Did you miss me?My dad used to sing the song "how can I miss you if you won't go away?" to us, but I AM SURE that's not how you feel about ANOTHER blog entry from me tonight, right...? RIGHT??? So, I know I JUST left, but I went downstairs to cook dinner and ended up adding some ingredients to what I had planned and HOLY MOLY it was good! So I wanted to come back here and talk to ya'll about swapping out/adding ingredients. I sort of mentioned this at the end of the recipe dump, but my recipes by no means are one-size-fits-all! My mom gags half the time when I tell her what combo of foods I am putting together LOL. My recipes are ideas of what works for ME and maybe you like the same flavors and maybe you don't, but you don't have to follow my, or ANY recipes perfectly (though you certainly CAN!) As long as you do your research and know the macros of what is in the swapped/added ingredient, get crazy! I have been doing this for over a year and let me tell you I would be SO BORED if I always had the EXACT SAME MEALS EVERY SINGLE TIME. Sometimes the swaps fail... (Blueberries win over raspberries in chia pudding ANY DAY) But sometimes... they are AMAZING... Tonight... they were AMAZING!!!So, the original bok choy recipe (posted earlier) was bok choy, some bell pepper, and mushrooms in a lemon tahini sauce... Well, I realized the bok choy I bought this time was nowhere near as big as last time, so if i wanted it to last for 6 meals (today through Friday), I needed to ration it! But I didn't want to end up being TOO hungry at dinner. (And a side note: I've talked about this before on Facebook, but I don't know how much here. I keep losing weight. "AWESOME!" you might say. Well, at first. But I'd like to STOP losing weight at some point haha. I am current;y 5ft 6 and was 111.5 this morning. And that's not a weight I think looks good on me, HA. So, I am trying my hardest to hit all my macros and/or even go up to 25g net carbs. So, depending on where you are in your journey, you might be confused why I am so determined to get to my carb/fat "goals" every day when you often hear them as a "max" or a "lever"... well, there's why! If I STOP at 112 or 113, I will be okay, but I'd like to get back to 114-116. And today I was working on recipes, so I skipped lunch, so I had a LOT of ground to make up for if I wanted to stick to my macros for today... So anyway....) So... here I am... under my macros... under bok choyed... but I was also over-vegetabled since I did skip lunch and I also had a left over zucchini from my curry soup last week.... So I looked at my recipe... looked at the fridge... looked at my Lose it! tracker... back at fridge... You get the picture. I ended up changing the recipe to be...
AND WOW! YUM!!! I love being able to fit so many vegetables in (and so many DIFFERENT ONES!) because so many people think you can't do veggies on keto! You SO CAN! You just have to plan for them! And I was able to do all these (mushrooms, zucchini, bell pepper, bok choy AND spinach!) and I was STILL only at 19g net carbs for the day!!! Now, had I eaten lunch, I would have had the spinach with lunch, and gone over 20 carbs with the broccoli, but maybe I wouldn't have added in the zucchini that way... Or done less bell pepper... who knows...? My point is, don't be afraid to try new things. Have a low carb veggie left over from an old recipe? Toss it into a new one! Didn't like the mushrooms I suggested in the bok choy (you know who you are haha!), don't add them! The zucchini here would be a great swap for that! Just have fun with your food! I LOVE cooking, so if I couldn't have fun and experiment with ingredients.... then I would NEVER last on vegan keto! This needs to be a lifelong thing, because keto is for so much more than weight loss (I mean, I am exhibit A... I'm 5 pounds below my goal weight and I could easily CARB UP and gain that 5 pounds back [ I can think of at least a dozen foods I'd love to do that with LOL] but all my inflammation would come back, and with it, all my symptoms. And, quite frankly, I am enjoying life pain free! Bloat free! CFS free (well... mostly haha). Someone asked me where I was going to go on my first cheat meal/meal after keto... I was like... these are foreign words to me... "cheat"... "after keto"... What do you mean? But seriously, keto isn't a fad diet for me any more than veganism was... I will always be vegan, and now I will always be keto. My body needs me to! So, hopefully I didn't ramble too much! I just wanted ya'll to know that this diet SHOULDN'T feel restrictive. It SHOULDN'T be frustrating... You should have all your same joys of cooking, and eating, and trying new things! There's just a... shift in what those new things might be. But if it's going to be sustainable, it can't be boring! Now I'm really done for tonight!!!Until next time.
Keto on! Vegan Keto Madi
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
About MeI have been carb-loving vegan for over a decade, but carbs stopped loving me as I approached 30... Archives |