 Welcome to this week's What I Eat in a Day. You saw a little bit of my morning routine. I've already had my coffee. The dogs have had their treat. I got ready for the day and I wanted to sit down and welcome you to today's What I Eat in a Day. I have some really good meals planned for us today. And then I have a delicious, easy, but comfort food type of dinner recipe tonight that I know that Troy is excited about. So if you are excited for this week's What I Eat in a Day, give this video a big huge thumbs up. And if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, I would love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and don't forget to click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. We do What I Eat in a Day's every single Wednesday. Everything I share with you today, including my recipe website is all down in the description box, along with my three recipe e-books. The fourth and final one is coming out shortly. 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For this morning, I'm really excited for this. So I have some raspberries, two of the Western bagel. This is what they look like again. The pumpkin bagel. These are seasonal. They're one point apiece, but if you have two of them, they're three points per the WW Math. So I have two bagels for three points and then I have three points worth of the Trader Joe's pumpkin cream cheese, a couple of eggs for zero. So the only thing that has points in my breakfast is the bagels and the cream cheese. So my entire breakfast, look how good this looks, is only six points. I will link Western bagel down below. Again, they're seasonal. They're really delicious. I'll link it down below with 10% off for you if you wanna pick some pumpkin bagels up for yourself. It's morning snack time, but I'm not hungry. So I'm not going to have a morning snack, but I am going to have the health aid kombucha in cherry. Very, I don't know, I'm not. I have not been very hungry the last few days. I don't know what the heck is going on with that. I just haven't been very hungry. So it's 10 o'clock now. I'll have lunch probably in the next hour and a half to two hours. So I'm just gonna have some kombucha, sip on this. I'm currently working on my meal prep. I have meatballs cooking right there. So that's gonna be my morning snack, quick, simple. When I die, I wanna come back as Diesel, Lola or Palmer, as long as I'm the owner, because some dogs don't get all the love that they deserve. But this is the current situation. Diesel's sleeping outside on the dog bed. Mr. Palmer made a little nest in the corner. Did you get mommy's pillow so you could make a nest? And Ms. Lola Lou Clayton has been in bed all day. Hi honey, are you okay, baby? She tired because we had friends over and she didn't get as much sleep as normal. So I wanted to sit down and give you guys a little bit more information on my health. So in my weigh-in video this last Friday, I talked about my health and that I have a few health concerns, I guess so to speak. I've received a little bit more information since then. I have some things in place since that video. So I thought that this would be a great time to go a little bit more into depth for what I know is going on. I get questions all the time about how do you do so much? How do you manage three YouTube channels? How do you sell real estate? Be active in your Facebook group. Be active on Instagram, on and on. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how you have that much energy. To be honest with you, I don't. I do it because it's my job and it's important to me and I enjoy it. But honestly, I suffer from chronic fatigue. I am always tired. I've mentioned that I go to bed pretty early between eight and nine PM. I'm up between five and six PM. I find myself tired by the afternoon, which I know is common for a lot of people, but so tired that I can actually lay down and take a nap mid-afternoon and I've been known to do that. I've been known to lay down and take a nap in the middle of the day. And it's something that I've wondered why I'm tired all the time because I fuel my body. I eat enough calories. I try to eat good foods. I exercise. I am busy with real estate and YouTube, but I just find myself extra, extra tired pretty much all the time. I also was recently diagnosed with elevated blood pressure. I don't wanna say high blood pressure because I don't have high blood pressure, but my blood pressure the last few times that it has been taken has been a little bit elevated, which has been a bit of a concern to me because I've never had elevated or high blood pressure in the past. And the third thing is, after speaking with my doctor and a dietician that is part of my doctor's office, there's some concern about my thyroid. The fact that I eat at a caloric level that puts me in a pretty decent deficit. I exercise on a regular basis. I mean, at least two to three times every single week. I drink a gallon of water almost every single day. There's some concern of why I'm not losing weight more rapidly because I do still have quite a bit of weight to lose. And at my