The real Slim Shady

Hi Guys

Guess who's back, back again...
The last time I was here was April of last year and I told you I had some exciting news.  Well, I had a little boy on November 30th, I was about 10 weeks pregnant when I wrote that post and as for the cheese festival - I went, and spent the entire day with my head in the toilet!

So I guess now I can tell you all about the Dukan diet and pregnancy and how that ship didn't even get to leave the harbour...  During my first 16 weeks I couldn't stomach the sight of meat, I'd feel nauseous whenever my tummy was even a little empty and the only food that didn't make me vomit was salt and vinegar Lay's and white bread with cheese.  After the first 10 kilo's piled on, I decided to go see a dietitian and I left her office in good spirits, and went shopping for my new eating plan - yeah, that lasted exactly 2 days and after gaining another 20 kilo's over the following months, I decided to spare the poor woman the frustration and hoped that by not seeing me anymore, she'd decide not to drive her car off a bridge one morning.

By the day of my Cesarean section (he was breech) I weighed 133kg - yup, my gynae got to properly load the bill for operating a morbidly obese patient.  At 5pm on Friday, November 30th 2013, Adriaan Hendrik Botha was born, a tiny little boy, the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my entire life.  My heart felt like it was about to explode (evidently, so did my ass), and I was so proud.  3 Days later we went home and in the subsequent week 16kg just dropped off, I was ecstatic, but then it stopped.  Just like that.  It was over.

So began my battle with weight and food again.  My boy is now two months old and I started to go to the gym 2 weeks ago, but lacked the self motivation to get myself really good and tired and when Friday struck, I went into full on carbicide mode.

So - here's what's going to go down.  There are two things that generally motivate me - spending money on something and accountability to others.

For the first part I hired a personal trainer, a real pit bull, that will unscrupulously whip my ass into shape.  For the second part - I'm back here, aren't I?  This blog makes me accountable to you.  As always, there will be a Dukan friendly recipe of my own with every blog plus, I've had to start a new ticker, since the last time I posted, I weighed 95 kg, and this morning I weighed 120kg...

So, recipe...mmm, have to really rack my brain here, since I haven't cooked anything Dukan in months.  Let me see..

Well, I do remember an awesome quiche from way back when you might like.

Ham and Artichoke quiche

• one onion, chopped
• 1/2 green pepper, chopped
• 1 tomato, chopped
• 250 ml skim milk
• 3 extra large eggs
• 300 g lean smoked ham (0r chicken or turkey or what ever lean meat floats your boat)
• 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
• 1 teaspoon of wholegrain mustard
• freshly ground black pepper
• 1 can of artichoke hearts, chopped
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch

Whisk together the eggs and milk.  Saute the onion, tomato and green pepper in a pan sprayed with non stick spray until soft. Now mix everything together and bake at 180 degrees Celsius in a 20x20 cm ovenproof dish for about 40 minutes.

Sometimes I add some fat free feta, just for the hell of it - real good, mmm.

All right, so there's my first post after a looong absence, I hope you'll find inspiration here and as always -

God bless,
Janie B