So I have been looking at a lot of gluten-free cookbooks lately, trying to decide which one to buy and try out. Maybe Italian? Maybe Mexican? Hell if I had the money I would probably try them all.
It's not easy being piss poor and trying to live gluten-free. It costs a good small fortune just to eat! Let alone pay the rest of the bills. (not that I have a lot of bills but even just the one's I have right now) Going out with people to eat has its challenges to. Everyone looks at me like well where can you eat? Like I friggin know! lol. So with everyone looking at you like a five year old (I know there just trying to be nice and make sure I can eat something) I have to explain to them again that I can find something to eat anywhere, just don't take me to olive garden lol. But of course that's where everyone actually wanted to go, so they all look like it's my fault and then I'm snubbed for the rest of the night. I would like to see you live like me for 2 weeks.
So hear is the dare, for all of you. Try a gluten-free diet. I'm not joking, try the gluten-free diet for 2 weeks. If you need to know what to avoid you can go to http://www.celiacs.com or http://glutenfree.com or just search on Google. So do it for the next 2 weeks, and try to look at me like that again. Go for it.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Hard habits to make and break
So I rented the biggest loser game for wii and I have to say, so awesome. I was sweating in 5 minutes, which is more then I can say for wii fit plus. Now I love it but I can't seem to make myself do it everyday. I have been working out at lest 3 times a week but I feel like I should be doing it more often then that. Hard habit for me to get into I guess. Hard habit for me to break is smoking. I have calmed down with it but, with the way money is going, it's gotta go.
So me and George went to walmart on Saturday, and i bought a new pan. It is a grill pan for the stove (well duh) it is amazing! Mom is even addicted to using it. So now we have grilled chicken every night. Along with the chicken I put a mixture of balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar, rice vinegar, apple cider vinegar, vegetable oil, and some oregano. Put some slices of plum tomatoes on top and YUMMY! Put it all on top of a bed of lettuce. I think i just made myself hungry again!
So moving forward with my life, I finished filing my fafsa so I'm hoping everything goes through and I get something so I can attend the spring semester to SCCC. I'm very excited and very nervous about starting this new chapter in my life but it has to happen sometime right? I'm just glad I have George here to help me through it.
So me and George went to walmart on Saturday, and i bought a new pan. It is a grill pan for the stove (well duh) it is amazing! Mom is even addicted to using it. So now we have grilled chicken every night. Along with the chicken I put a mixture of balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar, rice vinegar, apple cider vinegar, vegetable oil, and some oregano. Put some slices of plum tomatoes on top and YUMMY! Put it all on top of a bed of lettuce. I think i just made myself hungry again!
So moving forward with my life, I finished filing my fafsa so I'm hoping everything goes through and I get something so I can attend the spring semester to SCCC. I'm very excited and very nervous about starting this new chapter in my life but it has to happen sometime right? I'm just glad I have George here to help me through it.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Life at the bottom
As i mentioned in my last blog I lost my job. I have been unemployed since September. If any of you have been unemployed recently, you know how the job market is. So I've decided to go back to school. It's not fun being here at the bottom. My boyfriend thinks he would LOVE to be home doing "nothing". When it's killing me. I'm a work horse, I love 16+ hours a day. I miss the money i would make in overtime. Hell i would have had my doctor bills paid off already. I would be able to afford food on a regular basis.
So were going to go to a lighter note now. I'm finally starting to wake up earlier again. By earlier i mean 2pm instead of 4 or 5. It kills me to sleep all day. So when i woke up i made my first breakfast shake. 4oz of acai juice, 4oz soy milk, 4oz peaches, 4oz banana's, 4oz strawberry's and 4oz of blueberry's. It was extremely delicious! And i felt awake and alive afterward, instead of unsatisfied and lifeless. So then i decided to get on the treadmill today. I put the laptop on a table next to it, on top of stacked up books so that it was my height lol. Watched the latest episode of Mercy while i walked. 2 miles in 45 minutes, then lifted weights for about an hour. They were 1 pound weights so i just did alot of reps but i couldn't feel my arms afterward! And then there was dinner, sauteed chicken in olive oil and lemon juice, and then put it in a salad with rice crackers for croutons and parmasan cheese. Now i can't have most salad dressings so i make one. Big salads are what i usually make, so one cap full of apple cider vinager, and then a cap and a half of vegetable oil or any oil with omega-3. The handfull (or two) of dark chocolate m&ms i had probably didn't help with this whole thing but i beleave i had a good start today :-).
If people can go on the biggest loser and show there belly's and train like athlete's at 500lbs then why can't we? Get off your butt's and get moving people! (or person that read's this lol)
So were going to go to a lighter note now. I'm finally starting to wake up earlier again. By earlier i mean 2pm instead of 4 or 5. It kills me to sleep all day. So when i woke up i made my first breakfast shake. 4oz of acai juice, 4oz soy milk, 4oz peaches, 4oz banana's, 4oz strawberry's and 4oz of blueberry's. It was extremely delicious! And i felt awake and alive afterward, instead of unsatisfied and lifeless. So then i decided to get on the treadmill today. I put the laptop on a table next to it, on top of stacked up books so that it was my height lol. Watched the latest episode of Mercy while i walked. 2 miles in 45 minutes, then lifted weights for about an hour. They were 1 pound weights so i just did alot of reps but i couldn't feel my arms afterward! And then there was dinner, sauteed chicken in olive oil and lemon juice, and then put it in a salad with rice crackers for croutons and parmasan cheese. Now i can't have most salad dressings so i make one. Big salads are what i usually make, so one cap full of apple cider vinager, and then a cap and a half of vegetable oil or any oil with omega-3. The handfull (or two) of dark chocolate m&ms i had probably didn't help with this whole thing but i beleave i had a good start today :-).
