video. I base my recipe on that but really I just wing it!<br />
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<b>Lunches</b>: My lunches tend to be leftovers. If not, I keep an idea of 3 meals I can make easy for my lunches: pizza sandwich with veggies/pizza on english muffin(e), egg drop soup(s), and ramen(s).<br />
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<b>Deals</b>: there aren't much deals this week. Kroger might have grapes and strawberries on sale. But I am not sure how much of that was related to the re grand opening that was on Wednesday. 18 count of eggs are on sale at Kroger<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">If you ever want to learn more about</span><a href="https://store.trimhealthymama.com/" style="font-family: "times new roman";" target="_blank"> THM</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">, the books are an absolute must to understand the entire program. I first checked the books out of the library and bought the Table book. I searched youtube for real testimonies on the plan. They own all the rights to these funny letters and sayings! I am absolutely not a THM coach. I am just a mom that wants to help others! I am absolutely not the best THMer and I have my moments of rebellion.</span><br />
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Here are the dinner plans for this week!<br />
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<b>Monday</b>:<br />
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Whoop Whoop soup, pg 149 THT<br />
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I got a good deal on purnell's sausage during the Kroger re grand opening. So I am using the HOT sausage to make Whoop whoop. This is one of my favorite soups.<br />
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<b>Tuesday</b>:<br /><b>S</b><br />
Spaghetti with half spicy sausage and half ground meat, using the THT recipe on 109. I might have it over zuchinni noodles. I haven't decided.<br />
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Okra is so good for baby, I figure this would be a great time to use this recipe!<br />
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<b>Wednesday:<br />S/XO/E</b>Tootsie Bell Burrito, page 290 in THT. My meat source will be half ground beef/half ground pork.<br />
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<b>Thursday:<br />E</b><br />
Chili, I use my own personal recipe for this. But I will use whatever random leftovers of half meat that I have left. I will also maybe hack all these recipes.<br />
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<b>Friday</b>:<br /><b>E</b><br />
<a href="http://www.thecoersfamily.com/trim-healthy-mama-black-bean-quesadillas/">Bean chicken quesadillas,</a> I love this simple recipes from Coers.<br />
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<b>Saturday</b>:<br /><b>FP/E/S</b><br />
<a href="https://northernnester.com/pork-tenderloin-with-mushroom-gravy/">FP Pork tenderloin</a>, mushroom gravy, veggies, off plan sides for my non-THM family members. I will either keep this to an S for me or an E. Depends how I feel that day.<br />
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<b>Sunday</b>:<br /><b>E</b><br />
<a href="https://mrscriddleskitchen.com/lentil-soup-for-the-soul/">Lentil Soup</a>, or leftovers<br />
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My goals this week is to exercise, stay on plan and to track my blood sugars better. See how the plan is working for me/my sugars/the scale. Try to stay on plan through the weekend! Every week I write this how I was rocking life and then the weekend hits me in the face!<br />
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What are your goals?<br />
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Recent videos that I hope you will love:</h3>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/6mpbOn4lIVY">I lost 60 lbs on TRIM HEALTHY MAMA</a><br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/1N6zsx6MbIM">Pregnancy and THM during the first trimester</a><br />
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I hope this helps!<br />
Love<br />
Shannon<br />
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How are you this week? Sorry about the weird formatting on last week. I did it quickly on the iPad and it doesn't like me much!<br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c8AO0DBhOPM/XKZsOdViIhI/AAAAAAAAxUI/80hJNzghEBkilkfK_Up7YvNMLXXmMY5qwCKgBGAs/s1600/IMG_20190404_163030989.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c8AO0DBhOPM/XKZsOdViIhI/AAAAAAAAxUI/80hJNzghEBkilkfK_Up7YvNMLXXmMY5qwCKgBGAs/s320/IMG_20190404_163030989.jpg" width="240" /></a>How did my week out of town go? Well, I would say I was about 85% on plan for a pregnant lady. I felt like that was impressive. When I got home, I was on 205. I was up the day I left from bad fries. So it is what it is. While I was at my grandpa's, I decided to shop from his freezer. So I grabbed this large turkey breast and it has been defrosting for days. All the things I had planned changed when I saw his freezer. I found tenderloins for dreamy creamy lazone, breasts for chicken buffalo and this of course. Although as much as I planned using his freezer, things changed. We had a large lunch and I didn't cook that night. We are finally getting to the dreamy creamy lazone tonight. I will make it a crossover for my family members with brown rice from the instant pot.<br />
