Dressing Doctoring

In my attempt to lose the weight I gained in the month of December, on our trip to Italy and during May, otherwise known as the month of me, I enrolled in a weight loss program that was different than my own self designed plan. I needed to hand my problem over to someone else who could just tell me what to do.

So far it is working great. I have lost all the weight I gained since returning from Italy and that is just on the pre-conditioning diet. Wednesday I start the real diet, which will be harder than the pre-conditioning. What I eat is not so different, except I don’t eat cheese or vinegar in unlimited amounts like I used to. I have been instructed to use Walden Farms zero calorie dressing and it is a basic affront to everything I am about.

I have not been a bottled dressing kind of gal for years and years so to ask me to eat this stuff has been hard on my palette. I would just use lemon juice, but that too has been limited to 1 teaspoon a day and I need every drop of it for my tea. I finally came up with the answer, I doctored the bottled dressing with some things I am allowed to have. I have to say I am fairly happy with the outcome.

Sesame Ginger Dressing Redone

In a blender put the following

¼ cup of Walden Farms 0 calorie Sesame Ginger Dressing

Ten fresh basil leaves

Handful of fresh cilantro including the stems

2 t. limejuice

1 clove of garlic

½ inch of grated fresh ginger

Whirl that mother up until the herbs are just tiny bits. If you like spicy add a few red pepper flakes.  It is infinitely better that the stuff right out of the bottle.

I may be able to survive being told exactly what to eat for a few weeks now.