Natural Oil Vegan Eating
Came across a new blog while hunting for a recipe I saw on Food Network: Beet Cakes with Marscarpone Cream on Ricardo and Friends. I think it would be awesome for a Valentine’s cake. Reviews said it was pretty good »
Can’t beet a good chocolate cake … and this one takes the cake! HAHAHAHA
This author is a vegan and prefers only natural oils in their non-processed state. She made two dark chocolate cakes, the first cake has 1 large beet and the second cake has ½ cup of blueberries. Also want to make them but this is a lot of cake. Way more than I can add to my daily consumption 🙁
Speaking of which, I calculated that my basal rate is about 1525 plus another 200 calories for daily living activities and wandering around at work. That means for me to loose weight, I need to eat at or below my daily caloric activity levels. The hard part is maintaining the extra activities: life seems to interfere. I try to walk/jog three times a week, do tai chi twice a week and want to get back to lifting mild weights and stretching. Why do I say try – because I have discovered I have will power issues and am quick to not want to do this. So why do I even bother making plans for retirement if I am just going to be unhealthy with complications like blood pressure and heart disease and cholesterol issues while still dreaming of loosing that elusive 20lbs? My husband asked that very question and I don’t have a good answer.
By my current calculations (hello, engineer) I can loose 2lbs every three weeks. If I am diligent, I might be able to loose 35lb in a year, assuming one day each week of unplanned eating (like at a friend’s house) and no massive eating out or gorging at my parents house on appetizers. It means by next Fall I should be back down into a size 8/10 and can wear more of the clothes in my closet that I made myself and can’t bear to give away … I wish I had more confidence that this will actually work. Somehow I keep thinking it looks great on paper, but I have tried this in 2008, 2009 and now twice 2010 and I am bigger than I was when I first started. I wish I had more confidence in myself that this is what I want to do and am capable … I also wish I could think of more confident language than “wishing”
The fact is – you don’t loose weight as an action item. I can’t will my body to shed these pounds over night. I can eat planned, healthy meals within moderate caloric intake boundaries. I can choose to add walking, jogging, weight lifting and fitness classes to each day as a means of increasing my caloric output. The benefits of these daily decisions is a healthy weight that I can maintain that makes me feel sexy and enables to me to wear outfits I feel comfortable and attractive in, stronger muscles to support my bones and home renovations, a lowered heart rate (my resting rate is that of a hummingbird) and better sleep because my muscles are craving a rest for recovery. These should be my goals, not wishes.
