Mamasitas Veggie Lasagna

August 11 2010

My mom was a good cook and she loved pasta.  Her Lasagna was great as it was all meat and cheese.  Nummy nummy.  Before she passed she had tried to make a veggie lasagna and it turned out awesome.  So the other day we had a family night at my brother and sister in laws house and I was going to make mamas lasagna for everyone.  So I thought of making both of them and I tried to make her veggie one.  It turned out awesome so I thought I would share the recipe with you.  Now I’m not a big cook so I don’t know if I will write this correctly but I will do my best.

Ingredients

1 box of whole wheat lasagna noodles
2 cans of your favorite pasta sauce.  I used Hunts original pasta sauce
Cottage cheese
Spinach
Grated mozzarella cheese
Cut up veggies.  I used bell peppers, celery and zucchini.  You can add whatever you want.

1. Boil the noodles till they are just about cooked.  Drain and rinse with cold water
2. Line your lasagna pan with some pasta sauce to cover the bottom
3. Line your pan with noodles above the sauce.  This may only take a few just make it even.
4. Add spinach and veggies on top of the noodles.
5. Then put some cottage cheese and mozza cheese over the veggies
6. Layer noodles on top.
7. Add sauce over noodles and then repeat steps 4, 5, 6 until your pan is full.
8. Your last layer should be covered with noodles and sauce and then add some mozza cheese on top.
9. Bake in oven for about 45min on 375 degrees
10. Once everything is cooked put on broil for about 2 min until cheese is golden brown

Now you can serve it.

NUMMY NUMMY.
Enjoy.

The Fat Girl

Life is hard sometimes…

August 06 2010

I have been going through a lot of emotions the past few weeks and it seems that everything is coming to a point.  Life is hard and unfair sometimes and I have had to deal with some overwhelming events in my life and it just does not seem fair.  I am now coming to realize that some of these emotions that I am keeping is what is stopping me from being as successful in my journey.  I’m not sure if I have shared to all of you that my mom passed away from cancer 4 years ago.  This was the hardest thing I had to endure in my life.  My mom was everything to me.  She was my mamasita, best friend, psychologist, and truly a great love.  When she passed a part of my heart was taken with her and I will never be able to fill that as it was only for her.  After she passed things changed with everyone around me.  I feel now that I have been abandoned by my family and it’s just me in this world alone.  I do have a great husband and his family is so good to me and I am so blessed to have them and my friends in my life to create a new family but sometimes it’s just not the same.  With all these feelings I’m now starting to realize that I need to learn how to accept what has happened and try to move forward.  I can’t keep holding on to all of this anger and resentment and it’s time to let it go.  Now understanding this and actually doing it is a whole different story.  I don’t know how to let it go and I know this will take time and it is going to be tough but understanding the problem is the first step right????

So with all of this I have decided it’s time to buckle down and get things done.  So I went to U Weight loss last night for a consultation and it went really well.  Their program guarantees results and it will help me with my food issues.  I feel that this is the lazy way as I know all the stuff that I need to do but its hard to keep accountable to myself and it’s so easy to sway so I need someone to tell me what to do so I can just do it.  I have started training with a new personal trainer 3 days a week and I’m really excited to be working with her.  She is so individualized and she may be a small little woman but she can really kick my butt.  She is going to get me in contact with one more nutritionist before I join U weight loss as this person may be able to help with the same things so I will give that a try first before I make a decision.  I also know that I need to start talking more about my loss and try to get these emotions out and learn to accept and forgive.  So if anyone has any tips on this I could use some. 

So that’s it for now.  I’ll try and blog a bit more often now that I’m back in it and trying to move forward. 

The Fat Girl

Update

July 25 2010

There has been a few changes in the last month and I thought it was time to share with all of you.  Since my booty camp finished I really stopped carrying about eating well and working out.  I was so stressed out and exhausted that I just gave in to temptation.  I was quite surprised how easy it was to just fall into old habits.  However this time I knew what I was doing and it was easy to jump out of it. 

I decided not to join the next summer camp as I really needed a change in my training.  So I was going to they gym with the fat guy.  And that wasn’t really going.  We found other things to do and I wasn’t really accountable to anyone.  I have a friend at work who is a trainer and I was always hesitant of working out with her.  I think it was because I was already working with some amazing women and I didn’t really want to change.  But now I needed the change and I needed to do something so I gave her a try.  And my oh my I’m glad I did.  She is awesome.  It is amazing how trainers can be so different in good ways.  The main difference is that I work with her one on one and this type of training is really all about you.  It is my time to be selfish and she is there for that hour just for me and it definitely changes things.  I feel so happy to be with her and feel so grateful that she is listening to me and really trying to make my workouts fit for me and my body.  I am going to be seeing her 3 times a week and I will put my goal out there for all of you so that I can be accountable to you. 

I WANT TO LOSE 10lbs BY SEPTEMBER 1st.  

So with that out there I cannot back down.  I’m re-motivated and recharged and ready to give it my all.  So wish me luck everyone and stay tuned to see if I do it :-)

The Fat Girl

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