With a little help from my friends

What a lovely, low-key, relaxing and even mildly productive weekend!  I'm Jonesing for one more day off, to sit and finish the Hunger Games.  It's totally pulled me in, despite being nothing remotely resembling any genre I'm ever much interested in reading.  Of course, Harry Potter wasn't genre specific to Leslie, and I loved that.  I guess my main genre is a great story, good writing, and ingenious plot. 

In a utopian society, I would be reading this very minute.  But in the dystopic world of work, blogging and living, I am only reading a page at a time between other tasks.  I have my secret book-in-drawer technique in place to facilitate maximum goofing off while looking busy...here the earnest desk top dedicated to work...

And here the SBID technique.  Ah - I love being a school girl again...

We had marginal weather here over the weekend, but I was still able to get 2 mile walks in each day without getting rained on.  I would have gone further except my low back was a little spasmy from the 5 miles at Ridley Creek park the day before.  That walk on Friday was glorious, but what with my um...spare tire, if I don't pay close attention to posture and abs, I think I get a little sway back thing going that causes me some low back discomfort for the next couple of days.  Another non-scale consequence of being overweight. :(

I didn't get on the scale, but my eating was good over the weekend.  I had a couple of things not on plan, but in reasonable amount and with no bingeing.  My intention is a clean week, and I actually have did some food prep yesterday to that end.

Yesterday I made a big pan of roasted root veggies - sweet potatoes, onion, brussels and cauliflower with a little olive oil and a helathy splash of balsamic, plus a shitload of garlic.  The whole house smelled like a restaurant in the best possible way.  Also, I made Helen's spinach, sausage and sweet potato Paleo friendly casserole and had my first serving this morning for breakfast:

It's utterly delicious.  Hubby, who does not care for sweet potatoes, also loved it.  This will be on my regular rotation from now on.  On the post Helen wrote about this, she cited the "pseudo Paleo" blog from which she got it - and I've bookmarked that blog now.  There really are some excellent recipes using Paleo principles - that include things I love and can handle without getting triggered to binge.  Good stuff.

I have a walk scheduled after work today, and am planning another blog inspired dinner that I'll write about if it's a keeper - which I'm sure it will be.  This morning while hubby was eating his breakfast casserole, I asked if I could write on my blog that he has benefitted greatly from my blog life - what with amazing recipes I would never have seen or tried showing up on his plate very often.  He responded "ABSOLUTELY!"  It's true - my blog friends have helped me in so many ways - good healthy eats is just one of them.