Well, the number is not pretty. But I have a plan in mind. With weather improving, I should be in the yard more. I'm also inspired by the dance videos I've been seeing on YouTube. Not sure why they came up in my suggestions to watch unless they were a result of the video I shared last week.
Dancing I can do. I'll never win a competition but I can move.
I thought I'd share one of them with you today.
In this time of quarantine, no gyms open, it's more important than every to KEEP MOVING - and most of all...
If we've learned anything from this Covid-19 ordeal it is that we NEED to be PREPARED!
Some may wonder how this relates to a weight-loss journey.
When you think about the amount of stress people are under right now because their daily routine has changed, there are definitive health reprecussions. Stress can make us over eat, not eat much of anything, raise glucose levels, cause migraines... the list goes on.
But if you're prepared, as Bob and I have been, then you can ride out almost anything with very little impact on your day to day.
Whether that means having OTC meds on hand for the family or enough toilet paper to last at least a couple of months, there are things you can do to be prepared.
Now that doesn't mean you have to be set up for the SHTF (shit hits the fan) kind of thing, though this virus has come pretty close) but you should have enough basic supplies stocked up to ride through any crisis.
Do you remember this movie?
Over the next few weeks, I'll walk you through the basics. Start planning now so when you can get out and things begin to find a new normal you will know what you need to do when this or any type of natural disaster occurs.
Prepping is
nothing new. People have been preparing since the beginning of time. From the
first man killing/ preserving food for winter to the Cuban Missile Crisis and
more recent. For generations people have planned for a 'rainy day'. They kept
their food stock in root cellars in case of long winters when what they
preserved might be all they had to hold them until Spring. How many families
prepared for 'the big one' like our folks in Blast from the Past. Though the
movie was meant to be a comedy, there was nothing light about the importance of
how prepared they were to live below ground.
But over the
past few years, 'Prepping' has taken on a new meaning. Some have extended the
term into 'survivalist' - preparing for everything imaginable from a natural disaster
like a tornado to Armageddon. Several months ago I found a book by Bernie Carr
called - THE PREPPER'S POCKET GUIDE - 101 Easy Things You Can Do To Ready Your
Home For A Disaster.
Bernie
breaks prepping down in to 101 manageable tasks to having everything you need
for any emergency that might arise. Disasters, like tornadoes, will knock you
off your game if you are not prepared. My plan to kick-start this blog is to
take you on my journey as I work my way through the booklet and prepare our
home for an emergency and put our Prepper Plan into action.
In the meantime,
I recommend you order Bernie's book and join me on this journey. If you are
already a Prepper or know someone, link me to their sites. I'd love to share
what others are doing
I came across this lady earlier in the week. I'm linking the first video I found from Lisa. I invite you to check out her channel for more of her inspiring videos.
For me, Bob leaves on April 8th (as of right now) While I'm not jumping on her work-out videos, I am going to monitor her channel and set a 21-day regimen to see if I can get these pounds (and the sugar numbers) to drop.
Come join me! What will you do for 21 days?
Whatever you choose,
Enjoy the Journey!
Okay, so I just realized what a HORRIBLE header picture that is. LOL I'll try to remedy that for next week.
In the mean time, we're talking basement this week. Ours is in sad need of clean-up, sort out. We have four main rooms in our basement.
1 - Bob's man cave. That's his domain LOL
2 - Furnace Room
There are things here that need pitched. I need to do a deep clean under the stair case but waiting for warmer weather. I also have 2 big stacks of magazines to go through. I'm not sure what is salvagable after I flooded that room a couple weeks ago. Bob gave most of this room a pass-over when he had to reconnect the heat duct as a result of my flooding said basement.
3 - The shower/ utility room
This is where we keep all of our 'pantry' supplies. I need to go through everything, reorganize and take stock of what I need to replenish once this whole covid-19 thing passes through.
4 - Extended Pantry/ storage
There are Christmas tubs that still need to go to the new holiday storage shed, my new weed eaters need tested then put in the shed. I'm working my way through fabric tubs for the Etsy shop. I also need to reorganize the pantry supplies in there.
We're to have a nice weekend so I'm hoping Saturday to at least relocate stuff to the holiday storage. That corner becomes the 'tornado shelter'. I'll be talking more about prepping and how I'm adjusting my supplies on Friday.
What's your plan of attack this week?
