10 Minute Salad

So I have been trying to lose weight and eat healthier and improve my life on all fronts. Part of me trying to lose weight has been rooted in my dealings with PCOS. I have recurring large, painful, horrific cysts that form mostly on my left ovary and frequently make it distend out of my abdominal wall. However, since BC pills, stress, PCOS, and years of working at a greasy pizza joint have left me overweight, I have spent the last year and a half struggling to even maintain the 15-20 pounds I have lost. I have a previous post detailing a previous dealing with doctors and proving that no, I'm not crazy, my ovary really is fucking exploding.

So anyway, I want to lose enough weight so that when I do finally have enough money and fitfo my heath insurance I can prove to whatever non total douchebag doctor that no, really, lefty might need to go. I really don't think there will be an argument when I can show a doc a swollen lump right where my ovary is. When I was a skinny little middle schooler, I would have abdominal pain and like once a month I could see a raised lump just in from my left hipbone, and it would go away a couple days later. Lefty needs to GO. But until I can find a doc who will listen, I have to lose the weight.

 So this is the salad I have been making to help me lose weight and prove to myself that eating healthier is just as fast and easy as spaghetti!

I have been using a green mix I found at Lucky's that has spinach, red and green chard, arugula, and some other kind of green. I love avocados, tomatoes, green onion, red cabbage, and cucumber as the "meaty" bits of my salad. I top it off with craisins, almonds, and swiss. 

I really do need to clean my counter off from all the random notebooks and whatnot.

 

 Green Onions are f-ing delicious.

 

 And I absolutely love red cabbage. I could eat it all day er'ry day. It's nice and kind of a spicy add to a salad. I also like ground pepper on my salads.

 I have been topping it with fresh ground swiss, almond slices, and cherry flavored dried cranberries. YUM!

 

  

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 BONUS POST

 Since I took so long to write this, I decided to add a second easy meal to it. 

 Yogurt and raspberries (on sale at king soopers today) and granola! Easy! Yum!

I have a love hate relationship with yogurt with granola and fruit. I've had it too much over the years to be able to eat it a lot. But today it was a welcome treat. I think I've been craving it.