Weight is

Weight is:
1. A measure of the heaviness of an object.
2. The force with which a body is attracted to Earth or another celestial body, equal to the product of the object's mass and the acceleration of gravity. from the freedictionary


Weight is a measurement. It is not a virtue.
Weight is a measurement. It is not a personality trait.
Weight is a measurement. It is not a sign of intelligence.
Weight is a measurement. It is not a talent.
Weight is a measurement. It is not a skill.
By Rory. Today. My House.

The Indian Grocers

After yoga class I drove to the Indian grocers to replenish my stocks of Indian spices. I arrived home with a bag full of aromatic goodies. Wonderful jasmine and bergamot incense, sandal wood soap, ground cumin and coriander powders as well as whole cumin and coriander seeds and a bag full of curry leaves.
I brought them home and unpacked them, stopping to inhale every few minutes. It was lunch time and I was starving since I had made a run to the library after the store and had not eaten since breakfast.
But what is a girl to do! Tuna salad ala Hellmans just would not cut it after all those lovely aromas! So this is what I made based on a recipe I found in an Indian cookbook.

1/2 8 0z can tomato and green chili (Mexican style)
2 Tbs Butter
3 Eggs
1/2 cup onions
1 clove minced Garlic
1/4 tsp Whole Cumin seeds
1/4 tsp turmeric
1/4 cup fresh coriander leaves

Drain the tomatoes in a colander and on paper towels. Don't be a fanatic about it.
Meanwhile melt the butter and cook then onions until they begin to turn golden brown.
While they are cooking beat your eggs with a little water and ground black pepper. Keep aside.
Add the cumin seeds and turmeric to the onion mixture in the frying pan, give them a stir and let them sizzle on med hi heat for a minute.
Turn down the heat and add the garlic.
Add your tomato/green chili mixture. Cook for one minute.
Add the eggs to the pan and scramble them.
Add fresh Coriander leaves.
Serves two

Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler

I know Mardis Gras if over and lent is upon us but if you observe this would be great for Fridays. Actually, it is great any day of the week whether you observe anything or not! How did I get this recipe, well Miss K sent a postcard to Miss D and it had this recipe for New Orleans BBQ Shrimp printed on the front. We had a "Girlz Only, No BoyZ allowed" Weekend and ate this until we were stuffed if I recall.

This dish had no relation to what most of us think of as BBQ but to die for. Lots of good fat. I have left the Chili sauce out with good results but you could add some sugar free ketchup if you want to substitute without the sugar. Herbs are dried not fresh. Stole the picture from Southern Living.

BBQ Shrimp

4-6 lbs shrimp (shells on)

3 sticks butter YES STICKS

1/2 cup olive oil

2 bay leaves crumbled

4 TBS fresh lemon juice

2TBS Worchestire sauce

4 cloves minced garlic

1TB Fresh minced parsley

2 tsp paprika

2tsp oregano

2 tsp cayenne

1 tsp hot pepper sauce

2 tsp black pepper

1/2 cup chili sauce

2 lemons sliced thin

Mix all ingredients except shrimp. Cook 10 minutes. Cool. Add shrimp marinate for at least 2-3 hours. Bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes.

Starting over Today

Sort of. Doing a series of Anusara Basics classes to review the fundamentals of Anusara Yoga. I did the class a few years ago but I have been away for awhile and I thought it would be a good idea to go back to the beginning. It's like reading the owners manual to your car or the instruction manual for a favorite appliance and saying "Oh I forgot I could do that!" Hoping that works with knees as well.

I have been trying to sell the benefits of meditation, guided imagery and yoga to the weight loss board, LCFs, to which I belong. I post free downloads, remind folks that there is mental work to do besides tracking what they are eating and point out that stress can lead to wait gain. The general response?

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People are basically good. I believe that. Can't help it. They have stupid attacks. And attacks of cowardice and greed and blindness to the beauty in the people and things around them. But people are good.
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I tried to quit my job today but my boss wouldn't let me. I decided I was taking the ultimate step in stress reduction. It didn't go as planned but I will be continuing to reexamine my career priorities. No Denese I don't know what the hell that means either.

Haiku in Honor of Induction

We will have to blame Dorian for this thing, she started it on a thread in Low Carb Friends. Writing Haiku in Honor of Atkins Induction. Induction, for uninitiated, is the first two weeks of Doctor Atkins weight loss program in which carbohydrates are restricted to a couple of cups of salad greens and some veggies. After that stage you begin to add carbohydrates back into your diet in 5 gram increments, one type at a time. It's called "climbing the carb ladder". Contrary to popular belief Atkins is not about bacon, rib eye and more bacon with a side of cheese for the rest of your life, but that is another post. And maybe a rant.

Today it's about poetry! Haiku devoted to the joys and sorrows of induction.

Dorian got it all started:
Induction today
Oh my diet of torture
I want a danish

Lillianna responded:
Only two short weeks
Feels like an eternity
I want a danish

Betty Chimed in:
Danish is not good
How about some lean protein?
You'll be happier

Sue added this:
Easy to induct
Keeping on a bit harder
This I know too well

LouieLouie's effort was:
Low carb is delish!
Eating like a king? Divine!
Danishes are crap!

Flourchild was quite prolific!
Miss danishes? How?
When so many now comprise
my ginormous ass!

Induction is fun!
I love acing the challenge
Sans lame excuses

When TOM comes around,
Shirley I crave more carbs but
Don't cave, for Pete's sake

No martyrdom here
Head down and like Nike says
"Just do it", baby

It's only two weeks
You've endured much harder things
Much longer, correct?

Don't understand its
Every rule? No matter
Follow anyway

Read the book; really
Read the book, seriously
Have you read the book?

"It's impossible!"
Ignore their talk and prove all
The naysayers wrong

Desperate Posted:
Low carb is superb
I find haikus annoying
I will stop right now

(okay, sorry, I can't stop!!!!)

More fat and less carbs
Will make you gain lots of weight
Says my stupid doc

I'd like to slap him
Right in his jiggly belly
With a piece of steak

My Contributions:
You will lose some weight
become a supermodel
Oh Boy! Tyra Mail!

Ketosis breath stinks
but brings with it great weight loss
Please pass the tic tacs

Climbing Carb ladder
Will have to wait til next week
tonight it's salad

Guided Imagry and Affirmations

Kaiser Permanente has some nice guided imagery and affirmations on their website available for downloading for free! I downloaded some on my MP3 player, after much cursing and mumbling and banging around. Why do they make these things sound so easy to operate then publish a 100 page instruction book?
Publish is the wrong word. There is no instruction book, the manual is actually on a CD and if you would like to flip through it in bed you need to print the sucker out on your home printer and try to put it together as a book and the pages fly all over and get out of order and you lose a page or two so you can't follow the instructions....... So much for stress relief.
Anyway, I downloaded the guided imagery and affirmations on my handy, spiffy, easy to use, MP3 player, tucked it into my left bra cup. (It's super slim) (the MP3 player not the bra cup) and worked most of the day with the affirmations playing.

I have been looking for some free downloads for quite a while and have been a little leery of what I have found. When I do find some free meditations or self hypnosis downloads they are often on homemade websites belonging to people or organizations I can't even identify never mind relate to.

Not to sound paranoid, not to make you think I am meditating in a tin foil hat or anything but I don't think I want to trust my subconscious to some strange guy or guru who just made up his own religion. Who knows what thoughts he'll plant! I could wake up with strange and disturbing urges. Undeniable. primal urges to steal, to maim, to murder, or worse yet to eat an entire German Chocolate Cake. That would be scary.

http://members.kaiserpermanente.org/redirects/listen/