I’ll start off by covering the good things.

Lost 1kg of bodyweight

Well if you want to lose some weight, apparently vegetarian is a great way to go. I ate some many fibrous vegetables last week that my digestive system went into overdrive. The weight loss was also probably related a little to less calories, although as I said at the start of last week I did not follow Eat Stop Eat this week so there alone is around 2000 extra calories.

Back into cooking

One of the things I loved this week was that I started cooking again. I hit up Dave’s site for some recipes and made the vegetarian pizza’s, the Eggplant Parmesan (which was amazing) and an egg version of his Shrimp Stir Fry.

And the one bad thing so far:

Not enough protein and not enough calories = lack of energy

I felt a little fatigued this week, and although it may have just been my early starts, I think it might also have been that I didn’t eat enough high calorie meals. This week I am aiming to eat more rice, quinoa, sweet potato and other complex carbs.

I will try to follow this rough guide:

Breakfast

• Cereal (weet-bix/oatmeal)
• Fruit
• Milk
• Yogurt

Morning Tea

• Toast with Peanut Butter, Jam, Vegemite, Nutella
• Milk with Milo

Lunch

• Gourmet omelette with toast
• Vegetable stir fry
• Vegetable burritos
• Maybe some extra fruit and nuts

Dinner

• Sweet potato/quinoa/rice
• Salad/steamed vegetables
• Cheese mmm

OR

• Soup
• Vegetable casserole

Snack

• Yogurt and fruit/nuts

Stay tuned for next weeks update.

Healthy Pizza Recipe

For a while I have been watching the cooking episodes on ProAtCooking.com mostly for the humour, rather than the recipes. You will see what I mean if you watch the episode below.

Tonight I decided that I just couldn’t resist the mouthwatering pizza recipe that Dave has cooked up. There are three pizza’s to make, 2 vegetarian and 1 with meat.

Now seeing as how delicious it was (it is currently in my belly), I thought I’d share it with you lot.

Watch it here:

Press here for the full recipe.

A few notes on my experience:

I picked up some wholemeal tortilla’s for the based. There was no mini wholemeal pita’s in the supermarket I stopped off in. These turned out to work really well, just like thin crust pizza.

I also used tomato rather than red capsicum as I didn’t happen to have any red capsicum in the fridge.You will be happy to know that they still tasted great.

Make sure you cook the vegetables properly beforehand as this really makes an impact on the taste of the end product. Also you don’t want crunchy zucchini on your pizza.

Don’t add too much cheese, otherwise you will smoother your pizza and it will not cook all the way through. It will also give the pizza a lighter feel, meaning that you will not feel sluggish and sleepy afterwards. This is a great meal to have after a hard workout.

Overall this took about 20 minutes from start to in my mouth.

Veggie pizza’s:

Meat (real) pizza: