Catching Up
I was up 2.6 on Wednesday. After last week's big loss, that's not really surprising. And I ate very salty food for both lunch and dinner the day before. Still - stopping this little roller coaster of up/down is high on my list. I'm working on that this week. Managed to plan a whole day of food yesterday - and I stuck to it. Yay Me!!! And these books came in the mail yesterday.
I did a little reading of the first Don't Panic one, and it's talking about doubling and tripling recipes - however, I figure that since I'm just one person, a regular recipe is already double or triple what I need, so I shouldn't have any trouble :-)
I've got a great bean recipe from Linda the Chicken Lady (the link is in her comment on my last post), so I'm definitely going to try them - I love black beans! Anything that Linda advises I will probably like because she and I have pretty similar likes/dislikes in food. We both avoid tomatoes and we both love lima beans and beets :-D
Part of the reason I'm planning so carefully this week is that Shrove Tuesday is coming (also known as Fat Tuesday). In my family, that always meant pancakes for dinner. It will probably be Eggos for me this year (unless I go out at lunchtime and have some pancakes for lunch), but still, I would like to have them, and I plan on using a lot of my weekly points for them, and for a Paczki (which is pronounced "poonch key"), which is a special sort of Polish jelly donut (could be jelly, could be butter cream, could be cheese, could be jelly and cheese - you get the picture :-D). Paczki's are everywhere here in Chicagoland at this time of year :-)
I'm considering giving up bread and chips for Lent (again, in my family, even though we are not Catholic, we always gave something up for Lent). I will let you know what I decide.
I quit with the Stevia in the Raw. It just was not doing it for me and I decided I'd count the point for the sugar I really like in my green tea and limit myself to one cup a day.
On a more somber note, can I just say that I'm tired of having to knit chemo hats? I don't understand why so many people I know have cancer right now. It's making me sad and not a little angry that those I care about are seriously ill. I just made two for a friend in December and January, and have one now on the needles for another friend and yet another in line after that :-(
I have to go walk now.
I did a little reading of the first Don't Panic one, and it's talking about doubling and tripling recipes - however, I figure that since I'm just one person, a regular recipe is already double or triple what I need, so I shouldn't have any trouble :-)
I've got a great bean recipe from Linda the Chicken Lady (the link is in her comment on my last post), so I'm definitely going to try them - I love black beans! Anything that Linda advises I will probably like because she and I have pretty similar likes/dislikes in food. We both avoid tomatoes and we both love lima beans and beets :-D
Part of the reason I'm planning so carefully this week is that Shrove Tuesday is coming (also known as Fat Tuesday). In my family, that always meant pancakes for dinner. It will probably be Eggos for me this year (unless I go out at lunchtime and have some pancakes for lunch), but still, I would like to have them, and I plan on using a lot of my weekly points for them, and for a Paczki (which is pronounced "poonch key"), which is a special sort of Polish jelly donut (could be jelly, could be butter cream, could be cheese, could be jelly and cheese - you get the picture :-D). Paczki's are everywhere here in Chicagoland at this time of year :-)
I'm considering giving up bread and chips for Lent (again, in my family, even though we are not Catholic, we always gave something up for Lent). I will let you know what I decide.
I quit with the Stevia in the Raw. It just was not doing it for me and I decided I'd count the point for the sugar I really like in my green tea and limit myself to one cup a day.
On a more somber note, can I just say that I'm tired of having to knit chemo hats? I don't understand why so many people I know have cancer right now. It's making me sad and not a little angry that those I care about are seriously ill. I just made two for a friend in December and January, and have one now on the needles for another friend and yet another in line after that :-(
I have to go walk now.
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Believe me, I am more grateful than you can ever know that my heels are pain free. I do seem to be very ache-y this week, but I've stopped my anti-inflammatory (the doc said to save it for really bad days) and am relying on Advil again for general soreness.
And don't forget how yummy and quick it is to cook eggs for dinner. Omelettes...frittatas...soft cooked eggs steamed over greens or chopped veggies...Yum!