May the Fuhrman Force Be With Us
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LOL Carla, Reba looks like a fluffy well-fed gal. I didn’t get as much done this weekend as I hoped. There have been a lot of thunderstorms which terrify the pup and he won’t let me sleep so I was sleeping in. More storms last night I think I only got maybe 4 hours of sleep so I am definitely going to bed early. Yay for you getting work done and being able to get back to your tapestry. Your bowl ideas sound great.
I have to do some food prep work tonight. I made brown rice last night, and took a bowl with rice, power greens, black beans, and salsa for lunch. It was okay but needed more. I am going to whip up a batch of the E2 hummus, steam broccoli and cauliflower and asparagus and kale (I do them all separately so I can pick and choose what I want in a meal), clean and chop a package of romaine, and bake some sweet and regular potatoes. Should be all set for the week then.
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Reba manages to get by somehow, with the food we give her
She'd like you to know that she feels underfed though, and really appreciates her 'num-nums.' I have to post a pic of her again because I selected the wrong one last time.
Last night I made up some Mexican bowls with cilantro lime brown rice, beefless crumbles (<- honestly, there needs to be a better name for these), greens, avocado, and a cashew queso recipe I tried out for the first time. Yum! I probably overdid the dressing on mine, I really like the flavor and the bit of kick it has but it is cashew based, so I need to watch it.
Joe picked up some asparagus that was on sale, so I think I'll do a lemon dressing on those and roast them up to go in tonight's bowl. Yay for bowls!
Okay, take 2 of Reba saying hi
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My kitties used to like treats, but the boy cat has that urinary tract thing some cats get where they get blocked up so he has been on prescription food for years. Can't really separate cat food so both cats eat it. Not allowed any treats at all. Poor kitties.
I'm on a total asparagus kick lately, I am sad when I run out lol. I either roll it around in a mixture of rice vinegar, soy sauce, ginger and garlic, sprinkle with sesame seeds and broil, or I steam it plain. I'll grab the bowl out of the fridge and eat them cold for a snack. I've always liked asparagus, but lately it's a must have. I just stopped and got two more bunches because I was afraid I might run out of what I steamed the other night lol.
I am getting more adventurous with getting greens in at breakfast. This morning I had a bowl of Grain Berry shredded wheat, just discovered this cereal. NO added sugar. I actually like it plain with a little unsweetened almond milk, but can be sweetened up with fruit, and had a side bowl of cold leftover steamed broccoli. For breakfast! Lunch, I threw together a big tupperware container of brown rice, steamed broccoli, black beans, power greens, and E2 hummus for dressing. I purposely made the last batch thinner by adding more water so it would be more like a thick dressing I can mix all into my bowl. Dinner will be baked sweet potato, steamed kale, sliced tomatoes, asparagus. Everything is already cooked, easy peasy.
Really need to get my head in the game on exercise though. Still just can't seem to work up any enthusiasm at all for that, and I know it would help my energy and mood so much.
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Breakfast used to be my easy default smoothie and I just can't seem to get back into the habit. Hopefully with the warmer weather it will just naturally appeal again and I can keep it up.
Lunch today was another bowl. Lemon cilantro wild rice, chopped fresh veggies, roasted red bell peppers and falafel. I had leftover green goddess dressing, cashew queso, and hummus, so dressings were covered! Not sure about dinner yet. We may branch out and have a veggie burger with a salad.
Here's a cropped shot of the newborn fawn. She is in the pasture by the side of the driveway, so we noticed her when we were walking our garbage down to the road. She and her family weren't comfortable with us being around, so Joe took a picture from where we were and then we left them alone. I'm glad to know she's there - we won't let Ruby out of the back yard for a while to be safe.
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The fawn is so sweet! And so tiny!!! Your meals sound really good Carla, how are you making the cilantro lime rice? I love anything with cilantro and lime.
Slipped a bit today, had some quinoa chips. They are so good, and not too bad calories/fat, but do have oil so shouldn't have had them. Breakfast was oatmeal with power greens chopped up and wilted in and a few walnuts. I Lunch sweet potato with steamed broccoli. Dinner will be another pita flat with hummus, baby spinach and asparagus. I realized today that I am not eating enough fruit and if I eat lots of fruit I tend not to crave snacky stuff so much. So goal for tomorrow is more fruit. I'll have some cantaloupe for dessert tonight.
Where's Karrie?
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I'm here. It's been a week... I'll be glad when I'm back at home tonight with my butt parked on the couch.
