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!

Turkey sloppy joe

I am definitely going to have to have a vegetarian dinner because I made this for lunch:

Turkey Sloppy Joe.

 This recipe started out as just a plain turkey burger.

I mixed together:

1 cup of ground turkey
1 egg white
onion powder
garlic powder
black pepper
dried sage

And then I realized I didn't have any bread crumbs or anything that would make a good substitute. Without breadcrumbs the mixture was too wet to form into a patty.


So, the turkey mixture went into a skillet to cook while I tried to figure out what to do with it.

Enter this guy:

2 Tbsp. of the Chili Sauce went into the skillet and a few sprinkles of Worcestershire sauce and Ta Da! Turkey Sloppy Joe.

I also had a simple side salad of spinach.

With a homemade salad dressing made of:

Udo's oil
Rice wine vinegar
Mirin
Nutritional yeast
black pepper


I love it when great ideas result from kitchen disasters.

This was messy and delicious!

I am off to do a yoga session at home - my sciatica is giving me trouble today and I really need to stretch out my hip.

Oh, and the bun was a toasted whole wheat English muffin.