Meatless monday

I looove meat but sometimes a girl just wants beans'n'rice


Ingredient lineup



Turned out absolutely delicious! Very filling.

My what lovely coconuts you have

Guess I forgot to write something here, bit absent minded! I have just been obsessing about my coconut oil all day. Mmmmmm coconut oil.

That and the fact that my nut supply is running dangerously low! Hopefully they get here soon so I can restock my jars.

Time to whip the winter duvet off the bed! Hurray summer is here! It's 20 right now and is supposed to be just as beautiful all week, niiiice!

The trees are blooming, the sun is shining, the birds are signing and I'm just so happy that I will probably shit daisies.

3 positives since abandoning the dieting mentality:

1. I feel happier
2. I feel healthier
3. I can eat whatever I want and am always the perfect weight

3 negatives since abandoning the dieting mentality:

uuuhhhh....

OH! I have nothing to obsess about!


Wait, yes I do.
1. The state of my summer wardrobe is absolutely appalling and I have NO MONEY to fix the issue!
2. The nerd is being pulled in a million different directions in terms of what he wants work wise and it's totally stressing him out therefor totally stressing me out
3. I'm not entirely sure I want to live in Americanaland

Ohhhh I get it! The negative to abandoning the dieting mentality is that my mind is free to obsess about stuff that ACTUALLY MATTERS!

I get it :D

Now, where the hell is my coconut oil?

***update***

Ask and ye shall receive! It just arrived laaaaa blessed be the coconut ooooil

To wait!

Mary you are right, limbo is not a nice place to be, especially with life altering decisions. I'm not so much in a dieting mindset anymore and my beliefs have changed radically, I will always be the same person despite the number so I'm so over the obsession and getting on with living life while this is actual truly life changing stuff. International immigration type stuff, huge really. We talked and came to a mutual decision

We shall WAIT because everything is largely based on how certain interviews pan out and since we won't know anything absolute for up to 8 months , we have decided to wait and be patient because it's something huge and worth waiting for. At least I think it's worth waiting for! I will be able to reveal more as time goes on but it's all good stuff.

Has anyone ever been scoooobadivin'? Should a gal be quite fit to do so? I'm not sure how strenuous it is but if there are some guidelines like being able to run 20 mins without dying, I'd better get a move on because we've been invited and hell yes it would be FUN. Sometime in august there will be much underwater searching. I wonder how much one of those cameras cost, I shall need proof of my mermaid finds after all.

How to be sprouty

I can tell you through experience how NOT to be sprouty!


Observe:





I have grown up with a mother who sprouted and I absolutely love sprouts so when I set out to sprout my first mung beans (for my stir fries) I thought it would be eeaaaasy.

The majority of the process IS easy, if you know what you're doing.

See I thought hey, a portion of beans is this much of a cup so that will produce (in theory) so many beansprouts.

Ohhhhh how wrong was I?!

I put a seemingly piddly 0.5c of mung beans in and 4 days later I have something not even half way finished growing and already threatening to burst out of the mason jar.

You see for the amount of bean sprouts I wanted, I actually only should have done a couple tablespoons. The amount seen here will grow to uncontrollable proportions! I shall have to divide amongst 3 more jars.

hooo boy. Just goes to show, research is sometimes a necessary evil as all sprouts are not created equal. Mung beans and alfalfa are nothing alike my friends, nothing.

you and all your silly English kaniggets

The problem with learning a language out of a book and on cd is that it takes a while to have the ability to translate really useful phrases out of Monty Python movies or foulness in general.

Learning Italian while living in Italy took a couple years, there is something about that language which so resembles French that makes me completely resistant to it.

Dutch however, was a breeze and it has a good mouth/throat feel, a language you can really sink your teeth in to. Living here made it that much easier.

Then again I'm quite partial to the Nordic languages so thought HEY! Russian, cool, I've been obsessed with Russia since I could form an opinion without drugs -- don't be fooled, it wasn't that long ago.

I started Russian lessons sometime last year? Since butting heads with the tutor, I stubbornly exclaimed I am very capable of learning this language on my own. Of course that is just nuts.

See Russian is nothing like any language I've ever experienced and in fact, I think Russian, suomi and Japanese are a few of the languages existing today which are in a category of their own. It doesn't matter how many languages you have under your belt, Russian is a damned challenge!

Crazy happy fun

Life is nuts at the moment but it's so fun who can complain?! I'm just loving the unpredictability and making plans that can change on a moments notice depending on the outcome of a decision or two. Exciting!
My weight session was so intense last night it's a struggle to life my coffee between typing words.

It's a damned good pain. Have I lost weight since getting back into the program? Not really but my shape is slowly getting back "to normal" which is the most amazing part of the regular workouts.

Well, that and the constant positive mood! I haven't been this happy since December 23rd and must admit it's nice to feel this way after 3 months of misery, it is like the heavy suffocating blanket has lifted. Or at least has changed to a nice light sheet. Maybe it's not completely gone yet but these things take time. Especially without medication!

I've also realised that wanting to be healthy and happy despite the number is ok, I can still be healthy at whatever size and STILL want to lose weight.

It's an ongoing journey and full of interesting surprises!


Lixue wonders what all the fuss was in the first place

sugarbeast

It's 00:40 and the cravingbeast is keeping me awake. Headaches, cravings, general madness! What's not to love about a detox process ;)

As the badness exits the system it rears up in rebellion making me want everything which made me ill in the first place. Uuuurrggg first day is always the worst! All i know is that it's worth it in the end, just the first few days are a bit tough.

Come on body, you've done it before you can do it again. On the road to wellness and happiness. Step by step!

Tomorrow, an extra litre of water and a good sweat session to help the process along. I've also decided to break my remaining weight loss into 5kg chunks instead of looking at it as a whole which has been a real damper on my motivation to even start. Breaking it into chunks makes it seem easy somehow, that I only have to focus on little bits. Now instead of dreading the entire process I'm starting to look forward to it! First though, to get through this detox and wash the chemicals out! Get back to my "nature makes everything i need" mindset.

Except chocolate of course, nature doesn't make chocolate and I still need that ;)