Homemade Pizza

Today we are celebrating both my husband and sons birthday!

My husband turned 43 on Tuesday but with me being sick nothing happen for him and my son will be 3 tomorrow!

On the menu...by request....fried crunchy chicken wings, honey garlic wings, pizza, chocolate cake, ice cream and cheese cake.

CRAZY!!!

I will be making a vegetable platter and fruit tray...this is my touch and not requested!!! HA!!

To make the pizza a bit healthier I am making a clean crust.

Here is the recipe I love!!!!

3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp.warm water

2 1/4 tsp. Active Yeast

1/2 tsp. Sea Salt

Mix together in a large bowl and set aside for 5 minutes.

2 cups Whole Wheat Flour

2 tbsp. Cornmeal

Stir in the dry ingredients to the wet mixture just until it sticks together.

Turn dough out onto lightly floured counter and knead for 10 minutes until the ball is smooth and elastic.

Place dough in a greased bowl, turn the dough over, cover with a clean kitchen towel.

Place the bowl in a warm spot and let rise until double. Approximately 1 hour.

Roll the dough out on a floured counter and place the rolled dough on a pizza tray, top with your favorite toppings and bake in a 450 degree oven for approximately 12-15 minutes or until bottom is brown and cheese is bubbling.

Yummy!!!!

This Week

The flu bug hit our house last Friday and has slowly made its way through all the children and myself!

My eldest daughter is today just feeling better, so it has been a quiet but messy seven days around here.

Last year we managed to not get any flu in the house so we were do for something to hit and to hit hard like it did!

I think it has been since I was pregnant with my oldest son (who is 7) that I have been as sick as I was this week! It was yucky!!!

Enough about that though!!!

My husband left yesterday to go to Southern Ontario to celebrate his Dad's 80th Birthday with the family!!!! WOW!!! 80 years, that is incredible!!!

For those that have known me for very long know that I tend to struggle with eating healthy while he is away but not this time, I feel focused and determined!

It helps that the scale is still moving in the downward direction so my motivation is to see it continue, my little peak yesterday at the scale has me down another pound so far this week.

It is much harder to stay focused when no matter what you do the scale stays the same so this scale movement is GREAT timing!

Yesterday I spent the entire day cleaning...DEEP cleaning! Washing floors, walls, corners, windows, getting rid of dust and webs, then dusting built in cabinets and organizing shelves.

It started out that I was just going to clean out the germ infested areas!!! Like the bathroom and commonly touch surfaces but because my husband is gone I had the opportunity to do it good!

Today I will hit the second level, mop and pail in hand!!!

A clean house makes me happy!

I consider my house clean...mind you it was always cleaner before I became a Mom but some the jobs I did yesterday are more of the kind that get done only a couple of times a year so this feels awesome!

Busted Through

It has been 4 days of tracking my calories and trying to eat close too 1,800 calories.

I have had awesome workouts all week long, 3 days of over 60 minutes and 3 days of over 45 minutes.

My reward????!!!!

Seeing 145.5lbs on the scale this morning!!!

That is the lowest I have been in over 10 years!!!!

I am pumped about it!!!

So that puts me at 2.5 pounds gone out of 10 for my contest with my husband....my hubby is at 3.5lbs down so we are neck and neck heading for the half way mark!!!!

Bonus Buy

Last weekend, I went to Sudbury which is the city that is closest to where I live for some shopping!

In Walmart, I came across a display of workout DVD's.....they had all different kinds but the ones that stood out to me were....can you guess???

If you guessed Jillian Michaels than you were right!

I bought her Yoga Meltdown, Banish Fat Boost Metabolism and Biggest Loser Last Chance Workout. They were each $6.83, what a steal!

I have done 2 of the 3 so far this week and I am looking forward to trying out the last one later today!

My eating has NOT been that great this week but I have been working out like a mad woman so hopefully it will even out!

I called a dietitian service yesterday that is offered through the Government of Ontario to see what they would say my calorie intake should be daily.

I have been tracking my intake on SparkPeople and everywhere I read on the Internet gives me a different number to aim for so I thought a real live person may be most helpful .....but get this, Eat Right Ontario dietitian say because I am breastfeeding and working out regularly I should be eating 2,000 calories a day!!!

I asked if I should lose weight with that amount of calories and she said with a firm tone "YES!"

I find this hard to believe.....

mentally that seems like a huge number to me and physically to consume 2,000 calories a day...that is a whack of food when I want to eat only healthy food.

I could easily get that with high calorie, rich, garbage for me kind of food, but I am not going there.

So I will stick with trying to eat 1,800 calories daily or close to that!

Free Trial

When I bought my new DVD this week, 6 Pack Six Weeks, I received a 30 day free trial for Jillian Michaels Diet and Weight Loss Support Program!!! I went for it and signed up for the No obligation trial!! after the 30 days I will decide if I like the tool enough to pay $52 for 13 weeks or not.

You journal your food and it tracks the calories, input your activity and in tracks the calories burned....there is lots of other tools too and I plan on playing around on the site a bit later today to see what all there is on it!

I love the way Jillian pushes me to do more and better with my exercise!!

She is kind of a mentor to me...like YOU guys are...it still amazes me how people I have never meet can influence and motivate me!!!

THANKS LADIES!!!!

Counting Calories Just to be Sure

The days go by so quickly!!!

I have been having some easy days of eating! I love those kind of days!!!!

As of this week I am keeping track of the amount of calories I am eating in a day while eating clean food becasue I want to make sure that I am not eating too many calories.

It is easy to consume a lot of calories in the yummy variety of clean food I eat...I know it is all life giving foods but I am thinking that this is why I hav

e been at a stand still for the last couple of months, my weight fluctuates between 149-146 weekly!

So I am again experimenting and trying to figure out this weight loss puzzle!

I am trying to keep by calories between 1600 - 1800 calories daily.

The other new thing for me is I bought a new workout DVD.

6 Pack in Six Weeks by Jillian Micheals.

Its a good one!!! It targets the core...which is a weak spot for me....but not after this program is done!

I would love to have abs like that!!!

UPDATE!!!!!

I just finished Day 2 of this DVD......I feel it in my legs, abs, back and obliques!!!

Totally Awesome Feeling!!

I love this feeling, I can't explain it but I love it! (laughs at self!)

Game On

My husband and I are in a nice friendly competition!!!!

We both want to lose 10 pounds and so to push each other along a little harder we have placed a reward for the first person to achieve this goal!!!

The winner will have $200 to use in what ever way they want and of course the best part is that said winner will have big bragging rights too!!!

Of course, I am going to win....we all know that!!!!

My husband tells me, the worst part about me saying what I just said is "I am going to have to eat humble pie in the end!"....we will see how eats pie!!! lol