Cherishing Our Time

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Paleo vs Livestrong

So I've hit an age and body type

that

has forced me to really look at what I'm eating, ugh...

I exercise a lot...so it's gotta be my diet, bummer no more getting away with things...

I think I mentioned the Paleo diet before, well I felt great on it, but had a hard time excluding so many items from my daily life with three kids.

So.

I recently discovered Livestrong My Plate

This works for me and is something I can do on a daily basis.

It's so cool.

It puts you on a calorie amount each day and every meal you log what you eat, sounds a little tricky, right?
Wrong.

Easy breezy.

I love it.

It deducts from total calorie's allowed each day and presto you can keep track of what your eating.

We have a laptop in the kitchen so this is really easy for me to log.

It's fun easy and motivating?

Has anyone else tried this?

No excluding items, just logging what you eat and staying within a certain caloric intake, easy. With that said you do see where all your calories go...so I'm focusing on what I need to eat more and less of.
You log exercise as well so it's super helpful.
Check it out!

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

San Diego 2011

Some Highlights from our trip to San Diego.

So thrilled to not be potty training this year and just able to go go go...

We had fun.

Then there is Phil's a must when visiting San Diego.

It's right around the corner from Sea World.

If you have kids you want to just order it in your car and pick it up and go to a park with a ton of wet wipes.

YUMMY.

SUPER crowded, but well worth it after a day at Sea World.

Phils BBQ

On the way home Jason just had to take a little detour to the Regan Library.

Not the best place to take toddlers, but the kids had fun and enjoyed one of Regan's favorite.

Jelly Belly's.

Picture of Regan below is made purely out of Jelly Belly's.

Check out how small they look in comparison to the helicopter

Outside the kids thought this was funny.

We visited some friends in Bakersfield on the way home; so great to see old friends.

Now back to our old schedule and getting the kids back on track.

Hope your having a great summer.

Whew lots of fun in July and lots of laundry, YIKES.

Back to reality and back to my diet and exercise routine.

Still trying to loose that weight....vacations didn't help...

I'm not much of a diet person, I'd rather exercise my brains out, but since I had twins and hit 35 i've had a rough time so with the suggestion of a friend i'm trying out the Paleo diet for a month to see how it goes.

I'll post more on this later.

We actually went on one more trip in July (crazy huh) a camping trip and i'll post that one soon.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

A little Art Class

A little Art

(and a really messy garage...I was going through things...)

Messy.

But the hose and the grass was a foot away.

Monday, July 25, 2011

July 4th in Monterey

This year we went to Monterey for the 4th of July.

Jason and Dylan doing beach art at pebble beach.

We met my parents at my Aunt's house in Monterey.

We got out of the heat in San Jose and it was gorgeous over there the first day, but then got rather cloudy.

We headed to downtown Monterey for a family bike ride, all seven of us were able to rent one of those bikes for the trails and ride together, it was fun.