Day 12

I decided to keep the camera out all day to take some food pictures after the fun with making the bacon.  Here is my breakfast of scrambled eggs, sauteed spinach, and grape tomatoes.  It was very filling and I never tire of eating it.  Good thing I had a hearty breakfast because my day was very eventful.

 

Today my trainer decided that our workout would be TRX.  I was not super happy about this because I hate TRX.  I feel like I am an uncoordinated weakling when I have to do these workouts.  I take solace in the fact that I am using my body weight and that is why it is so hard.  Hopefully, I will be able to do a TRX workout better as the pounds start to come off.  My trainer took measurements for my workout buddy and was going to do them for me.  I was 90% ready to have them done but stopped before I got on the scale and said I would wait until the end of the month.  I was really proud of myself for not caving into the overwhelming urge to see what I weigh.  The day will come soon enough and I will be that much happier that I waited.  Our workout was killer, but somehow I got the bug to do even more work when I got home.  I mowed the lawn and then decided to attack the bushes that have taken over the front of our house.  I don't really know what to do with them other than to cut the shit out of them.  They are overgrown and full of banana spiders.  I don't mind them so much because they eat all the bugs but I don't need ten of them in a few square feet of space.  I am thinking of slowly hacking away at them until they are all gone.  We have a palm tree in the corner of our front "flower" bed that I think will grow much faster without being suffocated by bushes.  Plus it will be less maintenance in the long run.  Maybe I will even get a wild hair and plant something in their place one day.

After all this activity, I gladly chowed down on leftovers from last night.

I was so hungry that I just ate out of the containers and didn't bother getting a plate.  They were just as good as last night!  I relaxed for a bit before running some errands around the island.  When I got home it was time for dinner and I was excited to try a new recipe.  Dave makes salmon cakes all the time and I love them, but it has been a long time since I have had a salmon fillet.  I grabbed one at the store while I was running around earlier.  I found a great herd crusted salmon recipe online and decided to give it a try.  I made some mashed cauliflower with roasted garlic (this combo is not permanently stuck together) and some roasted brussel sprouts. 

It was delicious and I have enough to eat for dinner tomorrow night.  Normally, I would try and make something new for dinner tomorrow and just eat this for lunch, but I have a birthday party to go to.  It is at a restaurant that I have eaten at a lot and know there isn't anything on the menu that I want/can have at this moment.  I have my last day of work tomorrow so I wont have time to make something really tasty before I head out the door for the party.


Herb Crusted Salmon
http://remcooks.com/2012/08/06/herb-crusted-salmon-with-garlic-roasted-asparagus/http://remcooks.com/2012/08/06/herb-crusted-salmon-with-garlic-roasted-asparagus/

I didn't have any Herbes de Provence handy (I am not that fancy by any stretch of the imagination) so I just mixed some herbs and white pepper together and called it good.