Aug

10

Pimp My Annie’s Homegrown Organic Beef Stroganoff Skillet Meal

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That's a great title for the next hit reality show, don't you think? Tonight's Dinner consisted a little something I whipped up starting with the Annie's Homegrown Organic Beef Stroganoff Skillet Meal. I'm not a super fan of the box kits, but 1)this one is organic and 2) it's yummy and 3) it's fast! It's hard to find in grocery stores in the Boston area, and if you do find it, it's over $4, so I buy mine here. The directions say to add a pound of ground beef. I don't know that I've ever made it that way. I've used the Morningstar Farms crumbles with good luck though. Tonight I added a can of Trader Joe's premium white chicken, drained. (Don't say ick. It's awesome in soups and stews.) About a cup of frozen peas. About 1/2 cup of baby carrots that I had boiled up for the toddler. (Much like the pizza phase. The carrot phase has involved adding his loved carrots to lots of dishes where that you wouldn't normally think a carrot should go.) And about 1 cup of sliced organic portabella mushrooms that I sauteed in a smidge of olive oil.Yum. And it took about 10 minutes. And looked like this:

Dinner 8/10/2010

That's on a salad plate. Last week I read The Skinnygirl Rules: For Getting and Staying Naturally Thin by Bethanny Frankel. Don't judge. I love her on Bravo, and since I've gotten the Kindle App for my Blackberry, I've read more books in one week than I have the entire 2 years since I had the toddler. Anyhoo, one of her rules is to serve your meals up on smaller plates. Seems easy enough and it does seem to help trick your mind into thinking you've gotten a bigger portion .

Then we finished off with a little dessert. I love summer.

Dessert 8/10/2010

So what's with the food photos, kim from kimworld, you ask? Well, I got lost in a wonderful blog today called Carrots 'N' Cake. Tina, the blog author started her blog by photographing everything she ate to keep her on track on her goal to lose weight before her wedding. Something just struck me when I read that, and, well, I can use any help I can get to keep me on the eating healthy/exercising/losing weight trend. I'm going to borrow the idea for awhile and see if it sticks.

Does banana creme pie photograph well? Hope so. Just kidding. I think.

Jul

31

Dr. Michael Dansinger And Diabetes Reversal through Diet and Exercise

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Dr. Michael Dansinger is doing amazing work in reversing diabetes at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. You might be familiar with some of his other work. He's the weight loss and nutrition advisor for a little show called "The Biggest Loser."

Are you looking to lose weight? Now thanks to his blog, Conquering Diabetes, on WebMD, you don't have get weighed in front of all of America to benefit from his diet and exercise wisdom. Have diabetes or know someone who does? Don't wait, start reading now!

I thought this was an inspiring story of how a regular person told diabetes to take a hike:
A Diabetes Reversal Story, Part I
A Diabetes Reversal Story, Part II
A Diabetes Reversal Story, Part III

Nov

17

Groundhog Day

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I've been here before.  Last time I lost 100 pounds. Most of that (and the hardest part) came with the help and inspiration of Dr. D. I am so much healthier, both in what I eat and how much I move, than I was back in that dark hole 100 pounds ago. However, I am also the proud owner of a bouncing baby boy. How ironic that losing weight was what allowed me to get pregnant in the first place, but the pregnancy itself left me in this all-to-familiar place of starting over. It's been about 3  months since the boy joined us, and I still am looking at another 43 pounds to get back where I started (with plenty more to lose after that).

I've been back working with Dr. D for about a month now, but I'm feeling like a slug. I'm mentally committed to the plan, but my, shall we say, execution is lacking. It's simple, really, - eat healthy, count calories,write it all down, and exercise a lot. I don't know why I'm making it so hard.

Speaking of hard,  I went swimming for the first time in a very long time today. It was not pretty.  Swimming is one of the exercises that was very helpful as I lost weight before. In fact, at the height of my workouts, I was swimming more than six hours a week. That makes the fact that I'm so sore I can barely type after only an hour of swimming kind of, well, depressing. But depression on the first day back won't help anyone, especially me.

So, for now, I shall take it one day at a time knowing that losing the weight now is just as important as it was then. I've been here before, and I can get there again.