Five Weeks on the Circuit!
Well another week has come and gone - and it has been another successful week!
I have no weightloss to report - only because I refuse to weigh myself on my scale at home
which has been consistently useless in this process. I am going to use mom and dad's scale, which means I won't know any numbers until Easter weekend - which is fine with me!
This week went by okay - I walked to work and back most days and am loving this spring weather!
Food wise it was a fairly easy week because my husband has been away most evenings, so I have just been eating what I want (I don't have to think too hard about what to cook!)
I think Monday night we just had a stirfry, Tuesday night I made brown rice pasta with some
chopped asparagus, frozen peas, chopped tomato, chopped garlic, salt, ground pepper and veggie mozza tossed in. I had a plateful, left the rest for my husband's dinner, and when he didn't eat it - that's what I had for dinner on Wednesday night too. The whole week I have been having a big plate of steamed greens (broccoli, asparagus and bok choy) for breakfast, and then a big salad for lunch (baby greens, romaine, tomato, carrot, walnuts and avocado, with a lemon wedge). It's amazing how well walnuts and avocado go together - its a lovely salad that I could really get used to eating frequently!
For dinner on Thursday night my husband was actually home that night - so we went to the Outback for dinner. I was not too worried about it because I know they do offer a salmon plate.
My husband automatically ordered the cheesy fries (as we always used to do) - but I didn't have a single bite of it. I really wasn't interested. I had one slice of their fresh-out-of-the-oven rye bread which was quite nice. I did order the grilled salmon, with steamed veggies and a plain baked potato on the side. I often am ordering extra lemon wedges with this type of meal, because you need to flavor things up you know? Interestingly, when the salmon got to my table, I didn't say anything, but I thought it was over cooked (I don't like it burnt or very dark on the edges) - and it is interesting, when you are choosing what you eat so carefully - you really start to get choosy about how it is cooked and seasoned too. It seems before I started doing this - I would just eat whatever was put in front of me, but now I am getting kind of picky - and I like it that way!
For dinner on Friday I made another brown rice pasta stirfry to use up some eggplant and zucchini that was in the fridge - but remind me next time to make sure the garlic is sauteed too (I just put it straight into the bowl where everything was getting tossed.) Bad idea - the whole dish had a really bitter overtone to it.
Also on Friday I went and did the shopping for the week - there is a local produce that has asparagus on for 1.49 right now, as well as HUGE broccoli heads for .99 and cheap, nice tomatoes also. What I do when I get home, is I just wash and chop produce for about an hour.
I've kept three big tubs that the baby spinach comes in, and fill it up with chopped asparagus, chopped broccoli, chopped bok choy, baby spinach and chopped romaine. That way my breakfasts, lunches (and some dinners) are quick to throw together.
They also had blueberries on for .99 and strawberries for 1.49 so I have been snacking on blueberries/strawberries or bananas in a little soymilk. I had a bowl of blueberries and bananas topped with a handful of hemp granola and soymilk for breakfast this morning. Also at this market - I have found a very nice thick/dense/thinly sliced bread that is yeast/sugar/gluten free - so I keep that in the freezer in case I get the urge to eat bread (I eat almost no bread at all these days). So for lunch today I had:
Annette's Gourmet Vegan Sandwich 1
Take two big slices of tomato, and grill them in some olive oil,
then made a sandwich out of:
dense bread
baby spinach
veggie mozza
2 grilled tomato slices
mashed avocado mixed with a little olive tapenade (optional)
Grill the whole sandwich like you would a grilled cheese sandwich.
Be sure to have lots of napkins and a fork on hand when eating, as
this sandwich is extremely messy!
IT WAS DIVINE - LOVED IT - MUST DO THAT AGAIN.
For dinner, I popped a frozen pizza in the oven for my husband, but I hadn't had many vegetables so I made myself a stirfry of broccoli, bok choy, asparagus, sliced carrot, garlic, olive oil, chopped tomato walnuts . I grilled up one slice of that bread and put veggie mozza and garlic salt on it for a little "garlic toast". Divine!
Next weekend is Easter Sunday and I plan on bringing lots of good vegan things to eat.
I'll let you know what happens that weekend and also my weigh in!
I have no weightloss to report - only because I refuse to weigh myself on my scale at home
which has been consistently useless in this process. I am going to use mom and dad's scale, which means I won't know any numbers until Easter weekend - which is fine with me!
