fitness articles: What do you eat?

Last Saturday I got together with my friend Melissa and we made dinner at her place. After lots of difficult deliberation throughout the week, we decided to make pizzas, vegetable style. Melissa is vegetarian so that ruled out all my recipes with meat or chicken. We wanted to make pizzas using eggplants and Portobello caps as the crusts. As I noted in previous posts, the reason for using vegetables as crusts wasn’t to make the meal low-carb, it was purely for taste.

We basically made a pizza buffet and had a ton of more vegetables for toppings. We used

Peppers
Onions
Goat Cheese
Mozzarella Cheese
Cheddar Cheese
Shrimp (I needed something for protein! She stole a couple…)
Roasted red peppers
Sun-dried Tomatoes
Tomato sauce
BBQ sauce

Here’s what they looked like

Melissa about to lose a finger...

Ready to get baking

Sliced and ready for the oven

Prepared and ready for the oven--Hers

Melissa's variety

My first plate

Best part about these? You get to eat like 10 pizzas because each one is small and low-calorie. Plus you get to try a million different variations so no pizza is the same.

So here’s the first question–how would you top your pizzas?

Second question: What do you eat for breakfast before a workout, or anytime before a workout?

I used to be able to have a big bowl of cereal and granola with yogurt or milk, but lately this hasn’t been sitting as well in my stomach; I don’t know if its the dairy or maybe just a couple bad days, but I don’t feel like risking a workout on it. What I have works the best for me, among other a couple other things, is oatmeal and protein powder.

I call it, workout souffle! Mix between 1/2 a cup and a full cup of oatmeal with 1 scoop of protein powder, some egg whites or EggBeaters, and a banana. Add an appropriate amount of water (or milk if it suits you). You can also mix in peanut butter or handful or nuts too. Here’s how mine looked: