Give me Blue Cheese or give me Roquefort!

I’ve got to get my pictures going, I’ve been in another health spurt lately. I’m craving salads with croutons and blue cheese dressing as if it were a juicy tender properly seasoned steak! Weird! My only explanation: I’m going through some kind of health spurt! I like salads but when I’m craving them like crazy it’s got to be my body craving the good stuff! To be honest my eating has change quite a bit in the last year. I used to love fast food, but now it turns my stomach at the thought of it. Even pizza sounds greasy and unappetizing. The fact I cook my meals and I don’t use salt and I use more veggies and low fat ingredients is probably the culprit! My soups don’t have fat to congeal on them. Most of the oil that cooks out of meats I pour on my dogs’ food because they actually need the oil that I don’t. When I need oil on something I use the Extra Virgin Olive Oil that my sweetie sent me (it’s from Italy.)

I experiment in my cooking with as many veggies as I can. I find that chopped frozen greens (collard and turnip, or mustard) are easy to mix into dishes like soups or baked pasta dishes. I also love the chopped okra stir fried in a dry non-stick pan with Italian sausage or ground beef. The dishes give me lots of fiber let me tell you; I’m hitting the bathroom quite a bit! Who cares about that if it means dropping the fat and weight!

I have ice cream in the fridge but it doesn’t motivate me like it used to. At night when I’m feeling the hungries I eat a salad, apple, or grab a nonfat yogurt. Worse case scenario I grab the veggie casserole I’ve cooked in the ½ cup containers I pack it in after cooking a bit pan of it. This kind of convenience really makes eating better so much smoother for me. If I have to think about cooking when I’m feeling hungry, I get into trouble with something that I don’t even want. That’s why I used to order pizza or Chinese food because I didn’t have to think and it was delivered. I do have a place that delivers salads though and that’s very good! I love their dinner salads but I love their other food too so it’s best to just have bagged salad on hand.

So as long as I have croutons and the right dressing I am cool. I don’t worry about the calories of everything because I don’t want that to be my big focus ever. I think counting calories is great and helps many people lose weight, still I want my behavior and eating style to be better, not something I do to avoid points or “retribution.” I’ve got my size 8 leather jacket next to me every night when I go to sleep and I’ve got that “look” my sweetie will have when he sees me slimmer always in my head spurring me on. The scale’s a bit of a motivation, but not as much as I thought it would be. It just doesn’t move as fast as I’d like it too! I just have to keep that thought in my head…

Just keep moving, moving, moving, keep moving!!!

Ah it’s time for a little salad me thinks!

Posted by ijellorca on January 27, 2006 8:26 PM | DIGG | del.icio.us | furl