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Well, as all things go, we just switched tonight's dinner to the buffalo chicken. This is how things go in our house sometimes! Just got to go with the flow.<br />
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If you want non egg ideas, try oatmeal, pint jar oats (great for on the go in the mornings!), and oatmeal to go cups. Cream of treat porridge is almost like cream of wheat.<br />
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Snacks: I really don't plan snacks. Like this week, I had a raging craving for cini-minis from THT. So currently, I am snacking on that. One day, my second breakfast/first snack, was E uncle sam's cereal and boabab boost eggs. Sometimes I have made big bowl of cinnamon oatmeal as a snack. Seriously, pregnancy can be ridiculous sometimes. I am not much of a shake girl. Or it takes me so long to get that good ice broken down. Remember, meal planning does not have to be fancy. Just get some things together in your fridge or shelves to make snacking an option. Like I always have prebought hardboiled eggs.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">If you ever want to learn more about</span><a href="https://store.trimhealthymama.com/" style="font-family: "times new roman";" target="_blank"> THM</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">, the books are an absolute must to understand the entire program. I first checked the books out of the library and bought the Table book. I searched youtube for real testimonies on the plan. They own all the rights to these funny letters and sayings! I am absolutely not a THM coach. I am just a mom that wants to help others! I am absolutely not the best THMer and I have my moments of rebellion.<br /><br /><b>Sales this week: </b>Save a Lot has a sale on pork blade steaks and pork butt roast. Sale on sausage at Kroger Friday through Sunday. Pregnant lady has to have some sausage!<br /><br /><b>Dinners only:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Monday:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Turkey with mushroom gravy<br />This would be a FP I think. So I might make it into an E for me.<br /><br />Tuesday:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Leftovers<br />Or....chili if you have no leftovers (Carb conscious)<br /><br />Wednesday:<br />Pork blade steaks with veggies<br />Low Carb</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Thursday:<br />Egg roll in the Bowl/Leftovers for husband.<br />I usually make this into a low carb meal but I might do pure E</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Shredded butt pork roast with veggies<br />Low carb<br /><br />Saturday:<br />leftovers<br />Or...Lentil soup if you have no leftovers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Tootsie bell burritos from THT</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">My plans this week are to continue adding in more barre through the week, Glow Body PT program and more core work. Depending how this week works out, I will add in more E meals as I feel. I might still be recovering from spring break at this point meal wise. Plus this hunger thing is unreal at times. So I really have to take it day by day, meal by meal.<br /></span><br />
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This will be a quick and dirty version of my usual meal plans.<br />
As of right now, I am thinking of these meals:<br />
Spring break:
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Tootsie bell burrito night 289<br />
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Gumbo<br />
Thursday:
Brats and hot dogs
Chips/veggies<br />
Friday:
FP tenderloin
Mushroom gravy
Veggies<br />
Saturday:
Chili
Sunday:
Crockpot buffalo chicken<br />
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Sandwiches with veggies, leftovers (hahaha, not with 1 extra mouth that eats like a man), FP or S favorites for lunches like ramen or egg drop soup.<br />
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Eggs/veggies or oatmeal made into a crossover.
This weekend, I am planning to take mouth watering meringues, green peppers cut up, and ultimate e bars. I also plan to take my chocolate stevia-sweetened whey isolate, trimmies and boost juice premade in little cups. Tomorrow will be a busy day trying to pack that is for sure! Hopefully next week will be more normal. Sorry for this quick post.
