January 07, 2015
Good morning all! It’s been quite a busy New Year so far. Before I get into what I have been doing I am EXCITED to say that my fitness journey has paid off again! I am down another 2 pounds, making this a whopping 16 pounds now. I’m so happy with this program. As much as I loved the 21-Day Fix program, I think I am now in heaven doing the Les Mills Combat and Les Mills Pump workouts. Drinking Shakeology everyday is another reason for my success. I can’t stress how much this helps in your nutrition, energy, and weight loss, and not to mention it helps lower blood pressure and cholesterol. Well, enough about that and off to the good stuff.
I’ve been running like crazy getting things done. I have managed to completely listen to two audio books while driving in to work so far. Have to laugh at that one. They are personal development oriented and hopefully I will gain some insight to different views and wisdom. The books are titled “The Go Giver” and “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” and I will probably listen to them again sometime this year. I do have “The Compound Effect” on the way.
I have also been riding my horse, but being careful too. I finally went to the doctor yesterday about the shoulder injury from my fall off of my big guy. Nothing was definite so he is sending me to an orthopedic and will update later. I did stop working out a few days ago because of this too, but since no broken bones were found I will be back at it tonight when I get off work. Yeah!
I also started my Masters program this week. I’m not liking the course at all, yet. I have never been a researcher and this is the first mandated course of the program. I’ll manage though. I’ve also been working on the Emergency Management plan for my unit and the training that is needed also. This is bigger than I had expected and taking more time too. For the likes of me, I have no idea how I get things done.
Well, signing off for now. Oh, but before I do I am going to add a new recipe that a dear friend gave to me. I joined a “Healthy Crockpot” group on FaceBook this week too. One of the recipes is posted below and a photo of what I did with the beef roast that we made. What an incredible recipe! I have altered it a little for my taste, but putting the other ingredients here for you to use.
Balsamic Glazed Beef Pot Roast
3 lbs Beef Chuck Roast
2-3 TBL Coconut Oil
1 cup beef broth
½ cup balsamic vinegar
1 T. honey
1 T. soy sauce
1 T. Worcestershire sauce
½ tsp. red pepper flakes
½ medium onion cut into slices or chunks
1 cp carrot cut into 1” pieces
Clean beef roast, removing most of the fat. Rub with coconut oil and sear beef roast over high heat in skillet. Place in crockpot. Cover with remaining ingredients and cook on high for 4-6 hours or fork tender. This will depend on the size of your roast and cut of meat. Remove from crockpot when done and either shred beef or pull into chunks. Drizzle remaining juices over to keep moist.
For keeping and freezing, portion into individual ¾ cup sizes ,which is equivalent to the Red container of the 21-Day Fix meal plan. Drizzle them with some of the remaining juices and then freeze these for later use. As you can see I placed mine on top of salad greens and dressed with an avocado salad dressing.
