Shape Up

As you probably can imagine from my absence, things have been crazy busy since my last post almost a month ago.  I can't really tell monetarily that I'm busier yet, but I'm sure that will come in time.  Taking most of my time is this massive overhaul on my website.  I'm converting it to Wordpress so I can make updates on my end as needed with restaurant & menu changes.  I had no idea how big of a project it would be.

Isaiah is running & talking like crazy.  He says balloon, knock knock, chash (trash), no, bye bye, hiyo (hello), nana (for his grandmother & for a banana), choos (shoes), sky, ball, tanchoo (thank you), mo (more & he signs it too!, muk (milk), top (stop), ni ni (night night), at (hat), eat, mama, dada, & he tries really hard to say BB's name.  I should start keeping a list on my iPhone of everything he says or does that is extra cute because now I'm sure I'm missing a lot.  He tries to sing.  I will sing la la la la la la la la la (the scale).  And he will sing la la, occasionally correctly matching the tone. 

Marcus & I took this huge trip to Austin for a weekend.  Huge for us because that was our first trip together.  I wrote all about it, but I haven't gotten around to posting it yet.  Soon I hope.

One of my biggest concerns lately is getting my body back to a moderate version of what I want. 

A few months ago I tried the Paleo Diet.  I loved it.  BUT I got really overwhelmed with the massive cooking, planning & shopping it involved.  Feeding your family is like having another job.  I would start the weeks off well with lots of groceries in the fridge (that cost a lot of money) & then I would cook a meal or two, my crazy life would happen & then I would end the week with wasted food in the fridge.  And that's not even touching exercise.  Bottom line (& I don't apologize for this) is that if I have to choose between work & cooking (or cleaning), I'm going to choose work every time. 

So after evaluating many alternatives (cooking not so difficult & expensive food, counting on leftovers from catering events, continuing to eat out the longer I continued evaluating...), I decided to try out this meal program a dear friend of mine told me about called My Private Chef.  It is a local chef that has a passion for providing healthy, easy, & affordable food for everyone.  You can pickup or have delivered all of your meals for the week frozen.  You just pop each one (labeled with what it is) into the microwave for a few minutes & eat.  I figured there would be missed meals because of client meetings (had one tonight) & catering events & I could use those missed meals to feed Isaiah & get me through parts of the weekends (program is M-F 3 meals a day).  The monthly cost to do this will be less than what we were spending on groceries. 

After all of my evaluating - I realized 2 things:  I need a plan.  I can't just go get a bunch of stuff & wing it for the week.  And I don't think it's possible for me to plan & execute healthy fresh meals for my family at this point in my life.  So I am thrilled at the possibility that this program will work!  I'll let you know.  Maybe.