Raaawr!

It's not fair *stomps feet* that my work is so cold that I wear full long underwear (tops and bottoms) double socks and brought in a space heater and am still cold. Everyone is cold, it's not just me, although my little area is always colder no matter what time of year.

So yesterday's strategy didn't quite pan out. I was starving all day yesterday, so had 2 cocktails (roads were great) and an order of fried pickles, luckily for me only about a hand size pickle's worth because if there were more I would have chomped them to pickle death. Luckily I had my planned soup dinner before getting there or else I would have had a full entree. But Hamburger Mary's + Bingo = Totally fun.

Today's Menu was about 1.5 lbs from yesterday, that's ok, I'm still feeling good.

Menu Yesterday

Bfast 1/2 egg whites w Jazz seasoning

tea

Lunch Chicken breast wrap w feta and green and orange peppers

Snack Almonds, 1/2 green pepper with Laughing Cow Light Garlic Herb (I thought if I gave that stuff a break I would go back to liking it, but not so much)

Dinner Turkey soup & fried pickles & two super sweet cocktails

Good

So I was sitting there peeing this morning, preparing myself for daily weigh in and decided that I have been doing this (the weight loss, not urination) all wrong, and that I probably just needed to follow the book. Like I was eating all the vegetables that were Wave 2 or worse, I, once again, had rushed in with enthusiasm, but not enough planning.

But my urination ruminations were all incorrect!!! (one exclamation point for the excitement of the writer about the info in that sentence, two for her excitement about my rhyming there).

Weighed in at 162, a full FIVE POUNDS less than two mornings ago.

That is change I can believe in. Especially since I've been stomach ache full after dinner the last two nights.

Today will be a challenge as I am going to Hamburger Mary's after work for Charity Bingo. Strategy: Partake in 1-2 cocktails (depending on street condition) and NO FOOD.

Day Off?

I am so pumped for everyone to be in town. But I feel like there is so much stuff I want to do to the house before they get here. I am probably treading down an unwise path and doing the big projects that none are likely to notice, instead of starting with the easy stuff. But oh well, they know I'm messy.

Bfast-.5c egg whites (not until 11am arrgh)

Lunch-Steak and Blue Cheese Wrap-not as good as yesterday, maybe bc i wolfed it down at 2pm

Snack- 1 cuke

Dinner- Mediterranean Pork Chops, Broccoli w Almonds and hot Pepper, Quinoa pilaf, 2 glasses of white wine

Exercise-4 mi jog w Zito (7:30am baby), photo shoot of a 4week old and her 14mo sister, 2.5y sister and 5 y brother, rearranging the garage and bookcases .

Ryan helped me in the kitchen a bit which was very nice, since this is a kinda do a bunch at once meal (especially since I started in the wrong order). I'm also pumped I got the Photo Session done in 1 hour. The garage looks GREAT, just need to get the couch outta there and the bicycles hung. Dinner was good, but the pork was waaaay overcooked. My oven doesn't keep an even temp AND I have now confirmed the meat thermometer is broken :(

I'm off to scrub the labels off at least a dozen wine bottles then my day will be complete!

Sibling Day

Tons of Fun! Got tons done too-exercise, conf call, dog park, bookstore, washed 1 dog, bought wedding shoes, got draino, finished grocery shopping, cooked two meals, de-labeled 2 dozen bottles w Mike's help!


Bfast- .5c egg whites

Lunch-Chicken en Papilotte With Vegetables, glass of white wine

Snack- 28 peanuts, .5c tomatoes

Dinner-Flank Steak w Broccoli and Feta 3 glass of red wine consumed in the d4 hours around dinner.

Evening Snack- Laughing Cow Cheese Circle.

Exercise-Ran 3 mi with Ging, cold water bath, the knees are doing well

Well Lookie Here

Something new! Me posting.

I have been holding steady weight wise in the high-mid 150s. So that's really nice as I have not at all considered myself to be dieting, watching or anything. In fact I have been just living, drinking more than is probably necessary, and eating out with friends and family frequently. But now the high-mid 150s are feeling chunky to me and I yearn for single digit pants (besides my work pants, which are worn at my belly button, so I feel it doesn't quite count). I did buy a stop gap size 10 jeans.

