(health/personal) New week, new things to do

[vg_ford]

I lost a lot of last week, due to work stuff, and so my healthy lifestyle took a bit of a hit.  However, this is a marathon, not a sprint, so I’m back up on the horse.  We will NOT discuss this weekend, when I had Domino’s pizza (and not the gluten-free type either) two nights running.  Ugh.  At least I didn’t have any soda!  I resisted that!  Go me!

 

Today, after sleeping all day (investigations wear me out), I made my first attempt at eggplant pizza.  Oh.  My.  Goodness.  I think (and Brian agrees) that this is how we’ll do pizza from now on.  He didn’t even miss the crust!  And it was sooooo good!  I think I know what I’m doing with that big zucchini in my fridge – “french bread” pizzas!  I have the lamb chops still in the fridge, so I think I’ll thaw those and make them as well.

 

I’m finding that you have to have a plan for the week, and it has to be flexible, or the entire eating thing goes to hell.  I have a few cookbooks about snacks and lunches that I need to read, so I can have some things ready to grab if I oversleep.   Luckily, I have a lot of eggs, and a lot of zucchini.  I think I’m making zucchini bread!  Or muffins. I have blueberries, too.  I foresee a lot of baking this week.

 

And exercise.  No swimming this week, but I plan on hitting the gym to walk/run on the treadmill two nights – right now, I’m planning on Tuesday and Thursday, but that may change (depending on the dump schedule).

Originally published at The words of Valerie Griswold-Ford. You can comment here or there.

Comments

Have you tried....

[fitchwitch.livejournal.com]

Portobello mushroom pizza?

It's wonderful! And each one is only about 100 calories (if you're counting them).

Take off the stem, and scrape out the gills. "Sweat" the mushroom caps in a 400 degree oven for about 15-20 minutes to get rid of excess moisture, then add 1 TBS of pizza sauce, .5 to 1 oz of pizza cheese, and a sprinkling of dry cheese like parmesan if you wish. Put it back in the oven for 5 to 10 minutes. You'll never miss the crust. YUMMY!

I save the gills; I fry them in a little margarine or olive oil, and use them to make mushroom orzo--YUMMY!

Re: Have you tried....

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I have never tried that with the gills! I shall have to do so!

We so enjoyed the eggplant pizza that we're doing it again with our landlords. I've done portobello mushrooms a few times - we like them with taco stuff in them!