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Delicious and Healthy Breakfast for the Family

Hannah Lucio

To start off, we are foodies at heart. I love to cook, bake, eat chips and sweets. But as we age it starts getting harder and harder to control our weight. Our bodies start to hold onto fat and weight easier, that means we need to be more aware of what we eat and how we workout. Both me and my husband are feeling it so I’m changing our food intake and we are working out better. Of course we are not strict but I’ve made a few changes. I firmly believe that diet should be a balance of 80% healthy 20% not so healthy. That way when you change the food you eat you don’t binge because you miss EVERYTHING. At least that is what I have been finding out for ourselves. So we have committed to changing our diets and it isn’t just a New Years resolution, it’s a life change. I am making more of an effort and really enjoying it so far. I absolutely love shopping at Costco, they have a far better selection and it really saves us money. Especially since we all eating the same kind of meals. I also should add that we are doing more low carb and higher protein meals. Here is a look at what our breakfast have been so far and we all haven’t gotten sick of it yet. It’s delicious!!

Husband gets:

2 whole eggs, 4 egg white

1 Tbsp Salsa (picture below)

1 Tbsp Almond Milk (picture below)

2 Sausage patties (picture below)

Cooked in 1 Tbsp Kerrygold butter

Me:

1 Whole Egg, 2 Egg whites

2 tsp Salsa (picture below)

1 tsp Almond Milk (picture below)

1 Sausage Patty

Cooked in 1 Tbsp Kerrygold butter

4 Year old boy:

1 Whole Egg

1 Sausage Patty

Cooked in 1/2 Tbsp Kerrygold butter

1 Year old:

1/2 Cup Cheddar Cheese

1/2 Cup Frozen Blueberries

This is what works for us and may not for someone else but it’s something you can look at and try it out. Me and my hubby drink straight black coffee also. If you aren’t a fan of black coffee, I hear ya. But with a little patience and practice you can learn to love it! It is also way healthier than adding creamers and other junk. There are so many different brands, flavors, boldness and other factors to try out. I prefer Pete’s coffee or any other organic dark coffee. I also buy whole bean and grind it myself. Why? Because I have noticed the already ground coffee is oily and doesn’t have as much flavor. Just something to consider.

I also have to add, my 1 year old is extremely picky (shocking right?) and teething. He loves the blueberries because they taste good but also they help numb his teeth. He lives off of Dino nuggets and I’m fine with that….for now. That is why he eats cheese and blueberries for breakfast, don’t judge hahaha

Oh! Also, I started buying block cheddar cheese because it has way less ingredients. It seriously tastes SO much better! If you need quick stuff just pre-shred your cheese and put it in a glass container in the fridge. I won’t be going back to bagged shredded cheese ever again. It’s completely different and super yummy!!

I added pictures of the brands below that we made for breakfast. Of course it doesn’t have to be exact but this is what we use and it’s delicious. Everything is from Costco, it saves us a lot! I am usually not a fan of sausage but this is a no junk sausage patty. And the most delicious sausage patty I’ve ever had, seriously.

And always remember to mix things up. The day after I posted this blog post I made this:

I made our eggs with about 1 cup of cooked broccoli from last nights dinner and added avocado. Super delicious!

If you feel good, you look good.

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Clothes shopping excitement 

Hannah Lucio

I wanted to do a happy dance at Target yesterday, but I don’t like walking on store floors without shoes on LOL I have literally achieved a lifelong goal of losing weight and being in a size I’m comfortable at.  I am officially in a size 4 in jeans and a s-xs size shirt. Blows my mind!


 Even though I think some brands run bigger, I have never been this size before. When I got pregnant I was told by many women that I’d never lose weight again. I felt defeated. So I made it my ultimate goal to show everyone I could. Two kids and almost 5 years of marriage….goals met! Cheers to hard work and being a fitmom.

If you are pregnant and have been told this, don’t listen to those women. Maybe they are a bit bitter that they never lost the weight. I’m not entirely sure but don’t listen to them. When I got married I was a size 10 in jeans and a med-large shirt size. And I am now a size 4 and sm-xs. It can be done. In my lifetime, when I was single I even went up to a size 16. Yuck! I was incredibly unhealthy and I will never be that size again. I know people say it’s not the number that matters, but I know what I felt like to be that heavy and it was not fun. It uncomfortable. 

