Getting back on track with clean eating.

I hate when vacations come to an end and when I have to leave family, but I suppose the positive in this situation is not having to be surrounded by cake, ice cream, candy, BBQ, and In n Out any more. So back to clean eating!! For me, eating fatty, sugary, and satly foods can completely ruin my day and make me feel so blahhhh, and after just 2 days of being back in VA with healthy eating I feel amazing. I have nothing to feel guitly for or continuously think 'Why did I eat those 4 pieces of pizza and bowl of chips!', then continuously hate my self for the rest of the day. I still feel terrible for my last meal on my way home from the airport... I won't say much except it involved a bag of cheetos :( So James and I made a deal to eat as clean and healthy as possible for the first week being back just to get our minds and bodies back on track and away from the habbit of constant snacking... bad snacking. So no cheat meals and no alcohol!

Since we got back at 5 am we took a long nap and then went MEGA GROCERY SHOPPING!
We got some:
*Whole grain pasta                         *Bell peppers
*Chunk light tuna                           *Spinach
*Low sodium garbanzo beans        *Carrots
*Egg beaters                                   *Watermelon
*Quinoa                                          *Hummus
*Whole wheat bread                       *Almonds
*Craisins                                         *Cottage cheese

We're also starting a habbit of drinking at least one 'carrot, apple, and spinach juice' a day.
James came up with a great idea to make our own trail mix for a fraction of the price of a pre-made one and with about 4 times as much. This one was really simple, all it included was craisins and roasted almonds but you can add in shredded coconut, different raw nuts, raisins, or dark chocolate chips. For $15.00 we were able to make 92 oz. I can also throw this mix into some oatmeal and cottage cheese.
 
For dinner that night we cooked up some Tilapia tacos! They're really simple:
Just cook some fish and bell peppers and onions. Add salt, pepper, lime and what ever spices you want to the fish. Then put half of a fish in a corn tortilla and add a TBS of light sour cream, and a bit of hot sauce or salsa.
For one taco w/ light sour cream its 120 calories!
This morning I made both of us a juice and then after my morning run I made my self a spinach omelet. I just cooked up 5 eggs (Egg beaters), threw in a bunch of spinach and a piece of toast. All together the eggs were 125 calories and the toast was 50 calories.
This afternoon I made a tuna salad open sand which. I mixed one small can of tuna with a TBS of light miracle whip and dijon mustand. Then I made two open faced sandwhiches so I felt like I was eating more instead of combining the bread to make one sandwhich. All together it was only 220 calories! 100 calories of tuna, 100 calories for bread, and 20 for miracle whip.
So in conclusion! EatGoodFeelGood.