Back on Track

In addition to not eating meat, I also cut out junk food, I try not to eat after 8:00 pm, and I cut way back on dairy. I really want to focus on eating real food and avoiding processed food as much as possible. This means that I need to cook, which I love to do, but I'm not used to doing it everyday.

I've been doing pretty good with the exception of some shrimp and a few pieces of fish. I don't really consider seafood meat, but I still don't want to eat a lot of it. So anyway, I've been doing pretty good but I was on vacation last week and I ate junk food, instead of cooking I ate ate out, I started picking up a soda habit, and ate more sweets than usual. I went out to eat at a local restaurant the day before yesterday; I couldn't finish even a third of my meal (Shrimp Scampi) because of the appetizers so I took it home. I ate it for lunch yesterday and while it was delicious, my body hated me for it. I don't know if it was the shrimp or all the cheese, or all the oil, but I felt awful. I ate it around 1:45pm and I was still digesting it when I went to bed, and I was cramping, etc. UGH!! So what did I do this morning before I went to work? I cooked! Creamy Red Lentil Dhal. It's a recipe in a cookbook I have entitled "400 Recipes:Three & Four Ingredients" by Jenny White & Joanna Farrow. It's delicious, but I could have cooked the lentils a little longer. This is the ingredient list: red lentils, oil, and hot curry paste. I added coconut milk to make it creamy and garnished it with fresh cilantro (suggestions from the book). There's an updated version called "500 Recipes: Three & Four Ingredients". I really want to get it but I don't think it's smart to pay $20-$30 for just 100 new recipes.