EMERGENCY WORKDAY BAKE ON BREAK .... nom nom nom

 

When slumber is soooooooooooo sweet and one sleeps sooooooooo deep that YIKES!!!!!... IT IS LATE!!!! I NEED TO GET TO WORK IN LESS THAN  AN HOUR .... OH ME OH MY!!! .....

That was me this morning .... slept sooooooooo deeply after an awesome workout last night .. BOKWA and ZUMBA followed by PILATES that I woke up late ... dashed into the shower even as I had showered before bed I need my morning shower ... pulled myself together super quickly and RAN!!!! ..... no time for picture a day in my new favorite corner .... quick kisses .. feed and water to poodles and ferrets and AWAY I GO!!!

YIKES!!! forgot the lunch bag prepped the night before .... I am ALMOST there with 5 minutes to spare ... no turning back .... here it is I am at work .... no meals ... did not go to the ATM ... and I KNOW I must eat something before lightheadedness sets in.... what to do ... what to do .... I must have something in my locker .... and I do.... I have whey protein powder ... Vanilla Flavor .... a co-worker spotted me a serving pack of raisin bran cereal ... and I found peanut butter ... WOOT.... my creative instincts are in place....

With my awesome treasures I set on a 3 minute EMERGENCY WORKDAY BAKE on my break....

My goodies: peanut butter... heaping spoonful of whey vanilla protein powder... raisin bran cereal ....

I open the raisin bran packet and save the top..... pour the protein powder over it and scoop out the peanut butter and mix...

separated mixture in 3 parts and mashed using the cover from the raisin bran cereal packet to pat down my cookies...

end result.... three awesome cold peanut butter raisin bran protein cookies ... NOM NOM NOM ... I just scooped out a heaping spoonful of protein powder from my scoop and poured the rest into my coffee and mixed .... 

I ate my awesome bkfast ... One and a half cookies and having the rest on second break ... soooooooooooo full and satisfied with a quick empiric EMERGENCY WORKDAY BAKE ON BREAK .... WOOT! ... if you care to try it you may like it ... or not ... its all good ... I LOVED IT.... as I ate it and twiddled my toes ... right at my desk ...on break ....

Loving my WLS ... 6 years 2 months post RNY ... it seems like it was just yesterday ... the excitement remains ... I am on it for life .... and I love it! and my goofy made up empiric tool 'A Picture A Day Keeps the Pound and the Inches Away' works for ME ... since I could not do it at home I did it at the next best place ... on break ... this is my today...

Compared to yesterday .... from a highest weight of 327 pounds 6 years and 2 months ago...

I love my before that I can compare to my now ... I am very much the same spirit of my big girl me ...in a smaller frame ... cause I am B.A.D. = Blessed And Delivered .... I keep my previous image in remembrance cause I do not want to ever forget how far I have come ... that woman is still me ... we walk hand and in hand ...her deliverance is my release and my release is her deliverance ... WIN WIN .... I am so grateful for the tool that gave me the jumpstart that I so much needed .... I will stay the course one day at a time ... one choice at a time .... should I fall ..I WILL GET UP! and keep on moving....it is all good...

Thanks for allowing me to share SNIPPETS of my journey.....

it is amazing what we can do in a pinch!  I always have food at my desk or in our fridge for "just in case".  I keep Chunky healthy request soup, low fat Ritz, peanut butter and graham crackers, wasabi peas, Kashi bars and I always have Chobani, laughing cow cheese and Lean Cuisines on hand.  No one goes hungry on my watch!!

You are sooooooooo right Kim ... it is AMAZING what we can do .... I ate one and a half of my cookies hoping to eat the rest later but my co-workers loved them and everyone got to tasting my now gone wares ... I am still full! and DH was kind enough to drop off my lunch ... leftover chicken breast half that was baked in foil covered with a bit of lemon juice/garlic/sazón and parsley .. he cut it in strips over fresh spinach leaves and I am going to have an awesome salad sometime around 1-1:30 as I am still stuff from my morning wares..

I love love love love Wasabi peas ... OMG ... I.LOVE.THEM and edamame equally as well. 

You are one smart cookie!! ;) Those look really good!!!

Thank you Nell ... my awesome buddy and FABULOUS 1/2 marathon runner ... WOOT! I am still celebrating that medal that is bigger than you ... I am sooooooooooooo proud of you!!!!

Hey, check my awesome harvest salad courtesy of DH .... he felt sorry for me and my impromptu cookies and bought me lunch LOL ...that is after I texted him a picture of my creativity LOL (or goofiness)

Aww thank you!!! That salad looks tasty, very sweet DH you have there!!! BTW, any new wall murals?

OMG glad you asked.... painting a huge work table in the basement of the huge house we moved into right around Xmas last year ... It is a HUGE old but sturdy as a rock worktable that I want to set up as an art table because I like how rustic it looks ... and I ALSO found a cistern down there that I first I thought was a cement coffin and FREAKED LOL .... so my project for tomorrow that I am off is church in the morning and then I am going to paint either that table or that cistern to make it a sitting area with a mural on it .... no themes come to mind yet though ... any ideas for this cistern that scared the heck out of me when I could not figure out what it was???

Gratzz on your Ingenuity and Creativity that was fast on your feet thinking. :)

Thank you for reminding us all that this is a path we are on for Life, not just to loose the excess weight.

TC Donna

 

 

 

Thank you Donna ... lunch is equally awesome ... too bad I got stuffed after a few bites of the chicken and a bit of gorgonzola .... saving the rest for later .... Losing the weight is half the job ... keeping it off is a lifelong commitment and we definitely have infinite choices and can have fun with it too IMO...

OMG! yeah i think that cistern would have freaked me out too!! LOL How about vines with flowers, maybe some ladybugs & other cute little things that pop up in spring? I'm sure something will come to you once you put your mind to it, can't wait to see what you create.