I have been on the go, NON-stop all week long. I'm exhausted. Among a half dozen other things I did last night, I had my guitar recital, and I played Romanza (Spanish Romance). It turned out really well. I still got nervous and I still shook a bit, but I didn't make as many mistakes because of it as I was expecting. I was pretty proud of myself and then my teacher bragged me up saying that I was only at the end of my 2nd year playing. Afterwards a number of people came up to me to say that I did an amazing job. Felt nice!!
I'll get back online later today/tomorrow to catch up. I've been skimming, but I just haven't had time to post. Work is crazy. Home has been crazy all week too. I've barely sat down in the evenings at all!
Lia, your baby is beautiful!
Carla, thanks for sharing the picture of the fawn. So sweet. And the pictures of your cat made me giggle. Reminds me that I haven't posted pictures of Oreo in a long time. He's getting big; he's 7 months old now...
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Hey Karrie... glad to see you. Hope you have a nice relaxing weekend in store? Congrats on your recital!
I am not going to the office tomorrow, but will go in Sunday and Monday. I know Monday is the holiday, but my guess is I won't have much boss bugging me going on those two days. Tomorrow I'm thinking he will be there quite a bit so I'll pass on that lol. Making tiny bits of progress here and there, but I really don't think I'll ever be caught up. Ever. Really burned out and grumpy lately.
Stopped at the store and got more stuff to steam for bowls... cauliflower and broccoli and kale. Got an extra bunch of kale to make red lentil kale soup. I haven't made it in a while and love that soup. Also got more pitas to throw in the freezer for my hummus/spinach/asparagus flats. I am so hooked on those, haven't got tired of them yet at all. I really like the E2 hummus recipe. It uses brown mustard so has some kick to it. I should experiment with adding additional spices. It just has chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic and brown mustard, with water to thin as needed. I was at a gathering last weekend and had regular hummus, it actually tasted too oily to me. Yay for getting my taste buds back to oil free.
Tomorrow's goal is to clean from morning to night. The pet hair has taken over again and it's so dusty in here, plus mounds of linens to be laundered. I have to make myself focus on just cleaning and not get all sidetracked into projects. Like I'll start to clean the kitchen and next thing ya know I'm tearing apart cabinets and reorganizing. I need to just clean the surfaces and get the whole house done, then I can worry about projects like that. I can spend a whole day on one room if I start getting carried away on the side projects.
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Weekend was nice just the girls. I could totally get used to that. I let my DD have her best friend over for a sleepover, they just stayed in my DD's room and I got to binge watch How I Met Your Mother while getting caught up on my projects.
Then Saturday we went around town going shopping, and to the library, etc. Got home for supper and then watched a family movie on Netflix together, then an episode of Vampire Diaries. Decided it's not too bad, but maybe still a little too old for her for now.0 -
Sounds like a nice weekend Karrie.
Quiet weekend here. Did some cleaning and catching up laundry (and napping lol) on Saturday. Spent a good chunk of the day yesterday at the office then stopped at a friend's house on the way home and had a nice visit. Hadn't seen her in a while. Brought home lots of work, but only put in about 4 1/2 hours today. I got really sick after eating some leftover black bean soup for lunch. No idea why. I just made it Friday night so it should have been fine, but I ended up going back to bed for a while. Fine now. Steamed some asparagus, cleaned and chopped romaine, and made a batch of quinoa so I'm all ready for bowls for the next few days. Still have a head of cauliflower to steam tomorrow night, and need to make a batch of hummus. Just ate half a plain baked sweet potato tonight and a little asparagus for a late dinner and my stomach's fine.0 -
I went carb-free yesterday. (Starchy carbs). Also got back to my zombies. I missed them.
Down 3.2 lbs today. Yup. I gotta get off the carbs!! Going to try to have the same day as yesterday....0 -
Ahhh... yeah those starchy carbs can be rough on me too Karrie. Wow, 3.2 pounds, well done!
Had a good day after being a bit lackadaisical over the weekend, and indulging in some alcohol. Shredded wheat with half a banana and oat milk this morning. I hadn't tried oat milk before. It is SO good! Lunch was a big bowl with quinoa, homemade E2 hummus, and a whole bunch of asparagus, arugula, romaine. Steamed kale and cauliflower when I got home so that's ready to go.
