<p>Sounds great! Will try it this week! We did boneless chicken and it turned out good too.
Hope there are no safety/toxicity issues with the plank cause I just love that flavor.</p>
<p>We are really enjoying the fresh white bean salad from Costco. Nice little mix-in for salad and goes well with sea food.</p>
<p>Love salmon but getting tired of it. When I diversify with mahi mahi or halibut they all complain. Lately, have been into bone-in pork chops on the grill. Too darn good - hard to stop at one.</p>
<p>I envy all of you who can eat so much fish. I’ve gotten food poisoning three times from fish, so now I’m less than enthusiastic. I’ll eat it on occasion, but unless I’m positive that it’s super-fresh, I can’t stand the thought of it.</p>
<p>My mysterious excruciating leg pain, which I think might have had something to do with the piriformis, eventually morphed into shin pain. (Not clear whether the two were related, of course.) No shin pain today after taking a day off. I’m going to the gym later today…wonder whether it will return, or what kind of cardio I could do to avoid it. Any advice?</p>
<p>missypie…if it smells like fish…I won’t eat it. Fresh fish has very little smell. I get it from Wegmans. Have probably bought there over 50 times. I’ve returned for a refund twice. The fish wasn’t spoiled but not up to their usual top-notch standards. So it’s important to find a place you can trust. And to learn what fresh fish smells like (and even looks like…I can usually detect fresh by looks now). I also avoid fish high in mercury (tuna, swordfish) and most farmed fish…including tilapia. I don’t like what they eat. And I care about what I eat eats 
(terrible grammar and sentence construction…I know).</p>
<p>sewhappy…tried the Target brand (Archer’s Farm???) frozen mahi mahi recently and it was surprisingly very good. H loved it. I grilled it with McCormicks garlic and herb grillmates. Will try the cedar plank scallops…MOWC…about how long do the scallops take to cook??? And just where does everyone get their cedar planks?</p>
<p>Don’t think I could give up spicy tuna rolls! I love them! Don’t like very many sushi roll but this is my favorite!</p>
<p>NorthernMinnesota, thank you for that suggestion. Where we live we find our best bet is with good quality flash frozen seafood. I will try the Target mahi mahi. The Costco frozen is good quality but the fillets are very thick and I think take too long to cook and also don’t absorb the marinade well enough. The end result is dry.</p>
<p>I buy the cedar plank at the grocery store near the butcher section. They come in a batch of about four. You only use them once.</p>
<p>I think H buys the planks at Sam’s or Costco. Same with the scallops. He cooks them (I am not a cook) and I think it’s only about 10 minutes or so- maybe a little longer. I like them well-cooked.</p>
<p>We get our cedar planks at Costco. I was thinking 10 minutes would do it for scallops. I also like them pan-seared so they have a nice brown crust. I put some good quality balsamic vinegar on first. I love to cook!</p>
<p>I was told once, that you can get frozen wild tilapia at Target, and yes, the key is to avoid the farm-raised, or to go to a place (like Whole Foods) that has high standards for farm-raised fish, and inspect these farms regularly. </p>
<p>Consolation… do you have a good stretch for your piriformis? Mine has actually been very tight lately and I’ve been focusing on the stretching more. I mentioned up thread, foam rollers. That’s what I’m using, and it’s incredibly painful, but I think I’m making progress. It’s amazing how, compensating for a tight piriformis can lead you to overcompensate other muscle groups and create pain.</p>
<p>Coming to this party a bit late–214 pages, to be exact!! I’m determined to lose some of this weight. I’d be happy with a loss of 25 pounds, but could go as much as 35. Suppose the goal of keeping it off is the most important goal–and tolerating the inevitable ups/downs associated with weight loss.</p>
<p>I have back issues–had surgery a couple of years ago, so there are problems with certain kinds of activity. Pre-menopause, I could just up my exercise level and ‘watch’ what i ate and weight came off fairly easily. No longer the case! I’m thinking of joining Weight Watchers. Has anybody participated in WW in recent years? At any rate, I’m going to follow this thread and get some moral support form this fine group…</p>
<p>As for a light lunch: I don’t eat fish at all. One of my favorite “little” meals is a sliced apple with crunchy peanut butter. Lovely crunch from both the peanuts and the apple. Nice contrast of textures and flavors.</p>
<p>masslou - my personal trainer told me that WW is the best program out there, especially when you combine it with the principals of something like South Beach Diet (which, let me add, I think is a misnomer, because I don’t think SBD is a temporary fix… it’s a lifestyle change).</p>
<p>Almost everyone I know that has tried WW has had success with it as long as they stick to the program. </p>
<p>H and I are walking testimonies to SBD, though, without incorporating WW. But we know these are permanent changes in our lives and are OK with that.</p>
<p>btw, masslou, if you change your CC settings to display 40 posts per page, then you’d only be joining 81 pages into the thread!</p>
<p>Teriwtt–no I don’t have a good stretch for the piriformis. I concentrated on doing a lot more hamstring and back stretches and added the kind of thigh stretch where you pull your heel up to your rear. I really am underinformed on the stretching front. I currently do a combination of some yoga positions and stretches that I recall from days of yore. Any suggestion of sources for good stretches? I know nothing about using rollers, stability balls, or any of that new-fangled stuff! :)</p>
<p>One of my favorite lunches is steamed vegetables (a head of cauliflower or equivalent amount of other things), a can of chickpeas and a ready made Indian sauce of your choice. It makes enough for four or five days.</p>
<p>Usually I just eat leftovers - about 3 oz. of meat/fish/poultry, and a vegetable and/or salad.</p>
<p>I had a salad I really liked in a recent NYT magazine. Basically one navel orange, a dozen good olives, a handful of parsely, some good extra virgin olive oil. I think you could throw some nuts in for a whole meal.</p>
<p>I eat a cheese sandwich on horrible Ezekiel sprouted wheat bread from Trader Joe’s practically every day. And a pink lady apple. Keeps me full until dinner.</p>
<p>piriformis stretch
lay on back- bend knees Cross the right leg over the left, with the right ankle resting on the left knee. Pull left thigh toward you while pushing right knee away.</p>
<p>I find stretches to be much more effective when I spend more time in cool down than warm up- I can go deeper since they are already warmed up.</p>
<p>i do most of these stretches in my yoga class…and they’re helpful.
[Piriformis</a> Stretches](<a href=“http://www.jaxmed.com/massage/pirformis_stretches.htm]Piriformis”>Piriformis Stretches – Healthcare Information: Jacksonville Medical Park Online)</p>
<p>I also sometimes use a foam roller ball. They usually come with an instructional dvd or booklet. Got mine at Target. </p>
<p>I never tried that Ezekiel bread but I’ve been tempted. Maybe not.</p>
<p>Yep, those are the best piriformis stretches. The only thing I do differently, is I hold the stretch for maybe 20-30 seconds, instead of 2-3, and after each ten second interval, I try to push the stretch a little bit more. Then I do it two-three times on each side. </p>
<p>Here’s a link to a video on how to stretch the piriformis with the foam roller:
[O’Fit</a> Foam Roller for Piriformis Video](<a href=“http://vodpod.com/watch/1531181-ofit-foam-roller-for-piriformis]O’Fit”>http://vodpod.com/watch/1531181-ofit-foam-roller-for-piriformis)</p>
<p>I’m not sure if this link is allowed per CC TOS, but if it is removed, then google O’Fit Foam Roller for Piriformis.</p>