BACK TO KNITTING

My diet has really taken over my life, so it's no surprise that it's hijacked my blog, too. I've decided to redirect the diet journal elsewhere and get back to what really matters here: knitting, of course. So, if you're interested in the food and the weight loss struggle, please click on the banner above to my newest blogging effort: surviving healthy (dot blogspot dot com). Otherwise, it's back to rabbits, fiber, needles, and patterns (oh my!)

Week Six Weigh-In Day

After a hard week of no cheating and struggling to find food on vacation, then another week of reluctantly getting back into the cooking groove, I just wanted to pat myself on the back a little.

It was miserably hard to go on vacation and not indulge in all the ethnic food I wanted. Vacation, it seems, has always been about eating for me. I know it's going to take time for me to change my outlook that all pleasure (and love) in life comes from food. I've made strides, though I'm still looking at the now empty space that food used to fill and wondering what to stuff in there. Nothing presents itself as of yet. But I have faith--or is that hope?

The end result: I lost a few pounds on vacation and have since lost more (hooray!) so I'm still in the game. Week six begins with a good weigh-in of two pounds lost last week--right on target.

Thanks to fellow foodie and blogger Kalyn (long may she post) I have a handful of new recipes to tackle this week. The theme is turning out to be turkey and soup, a fitting duo to celebrate fall. Now that I'm back in the mountains, the weather's a lot colder and everywhere it's raining leaves. I look forward to the fruits of our local harvest: pumpkin, sweet potato, zucchini. Maybe an apple or two. And wild rice, though I had to order that on the Internet, lol.

I made some egg muffins last night--a SB staple everyone seems to have their own version of. I used diced turkey pepperoni, spinach, mushrooms, green onions, and some low fat cheese in mine, and egg whites instead of whole egg because I had one of those pourable quarts in the fridge. They turned out really well, despite my ailing oven's variable temperature zones. Though I will have to go out and get silicone cups from now on. I sprayed the paper liners dutifully, but they're almost impossible to seperate from the egg muffins without losing a third of the product.

Tonight, it's going to be turkey, mushroom, and wild rice soup. I can't wait! I might even tackle the spicy sweet potato fries I've been dying to try. Yum.