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This meal plan will be a little shorter than normal. Not that my meal plans are super thorough anyways. I will add a few meals that I think could help anyone needing three more meals at the end.<br />
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How did this week go for me? Well, this week, I became ravenous. Even with the things I have been doing to bulk up E meals, I couldn't even hang with it on my S meals. I go out to eat with my mom every week almost. Usually I do great. I order a meat with veggies. I can say no to bread. Yesterday, I was starved. Plus I didn't know the shrimp would be deep fried. I ate it anyways. It was supposed to be the only cheat of the day. I was wrong. I scarfed my son's cheese sandwich. It was so good! I was still starving and got a cheese danish from Starbucks. I was beyond starving still. Pregnancy life, right? Then I went to the multicultural night and ate off plan. Normally in that situation, I would bring a salad and eat the meat options. So last night, my options would have been: taco beef, fajita peppers, sour cream, salsa, scrap off the toppings of the pizza, and that is about it from what I remember. If I thought of it, I would have an emergency wrap in my bag. I didn't though. Instead, I chose a bunch of my favorite bad carbs. Although I am not sure where a normally cooked tamale would land on THM. XO? This weekend, I hope to put a dent in what I ate yesterday.<br />
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Here is the meal plan for this week:<br />
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Breakfast: I think I am done with the blueberry bake. I think I may be doing a lot of the pumpkin chocolate chip muffins or the oatmeal to go muffins this week. I also plan to bake more oatmeal to go muffins for my trip out of town. If I don't have an E premade, my go to is an S meal . Like I say every week, make your lunches and breakfasts an easy go-to option.<br />
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Lunches: Leftovers or my easy E/S meals. Pizza sandwich with lots of veggies is a great easy E. Although as I type this, I feel like that FP 95 calories soup even though today I have pork chop leftovers. :p<br />
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Sales this week: Ground beef at Kroger. 1.99 a pound for a 3 lb chub. I have a 2 dollar coupon off produce and a 2 dollar coupon off meat at Kroger.<br />
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<a href="https://www.briana-thomas.com/mommys-meatloaf/" target="_blank">Mommy's Meatloaf with veggies</a><br />
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S/Low carb<br />
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S/Low carb or E option. I might just make it a XO for me<br />
Slim Sloppy Joes<br />
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S/Low carb<br />
Trim Mac Salad<br />
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This weekend I will be at my grandparents. So I will be trying to keep things simple and on plan. A few of the ideas I have that will be simple dinners: cabb and saus (Sat) and three way chili using dreamfields (S). Most likely Friday and Monday will be eating out. S meals with salads/veggies. I plan to make a few great lunch box friendly snacks to snack on this weekend. I am craving bigger meals with no access to a blender. So things like beauty milks, frappas will not be possible for me this weekend. I will only be an hour away from Nashville and I would really love to visit the THM store but I don't want to make things stressful.<br />
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Things I am thinking of taking in a lunch bag: Cowboy cookie protein bites, happy bites, ultimate e bars, green peppers cut up in ziplock baggies, carrots in baggies, a salad that will most likely be dinner that night, prebagged boost juice, these probably off plan rice cakes I have, and maybe my preflavored protein powder.<br />
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If you would like 4 more days of meals, here are some ideas for you: cabb and saus, <a href="http://www.thecoersfamily.com/trim-healthy-mama-style-dirt-e-rice/" target="_blank">dirt-e rice</a>, <a href="http://www.thecoersfamily.com/trim-healthy-mama-black-bean-quesadillas/" target="_blank">black bean quesadilla</a>s, and <a href="http://mrscriddleskitchen.com/lentil-soup-for-the-soul/" target="_blank">Lentil Soup.</a> I already have a general idea over the spring break menu. I hope to post that Thursday or Friday morning.<br />
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Exercise wise, I plan to continue the Glow Body Prenatal program (week 21) and barre. I don't know if I will be able to exercise while I am out of town. It's not like at home where things are babyproofed. I will do my best. I could always take a barre amped or two and only do the thighs and seat.<br />
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I am not sure if my weigh in on Monday will be as positive as I hoped. I didn't weigh this morning but if I know my body enough, bad carbs stick to my body during pregnancy.<br />
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Hello again! I figured I would share with everyone how I started or found THM. In 2017, around the holidays, I was feeling the pain of counting points. I saw a post on a board about Trim Healthy Mama. I started to explore Trim Healthy Mama. I explored youtube videos and blog posts. I went to the library and checked out the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trim-Healthy-Mama-Plan-Easy-Does/dp/1101902639/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1550871591&sr=8-2&keywords=trim+healthy+mama" target="_blank">Plan</a> book. I spent my nights listening to the poddies while I pumped for my baby and another baby in need of milk.<br />