I literally am not on any special weight loss program, don’t belong to a gym, just doing what I can and working out at their nap time. I fit in workouts when I can and snack all day. If you stick your mind to it you can achieve your goals. Even if you “don’t have time” there is literally time in everyone day to do something. Just think about everything you do in a day, I bet there time. Just make time 😉 At first it seems “hard” but it gets easier, I promise. Wake up 1 hour earlier…..everything is achievable when you stick your mind to it. 

Time to go fit in my workout for the day 🤸🏼‍♀️

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No bake Oatmeal Raisin Protein Bites

Hannah Lucio

My husband and I absolutely loves Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. I was about to make my normal Healthy No-bake Energy Bites and Simple To Make and thought….hmm maybe I can try to make a different version that everyone would love. Ya’ll!! They are SO good! They taste like oatmeal raisin cookie dough. De-licious!! I really hope you get to try them and let me know how you like them.

So I started out with the typical Oatmeal, peanut butter, flaxseed, honey, vanilla but this time I added; raisins and cinnamon. This time around I did not add a lot of cinnamon because I’ve done that before in recipes and it was not good. So to keep it on the “safe side” I added just enough. You can also tweak the recipe if you like more raisins and cinnamon. Oh and next time I’ll add my typical walnuts, I am out of those currently. 

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Ingredients: 

1 cup Oatmeal

1/2 cup Natural Peanut Butter (smooth this time) 

1/2 cup Flaxseed

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/3 cup Organic Honey

2 tsp Vanilla

1/2 cup Organic Raisins

1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon 

Directions:

Put all ingredients in a food processor (I use a Ninja) and mix together. You’ll probably have to stop the mixer to scrap the sides to get it completely mixed together.

Once all mixed together, put it in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes and then form them into little bites. 

I store them in a glass container and leave them in the fridge until I eat them. 
Enjoy!!

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Easy Playdoh Recipe

Hannah Lucio

This is the easiest fast and most simple playdoh recipe. Every time we make it I have our toddler pick which color he wants. Today he wanted lime green, that’s my boy!! Its a very cool color and not so boring. To me. Try it out!

 

Ingredients:

2 Cups All Purpose flour

2 Tbsp vegetable oil

1/2 Cup Salt

2 Tbsp Cream Of Tarter

2  Cups Water

Food coloring (lime green: 18 yellow to 3 green)

 

Directions:

  1. Mix Flour, salt and cream of tarter in large bowl and set aside.
  2. Boil 1 1/2 Cup water and vegetable oil together. Put in food coloring of your choice and mix with whisk.
  3. Slowly pour liquid mixture into flour mixture and mix with wooden spoon. Be careful not to mix to fast. Also, make sure to mix thoroughly.
  4. Once cooled, put onto counter and knead well.

Done!

Easy, simple and fast. Enjoy and have some fun with your kiddos! Life’s to short to always be busy. Slow down and enjoy this ride. Kids need us to be present not to get present.


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Critics, marriage, babies-let them be your biggest motivators 

Hannah Lucio


The only place to take a full picture of myself is at church. So I took one. Finally. It feels weird to whip out my phone and take a picture. Of myself. At church. But I’ve thought about it week after week and finally did it. I feel SO darn proud of myself in taking control of my weight. 

See. I’m not “into myself”, I don’t think I’m “hot”, I really don’t think I’m pretty if you want to know. But I do know this. I have grown up struggling with my weight. My whole life!  I’ve been on so many different diets, weight lose pills and also tried to be bulimic. Yuck! I lose weight, gain a s*** ton, kinda lose it again, it’s all just vicious cycle. Until I got married…..that’s when I took control of my weight.

People typically say that when you get married you gain the marriage weight. People also told me when I got pregnant that I would never lose my weight. I  was literally laughed at. A lot. By more than one person. I told them that I wanted to be a fit mom and lose all the weight I gained. Good luck, they told me. I was told different stories about how they never lost their weight after pregnancy. What a let down. I was also told it was really hard because I would be SO tired and not motivated. Well crap, I thought. Just one more thing I didn’t need, negativity. I was thinking I really hope I am not like that. It got me down, a lot. It made me feel, well, horrible. And then I thought……CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! 

