Move In Day

Thank you for all your comments on the crazy eating adventures. I LOVED reading them all! If you missed out on what I am talking about, you can catch them here and here.

I think it is so interesting to find out the there are so many other people that are dealing with the same kinds of things and learning from eachother is so helpful!

So intersting to find out how many of you were former vegan or vegetarians at one time. It is a TOUGH lifestyle to maintain in the world we live in today. I feel MUCH more normal now thanks to all of you. I am going to go tell Ben. ;)

Now that I have filled you in on how crazy I have to eat right now, I feel like I can post more of what I am eating without anyone freaking out on me. Maybe cause I eat things like this for BREAKFAST.

Broiled salmon and broccoli...

 With a HUGE plate of kale chips!

This might LOOK like an enormous meal but veggies don't go that far. I have to eat LOTS and lots of them to get enough to eat.

Just a typical breakfast over here. Ha. So weird right? The first few days it was really weird to wake up and eat stuff like this. I guess I am in the grove now because I am usually so hungry after the gym now I don't even care. What is this coming to!?!

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Yesterday was moving day over here! Ben's parents are now here for real and getting settled in!

For those of you who are totally confused... we have been living in Vance and Christine's house for the 4 years that we have been married. They haven't lived here in this house during that time though because Vance was in the military. They are nice enough to let us bum around with them for a few months until Ben's leaves for his Navy training in October. We are actually excited for all the time we are going to get to spend with them before we move away. They are so laid back and great I have no worries about ANY of this. ;) Vance and Christine are the BEST!

They got here LATE last night and were still up at the crack of dawn to start unloading the truck. Stamina people... they are amazing. I was tired just watching them.

I felt pretty useless with my lack of energy lately, there was no chance I was going to be hauling boxes around. Need I remind you 30 mins on the elliptical was enough cardio for me? Pooped. I would probably have made it inside with one box and the needed a nap. I decided to make myself useful instead by making food. Stick to what your good at right!?!

I am still cleansing the pantry a little so I used up some things that have been kicking around. These were given to me, you KNOW these are totally random for me to have in my cupboard. 

But throw in some tortillas, beans and cheese, salsa, chips and fruit... and voila!

Lunch is served.

The boys were especially excited about the IBC Root Beer that was found in the cupboards. I bought it at Christmas for Ben and with all the other goodies around it was forgotten about and pushed to the back of the cupboard. We found it on the perfect day though, everyone worked so hard today! 

Funfetti cookies. Nothing fancy but who doesn't love funfetti? It's just fun!

I should have taken a picture of them getting the extra fridge down to the basement. That was a little scary... ah! It made it down with minimal blood shed but that thing isn't EVER coming back up.

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One a sad "Holley your so pathetically WEAK right now note"... I had to have Ben open my jar of coconut oil for me. I haven't had him open a bottle for me in a LONGGGG time. And this was a bottle I have used like 20 times already. Pathetic. I am telling myself I was just to lazy to do it. Ha.

I have been having a hard time sleeping the past couple nights. I don't know if that has anything to do with the Candida diet or not. BETTER not though. I can handle food restrictions but nothing comes between me and my sleep! Crossing my fingers that tonight isn't another restless night again. Boo...

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Would you rather pack UP a house or UNPACK one???

Mmm... so tough. Neither is fun but I am gonna say unpack. As long as I don't have to move those boxes.

When was the last night someone else opened a jar for you?

I am humbled. This might be happening much more often for a while.

Quilting Bee

WORKOUT:

45 min weights

30 min elliptical

Now that you are all clued in on this whole Candida Diet thing, maybe you will notice now that my workouts haven't been as intense lately as they usually are. Remember how I said I was tired a lot? And dare I say it, feel weak sometimes? I eat, don't you worry about that. I think my body is fighting through some things and when you can't have carbs as energy burning up, that changes things for sure. I now realize the full power of carbs! 

Anywho, so don't hate because my workout's haven't been up to par. I FEEL like I am getting just as much of a workout because I am totally spent after doing like 1/2 what I usually do. I am listening to my body and not pushing myself nearly as hard. It just feels weird when you are used to doing a lot more.

I really wanted to go to spin today, in fact I had a bike saved and everything. But by the time class came around, I was spent. Hopefully tomorrow!

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Yesterday I headed up to hang out with my mama for the day! Even thought she only lives an hour away from me, it still means I have to plan out a day to make it up there to see her.

I wouldn't MIND if they lived a little closer... hint hint.

I will take what I can get, it's way better than the 15 hour drive I would have to do otherwise. 

My mom LOVES to sew. ESPECIALLY quilt. She is a maniac. She has more fabric than she could probably ever make quilts for.

And she keeps buying more. Addiction. We all have our vices. 

I really admire being able to sew something up and having that skill on hand. I know the basics and can do

household mending but I need to get these skills honed before my mom isn't close by to teach me anymore.

We have done projects together before but I have been wanting to do a project myself and see if I actually know what I am doing. It is hard for my mom to watch me sew without interfering. I can see her fingers ITCHING and just dying to jump in there and do it herself. The woman loves to sew.

We headed to the store and got some fun fabric! It was actually a pretty good steal, I found some bargins.

I ended up paying $24 with enough fabric to make 2 baby quilts. Not bad! That doesn't count the batting and thread... but my madre is hooking me up with that. 

I wanted to start with something SUPER simple incase I ended up being frusterated and wishing I hadn't started the project in the first place.

Wouldn't be the first time that happened... so hence the SMALL baby quilts and the super easy blocks.

Projects are always so much more fun when you have NICE equipment to use! Which may deter me from doing a quilt on my own for a while because it is SO much easier with all my mom's fun toys.

 Sometimes me and the sewing maching still get in fights, but it was pretty well behaved yesterday.

It's ALWAYS the machine. NEVER me.

Okay, so it is not ENTIRELY being done myself.  She sliced and diced that fabric right up! But mostly because she DEFINETLY couldn't handle to watch me do it and she knows she could do it way faster. I needed NO convincing to let her do that.  I may have let her iron a few seams for me too. She WANTED to!

So apparently I got like 3x's as much done as I thought I was going to in one afternoon! So maybe I will be a little more ambitious next time. Better safe that sorry. Better happy than cranky. :)

I always used to tease my mom because she always had threads all over her clothes from sewing. AH!

I really AM becoming my mother!!!

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Do you sew?

Do you make things like quilts and curtains etc or do you make clothes?!?

Do I know you and are you having a baby?

If YES... you MAY be seeing this quilt in a box with your name on it.

Well... I know a LOT of pregnant people, so don't EVERYONE go getting their hopes up. ;)