First, get your mind out of the gutter! I am suggesting that you eat it. I bought some bananas a couple of weeks ago and I've kept them in the fridge, but they are starting to go brown and it's no fun to eat a banana that's gone all brown and slushy. So what can you do apart from throw them away or make fattening banana bread?
Well, I stole this idea from my Girl Scout days. Take the banana and slice into it vertically all the way down lengthwise, so you have a huge slit. Open up the banana and stuff it with a tablespoon of chopped nuts and a tablespoon of chocolate chips.
You can be lazy, like I was tonight, and put the stuffed banana in the microwave for 1 minute, or you can wrap it in foil and bake it at 400 degrees for about 15-20 minutes. However, the best way to cook this is wrapped in foil and nestled in the embers of a fire, or the coals of a charcoal grill. That way you also impart some smokey flavours. Yum.
This is a great antidote to a sweet craving, and it's even mostly healthy, except for the chocolate chips.
You'll also be pleased to know that the moratorium on alcoholic beverages is going well. I haven't freaked out yet. I'm hoping though, that the calorie reduction is worth it. I had better lose some weight for giving up my precious Savignon Blanc. I sound like Gollum:
"my preciousssssss." I went out for a 30th birthday party on Saturday night as the virtuous DD and had a great time, sans booze. I think I might be more obnoxious without it, if my singing along to eighties videos loudly and dancing badly is anything to go by.
I haven't had a chance to blog much in the past few days. I'm putting my house on the market in the next few days, so all efforts have been devoted to that. Happily for my metabolism, this has involved much physical labour, including many hours yesterday spent digging, raking, pruning, weeding, bagging leaves, and hauling around bricks and rocks. I became aware of many muscles in my buttocks and thighs I had forgotten I owned.
I also have a little side job at my friend's flower shop (Brocade Design Arts) in downtown Nashville. Most of the deliveries are on foot, so I get to jaunt around town carrying flower arrangements, which gives me a little exercise here and there. So I've been getting up off my arse and moving around, even if I haven't had time to schedule dedicated work-outs. I hope to be able to resume my walking/running very soon when my house is finally listed, but until then, I continue to wield paintbrush and rake.
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Wow, I was definitely in the gutter when I beganreading this, but hey, you know me! Aaaanyway....
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the alcohol free adventure. The key to making it pay off is to make sure you don't substitute other calories for the wine, beer, martini, etc. One good thing about being DD...it's sooo much cheaper!
All the activity is excellent, but you've got to make sure you're getting the heart rate up at the same time and keeping it up. That's where the real fat burning takes place. I hear this from a lot of people trying to lose weight, "I don't exercise, but I'm always active." Activity is wonderful and definitely more beneficial than sedentary living, but pound shedding comes from sustained heart rate elevation and breaking a sweat. Now, having done lots of home improvement myself, I know that what you did is very physically demanding and it will add up in calories burned. In a future post, I'll list off some common activities and how long you have to do them to burn off X number of calories.
Yeah, Sunday was exhausting! I definitely broke a sweat, several times. I also got a little sunburnt. If I get any time tomorrow, I plan to go out and walk/run, because the weather is so beautiful, but my schedule has been pretty hectic these past few days and looks that way tomorrow.
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