This week went by okay - I walked to work and back most days and am loving this spring weather!
Food wise it was a fairly easy week because my husband has been away most evenings, so I have just been eating what I want (I don't have to think too hard about what to cook!)
I think Monday night we just had a stirfry, Tuesday night I made brown rice pasta with some
chopped asparagus, frozen peas, chopped tomato, chopped garlic, salt, ground pepper and veggie mozza tossed in. I had a plateful, left the rest for my husband's dinner, and when he didn't eat it - that's what I had for dinner on Wednesday night too. The whole week I have been having a big plate of steamed greens (broccoli, asparagus and bok choy) for breakfast, and then a big salad for lunch (baby greens, romaine, tomato, carrot, walnuts and avocado, with a lemon wedge). It's amazing how well walnuts and avocado go together - its a lovely salad that I could really get used to eating frequently!
For dinner on Thursday night my husband was actually home that night - so we went to the Outback for dinner. I was not too worried about it because I know they do offer a salmon plate.
My husband automatically ordered the cheesy fries (as we always used to do) - but I didn't have a single bite of it. I really wasn't interested. I had one slice of their fresh-out-of-the-oven rye bread which was quite nice. I did order the grilled salmon, with steamed veggies and a plain baked potato on the side. I often am ordering extra lemon wedges with this type of meal, because you need to flavor things up you know? Interestingly, when the salmon got to my table, I didn't say anything, but I thought it was over cooked (I don't like it burnt or very dark on the edges) - and it is interesting, when you are choosing what you eat so carefully - you really start to get choosy about how it is cooked and seasoned too. It seems before I started doing this - I would just eat whatever was put in front of me, but now I am getting kind of picky - and I like it that way!
For dinner on Friday I made another brown rice pasta stirfry to use up some eggplant and zucchini that was in the fridge - but remind me next time to make sure the garlic is sauteed too (I just put it straight into the bowl where everything was getting tossed.) Bad idea - the whole dish had a really bitter overtone to it.
Also on Friday I went and did the shopping for the week - there is a local produce that has asparagus on for 1.49 right now, as well as HUGE broccoli heads for .99 and cheap, nice tomatoes also. What I do when I get home, is I just wash and chop produce for about an hour.
I've kept three big tubs that the baby spinach comes in, and fill it up with chopped asparagus, chopped broccoli, chopped bok choy, baby spinach and chopped romaine. That way my breakfasts, lunches (and some dinners) are quick to throw together.
They also had blueberries on for .99 and strawberries for 1.49 so I have been snacking on blueberries/strawberries or bananas in a little soymilk. I had a bowl of blueberries and bananas topped with a handful of hemp granola and soymilk for breakfast this morning. Also at this market - I have found a very nice thick/dense/thinly sliced bread that is yeast/sugar/gluten free - so I keep that in the freezer in case I get the urge to eat bread (I eat almost no bread at all these days). So for lunch today I had:
Annette's Gourmet Vegan Sandwich 1
Take two big slices of tomato, and grill them in some olive oil,
then made a sandwich out of:
dense bread
baby spinach
veggie mozza
2 grilled tomato slices
mashed avocado mixed with a little olive tapenade (optional)
Grill the whole sandwich like you would a grilled cheese sandwich.
Be sure to have lots of napkins and a fork on hand when eating, as
this sandwich is extremely messy!
IT WAS DIVINE - LOVED IT - MUST DO THAT AGAIN.
For dinner, I popped a frozen pizza in the oven for my husband, but I hadn't had many vegetables so I made myself a stirfry of broccoli, bok choy, asparagus, sliced carrot, garlic, olive oil, chopped tomato walnuts . I grilled up one slice of that bread and put veggie mozza and garlic salt on it for a little "garlic toast". Divine!
Next weekend is Easter Sunday and I plan on bringing lots of good vegan things to eat.
I'll let you know what happens that weekend and also my weigh in!
posted by Annette at
5:49 p.m.
2 Comments:
Blueberries and Strawberries on special!?? I've been craving them for so long, but they're incredibly expensive up here always. :(
Sounds like things are going well! Keep it up, and see you soon.
By
Argentis, at 2:47 a.m.
YOU HAVEN'T UPDATED IN FOREVER!! (And, you don't come on MSN anymore! How come?)
Don't give up!! I miss you!
Matt
By
Argentis, at 11:51 p.m.
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