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I spent a few weeks reading it, joined the FB groups and ordered the<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trim-Healthy-Mamas-Table-Delicious/dp/0804189986/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1550871591&sr=8-1&keywords=trim+healthy+mama" target="_blank"> Trim Healthy Table</a> book on sale from amazon. I spent a few weeks tweaking my current meals. I used to hit 'follow' on all the beginner THM posts. Then Christmas came. I ate 3 lbs of bacon and way too much dessert. I tried to stay on WW plan but I struggled. The next day, I did what THM calls a deep S meal for breakfast. When I planned my food that week, I chose an entire THM menu by accident. By the end of that week, I lost ten pounds after Christmas!<br />
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Why did I switch?</h3>
I was struggling with counting points. I always struggle after a few months on Weight Watchers. It's not because WW doesn't work. I start hyperfocusing on the health of my eating habits and so much more. Other times I have done WW, I hyperfocused so much that I think I was practically starving myself by trying to go ultra point every meal. It made me struggle once I hit my lowest weight ever. It's one of those things where I felt like something was missing from my eating habits. Why is fat so vilified? That is what I love about THM. It's a balance of low fat and high fat. It's completely changed how I think about food. It's a strong balance of keto and WW type of low fat eating. I love this balance. I love how THM does not vilify going off plan. More women need to be told to restart in 3 hours versus a shame spiral. Also, that first week of losing ten pounds made me think, "Wow, this isn't so bad." THM can be attuned to everyone. Everyone will do THM different based on their needs. I am all about whole foods and nurturing foods.<br />
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Another thing that was the reason why I was exploring THM is because we were planning to start trying to conceive. I know people follow WW while pregnant but like I mentioned, I hyperfocus to a bad point. I felt like I couldn't/wouldn't find that proper balance while pregnant. It is so hard! THM is safe for pregnant and nursing moms. That sold me completely.<br />
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My weight loss journey continues</h3>
I continued to follow THM. I would say most weeks I was 90% on plan. I did have a few weeks/months where I struggled with stalls. My milk supply did go down when I switched to THM. Mainly I should have added more XO and S-helpers. The first six months of THM, I struggled with low blood sugars. It finally hit me, this is the same feeling I always get postpartum after going home from the hospital. Almost every time, my discharges have taken way too long. By the time I would get home, my sugar was always low and I would have headaches/feel dizzy. This will be great info for me to know the next time I give birth! Knowledge is power!<br />
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I did stall because of a prolactin issue. I had to stop pumping for babies in need of breastmilk and I am pretty sure I was just exhausted. It also coincided with my preschooler started school. Early mornings were rough for me if I was up till 1 pumping. By the way, poddies are perfect things to listen to while pumping at night! Stopping the pumping, helped my prolactin decrease which busted that stall. I have learned over the year of being on Trim Healthy Mama that your needs may change throughout your journey.<br />
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I also found out that I do need to track my foods better. I can freestyle on THM for a few months but I need to track and manage portion sizes for a few weeks every few months. Basically when the scale stops moving so much, I still use <a href="https://itrackbites.onelink.me/Q8p5/ShannonGriffith" target="_blank">iTrackBites</a> to track my portions. I switched to calories recently for my mental health. Although I could do full nursing points and smart bites with success. Part time nursing was a bit of a struggle.<br />
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I am not a perfect Trim Healthy Mama. I use some splenda when I bake at times. I go off plan on occasion. I try to have offplan treats on occasion like a non-fat milk coffee from a fancy coffee shop. Sometimes I even enjoy this H2Oprotein thing that is not on plan but close enough for me. I even will occasionally bite the bad bread or rice at Logan's! I don't guilt myself. I get back on track as soon as I can. I enjoy how I eat and am able to eat out with my mom once a week. Yes, I still lose weight!<br />
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As of December, I have lost 118 pounds total. Over 60 pounds with Trim Healthy Mama. My goals one day are to become a THM coach or any sort of wellness couch. My weight loss is at a standstill currently because December 4th, we are expecting our first little girl. I will give you further updates how a Trim Healthy pregnancy is treating me.<br />
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In December-January, I tried to do the Bikini Body Mommy program and quit it quick. After that, I waited till March to add workouts. I added barre-type DVDs into my exercise program. I have a fluidity barre at home and wanted to get my money worth. Once the weather was good, I would take the kids on a one mile stroller walk on the only "walkable" area in my neighborhood. Around the start of summer, I was able to go to classes at the local barre studio, <a href="http://www.thebarreky.com/" target="_blank">The Barre</a>. Unfortunately, my time at the barre has come and gone. Now, I am using barre DVDs at home, SBF streaming, and prenatal workouts on youtube. You don't need a gym to get fit though! There are so many free and streaming options available to you.<br />
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Hello! Welcome back!<br />
