A good start to the new year

[Lynda486 784]

Weighed myself this morning and finally hit my first mini goal of 50 pounds down! It took awhile, but I did it! Happy New Year all!

[GradyCat 3,695]

That's great, way to go, congratulations!

[AZhiker 2,253]

Starting my new year with exercise goals (to accomplish a rim-to-rim, one day Grand Canyon hike later in year), and expanding my menu of whole food plant based (WFPB) eating. I found a new Breakfast that I LOVE - at least until I get tired of it, but it's my go-to breakfast for now:

Breakfast - GF whole grain tortilla wrap with sauteed mushrooms/onion/tofu, mashed Beans, a smear of homemade pesto, cheese sauce made from potato and nutritional yeast, covered with salsa. And an orange from our tree. Yumminess!

(Alternate breakfast if I am going on a long bike ride or long strenuous hike: cooked Cereal (oats, quinoa, amaranth, teff, buckwheat combo), pea milk, banana and raisins.)

Lunch will be stir fry (no oil) veggies with edamame and tempeh, sesame and pumpkin seeds, roasted cashews. With cooked buckwheat (chewy like rice, but more nutrition). Mango/pear fruit cup.

Dinner will be a big bowl of nachos (baked corn tortillas, lentils, black beans, cheese sauce made from potatoes, pea milk and nutritional yeast, pico de gallo. Also a small bowl of bean chili with "cheese sauce."

Snack is oat milk yogurt with blueberries, prickly pear juice, homemade granola, slivered almonds, seeds (sunflower, barrel cactus, sesame, pumpkin), 1/2 scoop pea Protein Powder.

Grab bag always made up of raw, cut up carrots, celery, peppers, cauliflower, broccoli, butternut squash.

Beverages include Water, herbal teas, Decaf green tea. Diluted Body Armour drink on long rides/hikes.

Exercise goals this month include 6 days a weeks of 30 flights of stairs a day, at least 10,000 steps, wall pushups, weights, leg routine, stretches, and a cardio workout of biking (15-30 mi), hill hiking (5 mi) , or swimming (1/4 mi).

I am maintaining weight in low 140's, and focus now on healthy eating and exercise. I haven't counted calories in a while. I keep an eye on Protein intake and that is it. I have so much energy, no joint pain or stiffness, and never even get sore after a hard workout. So something is working right.

Edited January 1, 2020 by AZhiker