Super Great Gluten Free Dinners

For the past three nights I have made some amazing totally gluten free dinners. On Thursday I made had gluten free chicken fettuccine alfredo using Trader Joes Brown Rice Pasta Fusilli. I have had other gluten free pasta that costs much more than this rice pasta that didn't taste near as good. Along with the chicken fettuccine I had green beans and applesauce with cinnamon. I can't say ENOUGH how amazingly tasty this pasta was. And, I only paid $1.99 per bag for this pasta which is such an incredible price. Now, with using the alfredo sauce it didn't make the meal super nutritional but I just can't cut everything out while getting used to eating gluten free. 


Ok, Friday night I made pork chops seasoned with thyme, cumin, paprika, garlic salt, onion powder and pepper. I baked the porkchops until done and ate it with some GF yukon gold mashed potatoes, green beans and applesauce with cinnamon. I obviously like green beans and applesauce! ;) This dinner was delicious!

Then tonight I made homemade pizzas using a GF pizza crust. When making the dough I sprinkled a generous amount of an Italian seasoning before baking which I feel like gave it an excellent amount of flavor. I made two separate pizzas so I can cut up and freeze and then just take them straight out of the freezer and reheat. Which is super nice because there isn't really a whole lot I like to eat that is quick. So the first pizza had red sauce, chicken, spinach, black olives and cheese. The other one had red sauce, bacon, sausage and cheese. They both were super fantastic. I used Bob's Red Mill GF Pizza Crust mix. I paid around $3.50 for a bag of the mix and it made two large pizzas.


I look forward to making more delicious GF meals! AND I am weighing in for the first time in about a month on Monday. I am nervous and excited all at the same time. I really hope to see a loss. No matter how much. The last time I weighed myself I gained 15lbs. That's a whole lot to gain when you are really wanting to lose weight! 

Inspirational Quote #3

"The rainbow would not be without first the rain." D Donche Jr

Gluten Intolerance

Well here I am! I don't believe I have mentioned this yet mainly because I myself don't want to believe it, but I have a gluten intolerance. To my body, gluten in toxic. It makes me feel awful and yet I still eat it. It's like the thought of living gluten free is horrific. BUT, my friends, the time has come. The time is here that I say good-bye to my gluten and say hello to G-free eating. It's going to be a tough journey. I know because I have tried once. And it ended with my crying in the cafeteria at work because they had sold their last baked potato, one of the only things I could eat that night from the cafeteria. It was terrible. Seriously, imagine a grown woman crying in a cafeteria over a baked potato! I can laugh at it now, but what an awful day. 

I have been going on almost a year now of knowing that I have a gluten intolerance and doing nothing about it. My excuses were: it's too expensive, it's too hard, I simply can't live without pasta and on and on. But the truth of the matter is I can't afford NOT to live G-free. The risks I am taking every day with eating foods with gluten is just plain crazy. I don't want to end up with intestinal cancer or infertility and that can happen! It's just crazy how your risk of very serious health problems is elevated when eating gluten that attacks your insides with you have an intolerance. 

Yesterday was my first day gluten free in months. It's truly amazing just how much better I feel with one day of no gluten. I ate a banana, gluten free white cheddar crunchy goodness, honey roasted peanuts, cranberry and almond bar and tuna salad on g-free bread. I was in the process of moving yesterday and was busy packing and traveling so I didn't eat super well, but gluten free and that's what mattered yesterday. 

Today, after work I will be venturing out to the local whole foods store to pick up some more gluten free goodness. I will share what I find later on tonight! Oh and I am reading another book which I will also share with you later on tonight!

It Has Been Some Time....

