Yesterday, I want to my local German Deli and brought home some yummy goodness. When ever I go I pick up a few packages of Weisswurst, which is a German sausage made out of veal and parsley. They are surprisingly healthy for a sausage since they are made from veal, they fill you up, and are really delicious. I would highly recommend trying them, and the place that I would recomment getting them from is Binkerts.com
Binkerts is the German deli that I have been going to forever, and they make everything taste almost exactly like it does in Germany.
Life has been hectic to say the least, but its been a good hectic. According to my scale, I am now 245.00, and I am thrilled about it. I'm really really looking forward to going to the beach this year, and looking at least somewhat normal. By the time we go I should be even below 200lbs, and ecstatic!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Recipes Anyone?
The weather was absolutely miserable here today. Rainy with thunderstorms for most of it, and overcast and just plain gloomy the rest of the time. Yet again I was stumped on what to make for dinner, and so I decided to go with something easy, warm, yummy, and yes, even low calorie. I chose to make potsticker soup. I have no clue why, but this weather always puts me in the mood for soup, and potsticker soup happens to be one of my favorites.
I choose to use the Ling Ling brand potstickers that I get from Costco, and some home made broth that I usually make in big batches and freeze in Ziploc bags to simplify things a little bit.
Potsticker soup is great because you can add pretty much anything to it that you'd like. If you ever try it, experiment with different veggies, you really cant go wrong here, because its all about personal taste. A lot of people really enjoy putting shredded bok choy in it, but its not something I care for all that much.
Harley is doing amazing, and is really picking up quickly on this whole leash thing. Both dogs are getting along perfectly, and I really couldn't be happier about that. Tomorrow I want to try taking them to a very small local beach for a nice walk and some play time. I can tell though, that one of these days Harley is going to make an excellent walking partner.
Anyways, I really wanted to ask you guys for a favor, nothing elaborate or huge, but a favor nonetheless. I am currently working on making my own little personal collection of healthy recipes. I was wondering if some of you all would be willing to send me in a recipe for a dish that you enjoy that is healthy (either low cal, low carb, low sugar, sugar free, etc). I will personally try each and every one of them, and am even willing to post the best recipe here on my blog if you'd like! Feel free to email them to me at Gastricbypassblogger081@gmail.com
Thank you!!
I choose to use the Ling Ling brand potstickers that I get from Costco, and some home made broth that I usually make in big batches and freeze in Ziploc bags to simplify things a little bit.
Potsticker soup is great because you can add pretty much anything to it that you'd like. If you ever try it, experiment with different veggies, you really cant go wrong here, because its all about personal taste. A lot of people really enjoy putting shredded bok choy in it, but its not something I care for all that much.
Harley is doing amazing, and is really picking up quickly on this whole leash thing. Both dogs are getting along perfectly, and I really couldn't be happier about that. Tomorrow I want to try taking them to a very small local beach for a nice walk and some play time. I can tell though, that one of these days Harley is going to make an excellent walking partner.
Anyways, I really wanted to ask you guys for a favor, nothing elaborate or huge, but a favor nonetheless. I am currently working on making my own little personal collection of healthy recipes. I was wondering if some of you all would be willing to send me in a recipe for a dish that you enjoy that is healthy (either low cal, low carb, low sugar, sugar free, etc). I will personally try each and every one of them, and am even willing to post the best recipe here on my blog if you'd like! Feel free to email them to me at Gastricbypassblogger081@gmail.com
Thank you!!
Friday, April 15, 2011
Harley's Healthy!
We took Harley (our new puppy dog) to the vet yesterday morning, and I am happy to announce that she is HEALTHY! She's currently being de-wormed, but other than that she is in great shape.
In hopes of trying to teach her to walk on her leash, I decided to take her on a walk with our Beagle last night. I thought it might help her to learn by example, and it actually did! We didnt go very far, because I didnt want to push my luck, but she did follow Dodgers example on the leash. I tried to walk her again without him, but she went right back to her old ways and refused to walk on the leash. Looks like I'm going to have to walk the two of them together from now on.
In hopes of trying to teach her to walk on her leash, I decided to take her on a walk with our Beagle last night. I thought it might help her to learn by example, and it actually did! We didnt go very far, because I didnt want to push my luck, but she did follow Dodgers example on the leash. I tried to walk her again without him, but she went right back to her old ways and refused to walk on the leash. Looks like I'm going to have to walk the two of them together from now on.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Walking Partner
When it comes to exercising, I've noticed that my motivation is sooo much higher when I have someone to do it with. Working out with someone is always better than working out alone.
This morning, my husband and I went to our local animal shelter and adopted a 4 month old black lab mix. We already have a 2 year old Beagle, but we made the decision to add a larger dog to our family as well for a few reasons, one of them being that we wanted a larger dog, and another reason being that I wanted a walking partner. Now, before you all start wondering why I couldn't just walk with the Beagle, let me answer that for you.... Our Beagle is not an average sized Beagle, he's pretty small in fact. He was born the runt of his litter, and had a ton of health problems. We spent almost the whole entire first year of his life getting him healthy. I guess its because he's small but he just doesn't have the energy to walk the long distances that I would like to walk. We've also had a recent increase in muggings in the area, and my tiny little Beagle isn't exactly a deterrent, he doesn't quite strike fear into the heart of anyone, but if I was a mugger I would think twice about approaching someone with a strange, large black dog.
