The musical fruit
I'm a single cat mom this week. K's at this conference in Chicago. Having her gone for a weekend is one thing. But trying to manage five cats AND make South Beach-friendly meals AND do laundry AND work an extra hour or so every night AND go to aquafit twice a week AND, AND, AND...
*is tired*
I also miss her like a mad missing thing.
This week on SB phase 1 is much easier. All the roughage isn't causing me the same stomach upset. We aren't weighing ourselves (mostly because I'm afraid to), but we have been checking our measurements. After the first week, I lost 1.5 inches off my waist and 2 inches off my hips. K lost more from her waist and less from her hips. Pretty damn cool, if you ask me.
And what they say is true: I'm really not craving the breads and pastas, etc. anymore. What we are both really longing for is an apple. I discovered these awesome Honey Crisp apples at the farmer's market a few weeks back and I'm salivating for one.
That said, we might do an extra week of phase 1 to account for the difficulties K has encountered while away from home.
This morning for breakfast, I tried a recipe from the South Beach Supercharged book for a Red Bean Mash. The book suggests taking some of the leftover mash, forming it into patties, and frying it up for breakfast.
So I had 2 red bean patties with a little grated low fat Jack cheese, a few drops of Frank's Chile Lime Hot Sauce, and a small tomato (because I didn't feel like looking for the salsa). It was pretty good, if a little too garlicky for first thing in the morning. I think next time I'll reduce the garlic from 3 cloves to 1 and maybe put some hot sauce right into the bean mash.
Last week, I riffed off of a recipe from Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without. She calls them Spaghetti Squash pancakes. You make a batter, like for latkes, replacing grated potatoes with spaghetti squash. It seemed a little too eggy for me, but it gave me the idea to try to make hash brown patties with the squash. It worked pretty well! I just dumped the squash into a linen tea towel and wrung out most of the liquid. Then I formed the squash into patties and browned them on the cast iron pan with a little olive oil. They were pretty tasty -- especially topped with a slice of back bacon.
I have to say, right now the most difficult part of the diet is getting used to making different kinds of food. And not having any fruit. Eventually, this will become routine and I won't spend so much time having to think about each meal. And it will be easier in phase 2 when we can start re-introducing carbs...like APPLES!!
M.
*is tired*
I also miss her like a mad missing thing.
This week on SB phase 1 is much easier. All the roughage isn't causing me the same stomach upset. We aren't weighing ourselves (mostly because I'm afraid to), but we have been checking our measurements. After the first week, I lost 1.5 inches off my waist and 2 inches off my hips. K lost more from her waist and less from her hips. Pretty damn cool, if you ask me.
And what they say is true: I'm really not craving the breads and pastas, etc. anymore. What we are both really longing for is an apple. I discovered these awesome Honey Crisp apples at the farmer's market a few weeks back and I'm salivating for one.
That said, we might do an extra week of phase 1 to account for the difficulties K has encountered while away from home.
This morning for breakfast, I tried a recipe from the South Beach Supercharged book for a Red Bean Mash. The book suggests taking some of the leftover mash, forming it into patties, and frying it up for breakfast.
So I had 2 red bean patties with a little grated low fat Jack cheese, a few drops of Frank's Chile Lime Hot Sauce, and a small tomato (because I didn't feel like looking for the salsa). It was pretty good, if a little too garlicky for first thing in the morning. I think next time I'll reduce the garlic from 3 cloves to 1 and maybe put some hot sauce right into the bean mash.
Last week, I riffed off of a recipe from Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without. She calls them Spaghetti Squash pancakes. You make a batter, like for latkes, replacing grated potatoes with spaghetti squash. It seemed a little too eggy for me, but it gave me the idea to try to make hash brown patties with the squash. It worked pretty well! I just dumped the squash into a linen tea towel and wrung out most of the liquid. Then I formed the squash into patties and browned them on the cast iron pan with a little olive oil. They were pretty tasty -- especially topped with a slice of back bacon.
I have to say, right now the most difficult part of the diet is getting used to making different kinds of food. And not having any fruit. Eventually, this will become routine and I won't spend so much time having to think about each meal. And it will be easier in phase 2 when we can start re-introducing carbs...like APPLES!!
M.