working out for Disney

[Sans Souci]

Hello-

I’m at the Magic Kingdom and while I was waiting for a friend, I received an email from American Airlines inviting me to do a video interview! I’m so excited. I have 5 days to complete it. I fly home Wednesday and I’ll probably tape it Friday. I’ll catch up with everyone later, I hate typing on my phone.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Hello-

I’m at the Magic Kingdom and while I was waiting for a friend, I received an email from American Airlines inviting me to do a video interview! I’m so excited. I have 5 days to complete it. I fly home Wednesday and I’ll probably tape it Friday. I’ll catch up with everyone later, I hate typing on my phone.

Have fun at the MK and best wishes on your interview!

 

[MinnieM123]

Hello-

I’m at the Magic Kingdom and while I was waiting for a friend, I received an email from American Airlines inviting me to do a video interview! I’m so excited. I have 5 days to complete it. I fly home Wednesday and I’ll probably tape it Friday. I’ll catch up with everyone later, I hate typing on my phone.

Well, that is exciting news!!

 

[epcotisbest]

Hello-

I’m at the Magic Kingdom and while I was waiting for a friend, I received an email from American Airlines inviting me to do a video interview! I’m so excited. I have 5 days to complete it. I fly home Wednesday and I’ll probably tape it Friday. I’ll catch up with everyone later, I hate typing on my phone.

Woo Hoo! Good news. I hope it goes well. In the meantime, have fun at WDW.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

That is a very creative cake. I think miniature cupcakes made to look like sushi would work too.

It would be a great idea for cupcakes. You could even sell them in little bento boxes. I just don't have the patience with cupcakes.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Hello-

I’m at the Magic Kingdom and while I was waiting for a friend, I received an email from American Airlines inviting me to do a video interview! I’m so excited. I have 5 days to complete it. I fly home Wednesday and I’ll probably tape it Friday. I’ll catch up with everyone later, I hate typing on my phone.

Hope you enjoyed MK! Also great news about the interview!!!

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Family flew home today. I worked out throughout their visit, but we went out to eat 3x during their stay...Tex-Mex, South African and traditional Mexican. No pics from the Tex-Mex since it's a chain, but the Mexican is always good...they even hand made my corn tortillas...and the South African was PHENOMENAL!

Having the cake around also really was bad. I'm not a huge sweets person, but I also rarely get to have cake, so after several days of cake...I need to go back to looking at it as a bad thing.

I tested a chuck roast in the Instant Pot on Friday. It went from deep freeze frozen to falling apart tender in about an hour. It also did a great job of steaming up some frozen tamales. This week, I'm going to try it for asparagus risotto and a take on Italian sausage and peppers with hot turkey sausage, onions and hopefully it'll make a decent sauce with San Marzano tomatoes. Gotta get the eating back on track!

 

[Songbird76]

Hello-

I’m at the Magic Kingdom and while I was waiting for a friend, I received an email from American Airlines inviting me to do a video interview! I’m so excited. I have 5 days to complete it. I fly home Wednesday and I’ll probably tape it Friday. I’ll catch up with everyone later, I hate typing on my phone.

That's fantastic news! Good luck!

 

[Songbird76]

Family flew home today. I worked out throughout their visit, but we went out to eat 3x during their stay...Tex-Mex, South African and traditional Mexican. No pics from the Tex-Mex since it's a chain, but the Mexican is always good...they even hand made my corn tortillas...and the South African was PHENOMENAL!

Having the cake around also really was bad. I'm not a huge sweets person, but I also rarely get to have cake, so after several days of cake...I need to go back to looking at it as a bad thing.

I tested a chuck roast in the Instant Pot on Friday. It went from deep freeze frozen to falling apart tender in about an hour. It also did a great job of steaming up some frozen tamales. This week, I'm going to try it for asparagus risotto and a take on Italian sausage and peppers with hot turkey sausage, onions and hopefully it'll make a decent sauce with San Marzano tomatoes. Gotta get the eating back on track!

Traditional Mexican is soooooo good. I have a couple of friends from Mexico and they taught me to make corn tortillas....they are super easy, but take a long time. So DD and I make Tostadas with shredded chicken, frijoles, cheese and lettuce. It's her favorite food now, everything homemade. Well....obviously we don't grow the lettuce or have chickens, etc. So so good, though.

 

[Figgy1]

Maybe I should start weighing my food....I'm trying to cut down on portion sizes. I think I'm doing ok for the most part on eating healthy foods. Yogurt with oats for breakfast, a piece of fruit as a snack, and depending on where I am, I eat either leftovers from dinner for lunch or wholegrain bread, toasted and with a bit of olive oil and seasoning salt on it. Then whatever we have for dinner. Tonight was salad with chicken and ranch dressing. (I know, ranch dressing is not good for you, but it's the only dressing I like and I make it myself with 2 percent milk instead of buttermilk, so it's not QUITE as bad.) I just don't like vinegrettes and things like that. I don't like most sauces/condiments.
I can't really exercise a whole lot more than I already am....my hip was bugging me today after just 2 days of work this week, plus the biking to work, to DS's school and home. My body needs the rest, and I'm certainly getting my steps in. So I guess the only thing left to do is to cut down on portion sizes, mostly with dinner. Do you work with a chart or something? I remember my mom's diabetic diet, she had 1800 calories per day because her job was active, as is mine. But I remember she could have 3 oz of meat for dinner. But I don't remember her carb amount or veggies.

