Eggplant Polenta Quiche

I'm starting Meatless Mondays in February. Breakfast - no problem. Lunch - soup/salad. Dinner - let's try this!
Eggplant Polenta Quiche

Body Frame

I'm usually moving around and doing stuff. Not often do I just sit and ponder. I should, probably, but when I have the time to sit I prefer reading. I love entering someone else's world. So, I was surprised to find myself out recently, totally sober, and just sitting. I enjoyed it, observing human interaction and expression.

At some point though, maybe I was getting tired, I saw in a moment people for their body frame. And really, how different they all looked. Every one is shaped differently, with different sizes and their body coverings fill their frame. That reminded me of why I wanted to lose weight. My mom used to say I was just big boned. I have always been strong which I like and flexible, which I love, but also big. So when I found out about the HCG diet I thought, "Let's see if I can get my body to match my frame." To really and truly see what I look like. So I did, I lost weight, and then some more and gosh, I weighed less than I thought I could.

So, I'm sitting on the couch observing these frame/body having people and wondering why if that is what I saw in myself before. A frame/body that didn't match? What was I so afraid of?

Now I sit, try to be calm, and think about it. What does my body give me? What do I need to give it? Because we are in a relationship together. A healthy one is my hope.

I've Been Looking Forward

to this all day: http://recipesharepdx.pbworks.com/Mushroom-and-Roasted-Tomato-Pesto-Pizza

Yummy Pesto Pizza!!

Eating

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

--Wendell Berry

Fruit Pizza

I've been busy at work creating my recipe wiki cause this blog is proving to be annoying for recipe sharing. I cannot paste text in - cannot paste links so if I make alterations then they won't be with the recipe. Anyway, until it is further along I'll just post the fruit pizza here. Cause I am really excited about it!

http://books.google.com/books?id=mtDolkK41joC&lpg=PA250&ots=y6T1_m8dU4&dq=weil%20optimum%20health%20fruit%20pizza&pg=PA250#v=onepage&q=&f=false

The crust is cooking now. I can't wait until bookclub to eat it!

Plural

of synopsis is synopses. I'm just saying. In case you need it. I've used it twice in the last twelve hours.

Week Four

It has been three weeks now. I am down 1 pound (ohhh, the excitement) and have followed three different modes of eating. The first, vegan, was the most extreme and a really good way to start. As the weeks progressed the food began to normalize and now I pretty much eat the way I have been eating since the diet, only better. I am eating the way I want to eat, really. I am eating good, healthy foods that I enjoy and prepare in healthy way. I am not drinking either which means I get to eat more and I don't have the sugar surges. I am not craving foods at night. My mood is fairly stable and fairly content. So what I'm getting at is that I don't think I'll follow another diet this week. I think I'll eat my whole (real) foods, some of them superfoods and some of them vegan. I think the last piece for me is to eat mindfully. To eat slowly. To enjoy the food I'm eating.