No Excuses! Maintainer's Food and Exercise Accountability, 7/20-7/26
Hey all! After an OP day today, we're moving onto tomorrow in our hot, hot house...you know it's bad when the AC is still trying to catch up at 9:45 at night!
Plan for tomorrow:
B - Sourdough/egg beater french toast, sliced peach
S - Frozen Grapes
L - Leftovers: Grilled chicken breast, sweet potatoes cooked in foil packets on the grill, green beans
S - Greek yogurt with blackberries
S - Popcorn
D - Grilled chicken and grilled veggie salad, light lemon tarragon dressing, a few croutons
S - NSA Ice Cream, blackberries
I had a planned splurge last night and found my scale up by 1.5 pounds today. I am going to bring my scale with me when my family heads to upstate NY/rural stix for summer vacation.
looking to actually bring scale numbers DOWN this week.
balance bar
2 eggs, cheese, turkey bacon
dinner - big salad with lots of veggies and chicken
will do fruit snacks
exercise done-- nice run (maybe 7miles?, not sure)
This weekend didn't end so well, but today is a new day. Scale is only up a little, and still lower than two weeks ago...
Today:
E: dumbbell circuit and some cardio when I get home
B: smoothie, coffee
S: string cheese, blackberries, blueberries and cherries
L: grilled chicken salad, apple with laughing cow
S: kashi go lean, maybe some milk with it, yogurt
D: turkey cutlets prepared some kind of way, broccoli, maybe corn?
S: skinny cow
Catching up from the weekend, watch me being accountable.
Saturday:
B - fiber one caramel cereal, strawberries, skim milk
L - a few french fries, half a falafel pita sandwich, grapefruit juice, and something else I can't remember (maybe some fruit?)
S - one yeast dumpling
D - basil-infused watermelon lemonade, black bean chicken taquito, two chorizo-stuffed mushrooms, a couple chips with bean and corn salsa, cucumber salad, bbq beef on bun, "green lantern", sweet potato salad w/basil vinaigrette, 1/4 hot cross bun, small slice coconut cream pie, small slice chocolate fudge pie, small slice boston cream pie, steamed dumpling w/blueberry sauce
E - cleaning the house and cooking all day
Sunday:
B - two dumplings w/blueberry sauce
L - leftover pasta w/chicken sausage, zucchini, etc.
S - sprite
D - poblano chicken casserole, white wine
S - 1/4 hot cross bun, two dumplings w/blueberry sauce
E - 6 2/3 mile bike ride
Which brings us to today!
Monday:
B - fiber one caramel cereal, strawberries, skim milk
S - small (bite-sized) yellow plum
L - leftover pasta w/zucchini sausage stuff
S - banana, hershey's almond nugget (I cannot keep my hands out of my coworker's dish, someone save me!), another bite-size plum, a small plum, and a peach
S - 1/4 hot cross bun
D - pasta w/sauce, green beans
S - 1/2 canteloupe, 1 dumpling
E - swam 20 laps (38 mins)
Last edited by paperclippy; 07-21-2009 at 09:53 AM.
But Shannon, it's my family's secret recipe! Just kidding (well, it is a family recipe, but it's not a secret). Here's the recipe, the thing is that it's kind of one of those recipes of "add enough of X until the dough feels right" so it's not so easy to reproduce and it turns out a little different each time. Let me know how it turns out if you try it!
Blueberry Sauce:
1 pint blueberries
1/2 C sugar
Combine and add a little bit of water. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally. I usually consider it done when the blueberries still hold their shape, but if you press on them with a spoon they smush. I usually put it in the refrigerator and use it cold with the hot dumplings.
Raised Dumplings
1 pkg yeast
1/4 C lukewarm water
1/2 C milk, scalded
3 Tbsp + 1 tsp sugar
2 Tbsp butter
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg, well beaten
1 1/2 - 3 C sifted all purpose flour
Add yeast and 1 tsp sugar to the warm water, let stand until foamy and approximately doubled. (Basically, follow directions for proofing yeast that are on the yeast package.)
Combine scalded milk, sugar, butter, salt, and egg.
Cool to lukewarm and stir in yeast mixture.
Add enough flour to make stiff dough.
Cover and let rise until doubled.
Turn onto lightly flour board and knead lightly until smooth.
Roll out to 1/2 in thickness and cut into 2-in rounds.
Cover and let rise until doubled.
Lightly grease steamer basket, cover and steam 10 minutes. (The recipe says you can use a colander over boiling water, but make sure the water doesn't touch the colander. I actually have a steamer.)
OR
put 1/2 C butter in a dutch oven and 1/2 c juice from blueberries. Add dumplings and cover tightly. Bake in preheated oven 275 for 1 1/2 hrs.
