I Needza some Pizza!

Lately it seems like everywhere I turn, pizza is in my face. At work, at home, after a night of hanging out with my friends...EVERYWHERE. And it sucks because I can't have any.

So I went to Hungry Girl and searched for the perfect substitute to cure my pizza cravings. She had some good recipes, but this one takes the cake-- erm, pie. Pizza pie, that is. Here is the perfect swap for Sausage Pizza!

HG's Sausage Topped Pizza Swap

yumm-o

Ingredients:
1 frozen meatless or turkey sausage patty with about 80 calories (like the kind by Morningstar Farms or Jimmy Dean)
2 tbsp. diced bell pepper
2 tbsp. diced onion
1 stick light string cheese
1 whole-wheat or high-fiber pita with about 125 calories
2 tbsp. jarred pizza sauce
Optional toppings: garlic powder, red pepper flakes

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray and set aside.

Bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium heat on the stove. Add sausage patty and cook for 4 minutes.

Flip sausage patty and continue to cook for 2 minutes.

Add veggies to the skillet with the sausage and cook for about 2 minutes, until sausage is hot and cooked through and veggies have slightly softened and lightly browned. Remove from heat and set aside.

Break string cheese into thirds and place in a blender or food processor -- blend at high speed until shredded/grated. (Or tear into pieces and roughly chop.) Set aside.

Place pita on the baking sheet. Evenly spread pizza sauce onto the pita, leaving a 1/2-inch border around the edge. Sprinkle cheese over the sauce and set aside.

Once cool enough to handle, roughly chop sausage patty. Sprinkle chopped sausage and veggies over the cheese.

Bake in the oven until hot and toasty, 10 - 12 minutes.

If you like, season to taste with garlic powder, red pepper flakes, or your guilt-free pizza toppings of choice. Enjoy!

MAKES 1 SERVING

Serving Size: entire recipe
Calories: 290
Fat: 8g
Sodium: 834mg
Carbs: 33g
Fiber: 7g
Sugars: 3g
Protein: 19g

PointsPlus® value 7*

Honing in on the big 1-0-0

After last weeks depressing weigh in (I gained .6oz), I had a mini freak out. All I could think about was becoming that girl again...irrational, I know. But during my 10 month journey, I have had no gains, and only remained the same maybe 2 or 3 times.


Gaining is new territory for me, and I don't like it.


My consultant, Michelle, told me to snap out of it and to calm down, because I was still down 90+ pounds and this wasn't a big deal. The rational 'me' would have calmed down, and taken it for what it was and planned my week accordingly from there.


But that 'me' was not available. All I had was a psycho obsessive 'me' that couldn't let go of the fact that I had gained.


It may be a little gain now, but more little gains would equal a BIG gain, and then you'll become THAT GIRL again!

The Future?

I couldn't stop thinking about it. It wasn't until I looked in my progress photos a few hours later where I got my rationality and determination back. And after that, I planned my week like I always do.


I resisted temptation all week.
I stuck to my calorie goals.
I drank my water.
I went to the gym twice.


And when weigh in time came, I let out a scream!

-5.8 lbs

I had lost 5.8 pounds. I FLIPPED OUT! I could NOT believe it, and even now, 24 hours later, it's STILL sinking in. I hadn't had a drop like that since the first few months of my diet.   and that means that i'm officially at 

97 pounds lost!

I'm closing in on 100 pounds down, and I can't wait until I kick the door down on that number!

Now I know that a big drop was expected with the calorie change and gym activity that a drop would happen, but I still had my doubts. Hell, the week of the dreaded gain I did the same stuff, and look what happened. But lo and behold, I have officially entered the 180's. I'm waving 190's goodbye, never to be seen again!

In honor of saying goodbye, here's a song from Madonna!

Plateauville Resident

So it's happened, I've entered "Plateauville, Population, 1".

I can't say that I'm surprised, because I'm not. My progress has slowly, slowly been decreasing, and even though I went to the gym last week, changes like that initially cause either a pause or gain anyway. So I've got to keep my head held high and facing the future.

My consultant, Michelle, realized that I should have gotten my calories dropped from 1500 to 1200 a while ago, and that maybe that's the cause for the plateau. I hope she's right, because I have no intentions on staying in the 190's...or the 180's...or even the 170's.

Day two with 300 less calories is a little hard, I feel like a crackhead because I want to eat something, but I don't know what, and worst of all, I probably can't.

SO luckily I recieved a pick-me-up from my BFF today. She sent me a picture from her birthday last year and told me to just look at it. I opened it and, excuse my language, but my fucking jaw DROPPED into my lap.

WTAF????

I have to honestly say that I don't remember looking like this in these pictures. I keep telling myself that if I did, I'd have done something about it then and there. But as I scrolled through the pictures of the past, I have concluded that I must have been wearing some slimming glasses or something, because they all look like this.

I wanted to cry.

But before I did, I realized that although it's shocking to look at me in my former body, I have to find comfort in the fact that I am no longer that person, and I will try my damndest to not be her ever again.

Marching to the Gym

Soo I feel that I have begun to plateau. I'm having small losses, which is great, but I want bigger drops to secure my size for the summer. I want to be a solid 12 by August, so I have to get my ass to the gym!!

I decided to get serious the other day and signed up for one. I have my schedule all planned out so I'll be doing Zumba classes on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays, Dance Fusion and Butt/Abs Blast classes on Wednesday, and Cycling on Thursdays. Fridays I'll do yoga at home, and Sundays I'll veg out. Before each class, I'll do the treadmill or elliptical for 45 minutes to get my heart going, and a little extra cardio.

OO picture update! This is me at a banquet I volunteered for last week.

Weigh In Update

Went to weigh in today, lost 1.6lbs this week for a total of

93lbs down!!!

I'm honing in on 100lbs lost, and I'm so damn psyched to reach that! Words can't describe how it feels to get this far in my journey. Really. Whenever I try, I end up rambling and sounding like an ass.

All I can say is that this is the first time in over a decade where I'm 100% happy with myself and my appearance, and I can't wait for the warm weather! I'm wearing cute shorts, cute dresses, bathing suits, you name it!

Yea, I totally plan on wearing this in Miami in August :-)

Being overweight for the majority of my life took the pleasure out of a lot of things for me, and I have made it my mission to get that back this year, and the following years to come.