My Quest Part 2

 Continued from Prior Post yesterday

I mentioned Tapioca Flour yesterday. Collage above is my new favorite Breakfast, A crepe made from Tapioca flour, 350 Calories.

1/4 cup flour in large measuring cup

Break 2 small eggs into another cup, add a few drops of olive oil, 2 tablespoons of Lactaid milk

and a sprinkle of salt. 

Whip the egg mixture with a fork, dump in Flour, whip with fork until blended. ( I have no blender)

preheat pan to medium heat for 2 minutes, pour batter and have fun flipping it over.

1 table spoon natural peanut butter, spread on while hot and a spoon of Apple butter.

You can use what ever topping you want.

I have a ceramic 2 egg pan that was working fine, and yesterday bought the large pan because I LOVE the little pan. 

Photo above is a crepe the size of pan, cut in half.

This amount of crepe and I am full until lunch time, Egg and Peanut Butter is Protein,

Protein kills the desire to eat.

Lunch was meatless, low fat, low carbs, gluten free

TACOS!

Bob had requested Tacos for this week, I made enough of REAL taco mix for 4 days, and enough of MY tacos for 4 days.

One day cook, 4 day left overs.

 Yellow Corn Gluten Free Tortilla, also low calorie. Picante or Salsa is good to.

I steamed a pot of

Dark Kidney beans drained

Frozen Peas

Frozen Mexican Corn with red peppers

Heat tortilla in non greased pan, few seconds on each side, and fill with veggies, cheese, lettuce, tomato and Picante on top.

Delicious and this can be made from any veggie you like, I will be using chicken or fish once in a while and change up to Salsa.

the tortillas can be used a thousand ways.

Low calorie, low sodium, low carbs, lot fat

I used about a 3rd of the bag on the frozen veggies and save the rest to use that in egg omelets or stir fry.

Word of Warning! Gluten Free does NOT mean diet food. READ THE LABEL

Walmart was out of the bread i bought two weeks ago, and after reading the labels, I found sugar, SALT, Calories, Cholesterol in high amounts. 

I went to the frozen gluten and found Glutino English Muffins.

 I LOVE THEM.

Then I read the label. One muffin has half a days quota of salt. YIKES!

I will eat them but not buy them again.

NOTE: someone said love is the wrong word to use unless it can love you back, it works here because they love making my stomach feel better.

I had one for breakfast to TEST them with Peanut Butter and YUM.I will use an egg, or cheese on one and it is the same calories as the crepe.

Other muffins found were full of sugar and almost all gluten free products are HIGH in sodium

Here is a link to Mission Products with tons of healthy recipes

BTW, the black cup in the photo above is sitting there to remind me to tell you, I filled it with coffee to take it in the car. I shop at 6 am and I drink one cup of coffee at wake up, and have been drinking TWO.

this causes me to walk in the door and go straight to the rest room

I stopped drinking the 2nd cup, and can ignore the rest room, but on the way home  I am dying for coffee. I walked out the door into the garage, saw the sheets were ready for the dryer, sat my STUFF down on work bench and transferred the sheets. Half the way to WM I realized the cup of coffee remained on the work bench. I picked up Keys and missed the 7 inch CUP.

so sorry guys, I just can't condense.

Day 28 of Quest to Pre-Pandemic Weight

 

Cherries, $8.25 for bag. YOWSA

I started my quest to lose Pandemic Weight Gain, on June 1, 2021 today is Day 28,

 7 lbs down, 3 to go!

If I typed here what  I am thinking you would be reading till the cows come home!

Now my Quest is to tell you the story in condensed form

HA HA HA

First important change

MOVE MORE, MOVE MORE.

Get UP!

Any and All Movement Counts

My program is.......

Pool exercise, legs, arms, back,, 20 minutes 5 days a week, 

Recumbent Bike, 3 days a week, 

Walk Beau Every Day

Floor exercise, on bed, no floors for me, can't get up.

Squats, 20 per day, 5 days a week.

Dance to YouTube, March, Side Step, Wave Arms, Pump Arms. 

I don't do all of this every day, it needs to be changed up. Doing the same exact thing, the body adjusts to it.

I do any or all of above, rotating days, to a total of 1 hour or MORE.

Housework counts!

If you get HOT doing housework that is exercise

Veggies, fruits, Protein, Fat, good carbs. 

Eat Breakfast.

Calories Counted and Bite it, Write it!

Tomato's $8.00 Banana 19 cents for one. I can't eat them and they are my favorite food, this one for bob.

I don't eat sugar, and to jump start my weight loss, I decided to give up  bread until I was back where I was in March of 2020. along the way, a blog friend introduced me to Gluten free flour.

Tapioca flour is my choice, and I am about to try coconut flour.

By accident, I found out my stomach problems that I thought was IBS, are caused by

White Flour. By the end of the first week of NO Bread, my bloated stomach was no more.

My stomach pains in early AM were gone. Also gone early AM diarrheas' gone . 

On day 24, we had Spaghettis Sauce on French Style Green Beans, in stead of Spaghettis noodles.

Day 25, I decided to have a plate of  REAL Spaghettis and the next morning, guess what was back?

White flour bloat, pain and a few trips to the potty.

WOW! I am now gluten Free and feeling like a new person.

My Quest to lose weight, and what I have learned along the weigh and how it is changing my life.. 

But Weight, there is MORE

to be continued