Wednesday, November 21, 2012
CREEPING INTO THANKSGIVING
We will have a traditional Thanksgiving meal tomorrow but it will have been assembled in pieces.
I made the annual real whole cranberry sauce yesterday. It is setting in the refrigerator.
Today, a turkey breast, which I needed to make anyway. By chance, the menu for this day is turkey! The 60 day menu cycle. A direct hit.
Tomorrow, the pumpkin pie which will count as a vegetable.
I am still in my "losing weight mode" and am now thirty pounds down.
I feel pretty good about that and will do nothing to jeopardize it.
I have eaten everything I would normally eat for about three months now and have still lost the weight. Everything, that is, but frozen yogurt which I gave up cold turkey at the same time I started it.
That has helped the loss move along quite a bit. After all, it is probably why I gained most of the pounds.
A habit, incidentally. Not an addiction. I had no withdrawal. No seizures. No DTs. I just quit and lived through a brief period of mild craving at the time I would normally eat the delicious dessert.
Anyway, I have had just the same menus every day only less. The yogurt plus the less is more idea has won the day.
I have already had to buy some new pants and belts and am on my way to the second wave of that.
My goal is to get down to the weight I had when we came here or, perhaps, into the 150s. I will know when to stop. And how to stay.
I know. I know. Thanksgiving is not about food but this year I am grateful for having been able to get myself healthy again and to reverse the thinking that it was OK for me to be obese. It is not.
I am not now and will stay here in happy thin land as well as I can.
In the meantime, a short modest break for pumpkin pie.
