The Mad Scientist is Back Baby!

06 Oct 2010 3 Comments

by blissfuleater in Healthy eating, Nutrition, Organic foods, Weight loss

I am back in the land of the living folks.   The little guy gave me a wicked bout of strep throat on top of a bacterial lung infection.  Though I must admit reading my incoherent sick ramblings would have been ridiculously entertaining for you, you wouldn’t have gotten a thing from it. 

 That being said, I am back and hitting it hard.  I had a rough time when I was sick for many reasons.  Everyone has their traditional “sick” food-the foods you crave (and/or have an emotional attachment to) when you are sick.  Sadly, my sick food of choice is a Big Mac from McDonald’s and cheeseburgers in general.  F’d up, yes I know, but it is what it is.  So while I was sick, I went and got a Big Mac (and a cheeseburger, but not at the same time).  I ate it-tasted great minus the slime it left in my mouth-like eating a warm slug coated with Thousand Island dressing (sorry, graphic, I know).  Want to know what happened five minutes after I ate it?  Well dear people, I spent the next five minutes throwing up and dry heaving in the McDonald’s parking lot.  Yeah, soooooo, not gonna do that again.  It was wretched!  I also decided to say the hell with the food allergies and ate whatever I wanted.  Can you say stupid with a capital S?  Not stupid I guess, but for darn sure a bad choice!  Talk about tanking-I already felt like shit so I went ate stuff to make me feel even shitter, both physically and emotionally.  As you recall from previous blogs, I say to hell with “dieter speak” and “falling off the wagon”.  Do I believe I “fell off the wagon”?  Not a bit.  Everything in this life is a learning experience.  If are open to it and learn from it, it makes you stronger, wiser, and a better person.  I confessed my sins, so to speak, to Sherree and this wonderful, magical thing happened-Sherree helped me through it.  (Insert angelic, epiphany music here)  We talked it out and did an EFT session which helped me get to the root of my emotional need to take comfort in the warm embrace of a gooey, fatty, artery clogging cheeseburger. 

 Total random subject change-I gotta tell ya kids, AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long just came on and I am JAMMING!  Shel is rocking out with the blog.  I never realized until just a few months ago how much music means to me.  Before I could take it or leave it, but now I am SO down with it.  Yet another of my light bulb moments just occurred!  I think I am transferring my emotional attachment to food to music, which is great.  I don’t know anyone that ever got fat and unhealthy from the music itself.  For you smart asses out there-yes, if you sit a chair and listen to music while you hoark down crap, you will get fat, but the music didn’t do it.

 Okay, so back to the goods-

 What have I been doing since the fat-filled crap fest illness? SOOO many things.  I joined a wonderful gym near my house-for all the right reasons.  Working out provides me that emotional and physical release that my body needs.  It will shock you to know that I am a pretty intense person.  What?  Get out!  Especially if the hippie chick goes on hiatus and leaves the type-A psycho in charge.  I went to a demo class of what the gym (Lifetime Fitness on Renner) calls T.E.A.M. Weightloss last night and man it felt SO good to be that active again.  I worked out with the group for nearly one hour and didn’t stroke out!  Victory!!!  I moved body parts that haven’t moved like that in years and sweated in places that I didn’t know had sweat glands.  Beauty!  Embrace the body funk!  At any rate, Sherree helped me to understand that if you are working out because you love it, that is one thing, but if you are working out because you think it is the thing to do but don’t like to do it, then you shouldn’t do it.  Kind of like the people who go sit in church every week and begrudge the lost hour of their time.  HELLO?!  Did I just say that?  Yep, and I am standing by it.  Same thing-if you go to church because you want to and you enjoy it, awesome!  If you go out of some insane obligation, or to make up for the other six days of the week when you were a complete asshole, then you are probably wasting time.  Okay, so let’s move on before I get somebody’s panties in twist.  Ah, Beatles Back in the USSR just came on.  Love the music channels on the ol’ tele!  What else have I done?  Ohhhh!  Made a killer mac n’ no cheese tonight.  What the H-E-double hockey sticks (Yeah, I know.  Swear like a sailor in the rest of the blog and now all of a sudden I decide to filter.  I happily and humbly admit that I am a kooky chick and I think I rock!  Don’t be hatin’!!!)  Anywho, at my last session with Sherree she and I discussed what kind of comfort foods I like and how we could make those foods healthy and address my allergies.  One of my biggies is mac ‘n’ cheese.  You know you dig it too!  Fess up!  Personally, I am super duper suspicious of anyone that doesn’t like mac ‘n’ cheese.  But then again I am suspicious of several things.  That is the lawyer in me.  For example, the people who have a bumper so heavy with Christian (or insert any other religion) bumper stickers that it looks like the bumper is going to fall off.  I am down with the Universe and a supreme being but I don’t feel compelled to turn my bumper into a bill board.  I always wonder what they are hiding.  Hmmmm…  Prime example-knew this one gal that was SO over the top, uptight religious.  Turns out that she used to be a stripper and had a lot of guilt.    She was a wonderful and kind person and I feel so bad for her that she carried this guilt around and still does to this day.  My thought is rather than go extreme, let’s try to make peace with our past and not let it define our future.  Whoa!  Deep, but so not food related.  Okay, this is not a podium and I am certainly not out to bash or offend anyone.  If I do, so be it.  I stand by the things that come out of my mouth, or in this case my fingers.  I just spit it out as it comes into my head.  These are some of things I think about.  Personally, I embrace and love all people and the whole point of this blog is help others benefit from this wacky journey that I am on. 

 So back to the mac ‘n’ no cheese.  I didn’t measure or anything like that, but I can tell ya how I did it.  I made a rue out of coconut oil and brown rice flour (remember, I am allergic to gluten so no wheat products-also allergic to cow’s milk so no dairy either).  Once the rue was where it needed to be, I poured in some plain hemp milk and added a few monster handfuls of nutritional yeast (has a cheddary flavor to it), some white pepper, some crushed red pepper flakes and just to be super wild, I put in some Vietnamese hot sauce.  I let that thicken and then poured it over some gluten free pasta and enjoyed.  It was awesome!  Same texture as mac ‘n’ cheese without all the unhealthy crap. There was so much good nutrition in that dish and it tasted so so so good!  I must admit though, it is kind of kicking my ass at the moment.  I think I went a little overboard with the hot stuff.  My bad.  But it was still freakin’ awesome and to be honest, I will likely have it for breakfast in the morning.  Lol.  Seriously, I will.  So that’s what’s shakin’ with me beautiful people.  Sorry of the break last week, but it was my first time with strep and it totally kicked my butt and made me call it mama.  Good riddance!  Bah! 

 I hope everyone is doing fabulous!  I am sending you wonderful, loving energy and hope I didn’t offend.  If I did, I am sure you will let me know and I look forward to reading the comments.    

 Love y’all!

 Shelley

 PS-For those of you who called me out on not blogging last week, it was very nice to be missed and I appreciate you bunches!