Pita Pit...food.

Working at Pita Pit is helpful. I'm getting tired of pitas, but at least when I'm running late and forget to eat I get to eat something healthy at work, as opposed to a burger or something bad.

I think writing a schedule has helped, especially with eating. I am working on actually exercising like I say I will. Luckily our pool has recently opened this weekend. We decided to go swimming today. I love swimming because it is one form of exercise that is actually fun. Once we get to Arizona I think we'll be swimming ALOT.

We really wanted to go to Red Robin today, but we are trying to save our money for moving expenses and what not. It is so dang hard to not eat out! I might just have to resort to eating healthy when I eat out. I like having the deal that once a week I get to eat whatever I want, whether it be unhealthy or healthy. If you're forcing yourself to eat healthy then having this one meal where you can eat whatever is an incentive to keep eating healthy the rest of the week. When you're hungry and you're thinking, "man a burger sounds really good." You can say well I already ate out, or ate my one whatever I want meal. Or if you haven't you can think really hard and long about whether a burger is what you want to spend your one meal on. It's like having $5. You can only spend it once, so you want to make sure it's a good choice.

I made orange chicken. I think I am almost to perfecting it. I have combined some of the recipes that I've tried together. When I made it this week it had the right flavor but the breading on the outside of the chicken was mushy. My crock pot is being weird too. I had it on high for a little bit and then turned it on low and it cooked the chicken too fast. I wonder if crock pots can be broken and cook things too fast?

Something else we tried that was really yummy, but I'm not exactly sure how healthy it is, is Pansit. It is something Nick use to have in the Philippines. Basically it's Chili flavored Ramen. You cook the noodles, drain all of the water and then you mix 1 tbsp of soy sauce and 1 tbsp of olive oil with the seasoning packet. then you pour that over the noodles and mix it really well. Then you serve it on top of white rice. In the Philippines you eat everything over white rice I've learned. Well I've figured something out that really makes it taste good. I grill bell peppers, and if you have any chicken it's good with that too. Yesterday I grilled bell peppers and mushrooms. It's really good, and really cheap! I don't like it super spicy so when I make it I use half the seasoning packet, but Nick likes the whole packet. It's super filling too. When we do the grilled veggies we split the pansit, and then just have lots of rice. It makes it go farther and it's still really filling.

This week I'm going to attempt to make buffalo shredded chicken from skinnytaste.com and maybe a teriyaki chicken. I will let you know how they turn out.

Well I'm going to continue to blog every week. Keep you posted on my achievements/failures/goals. I hope that by making a schedule I'm not just doing it temporarily, but actually making a life change. Something I will continue to do for the rest of my life. I think that is why I'm not trying to focus too much on not eating just salad or anything, but finding yummy meals that are healthy, and something I actually want to eat.

I made a list.

Today during church I planned out what we will be eating this week. I think this would be a good habit for me. This way I won't be tempted to eat out, because I've already planned something for every meal, and none of my plans involve eating out. I made a box for every day of the week. In each box I have BLD-Breakfast Lunch and Dinner. I also have Exercise, and then things I want to get done for the day. So for example this is what Monday looks like.
Monday-Work 5:30-11:00
B-Oatmeal and toast
L-Corn Dogs
D-Orange Chicken
Exercise: Tennis
-Pack one box
-Clean bathroom
-Do laundry
-Grocery shopping


And the week continues like that. The meals aren't super healthy, but they're what we have. the week gets healthier after I go grocery shopping. I also made a grocery shopping list at the very bottom of the page. If you didn't notice I got a job. Of all the "fast food" places I could get a job this would be the best one to help me loose weight. I work at Pita Pit. It is a Mediterranean food, and it's a lot like subway. Instead of carb-loaded bread we use pitas. You can get unlimited veggies on them and you can choose what type of meat, if any. They have normal sandwich type meats, or meats you put on the grill, and they have their Mediterranean meats. I've tried the Gyro(pronounced Euro) and the Souvlaki, which is basically a seasoned chicken meat. I didn't care for the gyro-which is beef and lamb strips. It's a lot like bologna except it's made from beef and lamb. One thing people don't know about pitas, is how to make them taste yummy. Yeah you can pick your meat, but you really need to load the pita with veggies to make it taste amazing. I would suggest getting hummus, it's really good, and then all the veggies you like, then they have a greek tzatziti(pronounced tah-zee-kee) sauce. All it is is a yogurt garlic cucumber spread. So kinda like sour cream but healthier. When I first tried it I had a cucumber with it, and I didn't really like it that much. But when I tried my Souvlaki pita I decided to try it on the pita as a whole and it was amazing. When I make my pita I like to grill some of my veggies, this really makes the pita taste a million times better. I grilled roasted red peppers, mushrooms, and green bell peppers. Super yummy! So I'm going to attempt to make pitas at home. I'm going to buy some veggies and hope it turns out good. If you haven't tried Pita pit you should!! Another good thing about working here is we get $2 pitas. If we work a long shift we get a free pita. I'm actually glad that I'm only working part time. Even though it's not a bad place to work, I still don't love it.


I have written down a schedule of exercising. I really am planning on doing all of it! I want to be a healthier person! We're going to California in 2 weeks. I know I'm not going to really change anything, but I think it would be nice to look a little better than I do now. I will keep you posted, every Sunday.

Creating better habits

I was reading an article I saw on Facebook. A guy managed to pay off his really expensive student loan debt within a year. I would love to do that, but I don't think that will happen for us. It would help if I got a nice job. Then we would have that extra income to pay for our student loans. Something I learned from reading his experience is that he had to really become disciplined and committed. I always want to change things about myself. Not that I'm not happy with who I am, but I always feel like I could be a better person. My problem is that I'm so use to the way that I am that changing is difficult. I have very bad discipline! I am a person who lives for the moment. I'd rather relax than work out, or eat out than stay home and find something to make for dinner. I didn't use to always be this way. I remember when I was in college I tried to keep my room cleaned (for the most part). If there was something I wanted to change about myself I would just do it. I don't know what it is but for some reason I am just not pushing myself like I use to. I wonder if it has to do with being married. I have someone who will love me no matter what so why should I try to improve on the person that I am? I know that is silly thinking, but I think sometimes that might be the underlining reason. I keep thinking that maybe later on when I have kids, I'll have a reason to make myself better. I'll want to cook dinner every night for my kids, keep the house clean, exercise so I can keep up with them. That may be true, but I don't know. I just know that I want to change. I need to start forming better habits. My biggest bad habit is eating out. I have some weird associations with eating out. My family would always eat out, so I associate spending time with loved ones, with eating out. I know that there are different things we can do to spend time with each other, and it doesn't have to involve eating out. I just need to really try my hardest and not eat out anymore. I think once I find the self control for eating out, then It will open other things I would like to change, like exercising, and cleaning. Well, if you have any suggestions for me on breaking bad habits I would appreciate the help.


Oh, so I decided I would try running in the morning, really early with Nick. I forced myself out of bed, and we tried running just around our apartment complex. I made it like half way, and then had a cramp. I got home, and I definitely pulled a muscle in my hip. I'm not sure how I did that, but it hurts to walk. Running when I'm not fully awake (me or my body) was a bad idea. I think I'm more of an evening type of person.