A New Approach

Day 52

As you can see, I am not writing this blog everyday as I had originally planned. Its hard to write every single day and when you don’t write every single day its hard to remember what you had to eat 3 days ago. So here is my new approach. I am going to write when I cook something new or when I have something to say about P90X. Last night I cooked homemade pizza. Well semi-homemade. The whole wheat crust was store bought. The last time I attempted to make pizza dough it did not go well, thank god Justin will eat anything, but I knew he was not a fan, nor was I. And to think of making whole wheat crust was just absurd, I do have a recipe and maybe one night over a weekend when I have the time I will attempt to make it, but store bought it the way to go for now. For the pizza sauce I took whole tomatoes in a can…by the way…are tomatoes a fruit or a vegetable?? The reason I ask is we were watching Top Chef (our favorite show) and they said tomato was a fruit but in our nutrition book it says it’s a vegetable…so which one is it?? Anyway, I put those in a blender. Meanwhile I cooked some onions and garlic in sherry wine vinegar till they were translucent and I added the blended tomatoes. Added spices like red pepper flakes, garlic salt, Italian seasoning and I happen to have a spice called pizza seasoning, so I thought why not? Let that simmer for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile I chopped very thin yellow peppers, red onion and mushrooms. And for protein I cooked up some turkey bacon and chopped ham and turkey. Needless to say this was a SUPREME pizza in every aspect. Once the sauce was simmered I put it in the blender to get all the chucks smooth. Put the sauce on first then added the protein, then topped with the veggies then topped with a mixture or cheddar, mozzarella and feta cheese. Baked in the oven at 450° for 13 minutes. Not gonna tut my own horn but it was pretty damn good. Filling too!

We are going into our 3rd phase next week, last leg of the race as they would say. I was looking in the nutrition book and basically I am going to starve myself the next 5 weeks. I am cutting my protein in half, taking away 1 dairy and only adding 1 carb. They say this is the endurance maximizer “athletes diet” but I am not seeing it, I feel like I wont have much energy at all to go get maximum endurance, but we will see. 5 more weeks wooohooo!!!!