Tell me about it! Weighed myself just prior to today's shower. I'm 4-5 pounds heavier than I was last weigh-in, which occurred last Monday, several hours prior to my big Xmas Day lunch. As I've done no splurging since that lunch, most if not all my gain surely came from there. It doesn't help that I can no longer get in daily walks due to too cold weather.

As for my "normal" daily diet, it remains pretty much the same as always. Oatmeal with banana, cinnamon and sweetener along with a grass of skim milk for breakfast. Soup or occasionally a Wowbutter sammich for lunch, with half a Fuji apple for dessert. Salads for supper with a hard boiled egg on the side for supper, with the rest of my Fuji for dessert. No sweets (candy, ice-cream, cake, etc.). No junk foods (chips and so on). Nothing to drink that isn't skimmed milk or water. No between meal snacking. Boring yes. But once I sufficiently winged myself off most unhealthy foods and drinks I find I have no cravings for them whatsoever. That said, there are certain foods I don't dare take a bite of for fear of becoming immediately addicted again. And of course foods I allow myself during occasional restaurant "splurge" meals but won't allow in my house.

For today's odd combination of food/drink, I just ate some beef jerky while drinking coffee.

Pink lady apples and mountain dew code red.

I'm making the sauce for this afternoon's spaghetti and meatballs. The wine just hit the pan, and it smells way too good in here for 11 am. My cold coffee is not cutting it any more!

*stomach rumbling*

*looking for closest wayshrine to Grits' house*

I hear ya, Grits! Same thing here when I make my sauce as well!

Tonight we will be having a beef and tomato casserole my big sister made for us. She put it all together, all we need to do is pop it in the oven. Yummy! She brought lunch yesterday too - homemade tomato-carrot soup, and biscuit sammies made with ham, cheese and sliced pickles, topped with mustard-butter glaze. Went to work yesterday afternoon feeling quite satisfied . . .

The wine usually gets intercepted on its way, when I make it. <= pour it here.

I miss making homemade spaghetti sauce. My recipe gives the missus heartburn, though. Even tossing in a few carrots doesn't work.

Her stomach is probably sensitive to the acid in the tomatoes.

Coffee, chips and an apple.

Thai food yesterday, don't remember its name though. But it had peanuts!

Pad Thai?

From what I remember of the menu it was similar to Kommad Pad Pai, though obviously it wasn't that. I just remember a K and two M's somewhere in the first part of the name

Pad Kee Mao?

No Mao in the name and it was a long word at the beginning. But let's drop this for now, if you want to know I can look it up in the menu later

Consider it dropped.

Time to pick it up again for I have the menu!


Apparently there were no double K but double S: Massaman Pad Pak. It has veggies, massaman curry, coconut milk, ginger and peanuts

Oh ok! Sounds quite tasty!

Wild Berry Skittles, Hot Pocket and Soda.

Skittles are the bidness.