Too much flour, too much food, amazing portabella pizza

Hello! Hope everyone’s weekend was fabulous! Mine went by too fast and I’m pretty sure I ate too much, ha!

Part of the reason I ate too much was because of these babies … whole wheat chili chocolate chip cookies topped with hemp seeds. (I used  a 74% cacao chili dark chocolate for the “chips”).

Erik pretty much NEVER requests cookies (he’s more health conscious than me though I’m quickly catching up with him, ha) and IF he does he never wants them to be cookies with flour. (Here’s a good description of why we don’t usually eat a lot of things with flour in case you’re wondering … basically, it’s still very processed and has a high GI)

However,  the medicine he’s had to take for his sinus/ear infection/whatever it is, problem has made his eating habits very weird and he wanted a faster digesting cookie so I made these.

When cookies are in the house, I have a hard time resisting them! (Ha, which is why they rarely are). 

Last night, we decided it would be pizza night. It was kind of late in the evening so instead of making crust, which I would have rather done, we just bought some whole wheat crust.

Ingredients:

• Tomato paste
• Diced tomatoes
• Little bit of olive hummus
• Freshly sliced mozzarella
• Some reduced fat tomato basil feta cheese
• Lean ground beef
• Little bit of shredded cheese
• Seasonings

I opted to have mine on a large portabella mushroom (YUM!) so that I wouldn’t have anymore flour after all those darn cookies I ate.

This was my first portabella mushroom pizza experience and it was pretty much amazing!

And extremely filling!

But I still had dessert … a couple small cookies (yes, more) and a cottage cheese/raspberry mixture.

I find that the less hardcore I workout, the more food I want to eat. When I was faithfully lifting hard 5-6 days along with morning cardio I never wanted to just keep eating, nor would I have wanted so many cookies.

                p.s. my favorite magazine came!

I love food and I love cooking and baking healthy foods. But if I’m not at the right balance of working out/eating, I tend to love eating that food way too much too, ha.  I’m not sure why that is but I’m thinking maybe because my post lifting shake packs a pretty big punch and easily satisfies any lingering craving for sweets?

Oh well … just some random recent observations that no one probably cares about but that I shared anyways ; )

Hope you had a great weekend!!

 

-Lesley