Week 10 and Pizza Bagels

You guys have missed me, right?

Okay, probably not, but let me have my moment.

As of today, it had been exactly 3 weeks since we had taken progress pictures. For me, that has been at least 3 weeks since I have done P90X or any other extended work out. Hell, we haven't really even been hiking. I went over earlier how things have been extremely chaotic due to packing up the old place, moving into the new place, and trying to unpack everything here. We still haven't gotten back into a routine exercise, which honestly, is pretty disappointing. On the up side, we have still been losing weight, but I can only dream where we would be if we had kept up at the rate we were going.

Today, We finally decided to take some progress pictures in hope that the weight that we have been losing hasn't been just muscle and we wouldn't look worse than the last time we took progress photos. When I saw the pictures on Lance's phone, I was actually astonished. We look even better than I thought we would.

Here are the photos from week 7 (which I never ended up posting because Lance didn't get around to sending them to me until today) and week 10. 

In the week 7 photo I was 147.2 lbs and today I weighed in at 143.4 lbs; This makes me only 3.4 lbs away from my initial weight goal, but 13.4 lbs away from my new weight goal. From my start weight of 165 lbs, I have officially lost 22.6 lbs, overall.

In the week 7 photo Lance's weight was 188.6, and he weighed in today at 184.2, meaning that he is only 4.2 lbs away from his weight goal. From his start weight of 210 lbs, Lance has officially lost 25.8 lbs, overall.

Although we haven't been losing nearly as much as we could be, we're still steadily losing about a lb a week. This isn't freakishly dramatic progress, but it's definitely still progress.

Everything we've worked so hard would have gone to shit if we hadn't stuck with a good diet. In these last 3 weeks, we have discovered a couple of interesting, tasty, and mostly healthy foods. Even better, I'm going to tell you exactly what they are and how to make them!

I do want to take just a second here first though to give you photographic representation of the things Lance and I are most impressed with throughout our progress.

My stomach is almost completely gone, which I am extremely stoked about. All I really have to work on now is my triceps and I'm still working on getting rid of what's left of my love handles.

I'm just super impressed with Lance's back. I mean look at those muscles!

1. PIZZA BAGELS

If you've been trying to lose weight like we have, you've probably found time to go to the store and check out the nutrition facts on things that you would have readily eaten in the past or maybe even now  thinking "these can't be that bad for me. One of the things you may have stopped to look at in the store are those pizza bagel bite things. You know what I'm talking about...these things:

When you think of how tiny these things really are, 4 bagel bites isn't a whole lot. I used to eat at least 12-16. I give them this at least, that is a good amount of protein, but that's at least 20 g of sugar that I'm pushing into my body when I'm only allowed 24 a day. Plus, these things are super fucking expensive for how little you get.

So instead, Lance and I decided to make our own healthier versions at home. I don't have the exact nutritional value on them, but I can tell you overall that they are much better for you than what you will buy in stores and probably a lot tastier.

So, we started off with 1 whole wheat bagel cut in half. You can buy whole wheat bagels at Wal-Mart of Aldi's for under $2. Although, I personally suggest Aldi's because 1. They're about 10-20 cents cheaper, and 2. the bagels are a little bit bigger. We bought some super cheap pizza sauce (80 cents at wal-mart) that surprisingly wasn't too bad for us and spread it on the bagels.

 We then added 5 pieces of turkey pepperoni (much better for you than pig pepperoni and just as tasty) to each side of the bagel.

Then we added some low-moisture, part skim cheese. (In one serving of this stuff (1/3 of a cup), you get only 90 calories, 7 grams of protein, and not a single sugar. )

Then we threw it in the toaster oven for about 5 minutes and wa-lah. Deliciousness on a bagel, and not to bad for you either.

So there is one more thing for you to try. It's super tasty. The whole wheat does wonders for you, and it keeps you pretty full for quite a while. You'll definitely have to try it out sometime. I wish I could just eat pizza bagels for lunch every single day. Next time I post, I'm going to talk about another food we recently discovered that is just pleasant. This is all you get today, folks. Make sure to keep tuned in.