Change Is In the Airformerly "Lydia's Latvian Blog."

Good evening! Tonight I remembered why, when given the choice, I quit cooking completely from scratch. 1 1/2 hours of prep time, 20 mins. of clean up… for 10 mins. of eating. *sigh*

I bought a scale this afternoon… nope, still not going to tell you how much we weigh! :) If you notice at the bottom of each post, I have a grocery tally going. I will add my and dear hubby’s BMI, and hopefully, weight lost. We will start tomorrow, and then check in each Sunday. (Don’t want to get to obsessive over it by going daily.)

So today’s breakfast:

• Scrambled eggs (4 total) with onions, mushrooms, garlic, basil, black pepper, sea salt & fresh spinach cooked in a pat of butter
• Spelt bread toast (me with butter & garlic, him with butter & marmite)
• Fruit (me – strawberries, him – blackberries)
• Tea w/ Stevia

Chris noticed today that we’re eating less overall, small portions, etc., but we’re not hungry (except when we wake up). I imagine that’s because of the protein increase. Anyone know for sure?

So, this was our first try at Stevia. Interesting. Sure glad I bought the vanilla flavored one, though it kinda tastes like a bit of coconut in it. I don’t mind it, but it will take some time to adjust to it. Chris isn’t a fan of it and may go more the raw honey route with his tea. He also learned, today, to take his fish oil before he eats, and not at the end. :)

Chris went back to work today, and snagged some oatmeal raisin cookies to take along. I had a few through the day, as well.

Lunch was leftovers from last night. I finished off the guacamole and salad and He finished brown rice from the other night, along with our chicken. Interesting note… brown rice microwaves faster than white rice.

I also ran to Target today (bought that scale) and grabbed some more fruit as well. Strawberries and red grapes. Yum!

For dinner I had some really thin slice beef fillets to cook up. I tried Google but couldn’t really find much to do with them. In the end I created my own thing.

First I made a brown rice stuffing. Brown rice, diced onion, zucchini, mushrooms cooked in a bit of butter, to soften the onions and such. Dumped it in a bowl, added a handful of Crazins (I know, they have sugar in them, but I need to use them up), and chopped up some almonds. Mixed it all up with some of the brown rice, along with some spices (garlic, basil, oregano… I really need to buy some more herbs).

Then I “squared off” the fillets that I had and put the rice mixture inside, and rolled it up. That’s when I realized I had no toothpicks or cooking string to keep it all together. Hmm. Well, I threw a bit of safflower oil in a skillet and stuck the beef rolls seem side down cooked them until they were done.

Threw some leftover rice mixture on the side & had steamed green beans with it. Dinner is done.

It wasn’t bad. It was a little tough as it had to cook a little longer. The rice stuffing tasted good, though, especially with the Crazins in there. And some of them opened up and dumped the rice out. Oh well. Next time I think I would tie it up and maybe bake it. I think it wouldn’t be so tough then.

Also, a few clarifications. I’m not really listing drinks. Other than morning tea, I’m going only water. I read to drink half your weight in ounces of water each day. For example, if you weight 130 lbs, you should drink 65 oz. of water each day.  (I won’t tell you how much that comes out to for me, except that it’s a lot more than I have been able to manage so far!)

Chris is still drinking his no-sugar-added fruit juice, but he has also upped his water.

Also, we both much on nuts (almonds, mostly) and dried fruit (cranberries, raisins…) throughout the day, if we get hungry.

Also, in terms of supplements/vitamins we’re taking, here’s the list.

Him:

• Men’s Multivitamin
• Maca (525mg)
• Garlic (1000mg)
• NEW – Fish Oil (1000mg)

Her:

• Women’s Multivitamin
• Calcium w/ Vit D (1000mg)
• NEW – Acai Blend (1030mg)

Spent on groceries: $7.88

Total spent: $167.59