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Last week after I posted, I had a rough weekend and gained about 5 lbs overnight. I have also been working on more E meals. As of today, I am back down to 204 lbs which is pretty good. Most of this week my breakfasts have been baked oatmeal with eggwhites, strawberries, mushrooms, and maybe another carb or lean protein. My lunches have been E leftovers like lentil soup and chicken fried double rice. My E breakfasts packed with protein from egg whites, collagen and maybe another lean protein source has been keeping me full for 2/5-3 hours. Or just good enough. My lentil soup has been filling my belly with some lean chicken breast. I've been ending the night with a FP greek yogurt most nights. This week I have also been doing more coffee trimmies instead of cream/half and half.<br />
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This weekend we will have our boys' birthday party. I plan to make scones and jam from Trim Healthy Table. As I was waking up this morning, I was thinking of making a breakfast casserole in the morning so that no one will bother me as I clean/cook get ready for the party. I will try to make a blog post of the THM foods I will have ready for myself.<br />
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This week's meal plan is not as E heavy as it was this past week. So we will see how my weight loss/maintenance works out. I really think that my E breakfasts with plenty of protein has really helped. So I may keep that in mind. Breakfast wise, I am going to find some more easy bake E meals to change things up. I am rather intrigued at the <a href="https://www.briana-thomas.com/pumpkin-chip-muffins/" target="_blank">pumpkin chip muffins</a> from Briana's website. There is also a pumpkin oatmeal bake too but I wasn't too impressed by it the last time I made it. Another option could be the THT oatmeal to go muffins. I can add collagen in them to boost them. I know some people pre-prep the trim healthy pancakes but I haven't made them successfully in months! They have been deflating.<br />
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I realized this week that my stevia from Kroger is vile compared to <a href="https://store.trimhealthymama.com/product/pure-stevia-extract-powder-1oz-bag-2/" target="_blank">THM Stevia.</a> Hate to say it but THM stevia may be worth the price tag. Remember, if you ever want to learn more about<a href="https://trimhealthymama.com/" target="_blank"> THM</a>, the books are an absolute must to understand the entire program. I first checked the books out of the library. They own all the rights to these funny letters and sayings! I am absolutely not a THM coach. I am just a mom that wants to help others! I am absolutely not the best THMer and I have my moments of rebellion (like my splenda coffee on occassion). Rereading the plan book regarding stubborn weight gain may be illuminating for me right now! This is why I am trying to do more E's lately.<br />
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This week's sales I will try to shop will be chicken breasts (1.30 a pound) and pork chops from Sav a Lot and strawberries 2/5 from Kroger. Nothing amazing other than that.<br />
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Here is my meal plan this week:<br />
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Monday:</h3>
Breakfast-E or S<br />
Either my S breakfast of eggs or an E option like baked oatmeal or oatmeal to go muffins from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trim-Healthy-Mamas-Table-Delicious/dp/0804189986/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NB5DF1MM1KWWR77RNXQG" target="_blank">THT</a>. I really liked having prebaked options and just adding veg and protein as needed for most of this week.<br />
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Lunches are always leftovers. I always keep in mind other options when I do not have a leftover ready. Some of my options are: E sandwich, S wrap, veggies/salad, egg drop soup, and ramen. Although I haven't made those salmon patties yet!<br />
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Dinner...s (NSI which is another reason I love this cookbook)<br />
Creamy Enchiladas (from Necessary Food), I will make half or more with regular tortillas to save money and low carb ones for me and maybe a leftover for the next day. Plan to pair this with a salad<br />
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Tuesday:</h3>
See Monday for Breakfast and Lunch<br />
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Dinner...FP, S, and E options (NSI if I remember right)<br />
Sweet lime taco joes. I believe I will make this an e for me since the E meals have been awesome for me this week.<br />
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Wednesday:</h3>
See Monday for Breakfast and Lunch<br />
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Dinner....S (NSI if I remember)<br />
Crockpot buffalo chicken, veggies.<br />
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Thursday:</h3>
See Monday for Breakfast and Lunch<br /><br />Dinner...S (NSI)<br />Pork chops, veggies<br /><br /><h3>
Friday:</h3>
See Monday for Breakfast and Lunch<br /><br />Dinner....Fp, S or E (NSI if I remember)<br />Deconstructed fajitas with a salad. I will want to make this an E since I will have a lot of S meals this week. Husband will have an S most likely. He loves some avocado! I wish I did.<br /><br /><h3>
Saturday:</h3>
See Monday for Breakfast and Lunch<br /><br />Dinner...E, FP, S (if I remember, this is NSI)<br />Chicken fajita soup. I think this will be an E. Husband likes this one best with a scoop of rice to make it an E. Although when I am doing a mini fuel cycle, it's a great dinner option.<br />
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Sunday:</h3>
See Monday for Breakfast and Lunch<br /><br /><br />
Dinner...E (NSI without the slurry I may make for it)<br />Mexican rice casserole, veggies and side of beans. Will make the children's food a XO with cheese on their's. I will probably make a slurry like in Trim Healthy table to give me an E friendly topping of cheese.<br />
