Egg Breakfast Sandwich

Here's a super quick and easy breakfast idea for you! This one is perfect for those mornings you have a little time to fix something, but want to feel like you had time to go all out. 

Ingredients:

- 1 large egg

- 2 large eggs, egg whites only

- 1 tbsp low-fat milk (I have to use almond milk and it works fine)

- Cooking spray

- 2 tbsp. roasted red bell pepper, chopped

- 2 tbsp. fresh basil, chopped

- Black pepper, amount to your preference (optional)

- 1 whole wheat English muffin, split & toasted

- 1 slice of mozzarella cheese (optional)

Directions:

1. In a bowl whisk together the egg, egg whites, and milk

2. After you spray your skillet with the cooking spray, add the eggs and stir occasionally for 2-3 minutes (medium-low heat)

3. Add roasted red pepper and basil. Season with the black pepper if you want. Cook for another 1-2 minutes

4. Put the egg mix onto your toasted muffin, and add the cheese now if you decided to add cheese. Top with the other muffin half.

Let me know what you think! I love making this for those morning when I have time to cook breakfast, but I don't really feel like it. Super simple, quick, and easy. It also easily follows the 21 day fix meal plan too. Enjoy!

Apple Crisp Yogurt Treat

I love a nice warm apple crisp! Especially with a BIG scoop of ice cream! Oh man! Apple crisps are a staple at fall gatherings, but do you even realize how much sugar is in those things?!? No wonder they taste so good! It's shocking honestly! This little creation is a simple way to have your apple crisp without all that added sugar.

Ingredients:

- 1 honey crisp apple (my favorite) cut into bite-size chunks 

- 1/2 cup of dark chocolate chips

- 1 cup of plain greek yogurt

- 1 tsp of peanut butter

- sprinkle of cinnamon

Directions:

Mix & Enjoy! I'm telling y'all, if it's complicated I won't make it! Simple and yummy is my go-to method!

Clean Eating Cookie Dough Yogurt

I have a serious sweet tooth. I use to think I was more of a salty kind of girl, but nope! I want all sweet things! I guess that's what this pregnancy is doing to me. I read somewhere that if you're having a girl you crave sweet. At this point I would have to agree with that. 

Since I have been craving so many sweet lately, I have been on the hunt for healthier options. This clean eating cookie dough yogurt recipe is wonderful! It definitely satisfies my sweet tooth!

Ingredients:

- 3/4 cup of plain Greek yogurt

- 1 tbsp nut butter

- 1/4 tsp vanilla

- a pinch of sea salt

- 1 tbsp of mini chocolate chips

Directions:

Here's the easy part! Just mix it all together and top with the chocolate chips! A sweet and simple treat makes this pregnant girl happy! :) 

Total Slacker

image: A Good Hue

Well as usual I make some grand promise to blog regularly about a certain topic and I fail. Let me tell you, the end of the school year stuff totally kicked my butt. I felt like I kept running in circles trying to get stuff done, but still not getting it all done! It was very exhausting.

So, about working out.

I have continued to workout with the 21 Day Fix. I did slack a little the last two weeks of school, but I am back on track now!

After Round 1 of the 21 Day Fix

So far, as of right now (in my last week of Round 2) I have lost 15 pounds and over 12 total inches! I truly believe in this program and I am loving my results! I have a lot of people give me grief about trying to lose weight though. 

No, I don't think I am fat.

Do I think I am as fit as everyone else thought I was?

No.

I would get so out of breath just walking up the stairs at school, or sometimes just walking to the mailbox.

I am blessed with an awesome metabolism, so that is the only reason my body never gained a whole lot of weight. 

I weighed 148 though before I started this program, and that is the most I have ever weighed. 

I hated it. 

My clothes were to tight.

I looked like I was in the early stages of pregnancy in a few of my favorite tops.

I was miserable, and decided something had to be done. 

My main goal with working out was to become more tone. If I lost weight along the way, great! But the goal is to become tone and fit, not skinny and thin. 

I love food to much for that!

I am about to start my third round of the 21 Day Fix. My goals for this round are to stay motivated and complete the workouts every single day. I don't want to skip like I did this past round.

Another goal I have is to follow the strict nutrition plan better, and not eat out as much. We probably eat out every single night. Now, I do make healthier choices when we do, but I enjoy cooking. I would love to get back in the kitchen and learn how to cook some healthy meals. 

I don't want to promise to much as usual, but I do plan on posting more. I can't keep slacking on everything like I have been doing lately. I have to do better!

Find me on Instagram to see what I'm up to each day!

21 Day Fix Day 2

Yesterday was Day 2 of the 21 day fix. My legs are definitely feeling the workout from yesterday! Sitting down and bending over is a struggle. For breakfast yesterday I had scrambled eggs with hot sauce. It was so good! I could eat that every morning and not get bored with it. I also had my cup of coffe and some pickles with it. Lunch was Cafe Latte Shakeology, yummy! My afternoon snack was string cheese. For supper I baked chicken and topped it with all purpose seasoning. The recipie for the seasoning is in the 21 Day Fix book that comes with the challenge pack, and it taste wonderful. I put my chicken on a bed of brown rice with a side of green beans. I put the same seasoning on my green beans which made them so good! My evening snack was some organic fruit gummies. I don't think they're 21 Day Fix approved, but it was almost bed time and I was hungry so it was something satisfying and quick.  

Yesterday's workout focused on the upper body. Now, it still worked everything else but it was mainly shoulder and arms type workouts along with some ab work. It was great to give my legs a little break since they were so sore from the day before. 