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Well it was mostly just water weight from bloating, I'm sure; today was just a 0.6 lb loss, which is more realistic. But I won't get to work out today (didn't get up early enough).0
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Ruby hasn't been feeling well. She's been having digestive issues and yesterday morning she wouldn't eat her food and her tummy was rumbling like crazy and she was totally docile and droopy. We took her to the vet and she's getting treated for worms plus she's on prescription food to settle her stomach. Between the visit, the food, some shots, and flea meds for her and Reba, it was a $500 visit. She's not enjoying the prescription food at all, but she has perked up a lot. I still think there may be more going on. I'm continuing to keep an eye on her. Yet another reason I am glad that I get to work from home.
Hope that update wasn't TMI! Other than that, I've been spinning yarn and weaving.
Check out the post i did in group re: Dr. Fuhrman podcast if you are interested in a recent talk with him. I haven't listened yet but it appears to be over an hour long.
We have microgreens sprouting in our greenhouse. They are fun to grow because you get results so quickly. Our bell peppers have started to bloom, so hopefully they are happy enough. We planted four varieties of tomato starts outside a while back, and they are just now starting to look good. We got them from Joe's dad who oversees a volunteer food garden and I think they may have been grown in the greenhouse then went into shock when we put them directly outside. I also planted some pole beans in the garden the other day - I received them as a surprise gift with the purchase of yarn on Etsy! That particular seller also dries her yarns in her herb garden greenhouse so the yarn smells wonderful when you get it!
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Karrie, I know exactly what you mean. If I go completely starchy carb free for just a week it's like my stomach shrinks two inches lol. I am still eating them following the E2 plan at present, but I am trying to stick more with the whole grains rather than breads and pasta and such.
Oh no Carla... poor Ruby
I hope she is feeling better soon. Could she be finding things to upset her stomach in the yard and eating them? I have a friend whose dog would eat toadstools in the yard and it made him really sick. Love hearing about all your gardening adventures! Thanks for the tip on the podcast. I'll be looking at it this weekend.
Today was really good food-wise. Not so much work-wise just a crazy busy day. Breakfast was oats with walnuts and banana. I don't seem to like oats as much cooked in all milk so I cook them in water and then add a splash of plant milk when serving. Still grooving on the oat milk. Lunch was a monster bowl with romaine, arugula, about 1/4 of a leftover sweet potato, E2 hummus, steamed cauliflower, kale, and asparagus. I couldn't even finish it all and felt so good all afternoon. Not sluggish like I often get after I eat lunch. I have often thought that skipping any type of starchy carbs (even whole grain) at lunch makes me feel better in the afternoon and I'm going to try to stick with that. Dinner will be leftover quinoa with more leftover steamed veggies and I think I'll make a pot of lentils and throw some over top with some salsa and chopped green onions And cantaloupe for dessert.
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Mihani, I was thinking about making my lime cilantro rice today and realized that I never responded with how I make it. It isn't a recipe really, I followed one at some point, but now I just make 2 cups of mixed grains rice in the instant pot, and once it's cooked I add juice of 1 lime, cilantro chopped fine, and salt to taste. Pretty simple, eh? I should just call it rice!
Ruby is wondering why she isn't getting a steady stream of treats. I think it will be a good opportunity to wean her off of them a little. She seems to be doing okay, but her system isn't regular yet. She may have gotten sick from eating a frog. We have very small frogs around and at this time of year there can be a lot of them hanging around. I saw a frog leg hanging out of her mouth before she got sick and I just kind of turned around and left...I couldn't bear the thought of trying to fish out a half dead frog and then have to kill it myself. Ugh. Things like this make me wonder if I really shouldn't be a person with pets. Joe can handle it at least. Don't get me wrong, I would have gone and fished it out if I thought it would make her sick.
Starchy carbs, oh how I love thee. Well, more of a love/hate thing. I've been having a run of headaches lately and when they get really bad and nothing else helps I just crave those carbs, that comfort food.
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Thanks for the rice recipe Carla... sounds like how I make my cilantro lime cashew sour cream (my own variation on the OSG cashew sour cream... instead of lemon I use lime juice and add cilantro in the blender). I love the flavors of lime and cilantro in most everything. Ugh, yeah eating critters could definitely be making Ruby sick. I am with you, I love my animals to pieces, but when they do gross things I'm like really? And you expect ME to deal with that?
Sorry to hear you are having headaches.
Another great food day. Shredded wheat with oat milk and half a banana for breakfast. Another monster bowl for lunch... romaine and arugula, leftover quinoa, steamed kale and cauliflower, and roasted corn, lentils, and some balsamic. I love the bowls! Tonight I'm going to have a flat with homemade E2 hummus and asparagus and baby spinach. The last of the cantaloupe for dessert. It's almost time for me to go into my annual summer watermelon frenzy, need to buy some this weekend.
