Monday, March 26, 2012

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.

15 comments:

  1. Too funny that we are in sync AGAIN. I just read that book this weekend! And, like you, got sucked in despite it not being my typical reading. And now I want to see the movie and read the next two books!

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  2. I'll be sharing another recipe I tweaked from her site this week some time. She's really very good at developing recipes!

    Glad you and your hubby enjoyed that casserole. Yours makes the third blog today that has linked back to recipes I've mentioned. Kristen at Low Fat Dressing made the chicken and vegetable meatballs and Jane at The Healthy Beehive made the pork carnitas. I guess my blog is good for something other than my random musings.

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  3. That looks awesome Leslie. I'm so glad you're doing well!! Helen, keep up the recipes!

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  4. 13 gms of fat for that serving? "sausage" ???
    Please explain Helen how this is a healthy choice.
    I think you're making an excuse to eat crap (sausage) because
    it's got "paleo" in the title.
    Accountability check please.

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    1. Rather than mouth off rudely on MY blog, where I can feature whatever I want, feel free to simply close out and not return. Buh-bye.

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  5. OMG who the heck is Katie? lol What a rude ass. That casserole looks delish!! I may put chicken sausage in mine, and I say that in the nicest way possible (take a lesson, Katie). :)

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    1. I love you Tammy - so subtle!! Actually I used lite turkey sausage and it's great. It makes 8 servings (or more, depending on serving size), so you could actually adjust down the nutritional stats a bit.

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    2. Tammy I actually suggested that other types of sausage could be used... I doubt she looked at the recipe.

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  6. I too have Helen's breakfast on my menu, but I forgot to buy the sausage! Glad the hubs gave it two thumbs up!!

    Hugs!

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  7. An RN touting "sausage" ..Really? I am not rude just "keeping them honest" as Anderson Cooper says.
    Obviously it got you thinking...

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    1. Did you even look at the recipe? I suspect not. It uses a reduced fat sausage but there are also eggs in it, therefore upping the fat content. A little fat never hurt anyone and sometimes helps. Fat is not evil. Maybe if you ate a little sausage it would sweeten your disposition Katie.

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    2. Ah...well it all makes sense now. Anderson Cooper is also an ass. Go watch some more CNN...I'll stick to Fox..and my chicken sausage. ;)

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  8. Sounds like things are going well for you! So glad that you commented on the blog the other day so I could catch up with your life. I'm still trying to master roasting brussell sprouts without burning them. Sigh.

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