Ohhhhh Noooooo

So Saturday after John left (thanks John for helping out), I parked myself on the couch and couldn't get up. I was passed out. I thought maybe it was my allergies (yuk). Sunday was a bit better but I was just foggy. Maybe because I slept for 12 hours. Makes sense, right.

Monday morning I'm still foggy but a coworker comes in sick because last Friday another coworker brought in her sick daughter. Oh. Light slowly starts to go on. Hmmm maybe it wasn't my allergies. I don't like being sick. Who does! If I will it into the corn field it won't exist.

So last night was a dilemma. Bootcamp? No Bootcamp? If I am sick, do I even risk spreading it to the marathoners (except too bad for Dave). Do I risk getting worse if I'm doing the Bike Tour this weekend? Decided not to go to bootcamp, stay warm and rested and fall asleep on the couch early.

Today-I think more of the same. Damm. I would have been nice if this head-fog thing would have been because of too much fun over the weekend. Nope. Not that. Just too many germs floating around. I'm still rooting for too much pollen floating around, but I don't think I'll win that one.

WARNING WARNING WILL ROBINSON. This post has some references that the under-30 (maybe the Under-40) crowd won't get! And I'm proud of it! YEAH!

No Zoning yet

Reading others' blogs about "The Zone" really makes me want to jump on the bandwagon (again). Last night, while D was gone, I brought out the Zone recipe book I bought last year. I thought I'd go thorough it, plan some meals out, figure out how many blocks for the menues I plan, etc. I'm trying to accomplish 1) cooking on Sunday and having the left-overs spill into quick after-bootcamp meals during the week, 2)less red meat but still keeping D happy, and 3) having it be quick, easy and with stuff I normally have in my pantry. Needless to say I shut down, put the book down (but not away) and sat and watched TV.

How many blocks is the roast chicken w/ rosemary, lemon-thyme and garlic, wild rice (no stuffing-too many carbs) and salad with homemade Honey-Mustard dressing? Hmmm 1/4 C dry wild rice = 30 gm carbs (3 blocks+ )and 6 gm protein (1 block). That was the full alotment of carbs :( But since I made extra, I didn't have the whole 1/4 C amount. I didn't weight the chicken but figured I really had just a bit more protein than 3 blocks.

See in my mind, the left-over chicken and wild rice will turn into chicken soup or chicken pot pie (somehow reformulated so there isn't any carrots or potatoes for a quick after-bootcamp meal. I may still add peas even though it's not really zone friendly. Yeah this is a Zone-ish recipe I'm working through my mind using the quick frozen biscuit from TJs as the only pastry part of this. I was looking for a substitute for the potatoes when I found out the acorn and butternut squash I've been making should be on the No Zone menu. Opps. And I thought I was been good getting D to eat Cooked Orange food: No cooked carrots, no butternut squash soup (unless the butternut is slathered with butter and brown sugar. So I guess that's getting crossed off the list.

I still didn't get a menu that's Zone Approved.

P-I'll join you in your Zoning when I get this all figured out.

Like to Cooking = Like to Eating