New shoes... new shoes...

I've been holding off on a blog post because I had hoped that I'd be able to proclaim a weight loss of some sort soon.  Unfortunately, I got nothing.  Still the same.  I have plenty to talk about though because I've come up with some delicious food recently and I've really gotten into my UP24 and how it motivates me.  We'll start with movement.  I haven't posted for a couple weeks, so here's what I've been doing movement-wise:

Week of December 30th: (Percentages are my "steps" on my jawbone out of 10,000 steps)
Monday- (62%) Walk and Chalean Extreme
Tuesday (NYE)- (99%) Spent the evening dancing the night away with my handsome gentleman!
Wednesday- (29%) Slept off NYE?  I think so...
Thursday- (91%) Chalean Extreme
Friday- (95%) Walk
Saturday- (71%) Chalean Extreme
Sunday- (91%) First run of the new year!  2.03 mile run and 1.03 mile walk

Week of January 6th:
Monday- (86%) Run at lunch (raining, I got soaked), Chalean Extreme, and my new Hip Hop dance class.
Tuesday- (61%) Walk
Wednesday- (44%) Chalean Extreme
Thursday- (35%)
Friday- (77%) Walk
Saturday- (26%) Chalean Extreme
Sunday (Today)- (103%) 3.5 mile walk and Chalean Extreme

I've been DOING stuff.  It goes from freaking cold to raining here.  Yesterday it was 55 degrees and so foggy because the foot of snow on the ground was evaporating.  That's one reason I went for a walk today over a run because I had to wear waterproof boots.  The puddles would have eaten me.

So I haven't lost any weight... but I did squeeze into my size 4 pants last week.  And while snuggling on the couch Friday night, my handsome gentleman said, "You feel smaller..."  Who could ask for more than that?

Today was a strange day because I don't remember too many moments of actual hunger.  But lately, I have been overeating.  I've been too full too often.  That's probably why I haven't lost any weight, but all the activity is keeping me from gaining.  I use the excuse that my birthday is Wednesday...  I've had a couple instances of eating out to celebrate already and I've got some more coming up.

FOOD!  I've had a lot of that recently and I've really been motivated to make things at home.  I've done a few things with spaghetti squash and I made a delicious dinner for HG and me on Friday night.

Spaghetti Squash and pesto is one of my favorites.  Below is one I threw together last week with just some tomato and spinach.  With the roll it was only 300-some-odd calories.

I also had some spaghetti squash tonight... with pesto, sauteed onion, and scallops.  This contained 100g of spaghetti squash, 1 Tbsp of Classico pesto, 2 oz sauteed bay scallops, and some red onion.  This is about 160 calories.  I left out the cheese as I had plenty of cheese today.

I made a meal today to put in the fridge for lunches (or a quick dinner on nights I won't be celebrating the b-day).  I got the idea from my new Runner's World cookbook from a recipe they called "More Vegetables than Egg Fritatta."

The awesome thing about this recipe is that it has two servings.  And it's only about 175 calories.  I used orange cauliflower for this one...

I used about 100g of each of the following vegetables:

Cauliflower
Broccoli
Zucchini
Spinach

This recipe also calls for 3 eggs and about 2/3 cup of shredded Parmesan cheese.  Cook all vegetables then add to a casserole dish.  Beat the three eggs and cheese together, pouring over the vegetables.  I baked it on 400 degrees for almost 30 minutes.  You can always add more eggs to make it more servings, but your cooking time will increase to set your eggs properly.

Friday night I made Pork Tenderloin, Broccoli, and Shrimp-Stuff Mushroom Caps.  The pork I did very simply with just some cajun seasoning and soy sauce.  Broccoli was steamed.  The mushrooms were so good... 

I used:

1 package of six baby portobella mushrooms
10 sauteed shrimp
1/4 cup mozarella cheese
1/4-1/2 cup bread crumbs (depends really on your mushrooms)

Cut the stems out and hollow out the mushrooms.  Cut up the mushroom innards with your shrimp, mix together with 1/2 of your cheese and the bread crumbs.  Use your hands to overstuff the mushrooms and place them in a casserole.

I cooked these at the end of the pork's stay in the oven.  It was set at 375 and they were in there for about 10 minutes before I put them under the broiler for a couple minutes (the broiler always scares me...)

Here's what everything looked like after it was done.  So good.  I've gotten some big mushroom caps for this week and I hope to make myself a stuffed mushroom with the leftover scallops from tonight.

I guess this will update me for now.  I did do something exciting and got my new running shoes for the year. 

I always end up with purple shoes... never fails.





Oh.  I also signed up for another Half Marathon.  That happens May 4th.  I start my training mid-February.  But we'll talk about that later.