We named her Harley, and she is absolutlely adorable. She does come with a set of challanges though, she needs all of her vaccinations, she needs to be spayed, and she has what I suspect is a massive worm problem. We have a vet appointment set up for her for first thing tomorrow morning, so we can get her the help she needs. Her physical problems can be taken care of, and she will be just fine. She does have other issues though, that we need to work on... she doesnt know how to walk on a leash... I mean it literally. If you put a leash on her and try to walk her she just lays down and wont budge. She is incredibly shy (and yes, I do mean shy, not skiddish), so it takes her a few minutes to warm up to you (she has gotten a lot better with me since I have been home with her today, but we'll see if she warms up to my husband when he gets home form work tonight.) She is also not potty trained, and since she never had a name before, she doesnt respond to that either.
Yes, she does have her issues, but she will be soooo worth it in the end. We all fell in love with her the moment that we saw her, and I will have to snap a picture of her so you all can see our new addition.
I'm so excited about getting Harley rehabed and going on those nice long walks with her. I really do think she will make an excellent walking partner.
This morning, my husband and I went to our local animal shelter and adopted a 4 month old black lab mix. We already have a 2 year old Beagle, but we made the decision to add a larger dog to our family as well for a few reasons, one of them being that we wanted a larger dog, and another reason being that I wanted a walking partner. Now, before you all start wondering why I couldn't just walk with the Beagle, let me answer that for you.... Our Beagle is not an average sized Beagle, he's pretty small in fact. He was born the runt of his litter, and had a ton of health problems. We spent almost the whole entire first year of his life getting him healthy. I guess its because he's small but he just doesn't have the energy to walk the long distances that I would like to walk. We've also had a recent increase in muggings in the area, and my tiny little Beagle isn't exactly a deterrent, he doesn't quite strike fear into the heart of anyone, but if I was a mugger I would think twice about approaching someone with a strange, large black dog.
We named her Harley, and she is absolutlely adorable. She does come with a set of challanges though, she needs all of her vaccinations, she needs to be spayed, and she has what I suspect is a massive worm problem. We have a vet appointment set up for her for first thing tomorrow morning, so we can get her the help she needs. Her physical problems can be taken care of, and she will be just fine. She does have other issues though, that we need to work on... she doesnt know how to walk on a leash... I mean it literally. If you put a leash on her and try to walk her she just lays down and wont budge. She is incredibly shy (and yes, I do mean shy, not skiddish), so it takes her a few minutes to warm up to you (she has gotten a lot better with me since I have been home with her today, but we'll see if she warms up to my husband when he gets home form work tonight.) She is also not potty trained, and since she never had a name before, she doesnt respond to that either.
Yes, she does have her issues, but she will be soooo worth it in the end. We all fell in love with her the moment that we saw her, and I will have to snap a picture of her so you all can see our new addition.
I'm so excited about getting Harley rehabed and going on those nice long walks with her. I really do think she will make an excellent walking partner.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Mmmm Healthy Lasagna
Sorry I havent posted in what seems like forever, but google has been giving me a hard time. I purchased my own domain name to host my blog through google, and its not letting me transfer everything over like it originally told me I could. I didnt disappear, or give up on the blog, I'm still here, I promise. I have just been trying to find a way to make it work with the domain name that I purchased so my money wouldnt have ended up essentially flushed down the toilet. Well, as you can see, I couldnt make it work, and google wasnt being very helpful at all, so I finally decided to just throw in the towel and give it up.
I stepped on the scale this morning, and am excited to say that I am now 253.0, which is a huuuuge deal to me, because this is something that I havent weighed since before my 3 year old was born. I can see in the mirror that I am getting more of a shape to my body, rather than just being a shapeless blob of fluff. I can actually fit well into a size xl pants and a size large for tops now. I'm very very excited about that.
Two days ago, I found a FANTASTIC farmers market with TONS of fresh produce (at a very reasonable price too may I add), so I stocked up. I found a fantastic recipe online for Lasagna using zucchini instead of pasta. I will admit that at first my husband and I were pretty skeptical, and didn't have very high hopes for how this would taste, but it turned out amazingly well! It tastes even better the next day. The only problem that we encountered was that it would turn out a little watery because of all of the water that the zucchini would lose in the cooking process. Not sure what I'm going to do to fix that yet, but I'm currently brainstorming ideas. I will absolutely post the recipe (with a few little things changed here and there) once I figure out how to get rid of the watery-ness.
I stepped on the scale this morning, and am excited to say that I am now 253.0, which is a huuuuge deal to me, because this is something that I havent weighed since before my 3 year old was born. I can see in the mirror that I am getting more of a shape to my body, rather than just being a shapeless blob of fluff. I can actually fit well into a size xl pants and a size large for tops now. I'm very very excited about that.
Two days ago, I found a FANTASTIC farmers market with TONS of fresh produce (at a very reasonable price too may I add), so I stocked up. I found a fantastic recipe online for Lasagna using zucchini instead of pasta. I will admit that at first my husband and I were pretty skeptical, and didn't have very high hopes for how this would taste, but it turned out amazingly well! It tastes even better the next day. The only problem that we encountered was that it would turn out a little watery because of all of the water that the zucchini would lose in the cooking process. Not sure what I'm going to do to fix that yet, but I'm currently brainstorming ideas. I will absolutely post the recipe (with a few little things changed here and there) once I figure out how to get rid of the watery-ness.
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