I’m super excited but I’m still on a mission to BURN THIS WEIGHT off of my body. I’ve been trying to maintain my workouts although my work schedule has been crazy.
I look a lil crazy after a Jillian Workout:
looking a little rough
Last week I made my own whole wheat crust to make into a pizza it was GREAT! I promised Chan I’d post the recipe so better late than never:
Servings: Makes 2 thick crust pizzas or 4 thin crust pizzas
Ingredients:
Whole Wheat Pizza Dough
- 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 packages dry active yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 1/2 lukewarm water from the tap
- 1/2 teaspoon olive oil
- Crushed garlic and Italian herbs
- Flour for the work surface
- Sprinkling of cornmeal
Directions:
Place flour, yeast, salt and sugar and mix. While mixing, gradually add water and knead with hands until dough is firm and smooth (about 10 minutes)
Pour oil down inside of bowl. Move the dough around the bow coat inside of bowl and all surfaces of dough with the oil. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let rise in warm spot until doubled in bulk, about two hours. ( I let mine sit in a warm place for 2 hrs and then in the fridge for about 2 days)
Preheat your oven to highest setting, 500° or 550°F. Preheat oven one hour ahead. Punch dough down, cut in half. On generously floured work surface, place one half of dough.
By hand, form dough loosely into a ball (I added crushed garlic and some Italian herbs), stretch into a circle. Using a floured rolling pin, roll dough into large circle until very thin. Don’t worry if your circle isn’t perfect and if you get a hole; just pinch edges back together.
To prevent dough from sticking to counter, turn dough over, add flour to dough, counter and rolling pin as needed. Sprinkle pizza pan or cookie sheet generously with cornmeal. Transfer dough to pizza pan or cookie sheet with no lip. Add toppings. (My toppings were portabellas, fresh jalepenos, chicken sausage, spinach and mozzarella)
Slide dough onto pizza pen or place cookie sheet with pizza on bottom rack. Bake 10–12 minutes or until golden. Slice and serve immediately.
I’ve also been trying to remember to drink my smoothies in the morning instead of my new bad habit that I’ve picked up again of a Venti Soy Caramel Macchiato.
Jolie’s Smoothie
4oz pomegranate juice
4oz of light soy milk
4oz of strawberries
4oz of blueberries
½ frozen banana
2 tbsp of flax meal
Its yumtastic..
I’ve been rocking my heels instead of my flats around the office
disregard my messy desk
I went out with the ex on Friday to his cousin’s Fish Fry. We spent most of the day together and I ate terribly.
My outfit
Let me break it down:
1 slice of my healthy pizza
1 hotdog stuffed pretzel from this Amish Market he loves
4 liters of water
3 ribs (he makes them and their smokey goodness is just irresistible)
½ cup of Amish Potato Chips
1 deviled egg
1 solo cup of Ciroc Coconut
1 solo cup of Level 1 Vodka
Let’s just say the night ended with me
- Not embarrassing myself or him around his family
- Asking him to pull over on the way home to do my Emily Rose impression (lots more happened involving this roadside incident but will NOT be included in this post..lol)
The next day I woke up in his bed super embarrassed. He was traveling out of town for the day with his cousin so he drove me home in my car and his cousin followed. It took me until Sunday evening to recover.
I definitely learned a lesson and will NOT be drinking or eating crazy foods. I don’t think it was the liquor so much that made me throw up but the total abandonment of my healthy living for a day that made my body say NO NO NO….
I’m back on the good foot now! I haven’t been able to eat that much this week as my work schedule has been crazy but I plan to find remedies around that..
I weigh in this Saturday.. who knows what the future holds with that one…
Jolie
PS. Special thanks to Desiree for the award! She is great… if you don’t have her in your blogroll… you should. Desiree I think you need twitter now that you have a computer at home #justsayin.
