Day 35-Zac's Stir Fry Recipe!

A couple of people have asked me what Z (Zac, my husband) does for his stir fry. He really likes making it so we have it quite a bit. I really don't mind because it tastes really good and best of all I dont have to cook lol. So here it is.

Zac's Stir Fry

Recipe:
1 Lb or Grass-Fed sirloin or skirt stake
Himalayan sea salt
Fresh ground pepper
Soy Sauce
1 Tbs. Grapeseed oil
2 Cloves of chopped garlic
medium sided yellow onion
OPTIONAL: Green and red peppers, carrots, asparagus, green beans, snow peas, etc.

-Slice sirloin into strips and season with Himalayan salt, ground pepper, and soy sauce. Let it marinate in a bowl while you chop your yellow onion in julienne slices.
-In saute pan heat 1 tablespoon of grapseed oil on medium heat then add 2 chopped cloves of garlic. Add julienned slices of onion to the pan and cook until tender. You can also add other veggies too!
-In separate pan, cook marinated sirloin until desired done-ness. Than add the cooked onion mixture to the sirloin and serve over rice!

Here's the things I did today and look at my super cute girl!!


Workout: We walked a good 4 miles I would say.

Food:
Breakfast-Cereal with almond milk
Lunch-Smoothie
Snack-Pretzel bites
Dinner-Grilled Chicken Salad

Daddy and Jilli doing some Bonding over the Ohio State Game!

  

Day 33 and 34-Mourning Migrains

So I've been in a little bit of a rut lately and not really motivated to do a ton of things. My migraines are getting a little debilitating and enabling me to do simple tasks such as getting out of bed before 10 am, Seeing straight, walking without wanting to pass out, wanting to eat, etc. I have been suffering and been diagnosed with Chronic Migraines and possibly Fibromyalgia for a few years now but sometimes I just want to throw my hands up and say i'm done! Having daily headaches that turn into Migraines for 5 days on end is really tiring. I've had several lumbar punctures, eyes checked, CT scans, MRI's, the works! I just learn to live with the debilitating constant pain, not just in my head but all over my body. I'm so grateful for my husband that can see the ever present pain and who can help with the things I've lacked in. Doing the dishes, making me food, changing jillian's poopy diapers because she wont poop in the potty anymore, everything! I LOVE him and i'm so grateful he's here to share my life with even if sometimes it seems too hard. If you pray, please send a prayer my way that i'll be able to have some energy to get back on track with my goals and feel better! Thanks and I love y'all! Oh but on a bright note jillian decided to do her make-up again. This time mommy got pictures!

Green, blue, purple and pink eye-shadow! 

Her pretty-pretty!

day 33:

Workout: None

Food:
Breakfast-Banana
snack-Banana and watermelon
Dinner-Chicken spaghetti with Garlic Ciabatta bread

P.S. We had the missionaries from our church over this day!

Day 34:

Workout: None

Food:
Breakfast-Banana, strawberry and clemintines
Lunch-Turkey sandwich on EZ(Ezekeal) bread with carrots and watermelon
Dinner-Burger on EZ Bread with asparagus. (idk what and how z prepared and cooked it.

Breakfast!

 Dinner!

Day 32-Happy Day!

So I LOVE getting things in the mail that I order. Its like CHRISTMAS every time I get a box! If you know anything about me you know that I get really good deals by buying smart and finding the diamonds in the rough by looking through what some people call Junk! I love to shop at goodwill and other thrift stores to find those diamonds and ive really scored well. Anyways, because were able to save in some areas we are able to splurge in other areas. We were able to get an AWESOME blender for over 50% off NEW!!! We're so excited to test it out and play with all the different things it can do. We can make our own Peanut butter or almond butter, Mill our own flours, grind our own meat, SO many possibilities! Cant you tell how excited I am!!! Anyways if you have any juicing ideas please send them my way. Jillian LOVES green juices so im just so happy that we will be able to make them fresh everyday!

Im so excited to use it!!! But my first thought was this would make some AWESOME milkshakes!

Workout: Core Cardio and Balance

Food:

Breakfast-WW English muffin with fruit

Lunch-Protein Shake

Snack-Apple, cheese stick

Dinner-Pesto chicken with little Garlic Potatoes

Day 31-Making my Heart skip a beat!

So as you can tell by some of my other blog posts my daughter is quite "Adventurous!" She keeps me on my toes and there's always something new and different she does everyday! Today she decided to push and open our outside gate outside. She wiggled it back and forth until it opened. Let me preface that she went through 3 things in order to finally be free. One Gate located to get out of her room, One front door that was LOCKED but again she wiggled it until it unlocked(we've always had a problem with our front door and they have tried to fix and replace it) and then the gate leading to the rest of the world. I realized that she was gone again, after I got out of the shower. I noticed that she put her portable potty right next to the gate in her room. So when she didn't answer when I called I went into her room and looked around the house. The front door was closed so I didn't think she went outside. But I finally realized that she was loose when I saw the white gate open outside(pic 3). I quickly got some clothes on and ran outside without shoes. Remember those blisters I got like the first day of doing my blog? She ran out that day too and that's how I really got those blisters. So again, I now have blisters on my feet but also so thankful that I found her. I was power walking all around the apt complex which is quite big. There are 2 sides of complexes and several different units all within the area. We are familiar with going to the pool and I Often let her run to the gate by the pool so I figured I would start there. I walked and walked and walked and finally found her in a neighbors patio talking to herself carrying a bunch of pop-tabs and rocks she found. I was praying as I walked and pleading that she was safe. Our neighborhood Backs up to a baseball field and the front of the complex is on a really busy road. I was walking the outskirts of the complex hoping she didn't go out to the busy road. This is actually her 3rd time getting out. The very first time was when we first moved in and she shimmied the door open and we had them fix it. We found her with an old lady with a bunch of little kittens. The second time was when I got those blisters and 2 girls (about 10 and 14) who were swimming in our pool actually helped me find her. And then this was the third time. Our neighbors are really nice and helpful, Its a really nice neighborhood and they screen people quite extensively before they move in. I hope there isn't a 4th time and were doing everything to ensure it doesn't happen again but im not perfect and I cant always account for people opening the gate like the delivery man, maintenance, etc. She is very active and a smart girl who waits for opportune moments to plan and devise things. Shes also Super Fast!  

