Spectacular Broccoli and Shrimp

I wasn't feeling like eating anything heavy last night. So I pulled out my trusted non-stick skillet and went to work.

The first thing you do is set the skillet on, add a little extra virgin olive oil. Then when that's hot, add pieces of ginger (cut REALLY thinly and small), garlic, onions and tomato.  You want this not to be completely cooked out but soft enough so the flavours are in the oil

Then you're going to cut up your broccoli, green peppers, red peppers, wash them and dump them in. Do not add any water or anything like that. Simply cover the pot and let it steam. The broccoli won't take very long to steam if you cover the pot. 

The video below will tell you what to do but next you need some cooked, frozen shrimps. Those you're going to wash under hot water in a strainer. 

This is a glass of orange juice.  Why is it in a wine glass? Because we have to make weight loss fun! Just because we're eating healthy, it doesn't mean it has to be boring! Make it fun--put your juice in a wine glass! Why not?

To finish up your meal, you add a sprinkling of ground pepper for taste since, again, we're not using salt at all. And this is the final product. 

Wanton Soup

The day after my weigh in, I stopped at the bank and went into the grocery store for milk--that's all I went in for. But wandering around the grocery store I walked up to the freezer where they keep the Weight Wacthers meals and saw they were on sale!! Normally, they are $3.79 plus tax. Today, they were $1.99 plus tax. I picked up six. No, I didn't have any for dinner I simply tossed them into the freezer because there will be a time when I come home and just dont feel like cooking or come home a little later than I expected that kind of thing and insted of going to unhealthy stuff, I'll just pop one into the microwave. 

Also, I bought some shrimp wantons from Authentic Asia: Charoen Pokphand. I wasn't sure how they would taste or how filling they would be but 120 calories--can't lose right? Anyways so I came home, rocked out to some Zumba Exhilerate and then took out my Wanton with shrimps. Now it didn't say I should add anything but to be fancy and a little colourful, I added some frozen vegetables. This one is easy to make and it takes about two and a half minutes to four minutes to be ready. So you open the container *its microwaveable*

Add water, lightly cover it, not fully, just perhaps half of the container covered and stick it in the microwave. I had to put mine in for five minutes because I wasn't sure if it was done the first time. I poked the wantons with a fork but they were stil a little hard so five minutes it was. Though the pack says to put it in for two and a half to three minutes. That makes no sense especially if it was in the freezer for a while, right?



A Shrimp stuffed wanton!



And Tadaa!! Dinner. I drank some water because I didn't have enough all day. This bottle made up my last three cups for the day. The soup and I had it with toast. I didn't put anything on it but it was whole wheat toaste. And dinner is served.

Hugs,
Kay

January 16th - Weigh In Day

Update! On January 16th I had my weigh in., Every month on the 16th is my weigh in date. I lost four pounds since December 16th until now. I'm so glad I lost at least a few pounds because December . So now I'm down eight pounds! SCORE!

A little Encouragement

Somtimes, it is easy to fall off the wagon. So from time to time I'm going to post little things for encouragement! Today, it's a music video!

When I bought the Zumba disks, it came with a program guide. I quickly lost the guide and created my own schedule. So for the past four weeks I was alternating between Zumba Activate and Zumba Ripped--Activate gives cardio and Ripped gives toning. I haven't done the Zumba Sentao yet because quite frankly I don't have the space in my living room for that. So, I thought it was time to start revving it up right--so I started alternating between Ripped and Exhilerate. Then one day I missed Exhilerate because school and snow day and irritation and all that stuff so I decided the day after to do Ripped and then for the next two days I'd do Exhilerate. 

Now, Exhilerate is hard--that's why it's the third disk in. It's also quite long. It has salsa, reggaeton, calypson, belly-dancing, cumbia, merenge, hip-hop, swing, flamenco, there's a little bit of bollywood thrown in there (you don't really notice unless you know bollywood steps) and I think I'm missing a few. Once you've done it a few times you will love it but dang it goes fast. The best part of Exhilerate is that it has a cool down period at the end where it forces you to stretch your muscles...DO NOT SKIP THIS PART. This is where your muscle gets a chance to slowly slow down because after doing all the dance types above, you need that cool down period.

So for the last three days I've been doing Exhilerate because tomorrow is weight in day. But I have been enjoying doing Exhilerate because I get to shake what ma momma gave me lol. But starting tomorrow its going back to alternating between ripped and Exhilerate.

Try not to miss days. Because when you missed days you can't just pick up where you missed because if you're like me it throws off the whole thing. So now I'm caught up...well I over did the exhilerate but who cares! It was fun!

For breakfast this morning, I had one of those Silhoutte yogurts (blueberry) along with a half of orange, a cup of water and a handful of grapes.  Why such a small breakfast? Well the night before I had dinner late--not because I wanted to but because I was working and didn't really plan like i should have.  But I had a small dinner, and then because I was eating soon after breakfast, I didn't want to bog my system down with a whole bunch of carbs to go sit in the office. So the small breakfast was my way of doing my part to help me stay awake.

Anyways, I have to go get some writing done and find a way to remain sane until work is over.

hugs,
Kay

Impromptu Dinner

Coming home from a long, boring, irritating day of work there was nothing at home to eat. I hadn't really had time to really go grocery shopping. A few days before, my friend and I stopped at a store to grab some stuff.  I got some whole wheat tortillas (the small ones), some pasta stuff and a few other stuff that I needed like shampoo and conditioner. I came home, stood in front of the fridge for like five minutes staring in before I thought "et Voila!"

In your non-stick skillet, add a little olive oil, abou one table spoon or two.  Then when its nice and hot, throw in your broccili, onions, tomatoe and let those cook for a bit. Then you can add pieces of ham.

Then you need to get about an egg and crack it into a bowl. Add some milk. Not a whole lot.  Then sprinkle some ground pepper in it. Beat the ingredients together witha fork.

Add the beaten eggs with your broccoli, tomato, onions and ham. This is in essence scrambled eggs with a little something extra. Let it sit on the fire for a bit and set before turning it or mixing it all in.

On a DRY plate, lay out a small tortilla. My diet book says I'm supposed to eat two of these but who can eat two of these? Anyways if you're doing more workout than I am then you might want to eat two of them because you just burn the calories anyways but if you're just doing zumba and the stairs then just wat one.  Add a little ranch dressing (you can also use guacamole).

Then, added the scrambled eggs mixture.

Roll the tortilla, and put the rest on the side of the plate. And see? Done and dinner in about twenty minutes.  And there, dinner is served. You can have this with a little juice.