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The tiara will probably have to go when we start working out, but the rest of ‘faerie princess’ should hold up through jazzercise tonight and I’ll be ready to greet the ghosts and goblins and clowns when I get home.
Aaaaaaah I love it!!
I love it so much!!!! You look great Val!!!!
Halloween can be worrisome when your kids don’t eat sugar- that’s where I come in.
Instead of trick-or-treating we have a different tradition. I’ve got a Mickey-o-lantern filled with sugar free chocolate goodies of all flavours for the beasties (and the ones we will be handing out to trick or treaters will be sugar free too), and then a box with new movies (a Halloween classic that he has never seen before- Hocus Pocus, and all the Ghostbusters because he LOVES Ghostbusters), and two extra little toys from his favourite scary game.
Now the sugar free candies in Mickey are okay for a few- but since they don’t use the best of “keto-friendly” sweeteners I wanted to have even healthier chocolates and goodies for them too!!! So I stayed up until 3am tonight making a whole platter of goodies!!!! -White & Milk chocolate vampire fangs -Chocolate covered peanut butter pumpkins -Sour cherry skull and crossbones gummies -And spooky gingersnap cookies ALL SUGAR FREE, ALL KETO!!!!
And now I am exhausted and gonna go to sleep 😂
Tomorrow there will be carving pumpkins with the Manbeast and the beasties, enjoying all these goodies, CUTE NINJA TURTLE COSTUMES, and a spooky movie marathon! (Or at least as spooky as kid friendly movies can get! Lol)
Have a safe and fun Halloween y'all! 🎃👻
Halloween can be worrisome when your kids don't eat sugar- that's where I come in. Instead of trick-or-treating we have a different tradition. I've got a Mickey-o-lantern filled with sugar free chocolate goodies of all flavours for the beasties (and the ones we will be handing out to trick or treaters will be sugar free too), and then a box with new movies (a Halloween classic that he has never seen before- Hocus Pocus, and all the Ghostbusters because he LOVES Ghostbusters), and two extra little toys from his favourite scary game. Now the sugar free candies in Mickey are okay for a few- but since they don't use the best of "keto-friendly" sweeteners I wanted to have even healthier chocolates and goodies for them too!!! So I stayed up until 3am tonight making a whole platter of goodies!!!! -White & Milk chocolate vampire fangs -Chocolate covered peanut butter pumpkins -Sour cherry skull and crossbones gummies -And spooky gingersnap cookies ALL SUGAR FREE, ALL KETO!!!! And now I am exhausted and gonna go to sleep 😂 Tomorrow there will be carving pumpkins with the Manbeast and the beasties, enjoying all these goodies, CUTE NINJA TURTLE COSTUMES, and a spooky movie marathon! (Or at least as spooky as kid friendly movies can get! Lol) Have a safe and fun Halloween y'all! 🎃👻
So it begins...
Tomorrow (10/26) will be a stressful day
My grandmother (my bio!mom’s mom) left me a voicemail saying she is coming over. This is the same woman who for my birthday recently wrote me a letter about how my decision to cut the toxic ties to my bio!mom was an act of jealousy and envy and how ashamed she was of me because after all “you know how your mom can be.” etc etc.
She is coming over, and I was too afraid to even call her and tell her not to come and that she wasn’t welcome here. I’m hoping the Manbeast is off tomorrow. I’m scared of being alone with the boys and her. Afraid she might bring Claudine with her.
Dr. Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore said that stress was the biggest hurdle when it comes to healthy fasting- if that is true, tomorrow is gonna fck me up ya’ll.
I wish we had never had to leave California...I can’t stand being this close to them. I can’t stand being afraid in the place I live. Oh well...
Good mythical morning, everyone! Buddy System comes out today and I'm very excited about it!!! Thought I'd wake my beasties and the Manbeast up with some keto chocolate iced donuts!!! The donut base was this recipe: http://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/2015/03/low-carb-samoa-donuts.html (Though how the hell she got 14 donuts, or that my bro got 12 donuts yesterday I'll never know cause I only got 9 😂😂😂) I completely ignored the topping instructions to the donut recipe above and made my Bray's Buttercream! To make it chocolate I mixed 84g of Lily's sugar free chocolate chips with 4Tbsp liquid coconut oil together in a mug and heated it for 45sec and then stir til completely melted and mixed. I let that cool as I made the buttercream. Then I poured the buttercream into a glass bowl and then whisked the melted chocolate into it, continuously whisking every once in awhile to keep it emulsified. Then scooped some spoonfuls into a ziploc to pipe onto the donuts and put the rest into a jar for later ☺️
✨Pursuing my passions✨ I earned $10 doing dishes/cleaning the kitchen for my brother and saw this sketchbook/journal for $9.73 and knew I had to have it! I have wanted to go to a "Drink and Draw" for over five years and have never had the chance to go. This Saturday I may FINALLY be able to go to one!! So I got this sketchbook- covered it with some inspiration by: @ursuladecayart - Tumblr @Jewelians - Instagram @Sugarbone - Instagram @misskika - Tumblr And it has 3 different of styles of paper in it and is so awesome!! I'm gonna try so hard to go to Drink and Draw every month if this one goes well on Saturday. (I won't actually be drinking though- I'll be bringing my Keto MAX to Drink instead 😜) Here is to hoping for improvement, and rekindling passions!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL- I HAVE PERFECTED KETO BUTTERCREAM FROSTING!!! Omg!!! I will make a post about it all on it’s own at some point. I am so so so proud! So I took the blondie’s from All Day I Dream About Food that I’ve posted about before, and then made my own frosting to coat the top like a cookie cake. Then melted Lily’s sugar free chocolate chips with the tiniest bit of liquid coconut oil to make it pipeable and decorated the top with a web and two little spiders!!!! It all firmed up and came out so nicely!!! A HUGE hit!!! Then my brother in law, Joe, made some Keto donuts from a recipe we found on Facebook and upon taste testing them we were worried they were super dry BUT I blended some of my leftover melted chocolate with my buttercream frosting and coated my donut with a hearty layer of it and omfg it was better than any Shipley’s chocolate iced donut I had ever had in my life!!! SO DAMN GOOD!!!!!! Today has been a glorious day in the kitchen!!
