I spent the last 3 days with 2 very dear friends...one of which I have been very, very close friends for almost 20 years...love each other like the relatives we want to have. So sometimes we share and say things that strike a cord...and strike a cord because we really DO care for each other.
I can tell she's worried because I won't say diet, because I won't track every bite and won't track every piece of exercise. She says she knows me and that she knows how and when I succeed. Other things may have been said, but it was finished with me feeling defensive and her just ending the conversation.
One of the things I did say was that I am working on me. It may sound like an excuse or b.s., but for me, it is where I gotta go right now. There are many reasons that I eat--and I do believe that the emotional side is the main reason...not just because I really like to eat. I am going to continue to work on how I think and self care. And not worry about how others think about what I am doing.
Meditation, intuitive eating, paying attention to what I am doing for me and for my family. The weight will come off and it will come off for good. All the diets I have been on have been successful for a time...but the weight comes back. I am ready. Feel ready, am ready. Life changing.
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Perhaps a Diet is NOT the answer
I started working with a nutritionist and in turn seem to be attracting all that I need right now to face challenges with my health in a, well, healthy way. I have always surrounded myself with like minded health driven friends...not always friends that have all the answers (who does) but friends who are striving to feel better so that they are healthy.
Heather Jones is my personal nutritionist. She is a caring, warm, super knowledgeable person. She has been where I have been and changed her mindset to change her life. And that is what I am trying to do. I don't want to me a member of the "Diet of the Month" club anymore. I want to feel good about me, at all my various sizes.
Hobbies take on many forms. Mine has been dieting most of my life. Well, dieting is NOT a very good hobby. It is not fun, does not take you to places you have never been or pleasurable. Cooking has always been a hobby, but it seemed to always be in conjunction of the "Diet of the Month." Time to change that.
My husband is a vegetarian. My sons and I are not. I imagine that in today's world, this is not uncommon. Tonight's dinner/dinners were inspired by various bloggers, Food Network stars, and friends. That's what I do. I see a recipe and then re-imagine the recipe to a way my family likes it. I encourage you to do the same.
Today's recipes:
Buffalo Coconut Cauliflower for my Vegetarian Husband
1 cauliflower, slightly frozen does work (that was NOT on purpose)
1 egg
1/2 cup So Delicious Coconut Milk
1 cup shredded flaked non sweetened coconut
1 cup gluten free brown rice flour
Oil spray.
Red pepper sauce to taste
2-4 TBS butter
Cut cauliflower to bite sized pieces. Dip into egg mixed with coconut milk. Dip into flour mixed with coconut. Lay on sprayed cookie sheet. Spray the cauliflower with additional oil spray.
Bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees.
Brush with Red Pepper Sauce mixed with butter. Let sit for at least 20 mins. Serve with blue cheese dressing and celery or on top of a salad.
Chicken and Waffles for my Kids (I will have chicken too, but likely on a salad)
3 chicken breasts, slightly frozen works here too (can you tell I was not quite ready to cook dinner when dinner needed to be cooked?)
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup shredded flaked non sweetened coconut
1 cup gluten free brown rice flour
1 TBS coconut oil
1 TBS olive oil
Pure maple syrup
Red pepper sauce
Frozen waffles (well, you can make homemade, but I didn't have time)
Cut chicken breasts into "nuggets." Dip into eggs mixed with milk. Dip into coconut/flour mixture. Heat coconut oil and olive oil. Cook nuggets on one side. Cook for 5-7 mins and flip. Sprinkle a little olive oil on top and place lid on skillet and put in oven for 20 mins at 350 (same time as cauliflower if you are multitasking the way I do).
Remove from oven and brush pure maple syrup mixed with a few shakes of red pepper sauce. Place in oven for 5 more minutes. Serve with a salad, strawberries, blueberries and toasted waffles.
Yum! 45 mins from beginning to end.
In food and health,
Barb
Heather Jones is my personal nutritionist. She is a caring, warm, super knowledgeable person. She has been where I have been and changed her mindset to change her life. And that is what I am trying to do. I don't want to me a member of the "Diet of the Month" club anymore. I want to feel good about me, at all my various sizes.
Hobbies take on many forms. Mine has been dieting most of my life. Well, dieting is NOT a very good hobby. It is not fun, does not take you to places you have never been or pleasurable. Cooking has always been a hobby, but it seemed to always be in conjunction of the "Diet of the Month." Time to change that.
My husband is a vegetarian. My sons and I are not. I imagine that in today's world, this is not uncommon. Tonight's dinner/dinners were inspired by various bloggers, Food Network stars, and friends. That's what I do. I see a recipe and then re-imagine the recipe to a way my family likes it. I encourage you to do the same.
Today's recipes:
Buffalo Coconut Cauliflower for my Vegetarian Husband
1 cauliflower, slightly frozen does work (that was NOT on purpose)
1 egg
1/2 cup So Delicious Coconut Milk
1 cup shredded flaked non sweetened coconut
1 cup gluten free brown rice flour
Oil spray.
Red pepper sauce to taste
2-4 TBS butter
Cut cauliflower to bite sized pieces. Dip into egg mixed with coconut milk. Dip into flour mixed with coconut. Lay on sprayed cookie sheet. Spray the cauliflower with additional oil spray.
Bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees.
Brush with Red Pepper Sauce mixed with butter. Let sit for at least 20 mins. Serve with blue cheese dressing and celery or on top of a salad.
Chicken and Waffles for my Kids (I will have chicken too, but likely on a salad)
3 chicken breasts, slightly frozen works here too (can you tell I was not quite ready to cook dinner when dinner needed to be cooked?)
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup shredded flaked non sweetened coconut
1 cup gluten free brown rice flour
1 TBS coconut oil
1 TBS olive oil
Pure maple syrup
Red pepper sauce
Frozen waffles (well, you can make homemade, but I didn't have time)
Cut chicken breasts into "nuggets." Dip into eggs mixed with milk. Dip into coconut/flour mixture. Heat coconut oil and olive oil. Cook nuggets on one side. Cook for 5-7 mins and flip. Sprinkle a little olive oil on top and place lid on skillet and put in oven for 20 mins at 350 (same time as cauliflower if you are multitasking the way I do).
Remove from oven and brush pure maple syrup mixed with a few shakes of red pepper sauce. Place in oven for 5 more minutes. Serve with a salad, strawberries, blueberries and toasted waffles.
Yum! 45 mins from beginning to end.
In food and health,
Barb
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