This is the whole Apt Complex. The Yellow line is the Super Busy Road(Parker Road). Then there is actually a road between the 2 Complexes dividing the 1 bedroom buildings(higher right ones) the 2 bed 2 baths(lower right, Long buildings) and then dividing is a road between those buildings and the left side buildings 2 Bed 1 Bath (the ones on the Left). I hope that makes sense. 

This is the gate into her bedroom that I had set up. She added the Portable Toilet to be able to get her legs over the gate and jump down! (re-created.)

Then there was our front door and then this Gate that she wiggled back and forth until it opened. 

Workout: Power Walking for about 30 min trying to find her!!!!

Food:

Breakfast-WW English Muffin with peanut butter, fruit and green juice.

Lunch-Protein Shake

Snack-Banana

Dinner-Grass-fed Ground Sirloin with feta cheese, S&P, Garlic, Green onions on Ezekiel bread with baked Asparagus.

Breakfast!

Dinner!

Day 30-Little Tornado!

So people I guess don't believe me when I say that Jillian makes a mess fast. They always say, "well weren't you watching her?!?!" No I don't watch her at all, in fact, I leave her in the house all by herself while I go run errands and get my nails done! Come on people, Seriously? I leave for a second to go potty or wash my hands or plug in my phone or answer the door or fix jill a snack and its like a tornado went off. This "little" tornado was done in a little less than 20 min TOPS while I was doing the dishes. I say "Little" because shes actually done worse before and made not only messy with toys but messy with POOP too! :)

 TORNADO DESTRUCTION:

AFTER!!!!

                               

   NICE
                 AND
         CLEAN

 



Workout: I cleaned instead of doing my Recovery Core Cardio and Balance


Food:
Breakfast-Cereal with a banana
Lunch-Protein Shake
Snack-Banana and granola
Dinner-Zac's Stir-Fry and Asparagus

Please don't judge me for using a Christmas Plate!

Day 29-Recovery Week

So this week is Recovery week. Apparently you should let your body rest a little when doing hard Cardio over a longer period of time. But I got to say that even the Recovery DVD was hard. So im not sure how effective the rest will be especially with a 3-year-old! She def keeps me on my toes and questions my sanity hourly lol. She decided though that she would marinate the carpet in her room with the whole Garlic and Herb seasoning bottle, to make it nice and fresh smelling. We literally just bought it and she just decides to dump the whole thing! Ridiculous! But she does have a sweet side to match that fiery side. While still doing laundry today she decides to Leap onto the pile of clean clothes and says,"I go night-night!" I then drop the clothes I just ran through the dryer on top of her and she says, "Awe, nice and warm!" shes so silly but we love her!

Workout: Core Cardio and Balance.

Food:
Breakfast-Banana and WW English Muffin with Peanut Butter
Lunch-Protein Shake
Snack-Banana and Apple
Dinner-Pesto Chicken with little cute Rosemary Garlic Potatoes

Day 28-Chicken Veggieloaf Recipe

So ive had a lot of requests for my Chicken Veggieloaf Recipe I made on Day 23(http://thewilliamsonwildlings.blogspot.com/2014/08/day-23-emergencies.html). So I thought I would post it so others can try and see if they like it too. I am a work on the fly type Chef in my kitchen and I usually throw things all together to make my dish. There isn't a specific recipe when I cook. So these are just guesstimates and can be adapted with other ingredients.

Chicken Veggieloaf

1 Lb. Ground Chicken(breast meat)
1 Tbl. Mustard(you can use any type)
2 tsp. Himalayan Salt
pepper
2 tsp. Garlic Powder
2 tsp. Onion Powder
1 to 1-1/2 Cup Flax Meal(may need more)
1/2 Cup Steel Cut Oatmeal
1 Squash(I used a yellow one but you can use a zucchini or both!)
3 Carrots
5 Garlic Cloves
1 Cup Cabbage(we had a coleslaw mix that had cabbage and carrots so i just took about a cup of that)
1 medium size white Onion
1 Red Pepper
1 Egg or egg substitute
Ketchup on top
Coconut spray

-You can either put everything in a large bowl or put it in your Kitchenaid mixer to mix it if you don't like touching meat.
-Place first 8 ingredients in the bowl and mix.
-With a grater grate the squash, carrots, garlic cloves, white onion and red pepper over the meat mixture. Their juices will help bind the mixture so you'll use less eggs.
-After veggies are grated throw in the cabbage and mix really good.
-If its kinda crumbly and doesn't really hold a shape throw and egg in there.
-Place the mixture in a greased(I used coconut spray) pan.
-On top of the meat mixture, ice the top of it with ketchup.
-Bake at 350 for about 25-30min or until it reaches an internal temp of 165


***I found it kinda bland the first time I made it and was thinking about what kind of sauce I could put with it. Zac suggested Ketchup so we will have to try it next time!***




Here's what I did and ate today...

Workout: Plyometric Cardio Circuit

Food:
Breakfast-Banana and Cereal
Lunch-Protein Shake
Snacks-Banana
Dinner-Zacs Stir Fry with Asparagus