okay, i had one of the lentil burgers for dinner with lettuce tomato and onion on a hamburger bun and it was sortof alright. tasty enough. when paired with the veggies. It tasted exactly like what it is....beandip burger. a nice way to get in your protein, b3, zinc, calcium and such...without meat.

Lentil Burgers

Today I made vegan veggie (lentil) burgers and put them in the freezer. They smell pretty good.
The recipe I used, can be found HERE .

tonight was kinda annoying while babysitting. I felt like a warden and not a babysitter. the kids are 5 (boy) and 8 (girl) and they were just rotten today.
so afterward, i stopped at taco time as planned, but had the bean crisp burrito meal instead of the veggie fit bowl. and a diet soda.

meatless day 2

so yesterday we didnt actually make the lentil spaghetti sauce, but i found a lentil patty recipe today that i'm going to try this week.
i made it through yesterday meatless. yay.
today has been fine as well. no headaches. i've had peanut butter as my protein so far today. tonight i think i'll cook up some black bean burgers. or something chickpeas.
i'll try and get some vegan next. no milk eggs cheese dairy and meat. i dont usually eat a ton of dairy, so this COULD be easy-ish. i do enjoy beef, so thats my challenge. but its been easy so far.
tonight, actually, i think i'll stop at taco time after i babysit and get a fit bowl. rice beans salsa. yum. yes, thats what my dinner will be.
all meatless day two is nearing completion.

-15.8!!!

So I've been reading this book

and have been a bit inspired to stop eating meat. i am slowly going to try stopping all animal products, but this book is just awesome. it's blunt, its great, its real. read it.
so today i started meatless mondays.
i had a veggie delite sub at subway today after my weigh in. I was down 1/2 a pound for a total of 15.8!!! yay.
tonight we're going to put lentils in spaghetti sauce and go meatless in our spaghetti.
i'll let you know how it goes.
one step at a time...
you know how it is.

I'm BACK

Today Mom and I started WW (Weight Watchers) again. I'm feeling really good about this.
This morning right before joining, I was on the elliptical for 25 minutes sweating away. It was AWESOME!
My weight was such a wake up call.
Tonight while I was left with little to no calorie allotment for the day, I found myself staring into the jaws of the candy dish across the room (which, remind me, I need to now hide or donate to "the wolves"(dad's co-workers) when I realized in a moment that I did not want those heath bars and mounds bars, but what I wanted was to be able to control that watering of the mouth, know I can't stop as soon as I start feeling. I recognized that these candies are a red light food for myself, so I immediately went to the kitchen and cut up an apple and let me tell you, it was actually delicious and worked. I can now look to the candy dish knowing that my apple was so much more food than a measly little bite-sized candy bar. Had I eaten even just one of those sweets, I wouldve realized that after about two bites, my evening of snacking would be over. Having eaten the apple, I spent more time enjoying the juicy goodness of its filling food self and was quite satisfied.

there's got to be something terribly wrong with me. Why is it so hard to change myself? ugh. I have all these GREAT ideas about chaning things in my life, but never seem to follow through with them.
just today, i noticed in a moment of clarity, that there are five (FIVE!!) soda take out cups in my trash in the room. THIS has to stop. I've stopped drinking diet sodas because i dont want to be putting aspartame in my body, but now look at all the sugar that is going in still...
gross.
maybe this has turned into a complain about myself blog. i dont know, but whatever it is, hopefully i will start to let it help me.