Knowing How To Shop

If there is one things you should know about me, it's that I LOVE to shop!  This is good and bad.  I've learned to channel my shopping to getting good deals for things that we need and will use, mainly groceries.

So I was in Superstore today to get one of those burner liners as I was cleaning a big mess on our stove and realized one had disintegrated.  This was the cheapest place to get them, but they didn't have any.

Actually, I had to go back to look for it because I was having soo much fun finding deals.  Here's what I got for under $10:

Okay, deep breaths.  This is a box of lean sirloin burgers, regular $15.99 that I got for the, get this now, 

Super

Low

Price of....

FREE!!

Yatta!  I love stores that have a policy that if the item doesn't ring up on sale, you get it for free.  There is nothing better than free :D .  Now when the rest of the family  has their carby beef burgers, I can have this containing only beef, salt and spices, no fillers.

The yogurt was 50 cents and will be good for my daughter's lunches.  It's usually $3.50 or so when it's not on sale.

The garlic was 49 cents each, usually $6.99.  It is so good and potent.  I absolutely avoid any garlic from China.  I won't go into it here, but if you google it. you'll find out more than you want to know.  

Finally, the turkey slices, 0 carbs and lower sodium.  They are delicious.  They were $5.99 each for 2 for $2.50.  I mean, really?  What a deal!  This will be great for lunches too and just rolling up (like I did this morning with some mayo).

Good deals, sigh, I need a life, lol!

On the weight loss front, well, nothing is happening.  I got on the scale and I was the same weight at I was last Thursday.  I'm sticking to low carbing more rigorously than I have in my life.  I keep telling myself usually after a whoosh comes a stall and it's not a real stall until you can't lose for  longer than just a week (I'd say a month for so, but usually whooshes will come).

I don't want to go all crazy with counting every little thing I eat and tweaking things.  I'm eating clean, keeping my carbs low, 100% avoiding sugar, flour and fillers.  It's the way to go.

I've had exercise on the mind.  I know I need to start but it's hard to get going.  My heels have been killing me the last few days for some strange reason.  A year or so ago I had really bad plantar fascitis and it made everything I had to do on my feet torture.  I know it's not that but I worry about getting it again.  I got it from exercising too much at the time.  I even continued when I was at my worst then left having to crawl around the house.  I literally tortured myself to lose weight and I'm sick of doing that.  

I want to do something I can live with.  I want food I like to eat.  I want movement I can enjoy.  I want to live a life that makes me happy.  I am not in competition with anyone.  Life isn't a race. I need to be the best me so I can be the best for my family.  I want to be a good example to my daughter, who really needs to lose weight too but I don't want her to develop the bad body image I always had.

For the first time in my life, I love how I look.  I think now, at the age of 40, I look better than I ever have in my life.  Yeah, I'm still fat, but confidence makes up for a lot.  A big smile instead of always looking gloomy goes a long way.  A REAL smile, not a fake one, like I spent most of my life wearing.  I don't have a perfect or even a good life in some regards.  But I have a lot of satisfaction knowing I'm a good person and I'm WORTH taking care of.

So even if I don't lose all the weight I want, I can live with myself.  I am feeling better, my clothes are already starting to fit better, it will all come together :D

Today's Menu Plan:

Breakfast: 2 eggs fried in butter, 2 turkey slices with 1 tsp. mayo, black coffee with 1 tsp. coconut oil

Lunch: garlic fried pork, spinach and cauliflower and broccoli

Supper: hamburger patty, baked green beans

snack: skyr yogurt, radishes, 2 turkey slices w/mayo

Amazing Shop Monday

ok, I had things I was going to write about but I am sooo stoked about my shopping trip that I have to write about that first!

Last week, I posted a shopping trip that cost me $35 and I had a good amount of food, not all of it low carb.  Well, this trip is mostly low carb, cost $35 and there is an amazing amount of food.

Voila:

Boom, that's a lot of meat!!

This was bought at Sobeys and I was practically dancing down the meat isle.  Several things were 99 cents a pound!  Most of the rest was $1,99 and the others were $5.49 a pound.  The flavoured meats were buy one, get the second one half off, so even more savings!

Lemme break it down.

• !.99/lbs:
• 3 mumbai chicken breasts (my favourite for making the kids chicken noodle soup)
• 2 pkgs tangy thai pork chops (I've never had it but it was cheap!)
• 3 packs thin cut pork chop

• 99 cents a pound:
• 2 packs of stewing pork
• 1 pack pork riblets

• Pork tenderloin $2.47
• Tub of Skyr Icelandic yogurt (I heard about this a lot when I used to low carb but it's the first time I've ever seen it in a store)  $2.50
• 1/2 ham, Jamie Oliver humanely raised pork  $3.72
• 3 bags of grated cheddar ($1.50 each!)
• 1lbs bag romaine lettuce  $2.00
• Real mayo $2.99
• Bag of pepperoni $2.99
• 1lbs coffee $1.84 (not the best but good enough when you're poor)

It can be very hard to afford to eat meat so it always makes me happy to come upon a food sale like this.

I started taking CLA yesterday.  I bought a few bottle for 99 cents a few months ago.  I was going to wait until I started exercising to take it but upon reading on some low carb sites, I decided that it would be very beneficial to start now.  I am taking 1 1250mg capsule a day for now of the Tonalin CLA and may decide to take more.  I have two or three bottles of 120 capsules and it's best before next year, but I want to stretch it out.

I stepped on the scale and I was up a little but I know that daily fluctuation is a thing.  I am trying to drink more water, as sometimes that helps and it's a good idea not to get dehydrated.

Yesterday, the cauliflower crust pizza I ate for lunch was soooo filling!  I had a little mayo on the side and I think that really helped the fullness factor.  I couldn't even eat supper, although I had a sausage and sauerkraut before my 8pm cut off time so I wouldn't be starving.

I had made a big pot of chicken broth, so I will use that to make a chicken soup for supper.  

Meal Plan:

Breakfast: black coffee, two eggs fried in butter

Lunch: 2 slices chicken pesto cauliflower crust pizza

Supper: Low carb chicken soup