I love cooking!

So, things are going well. I didn't get to the gym for the last three days due to being really overloaded with projects, but I'm going to go today. Also, my roommate bought a scale, so I'm gonna weight myself later and see if I've lost any weight or if my jeans feeling large is just an illusion. Good news! Scale says I'm at about 136, meaning I've lost three pounds! This is really encouraging!

I feel like I've been doing pretty well though! I made some awesome barbacoa beef for dinner last night and ate it Chipotle style. Totally worth the four hours I had to let it simmer on the stove. I put the beef over some cilantro lime rice and added some salsa verde I found at the grocery store, as well as a little light sour cream and some queso fresco. According to myfitnessapal, that meals came out to just under 400 calories, which isn't bad considering a Chiptole burrito can run you at least 1000 calories.

I also made my mom's poolside dip recipe, which I'll have to post later. It's basically stuff like tomatoes, bell peppers, avocado, etc with a little lemon juice that you eat with chips. It's a really great healthy snack, since it's almost all veggies. I made it an attempt to get myself to eat more veggies. Lots of chopping, but it makes a lot and it's super good.

I'm hopefully gonna go Zumba tonight, if not I'm hitting the gym. I'm feeling pretty good either way- gonna have some poolside dip and and English muffin for lunch.