Well...that was sort of a disaster for me but a huge success for my husband. Which is great! Pep is still doing it! I admire his dedication to it and he's lost 14 lbs which is what he set out to do. I, however, gained a couple of lbs. Not good. Maybe I wasn't doing it right, I dunno. But it seemed very carb heavy to me which, with my diabetes, didn't agree with me.
I also think that I didn't weigh out food and follow a decent plan. It was sort of catch as catch can and make things up on the fly.
Frankly, I hate to plan out meals. Well, I don't hate it. But I do find it to be kind of a pain in the boo-tay. So that's why we did it meal by meal.
Pep is lucky though...he doesn't have the hormones to contend with. And I think I've shot my metabolism because I wasn't exercising enough.
Now that I'm back to eating the way I had been, I find it easier to make the effort.
I absolutely support Pep. He's decided to continue eating vegan until the beginning of summer. (He misses hamburgers.) But that may not be the case when the time comes. He may decided to keep going. He also supports me, which is good. It doesn't make things easier as far as shopping but really it's OK.
Oh! I must tell you about my vegan Banana Pecan Chocolate Chunk Cake! OMG! It's really awesome! And really easy too!
I took a basic recipe from the Fannie Farmer cookbook for Banana Cake and modified it. Here's how:
Whole wheat flour for regular flour
1/4 of soft tofu for each egg (Can't even taste it!!)
Earth Balance buttery spread for the butter
The recipe asks for 1/2 cup of sour cream or sour milk. I just used Almond Milk. Yumm!
Then I added chopped pecans and chopped Ghiradelli chocolate squares to the mix.
The texture was much lighter than I expected and it even had sort of a pleasantly crunchy top. It's sort of halfway between a banana cake and a banana bread.
I'm telling you...you can't even taste the difference! How awesome is that!
Then the piece de resistance...a delicious "butter"cream frosting made with Earth Balance, Confectioner's sugar and vanilla.
Sweet!! But not too sweet. It went really well with the nuts and chocolate.
So, ta daaaa!
Now you can do your own!
Oh, on a last note: I donated platelets today for cancer patients. I guess they're pretty low and need it desperately. It's a good feeling! Go do it!
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