Monday

Weird weekend.  I had a long deployment for work that ran from Friday evening through Saturday dinner, during which I definitely leaned on the chocolate cherries as food-of-choice.  Did a bunch of cooking; we had a pot roast for Saturday dinner and a roast chicken yesterday (finally got one to work!!!), and made chili (for tonight's dinner, and to freeze) and peach ice cream with salted pecans.  Most of it was quite good, although the pot roast lacked salt.  Anyway, I'm at 146.6 this morning; was at 145.8 yesterday.  Here's yesterday's eating:

• tea with cream
• bacon
• the usual supplements
• chips and salsa
• two cheese enchiladas with green chile
• roast chicken
• brussels sprouts (roast with worcestershire sauce and dijon mustard)
• peach/pecan ice cream

That was it.  Lunch wasn't so great, carb-wise, but the rest should have been okay.  The ice cream was pretty darn good - two-to-one ratio of heavy cream to milk seems to be a sweet spot for texture.  I cut the sugar down from 3/4 cup to 1/2 cup and eliminated corn starch and corn syrup from the recipe, relying instead on the peaches (and a bit of peach schnapps) for sweetness.  I would do more peaches the next time, as the end result wasn't all that peachy, but it was otherwise perfect.

I also made/am making stock from the chicken bones - roasted them at 400 for an hour this time, which should darken things up a bit and add some caramelization flavors.  Tonight, I'll clean the crock pot and start a load of beef bones.  Guess I should go buy more freezer containers.

Sleep last night, however, was utter crap.  Temperature fluctuations all over the place, and when the alarm went off, I was curled in a ball trying desperately to get warm, despite the down comforter and the mattress pad heater.  Menopause is getting very old.