Walking on air

I was out walking the dogs this morning and my friend drove up and exclaimed, "Hey skinny!"

My response, "Huh?"

My friend said, "You really are looking much thinner!"

Now I am walking on air. Yes, I have been working on the healthy lifestyle thing since January but this is the first time someone has noticed a big difference.

Normally, I would run home and weigh myself to see what the scale says. Today, I resisted doing that since that usually gets me overly focused on eating.

But I just had to share!!


My lunch was very colorful:

My version of Bibimbap - without the rice.

Instead of a bed of rice, I used a bed of shredded cabbage.

Then I chopped up the rest of the ingredients and arranged them in the bowl.

Broccoli, cucumber, red cabbage and carrot.

Then I mixed up some homemade dressing:

Mirin
Rice vinegar
Udo's oil
Nutritional yeast
Garlic powder
Black pepper

I cooked a 1/2 cup of ground turkey in a skillet with some:

Soy sauce
Mirin
Honey
Hoisin sauce

This gave the turkey a nice barbeque-like flavor.

Even though it looked so pretty as it was - I mixed everything together:

This was the best lunch I have had in a long time - I encourage you to make it - soon! And you can easily make it vegetarian by using tofu instead of ground turkey.

The soy wrappers will be making an appearance at dinner - no worries:-)
 
I am off to hit the gym and celebrate being thinner!

First meal

Sometimes I get so busy/distracted in the mornings that I don't eat right away.

Today was one of those days. 


It was getting close to 11:30 before I realized I hadn't eaten anything yet. 

So, instead of calling it breakfast or brunch I decided to call it first meal :-)

Tofu miso scramble.

I started with a few simple ingredients:

Carrot, grated ginger, tofu and green cabbage.

The carrot and cabbage went into a pan on medium heat with a teaspoon of coconut oil.

When the vegetables were softened (about 7 minutes) I turned the heat to low and added in the ginger, tofu and the miso mixture.

A mixture of 1Tbsp. of miso paste, 1/4 cup of water and 1 Tbsp. of soy sauce.

I covered the pan and let it simmer on low for another five minutes.

The dish turned out somewhere between a stew and a soup. The veggies still had some crunch and the tofu picked up ginger/miso flavor. Yum!

There was quite a bit of sauce after cooking - so this would also do well ladled over a bed of rice.