Vegetarian Chilli

Vegetarian Chilli This recipe makes 10 serves at 119 calories per serve

Ingredients

 ½ tbs olive oil

1 x onion

2 x cloves of garlic

2 x chilli’s- I like the little red hot ones mwah haaa ha.... if you’re a sooky la la & don’t like too much spice you could always leave them out I guess, but that kinda defeats the purpose of having chilli if you ask me

1 x red capsicum

3 x tin tomatoes

2 x tins of red kidney beans

2 x packets of taco seasoning mix

2 tins of water

Method

Sauté the garlic, onion & chilli

Add the tin tomatoes & water & leave to simmer for 30-40 mins

Add the seasoning mix

Drain & rinse the kidney beans & add to the pan. Simmer for 10mins & it’s done!

Serve with rice & extra light sour cream, instead of meat in your taco or as a topping for your baked potato... yum!

Loving myself more & Tueday's Plan

Yesterday afternoon I had a bit of a food fail. I ate a vegemite sandwich & 3 chocolate chip cookies. Now it might not sound like much but it did push me over my calories for the day, including the extra ones I had managed to earn from my exercise yesterday. Instead of punishing myself for it & feeling guilty I decided to evaluate what went wrong with my food plan yesterday. I had quite a light lunch yesterday but didn’t get time to eat my apple at work. I left the office 15 minutes later than usual due to a last minute drama that popped up. By the time I got home I was ravenous. I made myself a sandwich thinking that would tide me over until dinner. I scoffed the sandwich down not even giving it a chance to touch the sides. I then proceeded to stand in the kitchen talking to Leigh while he prepared dinner & mindlessly nibbled on a cookie.... then another.... then another, before finally snapping out of it & coming to my senses. What I should have done is grabbed my apple on the way out of the office & happily munched away on it on my way home. IF and only if I was still hungry when I got home a vegemite sandwich would have still been with in my calories for the day. Instead of reaching for the cookies I should have grabbed my water bottle & nursed that while I chatted with Leigh.

Learning a lesson & moving on....

In the spirit of loving myself more I spent last night touching up my regrowth that I had let grow embarrassingly long, had a nice long hot shower & exfoliated myself head to toe then smothered myself in some yummy moisturiser. I went to bed last night blissed out & relaxed. This morning I woke up at 6.45am & realised that I had forgotten to set my alarm to wake me up early enough for my early morning run. Today I have decided to love myself enough to let it go, to not dwell on it & feel guilty. I have boxing training tonight which will more than make up for missing one early morning run session. I have my plan for today all ready to go & I KNOW today is going to be a good day!

Tuesday’s Plan

B- Baked beans on 1 slice of wholegrain toast (no butter) berry fairy tea

L- Pumpkin soup

D- Chicken stir fry with hokkien noodles

S- 10 x almonds, banana, apple, yoghurt, green tea

E- Boxercise with Darren Obah

Secrets of Skinny Chicks & Monday's Plan

I’m reading this great book at the moment called The Secret of Skinny Chicks. It has a lot of great pointers in there on diet & exercise as well as a lot of great tips on how to get skinny & stay there. I love that is written by a girl who has to work to stay slim, she is not naturally skinny.  One of the secrets is about loving yourself and getting rid of that doubtful, negative thought pattern & replacing it with a positive, loving thought pattern. So today I have decided to write down a few things that I love about myself.

1.       I love that I am friendly and outgoing

2.       I love that I have my health, both physical & mental and was able to get out of bed this morning to go for a run

3.       I love the tone in my arms after I exercise

4.       I love the way I feel after I have had a great food choice day, both mentally & physically

I am really working on myself at the moment to try & become a much more positive, happy & accepting person. It is so easy to get bought into negative situations & conversations & I am choosing to be aware of it & act on it.

Monday’s Plan- 1268 Calories

B- Special K with low fat milk & peaches

L- Vegetarian Chilli with 1 tbs of extra light sour cream

D- Chicken breast schnitzel with 3 tbs of gravy, steamed veggies, 1 small baked potato with 1 tbs of extra light sour cream

S- 10x almonds, 1 x banana, 1 x apple, green tea, yoghurt

E- 30min run/walk

I want it.

GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

So it seems that maybe I wasn’t quite over that horrible bug that invaded my body. After another couple of days rest I am feeling a million times better than I was. For the most part I managed to stick to my calories.... until last night that was. I was weak from the illness, Leigh didn’t want to cook & mentioned demanded KFC. Now for the record I actually loathe KFC. Seriously... it kinda makes me wanna puke but I was so weak from illness that I relented & allowed myself to be driven to the evil KFC shop. After KFC I felt like I needed dessert. I was craving chocolate ice cream. Now normally I am strictly a caramel girl. So that should give you an indication of just how sick I was. Sarah Lee FULL FAT chocolate ice cream I didn’t even have the brain capacity to go for a skinny cow! So after gorging myself on all of that high calorie food I of course felt no better. After my citrus zest bath & vicks rub I took myself off to bed again. Surprise surprise, I actually feel pretty good today. I think it is amazing considering that crap I chose to nourish my body with last night! Now because I am feeling so good today I have decided to give myself a full week of planning to make sure I stay on track & see some results next week. I will update my plan just as soon as I have finalised it. In other news I am never having another skim white chocolate mocha again. I have always tracked it & made sure it is within my calories but today I saw something so gross that I never want to drink one again. Leigh will occasionally pick me one up when he gets a coffee. Due to not having access to a proper coffee shop on my work days I like to store it in the fridge & then reheat it in the afternoon for my afternoon tea. I delicious little treat to get me through the afternoon. Well today I noticed that the sipper lid was split right at the point that you drink from. (I noticed this when my lovely grey scarf also got to sample my mocha.) So to prevent any more spillage I removed the sipper lid. To my horror there were little droplets of oil over the surface of my mocha. Obviously from the white chocolate which before I actually saw I thought tasted delicious. The whole mocha was tipped down the drain in disgust.  

Now that I have seen it I can never drink it again...  Back to green tea for me.

Tuesday's Plan

Please excuse my absence for the past few days I have been sick sick sick. Nothing serious just a cold, but enough to knock me off my feet for a few days. Yesterday afternoon I decided enough was enough & sent hubby out into the cold to get multi vitamins, vicks, tissues & juice for me to take my calcium ascorbic powder in. I also made a big pot of pumpkin soup & some garlic bread to warm up our insides. Ran a nice big hot bath with some delicious citrus bath bubbly from Fleurage. With vicks on the soles of my feet & chest I sent my self off to bed to try & sleep this bug out of me. I woke at 4am with a new lease on life. Full of energy & ready for a fresh day. I am still a little sick but I think I have past the worst of it already. So today's plan is full of beautiful nutritious home made food & gentle movement.

B- Scrambled Eggs
L- Pumpkin Soup
D- Homemade pasta with my special spicy vegetarian sauce
S- 5 almonds, apple, yoghurt
E- 30 min walk even though I really want to go boxing training. I hate missing it now that I am back into it.

Calories for today's meal plan = 862. I need to consume another 338 calories to make sure I eat enough for the day. I'll see how I am feeling later in the day & I might get a nice coffee to get my up to my minimum.

Friday's Plan

I hate going into Friday with out a solid plan for something exciting for dinner. I think it is a recipe for failure.... pardon the pun. So after checking in with my weight loss groups of facebook to try & get some inspiration off them I have decided to try something completly new that I have never tried to cook myself. I haven't worked out the exact calories for that meal yet so I have just gone off what I could find in my tracker. I will come up with a more acurate calorie figure when I upload the recipe.

Friday's Plan....
B- Oats with 1 whole pink lady apple, skim milk & a splash of maple syrup (DELICIOUS way to start the day!)
L- Pumpkin soup
D- San Choy Bau
S- 10 almonds, an apple, yoghurt
E- NONE- thats right none. I am having a day off.

Total calories for the day 1064.... need to consume at least another 140 calories to prevent my body from storing. Maybe some gelato with hubby for dessert.... Mmmmm I love gelato!