Tuesday

Back to the old routine - eggs and bacon (real, yesterday) for breakfast, no lunch (and no snacks yesterday, either), and meat-and-leaves for dinner, followed by - wait for it - a bit of chocolate and cheese.  And walnuts last night as well - we will watch the Food Network in the evenings and I got the munchies.  Anyway, it had the expected result - leg cramps at 1:30 am that had me out of bed to stomp them down, and some weight lost.  I'm down to 149 even today. 

Elizabeth has proposed a couple of dinners that she wants to try making - stuffed pork chops (stuffed with spinach and goat cheese, it sounds like), and a layered casserole that would take the place of pizza - pepperoni slices, sauce, veggies (I'm angling for green peppers and mushrooms, but black olives would also be good) and cheese, layered up rather like lasagna and baked.  The latter has been occupying my mind of late, because I love pizza and not having a way to eat it without carbs and without wheat has been mildly irritating - but one of the things I really love about this way of eating is that I really don't crave any of the things we no longer eat - they look good, and I'm able to acknowledge that they taste good, without needing to have some.  That didn't use to be the case.

A note I forgot to mention from the vacation.  Toward the end, when the weather turned cold, I was able to borrow a pair of sweats from Elizabeth - sweats she wore her sophomore year of high school for swim team. Apart from the fact that they were designed to be hip-huggers, which I don't do, they fit fine - even needed cinching up.  So cool!