I have been so tired of seeing the scales stubbornly stay within the 150s. But then this morning I put a shirt on that tight on me at my lowest weight (139lbs) and it's looser and fits better than before! (And not due to lots of wear either because I was so self conscious about how tight it was at 139lbs I almost never wore it.) My shoulders looks broader, it's looser around my waist, and my neck looks different too! I just gotta remind myself that it's a continuous journey and that the scale isn't the whole picture.
Missin' magic AU today and debating on spending the day watching sketchbook videos on YouTube. (Photo edited with Prisma App and words added to the hat with PicCollage.) Also @fatgirlgetsfitatlast tagged me to post a selfie I think? At some point? And I 💙 Val. I tag everyone who has been kind enough to consider me a friend or even a member of their family. Let me show y'all some love! 💗
@oddishodyssey, who is forever adorable, tagged me for a selfie. I blinked
I’m gonna go with it
I’m tagging people from my recent activity: @shtarmie @thecogirl @madisonrobingetsfit @fitnessgeekandcoffeefreak @goalsonfire @j-liftcookies @putthatazztowork And @laurarunsalot
Please don’t feel obligated, but, in all honesty, the world needs more selfies of these people. (Especially Arianna)
Buildin' those shoulders and biceps as best I can.
DRASTIC CHANGES CALL FOR DRASTIC MEASURES
Running on fumes sleep wise, sleeping through my alarm and missing the gym, spending more time cleaning, and re-cleaning messes and feeling like I’m about to blow up and explode- I needed a change. I needed something to rekindle my spark and to make all my hard work, worthwhile.
So I’m working on it!
I’m startin’ MAX. It’s the newest, more bio-available version of Keto//OS and it’s a game changer for me. You might remember me talking about this way back when I posted about the Yoga Expo. THIS STUFF IS FANTASTIC!! It kept me fueled and going for six straight hours of yoga, completely fasted! I wasn’t even hungry, and had a LOT of energy! I’m actually going to be using this to “Biohack” my cycle and hope that it helps me combat cravings and water retention. Yesterday was my first day starting it and with only half a serving I ended up not being hungry til about 3:30pm, today was my first day having it with half a serving of BCAAs as a pre-workout and it made the BCAAs way easier to get down and it got me pumped to workout and gave me energy without the caffeine i normally intake before a workout. AND I’ve drank more water in the last 48 hours than I have in a couple months!
To go along with this first month of MAX I am sort of eating even higher fat ratios and making sure that one of my meals is very fat bomb centric and the other just nutrient dense. To do that I created a keto COOKIE DOUGH ICE CREAM that is absolutely divine and is a FAT BOMB!!! And DAIRY FREE! I am so ecstatic about how perfect the textures of the ice cream and the cookie bits came out. There’s about 40 cookie bits shoved in that pint of ice cream!
I also made mint chocolate chip ice cream fat bombs using- AVOCADO! If you do not like avocado, but want the nutrient benefits of Avocado- TRY MAKING IT MINT ICE CREAM!! Mint is such a strong flavour that it completely masks the avocado flavour. And chocolate makes everything better!
The peanut butter cookies were less for me and more for the beasties BUT they are easily the best cookies I have ever made and I created the recipe myself with some of the new sweeteners I got last month. They are absolutely incredible. I’ll post the recipe next time I make a batch- maybe I’ll even make a how-to video!!! That’d be pretty fun!
That’s the main update I have for now- sorry I have been so absent! I keep trying to be on more, but things are all over the place. I’ll work more on it.
Wow that was fast :) I am having surgery 4 weeks from today!
10/26 Pre-op appointment
10/27 - Liquid only diet starts
11/8 - Surgery date!
11/16 - Post-op appointment
I am planning to be off work 11/8 -11/18 if all goes well.
Jennifer follows a similar schedule and will be getting done 2 weeks before Christmas.
OK - this just got a lot more real :)
You’re having surgery on my birthday… also election day! Make sure you vote early. ;) But really, CONGRATULATIONS!!!
THIS IS SO EXCITING FOR YOU BOTH!!! I am so excited for y'all!!!
Since my biceps are really the only interesting flex I have…. Happy flex Friday @nerdgasmsfoodpornprogress and @m0tiv8me
SO BUFF!! 💪🏻💪🏻
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I know you can do this! :D You have so much to be proud of and you’re such an inspiration to this community <3 I can’t wait to see what more you can achieve :)
Getting back to it after gaining is always rough, I’m right there with you. ❤️ You’ve got this though! I know you can do it!
Please, please, please don’t ever give up!! I’ll come cook for you myself if I have to! You are wonderful, and so amazing and have still come SUCH a long way!!!! You are strong, and I know that you can come back stronger than ever!! We are all here for you, to root for you, support you, for you to vent to us and for us to help as best we can. Sending you love and good vibes!
My eldest beastie says I look like Bob Belcher with his fake mustache on... Hahaha maybe Bob pre-kiddos 😂