weight, I should be losing a little bit more every single week. And like I've shared with you guys time and time again, I don't really care how quickly I lose weight. I just wanna keep, if there's a concern about my thyroid and potentially and or potentially my hormones, I wanna make sure that that is addressed. So my doctor as well as the dietician in the office is recommending a full blood panel that I haven't had since I turned 40. And if you didn't know, I'll be 46 here in just a couple of weeks. So it's been almost six years since I've had a full blood panel. And they wanna just make sure everything is properly working. Is my thyroid working correctly? Are my hormone levels balanced? Is there something relating to blood pressure and fatigue that plays a part in my overall health? So on December 2nd, I will be having an entire blood panel where I'll be able to find out a little bit more what's going on. Do I have an issue with my thyroid? What is causing chronic fatigue? And so on and so forth. So as of right now, I'm kind of in a waiting period. I'm trying a few of the things that they suggested to help with energy and to help keep my hormones a little bit more balanced. But I'm really not gonna, I'm not going to know all the ins and outs until that blood panel comes back. I'm guessing based on our conversation that there's going to have to be some dietary changes which I'm completely okay with. And honestly, if there's an issue with my hormones or my thyroid that prevents me from losing weight at the rate that I should be based on my caloric deficit, then I need to fix that. And I've wondered that myself, even though I don't care about the number that comes off every week, as long as it's moving in the right direction, it's crossed my mind quite a few times as to why I'm not seeing bigger losses, especially with eating right, choosing good foods and exercising. So that's kind of what prompted me along with the elevated blood pressure to pursue this a little bit further, to see if there is something minor or majorly wrong, which hopefully it's minor. But based on what they're telling me, there's some concern that something isn't right. And that's where the need for the blood panel is coming in, which it's time. It's been almost six years, like I said. So it's time for me to have a blood panel. So at this point, I'm just doing what I can to keep my energy up, to continue to eat healthy, to continue to drink my water. You should know early December, hopefully, if there is an issue, and then what needs to be done with that issue. So I'll definitely keep you guys updated as I hear anything, as anything changes. I will be sharing it with you guys, either into what I eat in a day or away, and it just kind of depends on when I get the information, what video I'm currently filming. So I will definitely keep you guys updated. You'll be in the know and be in my Facebook group, because like I said, I'm in there every day. So I will be posting frequent updates and things in my Facebook group as well, and maybe over on Instagram. So that's where you can find me a day today when I'm not uploading videos on YouTube. Thank you for all of you that have commented or reached out saying that you hope that I'm okay. At this point, absolutely I am okay. I just need to figure out if there is anything that isn't okay, because it's important for me to heal from the inside out, not just to lose weight, but to really just heal my body overall. So here's my lunch for today. It is 12.45, so it's a late lunch for me, but I'm having my spinach and feta turkey meatballs from my meal prep. All of these meatballs are only three points, and they are so good, so tender and juicy. If you haven't seen my meal prep that went out on Monday, definitely check that out. And then I have a serving of these lesser evil sun poppers. These are also really good. These are sour cream and onion. This is a lot of these for the serving. It's 130 calories, and it is four points per serving. And then I am going to have a tangerine lipogeus to spice up my lunch a little bit. So this is going to be my seven smart point lunch. So I'm just sitting down to do some editing, and it reminded me that I haven't shared with you guys some footage from our little Halloween party on Friday night. It's actually Halloween that I'm filming today's video. It is Sunday, so I hope you had a fantastic Halloween. But we had a couple of friends over, and they're two younger boys. For just a Halloween get-together, we did a whole Halloween-themed inspired meal snacks. The kids got goodie bags. I'm going to insert some pictures, and I ended up taking some video of the food that we made. A lot of you said that you wanted to see what Halloween-inspired meals and food that I came out with. Everything turned out so good, you guys. I was actually surprised myself on how good everything turned out. It was perfectly on point, perfectly on theme. So I am going to go ahead and roll some pictures and footage. So I hope you enjoy seeing what we did for Halloween 2021. Here's what I'm going to have for an afternoon snack. These are the