Here I am two babies later and 20 lbs less than when I got married. 20 lbs!!! I beat all odds apparently. I am that “fit mom” I wanted to be. I have a lot of energy. I like to play with my boys in ways that I would be able to if I had not lost weight. I can run around the playground, go on walks and show my boys what healthy living is. We are far from perfect about what we put in our bodies but we try to lead by example. I try to feed our family good foods but we also treat ourselves to regular junk foods. Remember your kids don’t buy their own foods, we do. Also, what we don’t have at home we won’t eat. I really believe that my consistent working out and watching what I eat has helped me. I drink my Smoothies every morning. Up your fiber content, drink plain black coffee instead of adding junk, drink water and stay positive. My body cannot process high protein amounts so I tend to eat more fiber foods. I do eat ground turkey, brown rice and black beans for dinner a lot! Omg it taste so good. 

Now that I have gotten to my first weight goal I can start to get to my ultimate weight goal. I would also like to be a motivator for others. If I could even just help one person get motivated to eat better and workout I’d be SO happy! I know it’s a new year and people are looking for ways to get their New Years resolution going. 

My advice would be to 

1. Start somewhere. 

2. Start small and work up

3. If someone is not helping you get to your goal but instead getting in the way, fix it. Distance yourself from that person. I had to do that because some people really do not want to see you succeed. I have many examples, if you want to just ask 🙂 I’ve actually stopped hanging out with a lot of people because they were not healthy for me. It might sound hard but it’s not. 

4. Stop making excuses. I’ve heard so many from people about how they cannot lose weight, eat healthy or go workout. Walking outside is free. A few dumbells are really cheap. YouTube exercise videos are free. Eating healthy isn’t that expensive. When I lived in California I used to shop at Sprouts, mega cheap and we had a ton of veggies and fruit. Over here in Virginia…..it’s a little more expensive. But we still buy it! Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and Harris teeter are our go to for foods. No-GMO’s!!!

5. Start somewhere. Yes, I repeated number one because it is SO important to just start!!

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The last ride

Hannah Lucio

My kids and I were finally able to get on my cruiser bike all together and ride around. We only went maybe 1-2 miles in total but it was Still fun. I held our 3 month old son in the ergo and my 2 year old son in the wee ride. Side note: if you are looking for a kid bike seat for your bike I HIGHLY recommend the Wee Ride. It’s freakin awesome! All of last year I rode my bike a ton with maverick. We barely used gas because we biked everywhere. We love biking. 

When we got home I thought more about getting a kid trailer for our bike. I researched and found what we should get and told my husband. He agreed and we also agreed on upgrading my bike to a 7 or 12 speed bike so I can take the hills easier. When he got home he said to post our bikes for sale since it’ll probably take a while. Well, I posted and not even an hour later we had a buyer for both….and then it increased to 8 people wanting my bike. I wasn’t ready to sell it that fast! I started to get sellers remorse haha sounds Stupid I know, but I have had this bike since I was 20…I’m 34 now! That’s 14 years!! It is still in great condition and the memories I’ve had on this bike….ugh. I know it’s just a bike and I really need to get a new one. I just didn’t know that when we rode on Tuesday that it was going to be our last ride. 

 When I lived on the beach in California I rode that bike everywhere. It doesnt have gears so it was an amazing workout. I remember riding 14 miles up and down the coast just soaking and soaking up the sun. I remember watching the waves crash, the smell of the ocean and the gorgeous amounts of beauty it offered. I used to live in Carlsbad,CA, 1/4 block from the beach. We had a view of the ocean and we were so close that I would fall asleep to the sound of crashing waves. That was the life! 

Now that we live in Virginia it’s a little different. There isn’t a beach super close to us and it’s a lot of ups and downs as far as riding goes. More trails and less city type stuff. Also, now that we take the kids on the actual bike it’s a little harder to peddle without gears. I still do it but I really want to do more outdoor activities with the family and it would help. 

Last night was it. The lady came and said she really liked my bike because it was cute. Ugh, I know. It’s my favorite. She bought it and off it went. So many memories and now it’s time to make new ones on a new bike. Saturday we are heading to the bike shop to get a geared bike and possibly the kid trailer. Now that our old bikes are gone I am getting more and more exciting about getting a new bike. And, finally closing a chapter on my old life. 

This is a picture of us on our last ride that I will cherish forever.

R.I.P ol Betty

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