Karen, Ben and I bought Asian pears yesterday, too! How funny Are the laptop issues better?

I finally ate the second chayote and I'm SO GLAD I waited until I had some of my taste back because it's delicious! I sauteed it with olive oil, garlic, onion, crushed red pepper flakes, a bit of sugar, and salt, and then finished it off with a bit of lime juice. YUM! Definitely going to be making that a regular thing as long as we can find it! It stays pretty crisp if you don't cook it for too long and the flavor is somewhere between a zucchini and an apple, maybe? It's also only 25 calories per cup!

I hit 50lbs lost and "overweight," so I went out and treated myself to some new clothes yesterday. It was nice to get new things, but ahhh shopping is overwhelming! I'm also JUST between sizes 14 and 16 so I went with 14s that are a bit tight so hopefully my weight loss doesn't stop completely! Trying to figure out this whole "capsule wardrobe" thing so I can use just a few items of clothing and have a variety of outfits, but I'm terrible at that. It's funny -- being in plus sizes is frustrating because you have so few choices, but being back in "straight" sizes is frustrating because there are too many.

Norah, congrats on the weight loss! Awesome job!! I know what you mean about clothing size changes!! It is great to mix and match tops and bottoms to come up with different outfits!!

Karen hope your computer gets fixed! Zac....hope you get the dog....if not...there are loads of rescued animals out there that need loving homes!!!

Had a busy day at work....getting ready to call it a night soon!! The weather was a bit cooler today...only got up to 104 !! Next couple days is suppose to climb higher....just hoping the humidity holds off coz with the heat and humidity...it is a real killer!!!

Have a good one folks!!
Nancy

Still the 11th in your neck of the woods, but the dawn is cracking here. I do not follow the pyramid thingy...I admit...I take mega doses of vitamins/suppliments just to cover what I don't take in. I am not binging on junk food, don't have any in the house. Have not been losing coz I was not exercising, but I kicked myself in the backside and started the treadmil a couple days ago...just needed to try and see when the best time it is do walk on it. Anywhoooo I have hit my 10,000 three days in a row....will keep on going...just LOVE that little vibration that goes off on the fitbit one that signals I hit the mark!!

Karen, that recipe does sound good...please copy and paste it in the recipe thread...that way when I get a day off, I can go back and copy and paste. I made one of your pita salad sandwiches the other day and loved it. Why did I not think of that. We get the fresh pita bread daily here!!

Sleep well folks...off to get ready for work and start my day!!

Nancy

Hi Karen and everyone else. I'm around and reading post like Diana. I'm just in a really bad place right now so I've been keeping to myself. I've been doing a lot of writing in my journal exploring all my feelings, etc. And of course my therapist is out at a conference. I'm still keeping up with my activities, water and food (though with all the crazy going ons here in St. Louis the last few days I have to admit I've had to get creative). I didn't even get to go to my Monday night Gastric Bypass Support group tonight because of it and I really needed to go. But with the areas I have to travel through being in an uproar I don't feel safe traveling through them. I promise as soon as I can get out of this dark place I will post more often.

Dee

I'm not sure where we are posting our recipes but I guess I will do it here. I totally forgot we were doing it so thankfully I decided to cook up some cauliflower pizza dough for lunch. If you have taken a look at the calories in pizza the crust is killer. So thankfully with this recipe you can enjoy your slice (or more) without as big of a hit. Plus you get in several servings of vegetables.

Sorry for no pictures. I only new about the challenge this evening.

It actually tastes good. For what is essentially an entire head of cauliflower, it makes a delicious bread substitute. I used mine to make a pepperoni pizza but it could be great for wraps and sandwiches.

I roughly used this recipe and looked at a couple of other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjsqeLHS14. Essentially all your doing is making cauliflower rice, which is shredded and cooked cauliflower. I chopped my cauliflower up and put it through the food blender till it had a grain size similar to, but a little smaller than, rice. I cooked it in the microwave (you can do it in a pan but really why bother) and then let it cool and most importantly, squeezed out as much water as possible. You don't want soggy pizza crust. You mix it with some italian sizzling, I added a healthy bit of garlic powder. Mix in an egg and some parmesan cheese. The cheese and egg help keep it all together.

Then you bake it off. For the love of all that is holly us parchment paper or a backing mat to bake the thing. No amount of foil and cooking spray will keep the thing from sticking. I backed it on both sides so that it was completely cooked and not soggy.

Then dress as you like. I did some low salt tomato sauce, some low fat cheese, turkey pepperoni and crystalized garlic.

So good!