Day 29....

 It has been a couple of days since I stopped by. I have been doing well. Just didn't really know what else to write except "doing good and enjoying my produce".  But then I remind myself that the whole point of these posts are so that I can keep track of my ups and downs.

I have crested over the hardships of the dreaded 21st day, which for some reason has always been a hard thing for me to overcome whenever creating a new habit. Now I am nearing day 40 and I read in different areas that it takes 40 days to build and create a new habit.

I have to confess that while I am working hard at not making this a thing to idolize and take up all of my thoughts, it of course takes up a lot of my thoughts as I learn and figure new ways of doing things. I have also noticed that the past few days as I let myself do things like have that piece of cheesecake on the ship, that the carb cravings and emotional "I wants" are knocking at the door of my mind.

While I am trying hard to remember to not EVER let myself have and do things, I also don't want ot all of a suddewn wake up and find that all of my victories are gone because of my own lazy thinknig.
Sigh...each day is a new day and I trust You God for your guidance.

Yummies of the day....
This morning I brewed a pot of organic coffee. Wow! Funny how things change with perspective. When my wonderful and ever encouraging beach friend shared with me 6 months ago a place that made organic grounds I didn't see the value of it. But now I am sold.

Once I had my glass of water, cup of coffee and second glass of water; I opened the 2nd half of a smoothie I made yesterday. It was so good! This blender batch was as follows....

1 banana

1 avocado

1 apple

2/3 cup orange juice

1/4 cup lemon juice (to help fight discoloration)

3 red chard leaves

3 handfuls of ice

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Later in the evening....

It is late in the evening now but I wanted to share what we did for dinner.  The girls had been craving mexican food and I brainstormed about what to do that could be yummy but not taxing on my husband's new low sodium plan.

I looked online for a low salt enchilada sauce recipe and then created everything else myself.
For the filling I used a rinsed batch of low salt black beans and rinsed batch of low salt kidney beans. I sauteed an onion and cooked up 3/4 cup of Basmatti rice. I also added a couple of handfuls of shredded cheese and part of the enchilada filling. It took some doing at the grocery store but I finally found that the brand "Don Pancho" is a tortilla that is low in sodium while being high in protein and fiber.

Below is the sauce recipe if you are interested. I doubled the batch to make a 9x13 pan with 9 enchiladas in it.  I liked it because it was simple, tasted good and didn't take a lot of cooking prep like most enchilada sauces normally take.

Low Sodium Enchilada Sauce

16 oz. no salt added tomato sauce

1 tsp oregano

1 tsp. garlic powder

1 tsp. chili powder

2 tsp. onion powder

1/2 tsp. cumin

Simply stir ingredients together and then put your enchiladas together as normal and bake until cheese is melted and filling is bubbling.

Blessings to you tonight.

Day 4....

Here I sit at 11pm with a content belly and a full day behind me.
I didn't plan out the day quite so well but chose not to give up on myself.
I had the day off today from daycare and that made me want to be lazy. It wasn't until the afternoon when I was running errands on my way to pick up Puddin' from school that I realized I hadn't eaten more than a banana all day (along with coffee and water).  I decided to pull into a local smoothie shop for nourishment to make my tummy settle. Wow so many selections to choose from! I picked a concoction that promised to be only mixed fruits with ice and made it a large. Yum!

I didn't think through dinner very well for my family either. Thankfully our freezer is stocked right now. I toasted up a box of frozen popcorn shrimp and made smaller side salads for Hubby and Puddin'. I myself had a huge dinner salad with butter lettuce (my favorite), carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes.

I have to confess that I did allow myself to eat not 1, not 2 but 3 of the small popcorn shrimp while I was fixing plates.  It was quite a temptation to have made something like shrimp which is a favorite of mine. I know that it's not the end of the world to eat it and only three at that.  I just don't want to allow myself to start throwing things in my mouth with excuses all the time.  A little bite here and a little sample there is what got me to this point to begin with.

 But the positives.....no candy, no bread, I refused the chocolate chips cookies as well as the soda and popcorn offered to me at the furniture store.
And I chose well with my "fast food".
And I don't feel the need to beat myself up and give up for not having a perfect record. Now THAT is progress.  Thank You God!

Day 4 is complete and 3 more to go.