Hello! I feel like it has been forever since I was last on my blog. And it has been... I didn't have a weigh-in last week. I have been having a very difficult two weeks and am trying to bet back into the swing of things.  On a side note, I truly believe that God has a reason for everything that happens and I am hoping whatever comes of these hard times is going to make me a better, stronger, and more thankful person in life. I know that for every door that closes one is bound to open and I am trying to see the positive light through all this darkness. Many of you have no idea what issue I am referring to, but these words can be applied to any part of our life that may be tough. I am nervous about this weeks weigh-in. I have not been watching what I have been eating this past week. I am just thankful I can eat again. I literally didn't eat for several days and at one point my weight was down to 272 lbs. I very unhealthy 272! I was weak and very fatigue from not eating. So, I am not going to beat myself up over my weigh in this week, but instead just see where I stand and move on. I've missed blogging the past two weeks. I hope to never leave you again! :)

Weigh-In # 3

Ok, so my weigh in was amazing this week, but I'm not sure I won't gain any of this back. I experienced a tragedy this week and for the past two days I have not really been able to eat. So, I will not be suprised if some of this comes back once I start feeling better. But for now it's a great loss!

Food Diary from Saturday

Hello! I have been missing from my blog this week and it makes me sad. I've just been super busy with work! Yesterday I stuck to my eating plan really well. My days food is as follows:

Breakfast:
Light Whole Wheat English Muffin
1 egg
1 slice of cheese
1 clementine

Snack:
Apples with low fat caramel dip

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine Pizza
Small Salad
1/2 fat ranch dressing
2 slices of a Chocolate Orange

Snack:
slice of cheddar cheese
1 wheat cracker

Dinner:
Parmesan Encrusted Tilapia
1/2 weight watchers mac & cheese
1/2 low fat creamed spinach
1 hard boiled egg
2 slices of Chocolate Orange

Snack:
1 cup of popcorn

I have NEVER eaten tilapia before last night and I LOVED it! I know it is not the healthiest kind that I ate, but if you knew me you would know I typically hate seafood. Literally, the only kind of seafood that I normally eat is canned tuna. I don't really care for shrimp although I am trying to change that and I don't like any other fish just yet. I baked the tilapia instead of frying it like the package mentioned. I will be having it for dinner tonight as well. I am hoping to slowly move up to buying tilapia that has no seasoning on it so that I can season it myself and make it very flavorful and healthy.

Thanksgiving is Right Around the Corner

Thanksgiving... time with family to share what we are thankful for and a time to over indulge for most of us...  Last week I lost 8.4 lbs, and I think that is wonderful. This week, I am worried I will gain it all back and then some. I am going to do my best not to overindulge. Tomorrow night I will be driving 3 hours to my parents house so my mom and I can do our annual black Friday shopping event. I get off work at 11:00pm which will put me at my parents house at around 2:30am, just in time for shopping. Sleep you say... who needs sleep. So Thanksgiving day is my first worry about food because when I am really tired in order to keep my self awake, I snack... excessively. Then is Friday, mom and I will be out and about getting our shop on and we will most likely eat out somewhere and Friday for dinner leftover turkey dinner. I am leaving to return home to my husband on Saturday afternoon after I get my hair done at 2:30pm which will put me back in town around 8:00pm. You might say well that's not too bad, one day of overindulging. But wait, there is more. Saturday evening when I arrive back home, my in-laws will be here and they've decided to bring Thanksgiving to us! We will have a Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday night and then they will be staying in town visiting until Monday which means more eating out while we show them the town. This weekend could simply be a recipe for disaster for me! I guess we will have to wait and see.

Testing My Willpower

As I sit here blogging I like to have noise on in the background... tonight I have chosen a movie. One of my all time favorite movies, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. After I started watching the intro I thought about how much of a test this is for my willpower to stay away from sweets. Sweets, the downfall of my healthy eating; my bestfriend and my worst enemy. I am proud to say since I have started this new journey I have eaten only 3 snack size pieces of candy! ONLY 3! If you knew me, I'm not sure you would believe I could survive without sweets especially chocolate. ;) I'm doing well with it though. I feel better since I am not so bogged down with sugar. It's nice to have a clear almost sugar free mind. We will see how watching Willy Wonka is for me tonight. I will have to let you know if I give into temptation tomorrow.