I've never made it with the dutch oven method, I always steam them. Other notes -- the "stiff dough" should be really hard to stir with a spoon and should clump up and pull away from the sides of the bowl. I recommend transferring it to a bowl sprayed with PAM to let it rise, so you can get it back out to knead more easily. When you're kneading, pat in flour wherever the dough feels sticky, and it's probably done being kneaded when you've added enough flour that it doesn't feel sticky when you stretch it anymore. I usually cut 3-inch rounds too because that's just how big my cup that I use to cut with is. Also, you don't want to put them on top of each other in the steamer, just do it in batches of a single layer.
Let's see, what else.... It goes a lot faster if you use rapid rise yeast. I still follow the proofing directions, but it just takes less time during each rise. I usually start the yeast proofing the same time that I start scalding the milk. If I do that, then the yeast is doubled about the same time I'm ready to use it. I also melt the butter into the milk to bring down the temperature so it doesn't cook my eggs. "Scalded" milk always confuses me -- if you use skim milk, it's hard to scald. With 2% or more milk, it's "scalded" when it forms a skin on top. With skim milk, I just cook it until it's hot and is about to start burning on the bottom. Also, I usually put the dough outside in a sunny spot to rise.
Simple recipe on paper, but there are a lot of factors in making yeast doughs. If you're good with yeast doughs you'll probably make it better than me! It's a good thing to make with little kids, I remember my mom teaching me how to knead with this recipe. We've made it once a year as far back as I can remember.
Okay, yesterday overall was much better than Saturday, but ended up high as I "needed" a piece of toast with my tea.... And Sat's Chinese food has me up 3# still.... On the other hand I'm wearing my new - smaller - Dockers I bought yesterday.
B - oatmeal with 1/2 peach, walnuts, skim milk; ww toast w/pb;
S - ff latte
L - THE END of the spaghetti squash and sauce; grapes
S - cottage cheese with blueberries
D - grilled snapper, fresh green beans, salad and/or sweet potato
update, had grapes and steak, no veg unless you count the tiny bit in my mommy glomming of 3 chunks fried (ahhhhh!) chicken, chinese restaurant style (au pair's treat for herself and kids) and maybe 2 tbsp of white rice and 3 florets broc.
oh, also one very small, maybe .5oz size of some pork, prob fried too.
but then I stopped. and thx to a junk free house I did not continue to eat. nothing appealed to me
Last edited by kittycat40; 07-20-2009 at 10:09 PM.
OK guys, I am making a resolution. Today, I WILL NOT eat any candy from my coworker's dish. NONE.
In other news my weight is back down from the weekend already. Yay! Still hasn't dipped below 145, but oh well. I can see my calf muscles so that must count for something.
Tuesday:
B - raisin bran, blueberries, skim milk
S - banana
L - leftover bbq beef, sandwich bun
S - red plum, two tiny yellow plums, nectarine
D - Lean Cuisine beef chow fun
S - 1/2 smoothie/shake made with: 1 banana, 1C skim milk, 1/4C lf yogurt, about 3 Tbsp chocolate syrup
E - NRLW S2W3A at lunch, doggie bootcamp in the evening
Last edited by paperclippy; 07-22-2009 at 10:47 AM.
Pat - I feel the "need" of a thing... last night I "needed" spiced pecans desperately before bed.
Yesterday was on track with calories, no junk, ended up with a peanut butter protein shake before bed because I was was low on calories and had done some strength training earlier, also had 5 TJ sweet & spicy pecans right before bed.
Today:
B: smoothie, coffeeecoffeecoffee
S: string cheese, cherries
L: grilled chicken salad
Ss: kashi go lean w/ skim milk, yogurt
D: pb&j, reduced fat cheezits, apple w/ laughing cow (DSS night)
S: skinny cow or more yogurt, depending on the calories left
E: will be out this afternoon, so will probably get home in time to run on the treadmill before daycare pickup
The incline trainer is, no joke, awesome. It came with iFit cards directed by Jillian Michaels, where she designed the workouts and the incline/speed are all controlled by the card. She talks the whole time and says you can do it...I swear, she's a crazy woman. She considers 2 mph at a 30% incline (THIRTY PERCENT) a "recovery period" from your interval. Every time I drip sweat. It was on sale at Costco and I just had to go for it (come on! It has Jillian!)
Yesterday was POP
B - Light sourdough/egg beater french toast, peach
S - Frozen Grapes
L - Giant grilled chicken and veggie salad, sprinkle croutons, light dressing
S - Popcorn
S - NF greek yogurt, berries
D - Grilled center cut pork chop, squash bake, side salad
S - NSA Ice Cream, blackberries
E - 60 min on the incline trainer (Done! Jillian is INSANE!)
60 min strength
No Excuses! Maintainer's Food and Exercise Accountability, 7/20-7/26
(I cannot keep my hands out of my coworker's dish, someone save me!), another bite-size plum, a small plum, and a peach
Just kidding (well, it is a family recipe, but it's not a secret). Here's the recipe, the thing is that it's kind of one of those recipes of "add enough of X until the dough feels right" so it's not so easy to reproduce and it turns out a little different each time. Let me know how it turns out if you try it!
Step away from the candy!
No more candy!