Before we begin . . .

So we've taken our "before" pictures (which, eek. I always managed to be better placed to not look quite so heavy before), and are getting together all the things we'll need to start p90x next week. We're waiting one week for orders to be delivered and for DF to get back from a week of out-of-town business. In the meantime, I mean to run and maybe do the beginner's bodyweight workout from Nerd Fitness, and try to stay sane during another run-up to PACT week.

It's a little scary, looking at all this, but frankly, most of the nutrition stuff is stuff I've been looking at, and turning over in my head for a while. And knowing it's only for 90 days, then we'll reevaluate on the honeymoon, makes it less of a "I will never eat that again, never no-how" kind of thing. I know some of my friends are completely anti-wheat in all its incarnations, for example. I can't agree with that, but I do eat way too much of it. Our cleanse taught me (in just four days!) that I can get by with one carb a day. Heck, it's a step up from the "no grains, beans, legumes, etc" of the cleanse.

Yesterday, I made a mess of Cauliflower rice, which I then tossed with quinoa and just a bit of brown rice (about .5 cauliflower, .35 quinoa, .15 brown, long-grained rice), which will be our base for stuff this week. I'll probably do a "fried rice" with egg at some point (maybe as a breakfast! mmm!), and some stir-fry or curry-like thing later in the week.

Fitness stuff upcoming

So we are on the last day of a four-day cleanse I found via a beautiful food site - My New Roots. While I haven't yet been able to make her (admittedly wonderful-looking) Life-Changing loaf of bread satisfactorily yet, but may try again soon. Anyway, this cleanse ended up being pretty much just fruits, veg, and seeds prepared wonderfully. I won't be sorry when it ends tomorrow, but I have discovered a few winning recipes I intend to keep:

Winter Kale Slaw
Parsnip "Rice"
Coconut-Date Bites
Baked Apples

But wait! You cry. If anything, you're too crazed with baked-apple frenzy! And you're not incorrect. But the recipe above is nearly as lovely as my butter-and-brown sugar drenched delicacies, with nothing but apples, coconut, raisins, and spices. I won't leave the dessert-y ones forever, but the lighter ones could be a dessert or breakfast, anytime!

This cleanse was, on a whole, a way to shock our systems and get going into a more serious eating and exercise plan. This may well turn into a cooking and fitness blog now, not that food hasn't formed the vast majority of my posts so far. Apart from keeping going with school one and school two, that should form a majority of my plans for the near future.

Next up: Put new recipes (these and others) into My Fitness Pal so I can easily keep track of what I'm eating. If things go the way we plan, we'll have to be a bit calorie-conscious for the next, oh, 90 days . . .