Hope: Good, Even In Small Doses

Friday, November 9, 2012

A second consecutive pretty good day.  I even saved a not-so-good dinner situation, more on that in a moment.

For reasons that don't really need to be explored, I have a bit more hope today.  I was a little down earlier this week but got a needed boost this afternoon.  Not enough to create expectations, just enough to ensure that the flicker of hope remains alive.  Hope is such a good thing.

Breakfast:  1 oz genoa salami, 2 slices Kraft Big Slice sharp cheddar cheese, coffee

No picture today, as I ate the food portion after having some blood drawn this morning.  Same as yesterday though.

Lunch:  3 egg omelet with bacon, cream cheese and avacado; sausage; coffee

The old standby.  I forgot to take a picture.  Doh.  I've posted it before.

Dinner:  2 eggs fried in a bit of butter, 4 strips Tyson bacon, ~ 2 smaller medium organic russet potatoes mashed with a little 2% milk and butter.  Salad with iceberg, cucumber, Ro-Tel and pepperocinis.  Newmans Own olive oil dressing.

I was planning on making hamburger gravy and got the potatoes started ... and then I decided I didn't like the smell of the ground beef.  It may well have been fine but I've been pretty careless with food safety lately -- I even ate at Taco Bell, much to my regret.  So anyway I pitched the meat and scrounged around for some kind of protein to have with the potatoes.  I didn't have much thawed, just a ham slice I plan to cook with beans this weekend.  Eggs to the rescue.  I also fried up and chopped some bacon, I just had grocery store bacon since I haven't been by the farm lately.  Need to head out there soon I think for a few items.

The first course, of course

I don't usually eat this many eggs in a day, but these were sure perfect

For the weekend I have two kinds of beans soaking, going to make a couple pots and try freezing them.  If I were to be really ambitious (and this probably requires going to the farm) I could make stew also...  Oh, and oatcakes ... and who knows what else!

Exercise:  ZOMG two mornings in a row.  Another walk, just over 2 miles this time according to the pedometer, about 40 minutes so I think that's about right.  Got some new shoes, they seemed to work just fine, though I won't be taking them out in the winter, they're mesh like tennis shoes.  Just puttering around the house tonight after a long week.

Yeah, feeling pretty good about things at the moment.  Still realistic (i.e. still fat), but optimistic.  Oh, and I weighed myself this morning and I'm trending back in the right direction.  Still a few pounds over the low but moving back down.