Grilled chicken and onions

Grilled chicken and onions
4oz chicken breast
2.5oz white onion cut into wedges
1.5oz lettuce of choice
Seasonings of choice
Frank's hot sauce

Mix and sprinkle seasonings on both sides of chicken breast, grill chicken until done.
With onions in wedges, separate each layer, add to a skillet with a little water and cover with lid. Cook on medium heat until onions are soft. Uncover, add as much Frank's as you like and cook until the pan is dry. This is my faux-grill technique for onions.

Prepare a plate if lettuce and add chicken and onions. Serve with more Frank's as desired.

Chicken, onions and tomatoes

Chicken onions and tomatoes

4oz raw chicken breast
4oz raw tomatoes and onions (total, proportioned how tot wish)
water
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Bragg's liquid amino

Add water, garlic powder, onion powder, and Bragg's to a pan. Cook chicken through. Remove chicken. Add veggies and cook until down, reducing the sauce.
Chop chicken place in bowl with veggies and cooking liquid.

Enjoy!

Iced coffee

Iced coffee

One cup favorite non flavored coffee
Ice
Sweet leaf

Option 1: fill glass with ice and pour coffee over, sweeten as desired
Option 2: Add all ingredients in blender and blend.

*you are showed I've Tbs whole milk but I don't add that in.

Great afternoon pick me up

Strawberry smoothie

Strawberry smoothie

6-9 medium strawberries, fresh or frozen
1oz omni 4
vanilla creme sweet leaf (optional)*
Ice
Water, enough to make it move in blender

Add all ingredients in blender and blend.

*Other sweet leaf flavors can be used.
**any approved fruits can be used or can be omitted for a great pick me up sweet treat when you don't have any fruit servings left

Strawberry melba

Strawberry Melba

6-9 medium strawberries chopped
Sprinkle of stevia
Sprinkle of cinnamon
1 melba crushed

Add strawberries, stevia, and cinnamon in a microwaveable bowl. Microwave on high for 1-2 minutes. Remove carefully will be VERY hot. Add crushed melba.

The melba soaks up the juice from the strawberries making the melba much easier to eat. My favorite breakfast so far

Omnitrition and buffalo chicken wraps

I started a huge life style change last week. And i will explain it more when kids are sleeping and I've got time. I will be posting my recipes here, mainly for personal reference but also to help my friends who are in this journey with me figure out "what's for dinner".

Tonight was buffalo chicken wraps.
I typically cook in increments of two so I have one meal for the next day or if the hubby gets hungry.

So:

8oz chicken
Gallic powder
Onion powder
Salt to taste
Water
Franks hot sauce
Minced onion
Diced tomato
Cabbage leaf, or lettuce of choice

I boil my chicken in a very shallow pan of water, sprinkle on seasonings. When chicken is done I shake in Franks hot sauce, to personal preference.

When done I weigh my meat and divide by two. 8oz raw for me was 6.1 cooked.

Store one serving for future use.

Get a nice sized leaf from you lettuce of choice. Weigh it.
Then chop up your onion and tomato.

Add onion and tomato in your lettuce leaf until it equals 4oz and then add chicken. Add Franks to taste and enjoy!

Yummy, easy, and omni good!

Bathroom makeover

So back in July we bought a trailer. Not our ideal dream home...but we we're young and having just had baby 2 needed a place of our own. So we bought a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom trailer, around 1200sq ft.

And we own it!

So that brings along all repairs, all upgrades, and all problems. First week we HAD to get a new toilet for the master bath...on us. Neither of us had ever installed a toilet before! But with great instruction reading skills and a great pair of hands we got it done!
We also did siding and a new deck in the first month.

Then! We decided to tear out our kitchen cabinets, which consisted of 6 small ones, and the built in desk and a build floor to ceiling pantry and new cabinets over the stove. Then winter came so we have the basics done but no doors, not all of the shelves, and no paint on them.

So then we took a few months off, besides painting a little. And then the main bath toilet stopped flushing! So we decided to redo that while bath. Talk about a kick in the rear! So we laid new floors (peel and sick vinyl), painted, put the new toilet in and decided the countertop didn't "go"with the new and improved bathroom. So we tore the while thing off...

Now I'm in the process of painting piece after piece of wood to install the new mirror frame, the countertop, backslash, and trim work. Most of it is done, now it just beds installed.
Oh and we will be replacing this ugly ruin of the mill light fixture too!

I do have a few before pictures on my actual camera. When everything is done I will be sure to post both.

New year, new me.

I know we've heard it before, my new years resolution is to loose weight and become healthier. Well yes that happens to be on the agenda. We have a wedding in April to attend and may take a venture down to good old Mexico in the process.  Ya see if you think America is harpy on being thin and skinny...Mexico is way worse. I sat way worse because it doesn't matter who you are they will tell you what they think about how you look.
7 months after having our son I went down because my father in law was super sick (he passed away while we were there), I hasn't list but 15lbs since having the baby. When I left the first time I weighed in around 185lbs, I really truly believe I wear my weight well, I was in a size 12, looking and feeling great! But I was pregnant and gained 65lbs+ when I gave birth I weighed 250lbs. 7 months later 235lbs :(
It want until the following year, 19 months after having the baby I decided I needed to lose weight, I lost 30lbs in 3 months by exercise alone. That was December 2010.
Well fast forward to May 2012, I was 9 months pregnant with our daughter, topped out at 224. Lost the entire amount I had gained with her within 2 months...now Jan 2013 I weigh what I did right before having her :(
BB just started preschool and so I started the gym. Every day he goes to school I drag my behind to the gym. No much to report on the scale but I feel better and I can see little changes, which helps me continue.

Don't wait for inspiration, be inspiration!