Slow and steady

It’s been hot here.  That humid, please let it rain so I can feel like I’m cooling off, kind of hot.  It’s made work tough.  It’s hard to keep lifting and hauling and doing what we do in a warehouse when the heat is sucking all of your energy.  Oddly, I’m sure it’s much hotter and more humid back east, but since I haven’t really experienced summer in upstate NY in a long time, I’m not used to it.

On the plus side, I have lost a total of 7.4 pounds!  I started at a whopping 150 lbs.  I was, um… plump.  Now I’m down to 142.5!  And I’m doing my best to make good food choices.  Every morning I have a bowl of mini frosted shredded wheat (which has been a life saver.  I also have it for a snack without milk.) and a cup of coffee.  After that I try to bring my lunch.  If I can’t then I’ll go to Subway and get a 6 inch turkey breast sub with all the veggies, and a little bit of oil and vinegar – No mayo and no mustard.  And honestly I don’t really miss it.  Then when I come home it’s something real simple.

Today after our weight watchers meeting, where they were talking about making kale chips (yeah I know it sounds gross, but they are darn tasty), I headed immediately over to the farmers market and got a couple of bundles of kale, paneer cheese, and some zucchini.  All for $10.  After that I came up with an idea.  Every week, I’ll hit the U-district Farmers Market every other week, with $40.  $20 to spend on veggies, $20 to spend on cheese, bread and/or meat – if it’s needed or looks good. Then if I need veggies, during the week, I can go to the other farmers markets during the week and spend no more than $10.

When I got home, I made 2 small bags of kale chips – one seasoned with sea salt, the other with, what else, bacon salt.  Very very tasty.  I also made a quick veggie dinner – italian style stewed tomatoes, paneer cheese, zucchini, and kale.  And then while the was on the stove, I did a dry rub of garam masala, curry powder and a little chili powder on some chicken breasts so that I can have them for lunch and possibly dinner tomorrow night.   And because there was so much left of the veggie dinner, I’ll have another meal of that this week.

And I have to admit that I am in love with Zrock.  This show kills me.  The drummer even mention a maloik!  This show is the reason you should have cable and the IFC channel.  That and the IT Crowd.

Check out this video of one my favorite IT Crowd moments.

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