My dinner tonight: pineapple-cashew-quinoa stir fry, from Veganomicon. This is seriously one of my favorite things … ever!
What motivates you?
zenfocus posted this on MFP, a little while ago:
“You really can achieve anything you set your mind to!” I have to keep remembering this constantly. What do you think about/do to keep yourself on track and stay motivated?
This was my reply:
I think about how far I’ve come and how I NEVER want to go back there again. That’s not a choice, for me. I think about the non-scale victories I’ve had and how I want to keep having more, and think about what my next NSV might be. I think about how amazing it is that I could possibly be under 150 lbs by my 24th birthday (May 23rd). I think about how proud of myself I’m going to feel when I go with my husband to his 10-year high school reunion this summer. I think about how close I am to fitting into a size 12, when I have zero memories of ever being below a 14.
Those are the things I think about.
So now, I ask you: what motivates you and keeps you on track, or helps you get back up when you fall?
Decided it was time to post a public before/during collage…
Here’s what 210 lbs looked like on me. And what 167.4 lbs looks like on me. I prefer the latter. (Minus another 37.4 lbs.)
It’s very hard to post the top set of photos. I remember when the bathing suit photo was taken. I was so happy at having lost 7 lbs and felt like I looked great. I have a lot more “before” photos, but I feel like these really show where I was. Looking at these now, I realize that I never really saw how round I was…
The blue shirt from today is a size medium, which I swiped from my mom (okay, she gave it to me the last time I visited). I’ve never truly worn a medium anything before. Yes, I still have some round bits that pop out here and there, but the shirt isn’t actually tight. That’s so awesome!
My two anthem songs, right now:
“F*ckin’ Perfect” by Pink and “Not Afraid” by Eminem.
It frustrates me to no end when people have terrible, unhealthy diets and then complain because they get sick all the time. Come on, people! Where you think your body gets all the stuff it needs to keep going and to fight illnesses?
If you eat crap, you feel like crap. End of story. Good night.
</rant>
i would love for that to happen. chocolate, if possible.
Could you imagine? what if every guy was a different flavor of ice cream?
please please please please please please can men ejaculate haagen dazs from now on please
LOL just - these comments. <3
I usually don’t reblog, but …
Imagine how blissed out everyone would be if this became reality. Not that I would mind. I’m just sayin’. Carry on.
(via healthyfitthin)
Source: bowtiefriday
And last, but certainly not least … dessert!
I gotta tell ya’, dessert is most certainly my downfall. People think of vegans as being skinny and boney. Psh! They should talk to me; I could give them a tip or two on how to add some padding. I’m not even kidding. I make the best peanut butter cookies and chocolate chip cookies.
That said, these pumpkin pie bites aren’t too bad, when it comes to dessert. This recipe hails from the FatFree Vegan Blog, care of Susan Voison … whose photos put mine to shame. *sigh*
These are vegan and gluten-free, and Susan is just plain awesome in that she almost always includes nutritional information at the bottom of her recipes. (Though I always enter the recipe into MFP anyway, so my ingredients are brand-specific and more exact.)
Can’t forget the salad! It was the dang pecans that put me over the edge, calorie-wise. But hey, they’re good for you. And like I said earlier, I’ll be riding my bike tonight and will easily work off any excess … and then some.
This salad was pretty simple, with just baby spinach, pecans, dried cranberries, and a raspberry vinaigrette.
Tonight’s dinner is one of my all-time favorites. It’s spinach linguine with edamame pesto, another Isa Chandra Moskowitz recipe. This recipe can be found on her blog, The Post Punk Kitchen.
It’s not too difficult to make and a single serving (1 cup) has only 250 calories. Lots of protein in there too, from the edamame. And as far as pesto goes, very little fat. Yay!
My husband refuses to try this, which ordinarily would annoy me, but in this case I’m totally fine with that. More for me! I’ll be working my way through this for lunches and dinners, throughout the week.
And so we move on to lunch. I was skimming through a new cookbook I recently bought, Appetite for Reduction by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. I hadn’t tried any of the recipes yet, and was looking for something simple and healthy to try out. She has a dozen or so “bowl” combos listed in the back of the cookbook, with a few basic ingredients and then a sauce listed from earlier in the book.
The one that most caught my eye was a combination of quiona, broccoli (steamed), tempeh, and a peanut-lime dressing. I don’t know about you, but I’m a huge fan of peanut sauce, so I had to give this a try! My tempeh was store-bought, and was already marinated in a sesame garlic sauce, so I suppose I cheated, there. But again … meh.
It was tasty, and I have a bunch of everything left over, so I’ll probably have this again for dinner tomorrow night.
Breakfast today was the same as just about every day … oatmeal. I went with marionberries as my fruit of choice. Tasty! (Seriously, tastes like cobbler.)
My quickie oatmeal recipe is 1/2 cup of rolled oats and 1 cup of water, tossed in the microwave for 2 minutes. Then I add in 1/2 cup of frozen fruit, stir it well, and let it sit for a few minutes so the fruit can thaw. Then, I eat!
Nom nom.
I should mention, I go through oats like there’s no tomorrow! And I’m oddly proud of that.
