Still Here

Well I thought about having some junk yesterday....if it was the last day, why not enjoy it......but guess what....I'm still here and so seem to be everyone I know.  Therefore I am glad I didn't fool around(it was only a little thought) and today my planned eating continues.  I was out of fresh veggies to grill, so went shopping and also got food for the next couple of weeks.  We only have a couple of days of menus for next week and as most of my shopping consisted of veggies and fruit it will hopefully work out OK.  I still have frozen fish and shrimp and got chicken and steak this morning.  I'll cut up the steak tomorrow and then freeze it and they were nice enough to pack the chicken in separate packages and even cut some into strips.  The scale was ok this morning and i figure it will likely be about the same tomorrow as i seasoned dinner with spices and salt tonight.  I'm ready for the salad and tuna and glad we're all still around.

Nail polish.....I have started reading Erikas  nail blog.  I bit my nails for years and when I finally stopped in college it was partly because i started to polish my nails with bright colors to help remind me to keep them out of my mouth.  I still find it very important to keep my nails polished but I don't have the time or energy to change them more often than weekly, but i love seeing all the different colors she uses.  I am also playing with some different polishes as my favorite co is going to have their new line made by a co i personally don't like the wear or look of.  What brought me to write this tonight is that I almost bought some yellow polish today....it was shiny but not glitter and I had liked how some yellow looked on Erika but decided that i would need a tan to want to try it, so i passed it by. I do think that i will be inspired to try some new colors and brands by Erika and while i won't start a nail blog i will label it when i write about polish so anyone with no interest can avoid it.


Let's see how thin we can be by 2012 when the next end of life as we know it is predicted to occur.

Grill Crazy

My Forman is getting a work out this week.  I do find that i miss salads.....I've even been thinking of trying to grill spinach or romaine, but haven't tried it ....yet.  I'm currently trying to decide if i can grill cauliflower or if i will have to throw it in the oven on a cookie sheet....if i put it on the grill to finish....or if i microwave it to soften it before grilling....will i meet the letter of the law?  I haven't decided what to do yet....any ideas?  This is now a short post, i had a longer one but i didn't realize i wasn't plugged in and it turned itself off.

Did it

I did it.  I've made it thru the 1st week of P6.  I know I have the rest of today to get thru but I'm sliding into home this week.  The big challenge was the meeting.  I took my stuff in a freezer chest and except for one little problem it worked great.  I'd frozen a bunch of water bottles and lined the bottom with those. Then packed my stuff with more chilled water and bags of ice.  I even took my blender.  I had tea and diet coke from the snacks put out and even went to the lunch lectures.....taking my own food with me.  The desserts were on the table and the salads when we sat down. My dh enjoyed having 2 desserts each day and ate my salads....but boy it was hard giving it up yesterday.  I sat and stared at it thinking how could some lettuce hurt but I could hear Allan saying....follow the plan or get out and I passed it over.  The fact that the salad interested me more than the dessert was mentally an interesting thing.  I've always had a sweet tooth and I would have thought that it was looking at those desserts as i tend to try to keep them out of sight at home, but I'm really missing my salads.  I realize that I am so glad I didn't do any kind of surgery as I would not have liked having to limit my raw bulky veggies.  I'm learning to eat the right amounts of cal dense items and enjoying some extra veggies when wanting something to snack on rather than chips or cake.  Thus today is easy......I'm drinking my jugs of fluid and enjoyed eating bk and lunch and catching up some on  the blogs.  I did get to read a little on my phone and tried doing a comment but I don't have it down yet.
Oh yes, the exception...my fudgsicles  didn't stay frozen.
I even walked some laps of the conference area between talks.
.......and I lost 4 pounds this week.