Monday, February 28, 2011

Four hour body.

Today we started the the four hour body diet.

Basically, it's five rules.
1. No white carbohydrates, or anything that can be white (i.e. brown rice, ww bread)
2. Eat the same few meals over and over again
3. Don't drink calories (except red wine :)
4. Don't eat fruit
5. Once a week "go nuts"

There's more to it, obviously but that's basically it. Lots of beans and eggs and meat and veggies.
Some friends of ours are doing it and think it's the best thing ever - my mom is even doing it and said she lost 8 pounds in 6 days.

Anyway I'm going to blog about it since I never blog anymore.

Here's what I ate for breakfast:
2 scrambled eggs, 3 slices of turkey bacon, a couple handfuls of spinach, and about 1/2 cup of cannelini beans, all scrambled up together with a little salt and pepper.

coffee with cinnamon in it
lots of water (one .5 liter bottle and 2 pints so far)

lunch, because I'm lazy:
some baby carrots
trader joe's punjab eggplant (eggplant, tomatoes, onions, sunflower oil, pumpkin, garlic, salt, coriander, chili, cumin, turmeric, ginger, cloves) with cannelini beans thrown in

dinner is going to be chicken fried faux-rice.
- 1 med head White Cauliflower
- 1 large boneless skinless chicken breast
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 tsp olive or favorite oil
- 2 Tbls Soy Sauce (low sodium preferred)
- 1 Tbls Fresh Grated Ginger
- 1 Green Onion chopped including the green
- 5 spice
- 1 cup water

except I'll probably double that and I'm adding some chopped cabbage and other veggies.

**Update!**



I used three chicken breasts, three eggs, and added celery, carrots, shallots, cilantro, crimini mushrooms, a ton of garlic, and a little fish sauce. it was awesome!

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Soccer Ben!



Ben loved Spring Soccer so we signed him up for Fall soccer, too. Fall soccer is less laid back and more "real" and he's doing great! He had his first game on Saturday and he was awesome. He's into it and plays hard, stole the ball a few times, and even made a goal :)



Sunday, August 15, 2010

Summer went fast.

I know it's not actually over yet, but tonight we did Ben's school shopping (online, thanks Old Navy!) and I just realized Ben starts school again in 22 days. 21 now, since today is basically over!! yikes.

Ben is going to be a first grader. That's exciting. Liam's 1 1/2 and saying all kinds of things.

Video from tonight..... In case you don't speak Liam, he said the baby is sad because it's outside, he doesn't know where the airplane went, and the dog went nightnight. Also, Pppplbbbht.

Our neighbors had a baby a couple weeks ago, and whenever she is outside and makes a cute little newborn noise Liam LOVES to talk about the sad baby.



Ben at his first real baseball game


It's been a pretty laid back summer. Jason has been busy with his new company (11 Bridges! Awesome! Yay Jason!) and I've been busy with the lawyering, and it's been going by way too fast.

Laura is getting married this weekend. And then we get to go see Bob Dylan and John Cougar Mellencamp at Edgefield, then we're going to try and squeeze in one more beach weekend before it's school time again. Fun times....

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Oh right, blogging....

Hello blog. How are you? I've been busy and have neglected you. So first, here's a cute dancing baby video.


Update on life - I started my own law firm! Fun! Also, why I haven't blogged. Jason made me a fancy website because he is awesome... and I'm getting busier and busier.

Also, we moved in March! We love the new place, and the boys love their new (shared!!) room and fun bunk bed.



The boys have grown a ton since I last blogged, and it's funny to see that picture of them in Liam's first b-day video below looking so little!!! Ben's almost done with Kindergarten, they get out June 15. And Liam is 1 1/2 now. Crazy!

Aren't they adorable?


Ben played soccer this spring and loved it


See that cute little red scar on Liam's head? He tripped and cut his head open on the coffee table :( 5 stitches, and it was very sad!!!! He's a little bam-bam, and climbs on everything.


Actually, they are both pretty crazy. and weird....


Random picture of the cousins watching a movie together.


Monkey.


Ben does not want a haircut. He's a skater now. Or Justin Bieber. Or something :)


So cute.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Happy Birthday, Liam.

I can't believe my baby is one.



Jason made this video, and showed it at Liam's party last night (he actually turned one on the 10th). It made me cry just a little....

Link to all the b-day party pics