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This week I plan to continue to use the glow body PT schedule, add some barre or workins, hula hoop and walks. Even though I am almost 20 weeks pregnant, I am feeling so much more fit. I remember a few months postpartum after my first or second and getting out of breath after a few minutes of hooping. I won't have my next appointment till 21 weeks. So hopefully I can get back to 203 by that time although I really wanted to see how the baby was doing. It is what it is. I need to get back to calorie tracking on iTrackbites. Now I must run off and start cleaning for the babys' parties.<br />
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Videos I posted this week:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uxGpnRYrw4&t=5s" target="_blank">Weigh in Monday</a><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/_-ShtSTdgQI" target="_blank">Do I count on thm?</a><br />
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This blog post will be a little bit different than my normal ones. On Saturday, 3/9/2019, I was blessed to go to a THM Spring Meet and Greet hosted by<a href="https://from-caterpillar-to-butterfly.com/?fbclid=IwAR0oKpX24zr3JJsbKNjbXm5slRhW36u7151ls0ahUa2ErA2ljwwnUQDVr6U" target="_blank"> From Caterpiller to Butterfly THM Coach</a>, Magaly. She's also an admin in the fuel cycle and THM workins group.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brought myself a fat strippin' frappa since I had just finished working out. Super fluffy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On my way (which is just a 15 minute drive)</td></tr>
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It started with prayer once everyone was there. Magaly introduced her speakers to give testimony on how THM has worked for them. It was great because these were real people who have dealt with real issues. They aren't perfect and one person admitted she will get off plan if things go awry. It was so inspiring and amazing. They also shared their tips. Their biggest tip was meal planning. The three speakers were: Tanya (you may recognize her from the workins groups), Meredith and Jennifer. Their stories were so inspiring. Not everyone's life is perfect and yours doesn't have to be to follow Trim Healthy Mama.<br />
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After that, we ate! I was starving. The frappa that I brought wasn't enough and I was starving! I was first in line. Usually I would be embarrassed by this but pregnant lady has to eat! By the way, this frappa was so silky smooth. I did it one ice cube at a time. Usually I have chunks I don't really want.<br />
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It was so nice to be able to dig in without doing math or mental gymnastics. Most of it was probably S. The sausage balls filled my pregnant soul with joy! Although I am not sure if non pregnant I would have enjoyed the custard squares. It's hard to tell what is just a pregnancy texture issue or normal food issue. I did enjoy the chocolatey-cake-or-brownies. It would have been awesome to have labels by everything.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was so fun to be able to dig in without guilt or mental gymnastics!</td></tr>
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After that, Magaly explained her recent coaching service for a spring challenge that she is offering. I'm pregnant and my husband even said that I am "rocking this without any help." Sometimes he can be pretty sweet! After that, some people shared their tips or testimonies. I shared how I lost 65ish pounds on THM in the last year. I realized that THM has been almost the easiest and longest diet I have been on. It just seems so natural. Some people shared their tips was simple meals, prepping stuff in jars for leftovers, and how THM has healed their body. I can't really remember all the names. I was able to meet a local THMer after wards. I left a little bit after that. My head was pounding and I am pretty sure it's because I needed an E meal like desperate. Usually when I am in an S rut while nursing, it hits me like dizzy spells and pounding headaches.<br />
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I have grown out of my shell in the last 6-7 years but I realized it is still hard not to be shy in some circumstances. I probably barely talked to anyone. Also it doesn't help I am feeling very fat today. A shirt I bought four months ago that used to make me look awesome made me look super fat. Would look cute if I ever had a real bump! Sad thing is I started the day feeling awesome and skinny for a pregnant lady in my XL workout clothes after doing the workins. If I just looked pregnant, I would feel so much better about myself. I just look fatter usually.<br />
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If you ever have a chance to attend a meeting like this, you definitely should! It was so fun!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Today's workout was Handies with Glow Body PT arms/muffin top</td></tr>
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<br />Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02489659464323402950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318967148813225952.post-56344832526694155602019-03-08T08:09:00.000-08:002019-03-08T08:10:00.496-08:00Meal Plan 3/11-3/17Hello again!<br />
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This week the stomach bug hit my house hard. It started with my stepson over the weekend, toddler on Monday, Birthday Boy Preschooler on Tuesday, and Wednesday it came to a head: my husband and I. I am still in the throes of it but I am blessed with some anti-nausea meds. Plus I am hoping it's not as bad for me versus the others. The smaller kids it was mostly a 12 hour bug. I survived on plan but not on time for half of Wednesday. After I saw some crackers though, I was over it. I ate off plan and indulged. Considering I want to keep my milk supply up and provide enough nourishment to the baby, I don't feel so bad.<br />