You can have unlimited nonstarchy veggies, limit processed carbs as low as humanly possible, cut breads and pasta as well and stick to whole grains. Buttermilk is better than 2% for the most part, runs and hides under large rock

 

[Figgy1]

I'm gluten free and dairy free. This is my first attempt with a full blown cake. It's an espresso cake with a rum glaze (glazed b/c I was afraid of cake being dry due to batter consistency), WOWButter cream filling (DD12 is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts, so soy or sunflower butters are our go to subs), and mocha frosting (dairy free dark chocolate). The flour was a blend of coconut, rice, teff, tapioca, quinoa, and chick pea. I used things like vegetable shortening and coconut butter in place of real butter and unsweetened soy milk in place of things like milk/cream. I did use eggs, so it's not vegan. Hoping it tastes good.

Surprisingly, it was only 2.5 hours to decorate. The rice definitely took the longest, but my garlic press turned out to be better than my craft extruder tool and I just used the blade of a pizza cutter to trim off and transfer the pieces in 1.5"-2" segments.

For party cakes I use Bob's Red Mill one to one. It really is 1 to 1

 

[Figgy1]

It was nice and sunny here on Saturday and we did some much needed yard work including trimming back a bunch of English ivy from some trees in the yard. Some of the vines were huge. The ivy can grow so thick in the trees it can damage the trees so we had to get it chopped off at the roots and hopefully it will die out over time.
While not technically a workout, it feels like it and after crawling around on the bank beside the the house trying to keep from sliding down the ivy covered hill for a few hours, I am hurting in places I forgot I had.

That counts as a work out and then some! If you're not worried about killing anything else pour boiling water on the roots

 

[Figgy1]

All this talk on here about healthy eating and I am going to tell about my not very healthy eating day.
We usually have one day a week where we don't worry about calories or carbs, just enjoy. I find constant deprivation does not work, so every now and then I just eat for the pleasure without being too strict. Sort of a reward for eating right the rest of the week.
So today was country ham biscuits drizzled with honey and butter (my neighbor has beehives and he gives us some very good, pure unprocessed honey), gravy and hash browns for breakfast.
The real kicker was supper. My wife is a genius (except for that one questionable time when she said "I do" to me).
Anyway the genius part was she wanted Mexican, but wanted something different, but did not want to cook.
She went to a local Mexican place for carry out and then here is what she did with what she picked up.
She got an order of rice, placed it in a bowl, topped the rice with white Mexican cheese dip, topped that with the fillings for TexasTrio fajitas (steak, chicken and shrimp and all the peppers, onions and tomatoes) then on top of all that she drizzled more of the cheese dip and some mango habanero hot sauce and served it with chips and salsa on the side.
This was a calorie full, carb laden, ooey gooey, cheesy, savory, flavorful explosion of goodness.
Now if only we had some sushi cake to go with it.
I'll eat better tomorrow.

Great minds lol I had the same dinner last night except in place of rice I used lettuce and beyond for the beef and avocado in place of the cheese. So mostly the same

 

[Figgy1]

Hello-

I’m at the Magic Kingdom and while I was waiting for a friend, I received an email from American Airlines inviting me to do a video interview! I’m so excited. I have 5 days to complete it. I fly home Wednesday and I’ll probably tape it Friday. I’ll catch up with everyone later, I hate typing on my phone.

Congrats and I'm sending some extra pixie dust your way, Good Luck!

 

[Figgy1]

I'm still alive and stuck inside for the most part due to the weather. This morning it was a whole 5 degrees outside I'm squeezing in as much yoga and LS as I can and have upped my Vitamin D yet again. and in other news my dh gave my older power cooker to my MIL because he got me a brandy new 8qt Instant Pot. Same size but more bells and whistles

 

[HouCuseChickie]

For party cakes I use Bob's Red Mill one to one. It really is 1 to 1

I had a bag of that around as well and tossed some it into the mix. Maybe I should just rely strictly on that vs. being mad scientist. I was really hoping the Bob's Red Mill teff flour would be a good thing for my baking since it has a decent amount of protein and fiber, but that may also be why I'm not getting good results.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Traditional Mexican is soooooo good. I have a couple of friends from Mexico and they taught me to make corn tortillas....they are super easy, but take a long time. So DD and I make Tostadas with shredded chicken, frijoles, cheese and lettuce. It's her favorite food now, everything homemade. Well....obviously we don't grow the lettuce or have chickens, etc. So so good, though.

It's definitely a nice part of living where we do. We can get the more Americanized Tex-Mex, but lots of Mexican family recipes at the local spots too. Traditional street food is also gaining a following. Yours sounds DEELISH!!! Making me hungry and it's going to be a good couple of hours before I can eat again.

 

[Figgy1]

I had a bag of that around as well and tossed some it into the mix. Maybe I should just rely strictly on that vs. being mad scientist. I was really hoping the Bob's Red Mill teff flour would be a good thing for my baking since it has a decent amount of protein and fiber, but that may also be why I'm not getting good results.

Pretty much. The 1 to 1 makes a major upgrade to cakes and no math lol

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Pretty much. The 1 to 1 makes a major upgrade to cakes and no math lol

That's good! I like to experiment with flavors, but not the nuts and bolts aspects. Do you have any recommendations for a butter alternative? I tried coconut butter this time, but I'm thinking that also could have been part of the problem.

 

[Figgy1]

That's good! I like to experiment with flavors, but not the nuts and bolts aspects. Do you have any recommendations for a butter alternative? I tried coconut butter this time, but I'm thinking that also could have been part of the problem.

Earth Balance comes the closest in the final texture. Not perfect but most people don't notice