Motivation/Inspiration

I am still following Eat To Live, and I'm very encouraged by the changes I see. I have willpower (and some muscles under there!) after all, and it pays off! Today I'm posting about one of the people who motivates me with her music, attitude, and style.

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I once saw a teevee show about ladies getting fit. There was this one woman who had lost a ton of weight, and she shared that she had a picture of Courtney Cox Arquette taped to her treadmill. CCA was the symbol of what the lady wanted to be, fitness-wise and confidence wise.

I don't have a treadmill or an affinity for Friends' stars, but I do have inspirations! Once such is lady Bitch, formerly of Bitch & Animal, now a solo act! (Sorry Miss Bitch, I dunno your given name or I might use it out of respect.)

Bitch is, ahem, a bitchin' musician and activist and downright kickass woman from what I can see. I love her music, I love her style, I love her attitude. She represents, seriously, the best aspects of blending what you love, who you love, and what you rock at. On top of all that, she has a body confidence that I really admire and am striving for...womanly, with strength. No apologies, no way. Thanks for all the motivation and the excellent tunes, Miss B!

PS: I am verrry excited about a pending new album from Bitch! Yay!!!

Holiday Happies

I don't want to be stirring up the hype or anything...but this stuff is amazing!!! It is sweet, healthy, and smells like baked goods. Mmmm! I can't find any locally..one grocery store even said a lady came in and bought the whole shipment. Whew! I bought 6 boxes online to get me through the winter :)

Furthermore, I want this from Etsy! Isn't it pretty?

Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book Review

I want to get this for everyone!!!

Whooohoooo!!!

12 & 0!!!

Breakfast Quesadillas!!

Happy Saturday!  I love having a cup of coffee and a nice leisurely session making some good brunchy stuff.

This is a personal concoction that I made using a scramble and some leftover queso I'd made previously.

I filled the whole-grain tortillas with one of Sarah Kramer's tofu scrambles, then made it all stick with the leftover noochy queso. Grill, flip, grill. Yum yum!

The best breakfasts involve salsa!!

Thanksgiving Redux

I do not heart Tofurkey. There, I said it!

Ok...let me qualify that with this: I have been following the Eat To Live plan for a couple of weeks. ETL calls very little to no added salt. I haven't missed the salt at all, as I was never a big fan. Consequently, now things that are moderately salty taste insane to me. I halved the salt called for, and then had to water down a soy-sauce based homemade salad dressing due to the overwhelmingly salty taste.

The Tofurkey was so cute! I baked it from frozen for three hours with some carrots in the foil. I was fine with the texture, but just didn't love the taste. I still am so thankful for the vegan holiday "meat" options, because it's great to have all the choices. I think I'll just stick to my veggies though!

I also ate lots of veganized favorites courtesy of mom. She made green bean casserole and dressing, both will all veg ingredients. I made brussells sprouts from Vegan Soul Kitchen.

We finished off the day with this magnificent pie from Fat Free Vegan. Yowser, it's delicious!!

Dr. Fuhrman warns: DO NOT take multivitamins or prenatal vitamins that contain folic acid

I read this blog post and decided to repost. I don't have any other info on it...but I will google!

It's a little alarming, as the community health center I go to gives all "child-bearing" age women Folic Acid supplements. Hrm....