This past week was week 1 of our new diet/exercise program. We both always feel like around the holidays we eat way to much and thought it would be a good time to start a diet. We have both been wanting to start eating healthier and workout more consistently. So after we looked at tons of programs, we found one through the Mayo Clinic and it is perfect for both of us. It is a very realistic diet and lets everyone have their own unique plan. There is a main book with the diet plan and every food and its calories in it. And then it comes with a journal that goes along with the book and program, which makes things a lot easier.
It isn't one of those diets that tells you to cut out everything bad... because really that isn't realistic. It works on portion control and bases everything from the food pyramid. It gives you a limit to how much sugars, carbs, protein, etc you can have in a day and you can eat what you want just as long as you don't go over your limit. You also have to recored everything you eat and your workouts. Its been great and we both have found ourselves eating a lot healthier and turning down sugars. We both love fruit and always have a lot of it on hand.
This program has also made us more aware of what we eat and what we buy at the store. The diet is divided into two phases and the first phase is 2 weeks long, which is what are in now. It is suppose to be the hardest and it breaks you off all your bad eating habits and give you better ones. So what you can eat at first is very strict! Its been tough, but after these first 2 weeks, it gets easier.
We have also started up P90X again. We started it once before, but I didn't like it! Ha! I am enjoying it a lot more this time and I think maybe because last time we did it, it was summer, and I would have much rather been working out outside. But now that it is cold, this isn't so bad and is a great work out to do at home.
Thursday we went shopping for Angel Tree. We adopted a 12 year old boy named Christian. Mitch and I always have such a good time doing this and it was a lot of fun to shop for him. But the main thing he wanted was a bike! Mitch enjoyed picking out a bike for him!
When we got home, all of our calendars we made our grandparents had came in! They all turned out so good!
That night I finished up wrapping them while we watched the Grinch. I finally have all the presents wrapped and ready to go!
We have been trying to make healthier meals at home and they have turned out pretty good! The other night we made chicken fajitas with veggies and they turned out really good. We also used a spinach herb tortilla and we were kinda leery of it. I use them to make wraps a lot but we had never used them for fajitas, but it was very good! We also made salmon the other night and for the first time grilling it, Mitch did such a good job! It was delicious!!
After dinner, we were going to go ice-skating, but it ended up being too late. They put in a ice rink up on the square. It's so cute and they have a huge screen that they play movies on while you ice-skate. It was such a good idea and I hope we can find a time to go. Mitch and I would go every year in OKC, and we always have a good time! But instead we spend the evening looking up more stuff to do in Nashville. We have found so many fun things to do, but I think we are most excited about the concert! Mitch and I have been on lots of vacations together, but this is our first real vacation just us two! We have been on little road trips with each other, but this is the first time we get to plan a big trip and experience it together. We love going on vacations with our families, but it has been exciting to do this for the first time just Mitch and I.
Mitch worked yesterday and I taught my last tennis class until next year! I enjoy teaching, but I just don't like that it is on Saturdays. I feel like we are always planning around it, since it is right in the middle of the weekend. But I get a break until January, so that will be nice. We are so busy these next few weeks! After we get back from Tennessee, we head to Tulsa for Christmas, and then we go back to Tulsa the following Thursday for New Years!! Mitch has a bachelor party New Years Eve... so I am going to get to spend the evening with one of my best friends and newly engaged couple!!!
So this brings me to a more exciting note.... my roommate from college got engaged this weekend!!! I am super excited for them! Congratulations Katie and Tommy! I am sad I won't get to see her this weekend, so you and Tommy need to make a trip to Bentonville in the near future!!
Last night after our workout, Mitch took me out to eat at Outback! We love going out to eat and usually try and go out on a date once a week. Since we are on the diet, it was a challenge to order healthy stuff, but it actually turned out pretty good. Our book that we are following suggested to ask the waiters at restaurants if they have any healthier options of cooking our food. So we ended up getting all our food cooked in oil and not butter. It tasted the same and needless to say we enjoyed our dinner!
Well I hope you all are having a relaxing Sunday. We have a busy, but exciting week ahead!
Oh and I was going to share one of my favorite Christmas albums with y'all! Mitch introduced me to them awhile ago, and I had forgot all about them! They are called Straight No Chaser and they are an acapella group that put a twist on songs. It is ten guys and they started out as a group of friends in college doing it for fun and one of their videos got out on youtube and they ended up getting a record deal. I am in love with their Christmas songs!! Look them up on itunes or youtube!! All of their songs are awesome but, their version of 12 Days of Christmas is so cool!!
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