mini 100 calorie healthy eating all the time and go bars in peanut butter. You guys know how much I love the healthy eating bars. These have phenomenal macros. They have protein, healthy fats. They're really, really good. And these minis are perfect because they're only three points. Where the full-size bars are six or seven points, this just makes a really quick, easy, healthy clean ingredient snack. So I love that you can buy these in the boxes. She has some other flavors, but I really like the peanut butter one. So this is my three point afternoon snack. I will link healthy eating all the time and go bars down in the description box. It's not an affiliate link, but it will get you 10% off. She's a small business. So it's a great way to support a small business. And again, the macros, a million out of 10. What are you doing, Boo-Boo? What you doing? What are you guys doing out here? Palmer and Lola, there they are. Apparently playing. Get him, Lola. Get him. People's like, I'm out of here. He goes to where it's safe. For dinner tonight, I am making the best classic shepherd's pie. I'm really excited for this. It's actually a beautiful day here as you saw when we were outside, but it's still Halloween. It's already moving in in November. I'm feeling the vibes of fall. So I'm excited for a comfort food recipe. So let me show you what's in the shepherd pie. I'm going to be using the Bob Evans mashed potatoes just to make my life easy. I will link the original recipe on my website if you want to make your mashed potatoes from scratch. But listen, I ain't got time for that. Troy's going to be home here pretty soon. So I'm just going to do mine out of the Bob Evans mashed potatoes. We'll need an onion, quite a bit of seasoning. I'm using garlic powder in place of actual garlic because I'm out. And then you'll need parsley, thyme, rosemary, frozen mixed vegetables. You could do frozen peas and carrots and then canned corn. I'm just going to go with this even though there's green beans in it. A pound of 96% extra lean ground beef, tomato paste, salt and pepper, worcestershire sauce, chicken broth or the recipe calls for beef broth. I'm just going to use this because it's what I have open in my fridge and some all-purpose flour. So to get started on the shepherd's pie, I went ahead and chopped up the onion. Added it here to a skillet. Once your onions are translucent, we're going to add our entire pound of ground beef and all of our seasonings starting with thyme, rosemary, parsley, garlic powder, salt and pepper. We're going to allow the ground beef to completely brown and that will help cook those spices in and the onions. So I added two tablespoons of tomato paste. I'm also going to add some worcestershire sauce. Stir this up. We want to make sure that that tomato paste is dissolved. Now we're going to add in one cup of raw frozen vegetables. We're going to stir that together, allow it to come to a boil. I also added in two tablespoons of flour. That's going to help thicken the mix up as it comes to a boil. So we have our hamburger mixture. I sprayed a nine by nine baking dish with some nonstick cooking spray. We're adding the hamburger mixture to the baking dish and then we're just going to spread that out even in the bottom of the pan. And then I'm going to take the pre-made mashed potatoes and I'm just going to kind of spread them over the top of the shepherd's pie mix. All right, it is going in the oven at 400 for 20 to 25 minutes and then you do want to let it cool for 15 minutes before serving. So here is my dinner. I actually went to upload my video and Troy loaded up my plate for me. So I didn't get a whole lot of footage of the shepherd's pie intact, but the recipe makes six servings. It is six points per serving on the blue plan, seven on green because you do have to count for the peas and corn on green, two on the purple plan. If you don't use the Bob Evans mashed potatoes, if you do, you're going to have the same points as blue, which is six and it's 237 calories per serving. And here is the shepherd's pie. I will go ahead and insert a picture here too that Troy sent me, but we, like I said, we've already dug into it, but it is very, very delicious. So here's my dessert for tonight. I love these. I bought these at Costco. These are the heavenly hunk in birthday cake. 130 calories per hunk. Here is what they look like. So here it is in relation to my hand. It kind of is a mix between a cookie and a granola bar. It has good ingredients. They're really, really good. They're the perfect, a little sweet treat. So I'm going to be having that unfortunately on WWE. There are six points, which is crazy for 130 calories. But since I count calories first, it is a perfect way to end out my day. So that's a wrap on this week's What I Eat in a Day. I hope you enjoyed coming along with me today, seeing all of my meals, that amazing dinner recipe. The dinner recipe will be on my website. I'll make sure that's linked at the top of the description box, along with everything that I shared with you today. 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