I’ve been lovin’ Body for Life so far.  It’s really just a sensible, healthy diet with a little more protein kicked in.  It’s great.  It really hasn’t been too hard either (granted I’m only on day #2!)

I told you guys about some of things I ate for breakfast and my morning snack yesterday.  Well, I made a very yummy wrap for lunch yesterday too.  It was awesome.  I had some leftover BBQ chicken in the freezer, so I pulled that out and put it in my wrap (on a Flatout) along with some spinach, tomato, avocado, mustard and a little balsamic vinegar.

Super yummy, satisfying and filling.  Love it.

Later on, I made myself a Chocolate Almond Protein Shake and drank it on my way to the gym.  It was so good.  I really love almond extract; just a few drops make a shake heavenly!

I didn’t take a picture of it because I was in a hurry to get to the gym, but y’all know what my protein shakes look like. 😉

When I got home, I made tacos for dinner.  The kids and Kev enjoyed theirs on corn tortillas and I made mine into a fantastic taco salad!

This salad included romaine lettuce, turkey taco meat, kidney beans, a little shredded cheddar, tomatoes, avocado, a little lite sour cream, salsa verde (love!) and some Food Should Taste Good chips crunched on top (maybe 5 or 6.)

I really loved this salad.  All of the flavors tasted so good together!  I especially loved the kidney beans, salsa verde and the crunch of the chips on top.

Later on, I was going to have some protein pudding, but I wasn’t super hungry.  I decided to have a little Skinny Pop popcorn and a few Butter Toffee Blue Diamond almonds instead.  It tasted so good and was the perfect little sweet treat.

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I’ve been using the My Fitness Pal app to keep track of all my food.  It’s a little bit of a pain to type in everything I eat, but it’s so helpful to see the calorie count and protein/carb amounts of all the food.

I told you guys yesterday that I wanted to find a more accurate way to measure my protein and carb intake, right?  Well, after researching the web a little bit, I found that a lot of people doing Body For Life counted the grams of protein and carbs.  They still used the “palm of the hand or closed fist” measurements to eyeball the amount of food to eat, but also tried to get a certain amount of protein and carbs in every day.

I also read that the general rule of thumb is to try to eat as many grams of protein and carbs as you weigh.  For example, if you weigh 125 pounds, you would try to eat 125 grams of protein and 125 grams of carbs per day.  I liked that theory and decided to adopt it.

Last night, after I had entered all of my food into My Fitness Pal, I was happy to see that my numbers were pretty dang good.  I consumed 1613 calories, 143 grams of carbs and 145 grams of protein.  I also burned a bunch of calories at the gym last night.  “My Fitness Pal” estimated that I burned about 562 calories, but I think it was more like 700-800 or even more.

I went to my Boot Camp class last night and seriously had my butt handed to me.  It was such a hard class.  We did mega mega cardio most of the time with some crazy hard toning and ab work mixed in.  It was crazy.  I was dying and was sure I was going to puke or pass out at any second.  Loved it.

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This morning I decided to make myself a little breakfast egg sandwich on a whole wheat English Muffin.

This was so good that I think I’ll have it for breakfast every day until my English Muffins are gone.  I toasted my muffins and then topped them with scrambled eggs (1 egg + 4 egg whites), a little low sugar ketchup, tomatoes, and avocado.  It was a little messy to eat, but so tasty.

Oh, and these are the English Muffins I used…

Oh, and my 5 year old ate his breakfast with me this morning too.  I asked him what he wanted and he said he wanted “two pancakes stacked on top of each other.”  I pulled out two leftover pancakes from the freezer and toasted them up for him.  After I made them and cut them up, he was so impressed and happy to have “stacked” pancakes.  He said, “Aren’t you going to take a picture of my food mom?”  He then said, “I want all the people on your blog to know how flippin’ good these are.”

I laughed so hard.  Soooo, here ya go…

He is such a hoot.

This is what I had for my morning snack,

I pulled three chocolate protein pancakes out of the freezer and topped them with a little natural peanut butter, fruit and sugar free syrup.  I usually only have two pancakes, but these were small so I decided to have three. 😉

Later on, I made myself a taco salad for lunch.  I used BBQ chicken for the meat instead of taco meat though.

It was very similar to the one I had for dinner last night, but I didn’t add any cheese.

Well, I’m getting ready to head to the gym in a sec.  I’m going to a fun muscle class tonight.  I’m just not feelin’ the “weight room vibe” tonight, so I decided to go to a class instead. 🙂

I’m planning on making homemade pizza for the kids before I leave and a protein shake for me, so I better jam!

Have a great night!