Hello! Busy couple of days - now I'm up late (argh, as usual) watching the snow come down and hoping like mad for a snow day tomorrow. I'm not a winter fan, and this last blast is not making me happy at all...the least it can do is give me a day off! Right?
Did you get your snow day???
This time last March, I was on my way to getting rid of the extra pounds I'd been carrying around since having DD6 (then DD5). I was starting to feel stronger and more confident, but that doesn't compare to how great it feels to be back in non-paying lifetime status at WW, maintaining at goal weight, and running my heart out. My plan to make this the best March ever is basically just to keep doing the stuff I've been doing! March is a weird month for me...not quite warm enough to get psyched for spring, but I love getting the later daylight back, and spring break is a welcome break in the routine. So I'm just going to keep running and taking care of myself - and then let it all slide just a teeny bit when DH and I go away while the kids are on break at Grandma's!
WOOHOO on being a "WW lifer"!! Where are you going with DH?? Somewhere warm and tropical??
I do think getting back to goal and maintaining that loss has changed me. Losing weight gave me the confidence to try something new (running) that I never in a million years thought I'd do, let alone enjoy. It took a while, though. The outside changes came well before any inside changes when I first made WW lifetime back in 2002. I was wearing smaller clothes, and people were noticing the changes, and I could see that I was thinner, but...somehow I still had the larger me inside second-guessing my successes and making me feel like it was all just temporary. Then I had my 2 DDs (now 8 and 6). I carried a good 25-30 pounds from those pregnancies all the way until last spring, but when I finally decided to make the effort to get rid of those pounds once and for all, I realized that I had a conviction I was lacking before -
two beautiful little reasons to get the weight off and be healthy, yes, but also the knowledge that I'd done this before, so there was no reason I couldn't do it again.
AMEN!!
Ooh, I did a tofu stir-fry on Monday night! I drained, cubed, and patted down a package of extra-firm tofu, and then pre-sauteed it before doing the veggies, which seemed to keep the tofu texture more solid. I used baby bok choy, carrots, ginger, garlic, and snow peas and made a sauce with soy sauce, sesame oil, and hoisin sauce. It was really good, and DD8 ate the whole thing. DD6, our picky eater, proclaimed it decidedly "eh," but that beat a lot of her reactions to dinners at home. :/ I had leftovers for lunch yesterday, and the tofu stayed nice and firm. I would make it again, definitely.
DD and I were talking about it last night and she said even though she ate it, she didn't love it. She thinks that next time I should kind of scramble the tofu, rather than keep it in a diced state. I did the same as you.... drained and such, diced, and then sauteed in a nonstick pan before adding it to the nearly-finished fried rice.
Tomorrow, if we have a snow day, I'm making pancakes for the girls...and I have plans for a Cooking Light lasagna recipe for dinner. Om nom nom.
Tomorrow is also a big baking day - I volunteered to make a bunch of stuff for the school/PTA carnival on Saturday - bake sale goodies and a cake for the cake walk. This weekend is so busy - I'm not sure what I was thinking! At least I can knock this part out tomorrow and then drop them off on Friday afternoon (have to commute on Thursday, so that day is shot for baking). If we have a full-on snow day, it'll be perfect for all that baking/packaging because I can enlist DDs to help!
Hope everyone has a great Wednesday!
XO
Liz