Carbs

I'm eating way too many carbs today.  I will have to exercise them off tomorrow.  It's just a carb day.  Started out with wheat-free blueberry pancakes,(you would never know they didn't have wheat in them).  Then had a few slices of thin-crust pizza flat-bread (with wheat go figure!) for lunch with a salad and apple.  My pants are already feeling tight :(  I'm resisting the chocolate though, because it's a chocolate kind of day; rain, gray, cold, damp, and dreary. I don't need the chocolate right?
 Why is it I am so cold at night?  The minute it gets dark I start shivering and layering the clothes on.  This is the first year this has happened to me.  Right now I am drinking a lime La Croix sparkling water, that is quenching my thirst but making me colder.  I will probably have a steamer in a little while....more carbs..... and protein. 
Sometimes I can't avoid the wheat....but I haven't proved it makes me feel better or worse.  So I eat as little as possible when I can avoid it. 
Gotta run (I wish I could run).  Be healthy!

Migraine Headache Triggers

18% of women and 6% of men get Migraine headaches.  There are many triggers for these headaches that is why it is so hard to cure them.  The food triggers are cheese, chocolate, beer, and red wine.  External triggers can be odors including perfume, hunger, and dehydration.  Other things are the computer and TV screens especially the glare or flickering from them. Insomnia, tension, irritability and stress can also contribute.  I don't know here, I think the headaches cause tension and stress; sort of like a vicious circle. 
And then there is the weather, the barometer and the changes in them which can bring on a migraine. 
So I guess I need to stop the cheese and chocolate; it's all very complicated because when I am not getting headaches, most of these things don't bother me except maybe beer and red wine.  Ooops and better get off the computer; I think that's one of the major culprits for my headaches.

What's For Dinner?

This chicken stew looks very good.  I will bake it in the oven rather than use a frying pan and I will skip the flour coating.  The bisquits look good also-but more flour and carbs.  We will have the cooked pears in rum for dessert; we have to use the pears up.  I have an idea for a lo-carb apple dessert; will be posting that sometime this week.

Just A Little Treat.......................

                                                                         
Coming in at about 66 calories and 4 grams of fat and 8 grams of sugar and 9 carbs, this little lightweight is a once- in- awhile treat.  It's the limited edition Ghirardelli dark chocolate and strawberry squares.  Honestly, it tastes like a chocolate covered strawberry.  They give the stats for a serving which is 3, but I am telling you, one will satisfy your sweet tooth.  Give one a try; I bought mine at CVS.

Pizza and Pineapple Coconut Dessert

I sliced the pineapple, sprinkled some Rum extract and coconut sugar on it (less calories than regular sugar).  Then I sprinkled with unsweetened coconut and drizzled with a little Agave Syrup and baked it in the oven at 400 for 15 minutes. It was delicious  warm with a little whipped cream. Check out my sister's new cooking blog http://creativecookeryhealthfullyso.blogspot.com/  I think she made this tonight also to go with her barbecued chicken pizza.  The chef  here made veggie pizza tonight with a little pesto spread on the crust. We added a little basil (frozen from summer) and some fresh Rosemary from the plant in the garage.  All in all a great dinner tonight.

Agave syrup

Pineapple coconut dessert...will have to think of a catchy name for it. 

Add a little whipped cream; Voila!!!

                                                              

Back On Track

Four days.....four pounds.  Four days of swimming....and I'm back down to my "fighting" weight.  You had to be either highly disciplined or crazy to go swimming this morning when the temperature was four degrees; bitter cold!!  Especially since Donaldo has had a cold all week and I had to go MYSELF :( 
We just had a coffee break with our new snack; two dates stuffed with peanut butter.  Donaldo's mom used to make these and then dipped them in powdered sugar.  I skipped the powdered sugar.  Tonight for dessert, I am going to bake some pineapple with coconut which will toast the coconut quite nicely.  I might add a tad of rum for taste :)

Healthy Steamer

A steamer is a hot frothy milk usually with flavoring such as caramel or hazelnut and others.  I have been making one with turmeric which is a spice used in cooking but it also has immune properties.  I haven't had a cold in 2 years since I started taking it.  You can take turmeric in pill form, but this week I have been putting an 1/8th. of a tsp in my steamers.  I add a couple of shots of Divinci's sugar-free cinnamon flavoring-whip it up and add some real cinnamon on top; surprisingly good.  I even got the chef to drink some today. He agreed.