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My husband is off keto finally! I am so happy. I went back and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trim-Healthy-Mama-Plan-Easy-Does/dp/1101902639" target="_blank">read</a> the chapter on nursing and pregnancy. Once I fully get back on plan, I plan to tweak E meals. Some of the tips for crossing mentioned using easy burning fats. I admit, I probably have been abusing cheese quite a bit. I will probably be making the fat stripping frappas and beauty milks to see if that can help me stay full after an e meal. I really feel like there is a balance that is different for every woman during this time and we have to put our detective caps on to figure it out.<br />
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If you follow me on Instagram, you may notice some crazy days coming up. My toddler will be turning two and next Saturday is the big party. I am hoping stay on plan and I have promised I will not touch a knife this time! Then again, I will restart in 3 hours if need be. Grace!<br />
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Breakfasts this week: I am still absolutely loving S meals for the morning. I am switching between Kate's Spinach Eggs and the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trim-Healthy-Mama-Cookbook-Recipes/dp/1101902663" target="_blank">Giant Omcake </a>(with extra egg since I give slices to my toddler). Since my husband is off keto, this allows me to fully enjoy them s meals. I should try to lessen the number of eggs or not use as much sausage but egh! It's a hard life. Of course, I always keep some eggwhites and oatmeal on hand for a quick E meal. My preschooler asks for oatmeal some mornings! Can you believe that? My toddler will demand for more and more breakfast quinoa. Like I always say, keep this simple and keep on hand your perfect breakfasts that fit in your life. Keep an S and an E option ready at hand.<br />
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Lunches this week: Leftovers. I really need to figure out quick and easy E meals for lunch. I just haven't bought lunch meat for a while (yes, I break that rule). Although I keep wanting to try recipes from Table and cookbook that I can't make for my husband, like the salmon patties and stuff like that.<br />
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Remember, if you ever want to learn more about<a href="https://trimhealthymama.com/" target="_blank"> THM</a>, the books are an absolute must to understand the entire program. I first checked the books out of the library. They own all the rights to these funny letters and sayings! I am absolutely not a THM coach. I am just a mom that wants to help others! I am absolutely not the best THMer and I have my moments of rebellion (like my splenda coffee this afternoon).<br />
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Here is my meal plan for this week (and as always my days are not set in stone):<br />
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Monday: (E)</h3>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trim-Healthy-Mamas-Table-Delicious/dp/0804189986/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NB5DF1MM1KWWR77RNXQG" target="_blank">Gumbo from Trim Healthy Table</a>, if you want a slight cheesy taste on this, sprinkle nutritional yeast! + a frappa<br />
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Tuesday: (E)</h3>
<a href="https://mrscriddleskitchen.com/lentil-soup-for-the-soul/" target="_blank">Lentil soup </a>with chicken on the side. If I need to XO with this one, I might add more coconut oil or something in my bowl. + a frappa<br />
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Wednesday: (S)</h3>
Pork blade steaks (if I can catch the Sav A Lot sale) with veggies. This is a great example of not needing special ingredients. Just a meat and veg and potential carb source.<br />
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Thursday: (E)</h3>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trim-Healthy-Mamas-Table-Delicious/dp/0804189986/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NB5DF1MM1KWWR77RNXQG" target="_blank">Chicken fried double rice</a> + a frappa<br />
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Friday: (FP, E, or S)</h3>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trim-Healthy-Mamas-Table-Delicious/dp/0804189986/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NB5DF1MM1KWWR77RNXQG" target="_blank">Black pepper chicken</a>, if I make it an E, I will add a frappa or beauty milk<br />
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Saturday: (S)</h3>
I don't even know if I will need to cook but I was thinking after a birthday party it would be perfect to try the<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trim-Healthy-Mamas-Table-Delicious/dp/0804189986/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NB5DF1MM1KWWR77RNXQG" target="_blank"> THT </a>Scones and Jam recipe. I would make whole wheat for the boys instead of the special ones.<br />
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Sunday: </h3>
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I am thinking either <a href="https://trimhealthymama.com/recipe/trim-train-taco-soup-fp/" target="_blank">trim healthy soup</a> or trim mac salad from the cookbook. I found grass fed beef on sale at kroger and got two pounds yesterday. So it's in the freezer all ready.</div>
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Exercise wise I will be following the Glow Body PT plan with some workins, <a href="https://suzannebowenfitness.com/ref/55/" target="_blank">SBF</a>, barre and walks. All at home in front of a computer/TV set up. As of a few days before the stomach bug, I was 205. Higher than I would prefer. I would at least like to stay at 203 for the rest of the second trimester with exercise. I am hoping to find the right balance I need to keep my weight down at a manageable pace with THM.</div>
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Although as much as I am starting this Friday back on plan and at 203, I am eating off plan on Saturday on a date with my husband. Grace and restart in three hours! Although earlier in the day, I am getting to attend a free<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1306962542790600/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22dashboard%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22calendar_tab_event%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%22[]%22%7D]%2C%22ref%22%3A1%2C%22source%22%3A2%7D" target="_blank"> THM event </a>that is in my town! I am making caramel cupcakes without the caramel sauce. I never make that. Keep things as simple as you can! </div>