If people can go on the biggest loser and show there belly's and train like athlete's at 500lbs then why can't we? Get off your butt's and get moving people! (or person that read's this lol)
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
First day for everything!
Let's start at the very beginning shall we?
So it's 2005, I graduate high school, I have a job I start working basically full time at, then i get promoted. Everything seems to be going good in my life, except that i was 250lbs. I was always a big girl, but I decided to put my foot down. It had to come off it had to go away. So me and my mother start a whole wheat diet. About a year and a half maybe two after we started, all we were doing was trying to get healthy, right? After mom's countless visits to the ER and doctors and pain medication (I have a higher tolerance for pain, and had no health insurance, so she was the guinea pig). The numbers were going down but my pant's were growing in size. I just kept thinking what the hell is going on? After mom being told it's cyst's that's why your having so much pain (the cysts are on the RIGHT SIDE the pain was always LEFT). My mother went to the doctor (after almost 2 years of testing) who walked in with a 5 minute diagnostic book (she was so very very pissed) we find out that we have Celiac's disease.
Celiac's disease is when you lack the ability to process wheat and gluten. Which was our diet at the time. Figures we were trying to get healthy and we ended up doing more damage then good right?
So jump to today, 2010, it's been about 3 years maybe 4 since we found out. The initial change was hard, and I mean HARD. Being Italian and not being able to eat pizza? Or pasta? Or cake? Or fresh warm baked Italian bread? We lived on chicken, rice, and dark chocolate for the first 6 months. I mean don't get me wrong i didn't mind eating a pound of chocolate a day (I know it sounds gross but when you can't have cake or brownies it's god) I dropped over a hundred pounds! Just flew off! Like BAM out the door. Now i'm 23 unemployed and the weight has started to creep back on. With new improvements in gluten free food, can have pasta again and cakes and brownies and everything i used to live on because it was cheap and affordable. The gluten free versions are about 2-3 times the amount but when you want cake you'll scrounge up the change to get it. Now i have gained 30-40 pounds back. I'm going back to strict but different "lifestyle" because that's what this is. It's not a diet, it's not something i can stop once i've hit a "goal weight" it's something that is medically necessary for me to live. So i'm going to be trying new recipes and modifying old ones that you would get out of a cookbook (i have alot of French cook books) So if you feel like taking this ride with me tune in every now and then if not, It was nice of you to at lest read all of this. :-)
p.s. I'm eatting my last gluten-free stromboli for at lest the next 3 months... I think that's a good gap for something that's about 800 calories for every 4 bites right?
So it's 2005, I graduate high school, I have a job I start working basically full time at, then i get promoted. Everything seems to be going good in my life, except that i was 250lbs. I was always a big girl, but I decided to put my foot down. It had to come off it had to go away. So me and my mother start a whole wheat diet. About a year and a half maybe two after we started, all we were doing was trying to get healthy, right? After mom's countless visits to the ER and doctors and pain medication (I have a higher tolerance for pain, and had no health insurance, so she was the guinea pig). The numbers were going down but my pant's were growing in size. I just kept thinking what the hell is going on? After mom being told it's cyst's that's why your having so much pain (the cysts are on the RIGHT SIDE the pain was always LEFT). My mother went to the doctor (after almost 2 years of testing) who walked in with a 5 minute diagnostic book (she was so very very pissed) we find out that we have Celiac's disease.
Celiac's disease is when you lack the ability to process wheat and gluten. Which was our diet at the time. Figures we were trying to get healthy and we ended up doing more damage then good right?
So jump to today, 2010, it's been about 3 years maybe 4 since we found out. The initial change was hard, and I mean HARD. Being Italian and not being able to eat pizza? Or pasta? Or cake? Or fresh warm baked Italian bread? We lived on chicken, rice, and dark chocolate for the first 6 months. I mean don't get me wrong i didn't mind eating a pound of chocolate a day (I know it sounds gross but when you can't have cake or brownies it's god) I dropped over a hundred pounds! Just flew off! Like BAM out the door. Now i'm 23 unemployed and the weight has started to creep back on. With new improvements in gluten free food, can have pasta again and cakes and brownies and everything i used to live on because it was cheap and affordable. The gluten free versions are about 2-3 times the amount but when you want cake you'll scrounge up the change to get it. Now i have gained 30-40 pounds back. I'm going back to strict but different "lifestyle" because that's what this is. It's not a diet, it's not something i can stop once i've hit a "goal weight" it's something that is medically necessary for me to live. So i'm going to be trying new recipes and modifying old ones that you would get out of a cookbook (i have alot of French cook books) So if you feel like taking this ride with me tune in every now and then if not, It was nice of you to at lest read all of this. :-)
p.s. I'm eatting my last gluten-free stromboli for at lest the next 3 months... I think that's a good gap for something that's about 800 calories for every 4 bites right?
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