It was nice to stay home this morning and enjoy the company of Tyson home for the weekend from Provo. I fixed him bacon, of course, and waffle's. We then decided we needed our exercise for the day. What do you do in the winter on a beautiful sunny, snow covered day in Idaho. Skiing is out because of Devin's broken collar bone so we opted to snow shoe out at Beaver Dick Park along the river and brush. It was refreshing. We enjoyed the restful sunset and trumpeter swans flying and making their loud amazing sounds.
We stopped by Taylor and Cheree's new/old farm home in Burton. Her sister's mother-in-law has a dairy and cow farm and needed someone to live in the home and feed the cattle morning and night. The payoff? Free rent, fresh yummy beef when needed, chores for kids and someone to clean the snow from the driveway. Best of all, a great place for kid's to live--on the farm, in the country.
Posed on the hay is Devin, Eric Caleb, Eric Jr, Rebecca, Emily and Robyn. They even have all the cows tagged and named. After our adventure we headed off to the store for fresh fruits and vegetables for a great, creative, tasty meal for good health.
Eric and I decided to sign up for a health and welness program at the Rexburg Medical Center. Blood work is done, measurements are taken and well as your weight. The fat calipers are used to see where your fat percentage is. Mary and Jeff, our neighbors, are owners of the medical center and I learned about this through her as we walk in the morning. This program targets weight control and insuline resistance. You eat all your carbs early in the day and they are limited. At dinner you can only eat protein and free carb foods which are basically vegetables. By eating just protein for dinner you burn fat all night instead of spiking your insulin which causes you to get fat. Based on your personal informatin a meal plan is given and you follow this for 2 weeks and then visit the Doctor once again for measurements and weight changes. He evaluates your progress, makes some adjustments based on your personal information and then recommends your eating plan from their. This is a new program and so I am anxious to see how this compares and settles with my system. So far we are doing pretty good but all good changes take time and some adjustments. I'm glad for one day to eat free of choice.
Tonight we got creative and fixed a meal with the free carbs were allowed and came up with vegetable stirfry, spinach salad, and grilled yak meat.
2 comments:
hang in there! Sounds like you are doing great! Your dinner looks delish.
Grilled Yak meat, huh? Where do you even buy that?
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