Temptation and Choices

Hello fellow fitness friends!

Okay so today was a great food day!  I had my Shakeology for breakfast, as usual, chocolate peanut butter banana shake...YUMM!  I packed a pear for my am snack, my own southwest chicken salad (recipe to come later this month) and eggplant lasagna, which is still in the perfecting stages.  Now I have a job that often finds me on the road, so lunch isn't always easy for me, especially since I have made my new year's resolution to avoid fast food at least until we leave for our honeymoon...I may not be able to go 2 days on the road without eating something from a drive-thru, but until then I have the control!  :-)  So today I had a meeting with one of my clients and he chose to meet for lunch at Wendy's...yeah not ideal for me especially today.  I LOVE Wendy's spicy go wraps, but they are terrible, like just about everything else from Wendy's and any other fast food place.  So I decided to compromise.  I brought my salad with me, purchased a small chili, which was 210 calories with 6 grams of fat vs the 340 calories in the snack wrap and 16 grams of fat!  The salad and chili were more than enough, I couldn't even finish them! I was really proud of myself for being able to go out and eat something from the menu without compromising my goals and health.  Score 1 for team Leslie!  My eggplant lasagna ended up being my very satisfying pm snack, coming in at a whopping 186 calories for 1/4 of the lasagna it was a hefty, yet light snack!  I will be posting that recipe for you by the end of the month, I have a few things that I need to tweak before I release it to the masses!  Best part of that lasagna!? It has CHEESE.  Oh I love cheese!  I am really trying to find ways to keep some of the healthier foods I love, like cheese, in my diet without going overboard....I'm a work in progress.  My other new year's resolution only eating order in pizza 1x per month...right now I eat it about 1x per week.  I have a serious addiction to pizza.  I have found some healthier ways to make it at home, but it's not quite the same.  In the other blog, Finding Fitness I did a great pizza comparison, comparing the big chains to each other, for the "healthiest" pizza you can order...still not as good for you as something you make at home!  Okay, enough rambling.  I am buying ChaLEAN Extreme tomorrow...SUPER excited about that!  As you can tell from my pictures on this blog...I love Chalene Johnson, she changed my life and continues to motivate me to be better, healthier and more fit every day.  I have set my ultimate rewards to this...1. When I reach my ultimate goal weight of 130lbs I will become a Turbo Instructor 2. When I get my stomach to look more defined I will get my special side tattoo.  I really want both of these so I am going to work really hard to get them!!  I worked out for 45 minutes today, doing Turbo Fire, one of my all time fave workouts and it made me even more excited to do ChaLEAN Extreme!  I have to go get myself a set of weights this weekend...fun stuff!  Now I just need to set myself some short term rewards...I am looking to lose the last 30lbs and get to my ultimate goal, but I also want to tone and lessen the flab left over from my heavier days.  Some days I think about taking the easy way out and then I remember how awesome it feels to tell people I lost 100lbs without surgery, liposuction or any supplements/pills.  I know what it feels like to watch my body change, to feel it change, to take pride in what I did and more importantly, seeing what I'm capable of.  Our bodies are AMAZING and the things you can do when you push and work are incredible.  I'm rambling again.  Oh dear. Moving on.  :-)

I have decided to be a bit of a tease with the recipes, Friday I will post one of my favorite dinners and some great shopping tips and tricks for those of you who are just starting to be/eat/shop healthier.  Next week I'll share my favorite lunch!


Hope you had a fun, fit and fabulous day too!

Let Every Move You Make Be An Expression Of Your Divinity!