If you feel as if you have no clue where to start, I encourage you to check out the Steph aka Secret Slob on YouTube. She takes you through the baby steps of Fly Lady and I just love her style.
Go check her out and I'll be back here on Thursday (No Recipe Wednesday this week) for a new Inspiration piece. Proving regardless of our age, anything is possible if we just mark out our Journey
I have to say that once Bob comes home, most thoughts of bloggling leave my head.
Bob used to sleep til 8 or 8:30, giving me time to get a few office things done before hand.
Now, he's up pretty much the same time as I am. I barely have time to boot up the computer and say good morning to my sister on-line.
From there Bob and I spend about 2-3 hours at the dining room table enjoying coffee, chatting, breakfast then a 2 out of 3 battle hands of Deal before parting ways to our respective things to do.
about 12:30 or 1 we meet back at the dining room table for lunch and another 2 out of 3.
Repeat then back for dinner when we call our duties 'done' for the day, even if they aren't.
Here's the thing. I LOVE spending time with my husband. We are best friends. So this whole 'sheltering in place' really doesn't affect us... except that usually when Bob is home, he has cabin fever from being on the boat for 21 days so his time at home is all about GO GO GO.
That is why I'm glad I don't have a job that requires me to have specific things done at a certain time other than things I am able to schedule. Being a writer and a creater so works for me.
I try to be regular on the blogs but I don't get paid for any of them. When Bob is gone I hit them hard. When he's home, I do what I can.
Time with our loved ones is the most important part of our life. We never know how long they are here for.
The last thing I want to remember is that I spent all of my time on this computer and not with the love of my life - my best friend.
While you're sheltering in place, UNPLUG... play a game with your family, do silly stuff, create memories, but most important...
I do love that number! While I still have a long way to go, I'm getting closer to where I started last fall.
Bob is giving me a run for my money... literally. Because he isn't hungry when he first gets up at night, he's been taking a protein shake up to the wheel house with him to drink before he has his coffee. He has his eye on that $100. Well, so do I. :-)
This week will be a challenge but I'm going to try and stay on course.
My sister is coming up on Wednesday. We're going to spend four full days crafting and eating. LOL
I have a menu plan and we're only eating out one day. The rest of the time we're all about crafting. I'm doing simple meals we can pick at and her only 'sweet' request is a sour cream raisin pie. something we both dearly love but seldom eat. I'm going to try making a partial recipe and do individual pies. I have the cutest little ceramic pie pans just perfect for this.
I worked yesterday to get posts set up for the week so I wouldn't drop a day this week. I don't want to do anything but spend time with my sister and craft. But if I do miss a day, know time with her is more important but that I will be back.
This week, I want to share a recipe from Youtube that I tried. Booger500us tried a recipe from another YouTuber. I will leave her video down below. I'm also sharing a video I found after writing this post: check it out here:
First off, I didn't delineate from the original recipe except for two things. I left out a lot of the spices - using only Seasoning Salt, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder and a dash of Black Pepper. While Bob loves KFC Original Recipe, he is not a 'spice' fan. The other thing is that instead of the traditional pot styled air fryer, I used my Emeril 360.
When it comes to 'air frying' in the Emeril, I've not been happy. That said, I'm not giving up. I'll keep playing.
I rolled, I dipped and I spritzed with non-stick spray for moisture. As you'll see in one of the pictures below, I still had flour residue that didn't 'fry'.
Air Fryer basket. Note the flour spots still visible
don't let the color fool you. The skin never did get 'crisp'
From the baking sheet on BAKE.
This is after we'd removed the pieces from the pan so you'r seeing the side that was down. Still almost soggy.
You can tell the difference from the pieces to the left/ bottom that came from the air fryer basket
and the ones more on top/ left from the baking sheet.
The other thing I wasn't happy with is the overall texture.
The legs were tough. They were cooked through and reached a temp of 165* but I couldn't pull most of the meat from the bone with my fingers. I fought my way through one, ate way too many carbs (and my sugar number showed the result the next morinng)
I'm planning to toss the rest into a pan with some low-carb BBQ sauce and that will be my Air Fryer Friday post on March 27th. I'll be using the slow cooker setting.
In the mean time, I'm going to be looking at some of the recipes I get in my email from Emeril and see what happens in April.
Do you have an Emeril Oven? What's been your experience? Please share you stories in the comments below.
Posts
