One Great Week and a bit of Disappointment

Well I have to say that I really did have a terrific week - I really love this way of eating and
I just feel happier and healthier as a result.

HOWEVER I did weigh myself this morning and I didn't lose any weight this week.
That is a bit discouraging. Although I am doing this out of more motivation to get
really healthy, I was really hopeful about the weight loss effects too. For awhile today
I had the tendency to feel defeated and to think "Why am I doing all this without any
weight loss result?"

But you know what, I finally ended up making a great vegan dinner for us, and I also walked to and from work today - and also spring is coming - that means lots of warmer weather and dry sidewalks so that I can probably walk to and from work every day next week. I am looking forward to that, and hopefully I will have better results by next Friday.

In the meantime, let me tell you about today's creations:

For dinner I made:

Annette's Coconut Thai Stirfry With Noodles

2 cups hot cooked brown rice fettucini (this time I broke them in half and put them in the water one by one, because last time I had about 3 bunches that gobbed together).

1/2 package tofu, cut into thin strips, prestirfryed in olive oil and then set aside
sliced baby carrots
chopped onion
chopped broccoli
frozen peas

chopped chives, garlic, juice of 1 lemon and 1/8 teaspoon of chili paste mixed together and added near the end

1 can coconut milk added at the end, and thickened with a little cornstarch.

This dish actually turned out to be lovely - it had a nice creaminess to it which made it really
taste like comfort food. My husband seemed to like it as well.

So tomorrow we are going to visit my parents for the weekend, so we are going to be there
over the course of possibly lunch, dinner on Saturday, and breakfast/brunch and dinner on Sunday night.

I told my mom what we have been up to, and offered to bring a vegan lasagna for dinner on Saturday night. She was up for that, and actually sent me an email asking me what other foods we have removed from our diet - so maybe she will use this as an excuse to do something creative too - she is a great cook, but really makes huge quantities of food and all very rich comfort foods - which is why we are all really so obese to begin with. But it was her and dad who originally listened to these cds and passed them on to us - they have tried to stick with some aspects of the regimen, but no where near the degree to which we have been doing it. So I am really happy that she is trying to be supportive. Lord knows we really face alot of temptation when going home!

Here is the recipe that I put together for Gluten Free Vegan Lasagna:

Tomato Sauce:
olive oil
2 jars organic tomato sauce
1 can kidney beans, ground up
10 baby carrots, ground up
1 large onion, ground up
fresh parsley
3 cloves of garlic
dried oregano, marjoram, parsley, McCormick's cajun seasoning,
ground black pepper and a little celery salt

Pasta:

Brown Rice Lasagna Noodles

Filling (done in the mini-chop)

Walnuts
Pine Nuts
2 bunches of fresh basil leaves
big bunch of fresh parsley leaves
2 big cloves of garlic
olive oil
salt and ground black pepper

After it forms a fine paste, add it to a bigger bowl in which you've taken
1 package firm tofu and squished it up into particles about the size of cottage cheese.
Mix it all up very well and adjust seasonings.

Grease a 12 X 9 baking pan with olive oil, then put tomato sauce, then noodles, then filling, then layer of baby spinach leaves, then some veggie mozza squares, repeat the layers except over the next layer of spinach leaves, put the rest of the tomato sauce and then more veggie mozza.

I really hope this turns out! I will let you know - I will probably post on Sunday or Monday with the results of our first trip away from home on this new regimen.

Have a great weekend!