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I started going starchy carb free on Monday. It's Friday. I'm down 5 lbs... So that's it. I've gotta stick to this. It works...0
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Woohoo Karrie! Well done.
Today: oats cooked in water served up with oat milk, power greens, walnuts, sliced frozen banana, cinnamon for breakfast. Lunch bowl of quinoa, steamed cauliflower and kale, raw baby spinach, the last of the roasted corn, lentils, balsamic. Dinner is going to be a flat again. I did eat a few blue corn chips today, sigh. And will be having a couple drinks tonight at a neighbor's house. The overall trend on the scale is encouraging though. Down 6 pounds over the past month. Just need to tighten things up and ditch the alcohol on the weekends. After tonight of course lol.
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Nice loss Karrie!
Enjoy your evening out Mihani! You deserve it!
Today I ate...everything...
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lol Carla... definitely know what those days are like.
Decided to stay out of the office today. Going to try to finish cleaning up the house, do a little bookkeeping work which is easy to do at home, read, grocery shop.
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What are you reading, Mihani?
I'm mid-way through sorting out my sewing/craft room. It has been a half packed disaster area ever since we moved here almost a year ago. Everything has to be unpacked and moved into piles so that I can see how much of everything I have and what it will fit into. If it sounds bad, you aren't think scary enough Joe and I picked up an armoire in a consignment store to help store everything. I got the guy to throw in for free, a cool pin board. Joe HATES it but I'm going to put it in my art studio or sewing room. Once I got it home and looked on the back I saw a sticker...it is from Anthropologie and sells new for $98!
What do you guys think? It is okay if you hate it, I can see it going either way LOL. I can always reupholster the background fabric when I'm tired of it to totally change the look and freshen it up a bit.
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oh and I forgot to mention that I have some seeds sprouting! The bergamot, basil or parsley, and chamomile have all sprouted. I was going to grow echinacea, and I may in the future, but there are some crazy requirements for getting them to sprout. If I'd have known that I'd have just found a plant somewhere! It involves refrigeration for 1 or 2 weeks, followed by other very specific soil temperatures in stages. I planted beans in the garden and they may have sprouted but I can't tell the difference between them and weeds so that will have to wait!0
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I think it's pretty Carla! Joe probably would like a more manly pinboard lol. Congrats on your gardening successes. Going to be swimming in produce and fresh herbs soon.
I have been reading some freebies from Kindle Unlimited. I let Amazon Prime lapse since I wasn't using it all that much, and got the Kindle Unlimited subscription instead. I'm reading the first Mirrowen book by Jeff Wheeler, previously read his Muirwood and Kingfountain series. They are pretty good, not the best books ever but entertaining enough to keep me reading them. I like science fiction and fantasy, especially when there is a lot of humor like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. Also crime series like Robert Crais, John Sandford, James Patterson, etc., although the last couple Sandford books I found disappointing. I guess after 50 some books you start to slide.
Made it to the grocery and stocked up on veggies and greens, fruit (including watermelon yay!), oat milk. Found some oil free whole wheat pitas and grabbed the 3 packages left. Put two in the freezer. Need to whip up a batch of E2 hummus. I have enough steamed veggies leftover to get me through another couple days. I'm also really into corn lately, got 4 ears, I cut it off the cob and cook it in a dry cast iron skillet at high heat until it's a bit brown and toasty. Really brings out the sweetness and it's a great addition to my bowls.
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I think it's pretty too, and would look amazing in a sewing room!!0
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We strayed from the bowls over the last few days and the results weren't pretty. Back to bowls this week! Not feeling inspired but I'm going to make rice and beans today and see what happens. Watermelon sounds good, thanks for the idea Mihani.
We have at least 7 dozen eggs in our fridge right now. Normally Joe's dad takes a few dozen a week, but he is on vacation. My parents haven't come by in a while either. One of our friends works in the same office as Joe and is always happy to get fresh eggs. Her husband, her & their roommates all eat Paleo and I guess they go through crazy amounts of eggs, more than a dozen a day. I can't fathom that, but I'm happy that our surplus gets put to use.
My pin board is hung up in the sewing room and everything is starting to come together. I'll get some shots once it is all cleaned up. Too bad I didn't take a before photo! It was starting to look like a hoarder's room.
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LOL my bad, June 5...I'll catch on eventually
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