Even though I am only 2 days in, I am absolutely loving this program! I can already tell I am going to see great results! 

Love my Shakeology! 

21 Day Fix Day 1

Ok, so I successfully completed day 1 of my 21 day fix. For breakfast I made a spinach and mushroom omelet, which I hated by the way. I would much rather just eat my egg with a small salad on the side. I'm weird about certain food mixing and the spinach with my eggs was just gross to me, but I ate it anyway. Don't want to waste it right? For a snack I had one thing of string cheese. Lunch was skipped (not recommended) only because I took a pretty long nap. By the time I woke up from my nap it was to late for lunch because it would have interfered with my appetite for supper. Instead I made a Shakeology shake and OH MY GOODNESS it was so yummy! I've never had it before and it did not disappoint. Cafe Latte flavor is my favorite so far! Supper was not a completely wonderful meal. We ate at Cracker Barrel for my Pawpaw's birthday. I ordered vegetables, which sounds good until I ordered the dumplings as one of my vegetables. Oops!! 

The workout today was a full body cardio. Let me be really honest, I was needed water after the warmup. I am so out of shape!! The workout was great though. It only last for 30 minutes, so it went by pretty fast. There is also one person in the group on the workout that is the modifier, so if the workout gets to difficult you can just follow that person. I noticed I was getting way too tired too fast, so I stuck with that modifier. It was still a great workout! I'm definitely sore from it! 

New Beginnings

Well, well, well. I am actually writing a blog post! It has seriously been to long! 

Have you ever wanted to make a change for the better, but wasn't sure how or where to start? 

Wanted to start a healthy lifestyle, but became to overwhelmed and quit before you even got started?

Well, me too!! Tomorrow I am completely stepping out of my comfort zone and starting something new. I start my 21 Day fix tomorrow! 21 Day fix is a Beachbody program that includes an at home workout, food guide, portion control containers, and wonderful coaches to help and support you along the way. An optional part of the program is the Shakeology, which is these awesome shakes that you can drink as a snack or as a meal. I hear they taste wonderful! I went ahead and ordered those to go along with my program.

Joining a group like this is something I would have never done before, but I decided instead of complaining about my clothes being to tight that I would actually do something about it! When you join you also get added to a group on Facebook with other people doing the same workout program as you. How awesome is that?!? I love that it is somewhere I have that will hold me accountable. That will keep me motivated because I do not want to have to admit to the group that I skipped my workout or whatever the case may be.

I am telling you all this to also say that I will be posting about it on here. I think writing blog posts about it each day will also hold me accountable with not only my workouts, but also with my meals. 

Wish me luck! It starts tomorrow! I'll let you know how day 1 goes! 

Name Change

Welcome to my new blog! My blog was previously known as Brittney Rae Designs, but I felt a change in the name was necessary. When I started Brittney Rae Designs I intended to blog about my paintings and other things I made to better promote my business. As time went on, I was blogging less and less about my creations and more about my life and other things that interest me. A change was very much needed in my opinion!

This blog will be about whatever my heart desires! It will include books I'm reading, good deals I find while shopping, teacher related topics, DIY crafting, working out (or lack of), recipes, and so much more!

I hope we can all keep up!

2013

This is my first post for 2013! This year is going to be a very interesting year for me. On December 17, 2012 I got engaged to the love of my life! We are planning to get married during May of 2014, so I will be doing a lot of planning this year. I also finally graduate college during 2013 too! That is beyond exciting because when I started college the end did not seem near at all. I felt like it would take forever for me to graduate, but before I knew it here I am. It is an amazing feeling!

I do have a few goals in mind for 2013 along with my other accomplishments.

1. I want to promote my business more. I would love to be able to make more money while also doing something I totally love!
2. I want to be healthier. I want to not only eat better but also exercise more because as of right now I do not exercise at all.
3. I want to grow my hair out really long! This does not sound like it would be a goal for this year, but it is for me! I always think I am going to grow my hair out, but as soon as it reaches a certain point I always chop it off. I want to hold back this year and not chop it off!
4. I also want to save money. With this year holding a lot of major upcoming events it only means that I need to be financially ready to support them all. That means I can't just go but cute clothes or other thing I may want anymore, I will only buy the absolute necessities.

 

Do you have any goals for 2013? What are they?

xoxo 

Coffee

So I have made a promise to myself to write a post everyday. I realized that I had put all the time and effort into creating this blog, and I was letting it all go to waste. I am going to focus this blog on various topics. I will talk about my current items I am creating, but I will also be putting thing that interest me as well.

I am drinking a cup of coffee as I write this post, so it only seemed appropriate to discuss that. I have recently discovered that I absolutely LOVE coffee! I try to drink it every morning, but sometimes I am running late and I don't have time to pour me a cup. If I have the time I'll put my coffee in a travel mug to with me so I can drink it while I drive.

 

These are some of my favorite travel mugs:

 

I really do love leopard print on just about anything! I especially love it on this 16oz Tervis tumbler! I love Tervis! Their cups come in different sizes I just prefer the 16 oz. Their cups can hold hot or cold drinks, and you can get a lid for them all! That makes them great for traveling!

 

 

This mug from Dixieland Monogram is pink AND monogrammed, what else could you ask for!?

 

 

This Jonathan Adler mug from Pea Pod Paper is so cute! There's something about lime green and blue together that I love. The two colors just go perfectly together!

How do you feel about coffee? What is your favorive travel mug?

xoxo