After 17 months, half of me is left!

It has now been 17 months since I started my weight journey. It is real that I have lost half of my previous weight and size during these months. It is like a whole person. It is really incredible. The other day I wore a short dress, silk stockings and shoes with heals for the first time in I don´t know how many years. It felt really incredible to be able to do this and without feeling uncomfortable at all. Just to walk in these shoes felt incredible. For so many years now I have only worn jogging shoes.

I have again compared pictures to see how far I have come. These pictures are two years apart. March 2012 I think I was the biggest I have been. Seven months after I started my weight journey. 

Every day these seventeen months I have stuck to my changed way of eating. It has been a real learning experience in food and nutrition and I am amazed to the results.

This morning I didn´t have much in my refrigerator so I just made a fruit salad for breakfast of what I found.

Fruits salad

Melon

Mango

Pomegranate

Grapes

Quark

Sesame seeds

Sunflower seeds

Roast sunflower and sesame seeds to sprinkle the salad

Cut the fruit in small cubes and mix with a little quark 

A breakfast plate full of vitamins 

It has been years since I would show my legs or walk in other shoes than jogging shoes. The feeling strange, but good. 

Here is a dish I made the other night with baked salmon i coconut sauce and with steamed vegetables. I put the recipe on my food blog. Try it out, it tastes great!

Salmon with Coconut 

 

http://ohemmabjorg.blogspot.se/2014/03/salmon-in-coconut-milk-sauce.html

Measure how far I have come, not how much I have left!

My breakfast this morning was a visual and tasteful delight in addition to being a vitamin bomb. The ingredients: cut melon, oranges, bananas, green grapes, strawberries, sunflower seeds and sesame seeds. The fruits cut in small pieces and sprinkled with the seeds. 

I have previously posted the nutritional ingredients of both oranges, melon, and bananas. Now I will even here add the strawberries and the grapes. I do enjoy the fact I am eating all this healthy foodstuffs that is so good for my body and at the same time I also loose weight every day. 

I do spend some time to see my progress through comparing pictures. And I dug out some old one´s the other day and compared with the photo of the day. It gave me more inspiration. Every day I try to think how far I have come and not how much I have left. It is a big difference. But this day I wanted to compare to the past when I was slim and not the period I had most weight. And I did feel inspired by the progress I have made and not overwhelmed by the thought I have a long way to go to where I again would like to be.

I even found some links to the real benefits of seeds like, sesame seeds and sunflower seeds, so I am giving you these links as well since it is really good to add some of these in the diet. Check it out if you like. You can search on any food items on this site.

Sesame seeds

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/8-super-health-benefits-of-sesame-seeds.html

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/8-super-health-benefits-of-sesame-seeds.html#ixzz2vSfD6vUv

Sunflower seeds

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/5-super-health-benefits-of-sunflower-seeds.html

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/5-super-health-benefits-of-sunflower-seeds.html#ixzz2vSguAbHF

Asian pork collar with hoisine sauce

http://ohemmabjorg.blogspot.se/2014/03/asian-pork-collar-with-hoisin-sauce.html

Every day I even try to vary my food to make it exciting and flavorful even though with low level of carbohydrates, fat and sugar. And last night I made pork collar with Asian taste. Check out the recipt on my foodblog!

Finding inspiration each day!

Even today I have searched for some inspiration. And since I had time I have been cleaning out some more clothes. And I found some treasures I had not put away before, even though they never fitted for many years. But I had kept them in the closet for sentimental reasons. One sweather was a gift from someone in 1999, Winnie the Pooh. I did have so many Winnie the Pooh things for my daughter so I guess someone thought it fitted me:=). Well today when I tried it I could wear it and it was not even tight!

And I found two other treasures; sweathers from when I was at Concordia College in 1993. And I could fit both of them again! I feel very exited about the fact and it really is payback!

I am not down to my weight from 1993, but still the sweathers fit and were not tight as sausage skins! So it gave me really great inspiration to continue my journey!

Delicious breakfast with fruits!

These 16 months I had a lot of oatmeal for breakfast during the weekdays, as a matter of fact almost every single day. Still on weekends if I am home and have time I will try to make something different, to make the morning more festive. And a fruitsallad is a great breakfast. Sometimes I will make a smoothie, but sometimes also a bowl with fruits like this morning. I just looked to see what I had in the fridge and found some grapes, melon, banana, orange and nonfat youghurt. I even had a small package of raisins in the cupboard, cinnamon and some sesame seeds. So I found I could treat myself with the most delicious fruitsallad. Just cutting the fruits and sprinkle with a little raisins  and sesame seeds. I also sprinkled some cinnamon on the top and added a little youghurt and it was delicious. The bowl of fruit also looked so inviting that it was a really treat just to watch. And even the knowledge of eating just vitamins and "health" in every single spoon made me happy eating. I do like eggs and added a couple and some coffee and milk. So I had a breakfastbomb of vitamins, proteins and calcium.