Day 38 - Spring rice in Thai sauce

Another of those hectic days when you go to work like usually and then none of your plans of just sitting behind a computer and solve all those "to-do" tasks on your email come through, because you end up spending half of the day running around looking for a new office.

We have only a month left in our old office and still no place to go. This should be fun. I only hope I don't end up working at home again.

In all the rush I surprisingly managed to make me lunch, though it did not take more than 5 minutes to assemble.

SPRING RICE IN THAI SAUCE
serves: 1

1 cup cooked rice
1 spoon olive oil
1 cup pf frozen spring veggies (such as: snow peas, asparagus, baby carrots, baby corn,...)
1/2 cup Thai sauce
salt & pepper to taste

Cook rise according to instructions, then rinse and drain it. I usually cook rice in the evening, then rinse&drain it, refrigerate and use it the next day. So when cooking lunch, I save about 20 minutes, because I don't need to cook the rice. And we all know there is always too little time on lunch break.

Heat oil in wok and add the frozen veggies. Stir and let the veggies get tender. With spring & baby veggies this shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

Then add rice, mix well and season with Thai sauce and spices to taste. My sauce is something like this.

And you're done & ready to eat! When you do not have time to experiment and spend the whole morning cooking, this is as good as it gets.

Needless to say, with only rice&veggies for lunch and a whole lot of running around, come dinner time I was starving! I had a package of pizza dough expired yesterday (!) and put it to good use:

Yes, I ate the whole thing! I added smoked tofu slices to my usual topping of zucchini, bell pepper and corn. Didn't have other veggies to add, sadly. I think some broccoli would have been great as well.

I told you, I eat like a pig :) and having started to run again, it doesn't help in reducing my appetite. Anyway, my weight still continues to drop, though slowlier and steadier. I'm at -4,5 to -5 kg right now. I think another 2-3 kg would be great and just about enough. So, maybe I'll reach that in a month or two. I am in no hurry. I didn't plan to lose so much weight when I started this diet, but it sure feels great that I have! I even stopped weighing myself ever so often and only do that now every week or so, because I'm really not after losing weight, but rather improving my health (which I did), having more energy (which I do!) and reshaping my body (which I'm working on!). I think if I stopped eating so much junk and ate fruit & salad instead of pizza (hehe) the weight loss would be even bigger. Which I am planning to, eventually :)