Chocolate Pudding Oven Pancake & 2 Week Update

First and foremost. I reached 1000 followers on Bloglovin yesterday, ehmahgerd! I'm not going to get too soppy about this but guys, this totally made my year better, it was one of my goals for 2014 and I cannot believe it happened! You are all amazing - thank you.

So I had to thank you and also since I reached 1k I wanted to celebrate, so I made this thingy. And it was good. So good I gushed about it on Twitter, and a few of you asked for the recipe! So here it is. Basically this is a chocolate wholewheat pancake which tastes like pudding (or Čokolino if you're from Slovenia). It's made with one bowl only and then baked in the oven and it's absolutely delicious! I also threw in a quick sauce but you can totally skip it as well. Now let's take a look at the recipe. By the way, I calculated the calories with MyFitnessPal, but I am in no way a professional so don't take my word for it!

Skinny Chocolate Pudding Oven Pancake

Serves: 2 very hungry people (me & Tilen) or 4 normal people, Calories (whole, no sauce): 470, Calories (whole, with sauce): 580. Calories per serving (4 servings): 145

For the pancake:

- 2 eggs

- 1/2 cup low fat milk

- 1/4 cup wholewheat flour

- 1/4 cup dark unsweetened cocoa

- 1/4 cup brown sugar

- a little bit of coconut oil

For the sauce:

- 1/4 cup low fat milk

- 1/4 cup mixed berries

- 1 tablespoon agave syrup

Preheat your oven to about 175°C or 350 F. Mix all of the pancake ingredients except coconut oil with an electric mixer in a single bowl. Prepare a cake pan, line the bottom with baking paper and grease the edges with coconut oil. Pour into pan, place in oven and bake for 5-10 minutes. Meanwhile, blend milk and berries to create a thicker sauce. Serve pancake, put sauce on top and add some agave for sweetness.

Literally as easy as it gets, and guys, this is actually amazing - it's so dense and thick and pudding-y and just so good! And by the way, you cannot even taste that the flour is wholewheat. It's just perfect!

Just in case anyone is interested, I also included some stats for my 2 week Healthy-Go-Happy Girl update since it has been 14 days ...

Day 14

Weight loss this week: 1.8 kg/4 pounds

Total weight loss: 3.5 kg/7.7 pounds

Thoughts on body: Surprisingly, I don't feel as disgusted as myself as I did last week. Not much has changed appearance wise, but I feel a lot more positive when I look in the mirror. Sure, there are still moments when I hate what I see, but mostly I'm just excited about what I'll look like in a couple of months' time. I did however, find two similar pictures of myself, one a few months old and the other from a few days ago - I thought I saw a difference in my face (yeah, I totally photoshopped them together and stared at them for approximately 7.412 hours). So that's always you know, a sign of being crazy.

Description of the week: The week started off okay, nothing special. Then, after a day or two, I suddenly noticed my weight stopped going down. Rather, I was gaining! I was incredibly upset because I was not going over my goal of 1200 calories at all, I moved as much as I could and tried so, so hard. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I skipped a meal a few days – once I ate loads in the morning and then again in the evening with nothing in between because I just did not have time. I think this is to blame. Also, I was so bad with drinking! These last few days I've been drinking water like crazy and it helps a lot. In general, it was a bit of a difficult week because I didn't lose as much as I wanted, but I'm okay with that now. I need to make better habits in my life. My only problem is excercise. I get freaked out by going outside, I'm in such bad shape I basically can't even do a push up, it just sucks! I need to figure something out. Been going for walks, but every single time I went out I completely freaked out, panicked and almost fainted. This isn't normal for me and I can tell it's the pressure of others that is having this effect. I want to take things at my own pace, and I hate it when people say 'Oh, just sign up for a gym membership!' or 'Just get moving!' Because literally, I can't. I can't even go for a stinking walk without having a panic attack. Also wanted to mention I'm really really not sorry I decided to talk about this journey publicly, I love that you're all with me and so supportive! What I really don't appreciate is people telling me I should be going for 'all or nothing'. I think I'm doing just fine at my own pace, it's great if you're strict and you see results, but I personally just cannot and don't want to eliminate all the stuff I love. I'm happy with my progress and really appreciate all of your advice, but also ask you to respect the way I am doing this. You have to understand that I just stopped taking some pills and I'm incredibly sensitive & emotional. :P So pretty much any comment will get to me. Whew, sorry about that, had to get it off my chest.

& That is all for today folks! Let me know if you end up making this dish & what you think of it.