I know what you are thinking.  You want to try this whole, Zone eating, you keep hearing about, but you’re not sure.  You see other people making drastic changes to their body composition.  You see people crushing workouts when just a few weeks prior, they were the ones slogging through, just trying to make it out alive.  But eating in the Zone and keeping your carbohydrate intake under control can be tough, especially if you like pasta.  I’ve got your solution.  Spaghetti squash.  Seriously, comparing this stuff to pasta is like comparing a set of barbell thrusters and a 500 meter row to the leg extension machine and a recumbant bike.  No contest.  So here’s the deal, pasta itself doesn’t really have a taste, so it’s the sauce that makes or breaks the spaghetti.  Luckily for me I make a killer spaghetti sauce because pasta was a HUGE part of my diet until a little more than a year ago.  Spaghetti squash is suprisingly similar to traditional spaghetti, only it has just a bit of a crunch to it.  Think of it as pasta that has been cooked al dente.  Here’s how to make it happen:

Cut the squash in half (long way)
Remove the seeds and the loose “spaghetti” that is in the center
Place the two halves, face down in a large baking pan with about 1 inch of water.
Bake in the oven for 60 minutes.
In the meantime, cook up your favorite marinara sauce and as always, make sure it has lots of meat!
Remove squash from oven.
Use a fork to draw the “spaghetti” from the squash.
Add sauce and enjoy.
 

Lastly, big props to Patty, who really pushed the pace of her workout this morning.  Patty has been coming to the 8:15am class for some time now, but this morning was the first time she came to the 6am class.  Patty did great and was able to keep up with the “big dawgs”, that are 6am crew!

Twelve elderly Italian women just died of a heart attack after reading my suggestion that squash is a tastey substitute for pasta.   3.8 million people worldwide die each year of diabetes.  Pasta bad, veggies good.  Have a good weekend.

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