Pizza Fest

It has been a pretty good weekend! Yesterday, I got a lot crossed off of my "to do" list, went to a (silly) movie and exercised. I think it was about 6 pm when Prashant and I finally got ready to get our hearts pumping with a little bit of cardio. We started out with climbing/sprinting the stairs up from the beach to the surface street 10 x's. Then we came back in and exercised for about another 45 minutes or so. I don't know why, but I have always preferred to exercise in the early evening over the morning. I definitely have more energy in the morning, which makes exercise easier, but for some reason, I just can't bring myself to do it then. Plus, I don't think I want to wake up any earlier than I already do... this girl needs her beauty sleep! :)

Today, Prashant and I are going over to his parent's house. My sister-in-law will be there, too. She just got back from Japan! I can't wait to hear all about it-- she was there for 2 weeks with my brother-in-law. Have any of you ever visited Japan? It looks like a wonderful place to visit.

Alrighty then... on to food!

Friday morning I woke up craving an egg sandwich. Who am I lately? Eggs usually creep me out. I'll use them in baking, but very rarely will I eat an egg just by itself. And if I think about the egg while eating it, I won't be able to finish it. I definitely had eaters remorse after this sandwich... I enjoyed the taste, but now I feel kind of sad about it.

I made my sandwich by toasting a large slice of sourdough bread, spread a little Smart Balance on one side, added 2 slices of fakin' bacon and an egg. The 2 black vitamins are vegetarian sources of Omegas (flax, sunflower and sesame seed oil).

For lunch I brought leftover beans and rice to work with me. I forgot to take a picture of my lunch so I'm using the photo that I took of dinner the night before. I also brought a piece of kiwi fruit for dessert, but I was too full after the beans and rice to eat it.

I was tired Friday and did not feel like cooking dinner (or the clean-up afterwards), so I took Prashant out for dinner. He suggested pizza and I said yes without hesitation. Buono's has pretty good food and they also give out complimentary bruschetta to each table! I ate 2 pieces...

I ordered a side salad with romain, garbanzo beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, a few croutons and Italian dressing.

Cheese pizza with onions and bell pepper. It's kind of hard to see the onions and bell peppers under the sea of cheese. I had 2 slices of ooey gooey heaven!

Dinner was so good! Not one moment of guilt or eater's remorse after the pizza. Besides chocolate, pizza is my biggest food love. Speaking of chocolate, for the month of November I've given up all candy. This means that you won't be seeing any chocolate, gummy bears or other kind of candy on my blog the entire month. I haven't given up all sugar-- only the candy form of sugar for this month. And I'm not giving up candy or chocolate forever-- I'm just trying to do reduce my cravings for them little by little. I don't have a hard time controlling the amount of sweetened drinks I consume, it's the other stuff that I have a problem with. So far, so good this week. I've been clean and sober from chocolate for 6 days now! I've promised myself a facial if I can make it through the entire month. Woohoo, facial here I come!!

Breakfast yesterday was a whole wheat English muffin with peanut butter and strawberry jam. The strawberry jam was delicious.

And of course, I had to have a slice of leftover pizza for lunch with a small bowl of salad. I've found that the best way to reheat pizza is to warm it up in a skillet on top of the stove. I try not to microwave pizza (or any type of food for that matter) because it makes the crust soggy and gross. In case you're wondering why I try not to use the microwave, a doctor (at a health seminar I went to at the Todd Cancer Institute) once told me that cooking your food in the microwave will cause cancer. I don't know if what he said is true or not, but it scared me enough to make me think twice before ever using the microwave for my food again. Lately, our microwave gets used to warm up hot packs and that's about it.

I tried to keep things light for dinner, especially after eating pizza 2 days in a row.

In the bowl: 1/2 C yogurt, blue berries, strawberries, ground flax seed, Kashi Go Lean cereal, and kiwi.

A Chinese coleslaw salad with tofu and veggies. My husband made a huge bowl of this stuff. I'm glad it's so good because I have a feeling we'll be eating it for days!

I probably won't have a chance to post again until Tuesday evening... tomorrow is going to be busy, busy! I hope you all had a great weekend. See you on Tuesday!