A Small Change

That is a bra catch extender. Not exactly sure on the name but its function is to add that extra forgiving length to a too tight bra. This scenario happens when the flesh right below my chest is getting too blubbery and I get nasty welts from the bra band at the end of the day.

Today, I removed all of these extenders from my bras. Yipee!

I think, slowly but surely I'm losing weight. I'm still uncertain because I'm still not getting on the weighing scale. *Chicken*

My roommate tells me my face appears more oval and earlier today, while walking to work an armored car opened its door and the guy inside greeted me good morning. How flattering is that? Right? RIGHT?

It's not the first time I've gotten compliments and greetings either. I hoard these snippets from my day for the treasure they are. It pushes me to keep making healthy baons and continue my fitness efforts. Vain yes, but whatever motivates me, I'll take it!

I haven't been on board for more than a couple of weeks now. As usual, regular work and moonlight rakets keep me away from anything personal. I missed a lot of urgent messages on facebook as well. But, more than just the work...I've been sneaking in treats.

I'm really good with packing a healthy breakfast and lunch but when dinner time hits...ohboy! And don't get me started on weekends! (It's not every dinner time but enough nights to matter.)

I'm finding it a little hard to resist that cup of hot mocha or that nibble on a jalapeño cheetos stick. Which is why I've been reluctant to post anything until now.

Dinner is served.

This is a serving of Huevos Habañeros (Eggs Havana Style) with a side dish of baked potato wedges. This is what I made for me and J just awhile ago. What's not shown is the frozen bottle of Cerveza Negra.

My cup only had one egg and is half the size of the cup in the photo above. For this week's baon I thought I'd make some pomodoro sauce and top it with spicy tuna. However since I seem to have a lot of excess sauce I've been scouring the net for a recipe that would have tomato sauce as the base ingredient. I found this at the little teochew blog after much scanning at tasteologie. The photos there are much better than mine but I think it's just as tasty!

It's very light and healthy but also quite filling.

Here's a shot of my bowl with a bit of the egg gobbled up. The entire cup fits into my palm so it's very small. My mother, who reads this blog was worried with my "large" portions. I just take very up close photos is all.

The potato wedges were first boiled then baked with a light coat of extra virgin olive oil. Butter would have made them nice and brown but olive oil is healthier and kept them from burning up as they went on the very top shelf of my teeny toaster oven (right next to the red hot rods, no pun intended) while I slid the bowls right below it.

The recipe for the main dish is provided in the link above. I didn't follow the ratio for olive oil or butter. I just used enough oil to coat what needed coating and totally did without the butter. I also used fresh basil from my tiny herb garden (more on that soon) instead of the parsley called for in the recipe. I also halved the recipe as I was only serving 2 people instead of 4. 

Potato wedges really are that easy to make. Just boil the chopped potato for 5-8 minutes, coat with sea salt, freshly ground pepper & extra virgin olive oil, then pop them in the toaster for 20 minutes. They were halfway done before I slid in the 2 bowls filled with eggs.

An option is to top the wedges with shredded provolone cheese & chopped basil as was done here. Gives it that extra yum!

As for my daily baon this week, it's a lot of broccoli, carrot slices, lettuce salad with chopped walnuts & atchara dip & spicy tuna tomato. This is in line with the Mayo Clinic Lose It! program I mentioned in an earlier post. I swear, I'm coming to prefer all those veggies over my usual carb-heavy picks nowadays.