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Love<br />
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<br />Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02489659464323402950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318967148813225952.post-86214769007157938872019-03-04T07:11:00.000-08:002019-03-04T07:11:30.294-08:00Meal Plan - 3/4-3/10Hello!<br />
Welcome back. I am sure there really aren't many people looking at my blog but if you are out there, hello!<br />
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This week, so far, has been good. I have been doing a bit more crossovers than lately. I did almost break my ankle again which led to a rest day. I am still fighting this cold tooth and nail! I have had a daily boost juice since the last one. I also found out that boost juice can help with nausea.<br />
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Breakfasts: Like I say in other blog posts, breakfasts tend to be the same thing for me. It's how I make THM easy for me. The current choices are eggs and spinach (from Kate's spinach eggs) but the other day I tried the omcake and was pleased! For some reason, sausage makes my morning. Life is weird like that. I actually used to only use sausage and bacon for breakfast as treats. My e options are typically oatmeal although lately I have been doing breakfast quinoa.<br />
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Lunches tend to be leftovers or my easy main meals. Like a deli sandwich and veggies. Pizza sandwich and veggies. I am struggling so much with e meals. Like I just had a S-helper and I am starved already. I also ate a maybe slightly s helper-ish and was starved when I was done eating. I guess I am going to be eating mostly s with s-helpers and xo's for the next few months? My biggest tip for anyone is to make a list of your go to easy meals for every sort of meal time. Remember your seasons may change and you may need to change your fuels through your weight loss process.<br />
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Remember, if you ever want to learn more about<a href="https://trimhealthymama.com/" target="_blank"> THM</a>, the books are an absolute must to understand the entire program. I first checked the books out of the library. They own all the rights to these funny letters and sayings! I am absolutely not a THM coach. I am just a mom that wants to help others! I am absolutely not the best THMer and I have my moments of rebellion (like my splenda coffee this afternoon).<br />
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Monday:</h3>
<a href="https://www.briana-thomas.com/creamy-chicken-gravy-over-seasoned-quinoa/" target="_blank">Creamy chicken gravy over rice...E meal</a><br />
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Let me tell you a story about this. When I was 3 months PP and pregnant with my second and third pregnancy, I worked at a daycare. Every few weeks, they would have this meal called chicken gravy over rice. So when I saw this on Briana's blog, I just started having so many memories. If it can compare to the chicken gravy at work, I will be in heaven. It is also a fuel pull. So I can have rice and husband can use cauli! I am so excited and hopeful for it!<br />
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Remember FPs are your key to surviving alternate fuels for other people in the house<br />
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Tuesday:</h3>
<a href="https://joyfilledeats.com/chicken-fajita-casserole/" target="_blank">Fajita casserole...S</a><br />
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Wednesday</h3>
Whoop Whoop soup (Trim Healthy Table Book) or zuppa soup n(Trim Healthy Cookbook) -There is a great deal on sausage rolls at my Kroger. So as much as my husband hates these two options, I will be cooking this. By the way, I love the whoop whoop and my preschooler does too. I hope he will have leftovers<br />
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Thursday</h3>
Bone in Pork chops with veggies...S (Save a lot Sale). I have a feeling I might miss this sale. I might pull out my meatballs that I am prepping tomorrow.<br />
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Friday:</h3>
<a href="https://northernnester.com/pork-tenderloin-with-mushroom-gravy/" target="_blank">FP pork tenderloin with mushroom gravy (if I don't use it this week)</a>I will eventually use this freezer meal.<br />
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Saturday:</h3>
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<a href="https://theketoqueens.com/keto-crack-chicken-recipe/" target="_blank">Crack chicken</a>....S. This is lovely on a salad or in a pita<br />
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Sunday:</h3>
Creamy dreamy Lazone (Trim Healthy Table cookbook)....S<br />
My husband calls this one poop chicken<br />
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My game plan this week is to exercise and take care of myself. I almost broke my ankle again and hurt my back in the process. I think this is a good time to work on my core and I think the Workins challenge is coming up! My goal is to be 90% on plan. I have been doing really well in that case.<br />
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I hope this helps!<br />
Love<br />
Shannon<br />
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Here are my most recent Vlogs:</h4>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SULoBl5rYzs" target="_blank">Weigh in: make THM YOURS!</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM2VGLnp_RM" target="_blank">Week 17 Update</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EprSQUM7dWI" target="_blank">How to decode your THM Plate (THM 101)</a><br />
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