So last week I went back on Wave 1, but with Ryan's Bday (2 dinners out) and Mother's Day it was a no go. But try, try and try again. Or there is no try only do. So I am trying to recommit myself to the Wave 1 hardcore-ness. To that end I have made the fun, exciting calendar below! FYI, since the last time I did Wave 1 I have been promoted to Managing a Brand New Studio, and it is v e r y s l o w . Therefore lost of free time! Well I can't seem to get a readable copy of my calendar in here, but you can see it's prettiness at least.



So hopefully I can take some of my learnings from last Wave 1 and do it happier, easier, cheaper. Said learnings: don't halve and third recipes, just eat it multiple times. It is not the end of the world when I take a diversion, every day is a clean slate. Buy Minced Garlic! And most importantly, if it is evening time and I am cranky and hungry, just take a Advil PM and get in bed with a book.

Yesterday was good...

Bfast: Glass of FF milk

Lunch: Black Bean Wrap with 2 slices of turkey, 1c of romaine on a whole wheat pita

Snacks: 28 peanuts, 1.5c of roasted veg medley (a little too much portion wise, but meh)

Dinner: Easy Balsamic Chicken, roasted veg medley

Snack: 3 weird crackers-Wheat Thin's new product (I was depressed bc I just paid for the groceries-meh)

Helpers: Advil PM and Sigrid Unsdet's Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wife. Zito in bed cuddling with me (I so got busted by Ryan)

Exercise: I did not, had Left knee Pain though, puzzling.


As you can see by the schedule, today is Sibling Day, so there will be some alcohol consumption. I will enjoy this and just try not to eat because of it.

Weekend Warrioress

Dear Junkies,

I should have gone shopping on Thursday or Friday, because by Friday evening there was not meat or leafy greens in my house. You just can't do Sonoma without one or the other. Long story short I had a Sonoma in the morning and afternoon, crazy funness in the evening on Friday and Saturday.
On Friday night we went over to hotel Newsome for drinks and tv. As often happens at the hotel, we ended up drinking, ordering a midnight pizza and spending the night. SO that was fun, they have a very comfortable guest bed.
Saturday had lots of eating excitement, from gelato to softball players!
There's a great gelato place at my mall and I have heard rumors of a Cracked Black Pepper and Olive Oil flavor. So whenever I am out and about in the mall I stop by to see if they have it. Finally, last Thursday the nice man working there said, come back on Saturday and I will make it for you. This was very exciting as it is apparently a flavor everyone likes to taste and no one likes to eat. So I got a small of it and it was so good! I also got a small take home size to share with Ryan. It is my new number two favorite, Mediterranean Sea Salt and Carmel still trumps. But that was exciting.
Saturday evening we went to a fundraiser for a and 18U highly competitive, country traveling girls' softball league. It was a poker tournament with an hour of open bar, open chex mix, baked chicken fingers and meatballs (there was other stuff but this is what I ate). It was so much fun! I won a couple hands and had 3 free glasses of wine! Woot Woot. After that we went to the Nickle and I sung two Karaoke songs!
Ryan and I had Sunday off together! The special occasion was getting registered for the wedding and picking out wedding bands. This was tough work, but worked out ok once we got some good guidance. Food-wise I was pretty much Sonoma friendly. Kashi cereal and FF for milk for bfast, and 9oz sirloin with steamed veggies and two pieces of 7 grain bread with butter for dinner. Of course there was the 1/2c Pepper and olive oil gelato.
It's now Monday morning and I am planning my grocery list, hopefully I can get going quickly because Ryan is "Basically positive I have an appendicitis". Sheesh.
~The PABJ

Weekend of Fun

Dear Junkies,
Apologies, I understand that many of you have been seriously incapacitated due to my lack of blogging, I even hear that one of my followers has fallen ill. Here we go with Katsup!

The super fun Bridal weekend started with a record breaking weigh in! Hello 157.8 pounds! Whee heee. But it was also a bit sad since I did anticipate tipping the scales a bit as a result of the weekend's packed schedule and eating out being necessary.

The weekend was hugely successful on all fronts. Despite eating myself to discomfort twice, and drinking far more than necessary (I mean we toasted my dress 3 times) I only gained a pound! A list of accomplishments.

Went on a walk with the MIL
Ordered a small plate and split a soup at my fav restaurant (and was so stuffed)
Purchased wedding dress!!!!!
And veil!
Ordered invitations!
purchased bride's maids' dresses
Controlled myself with the chips at a Mexican restaurant.
Stayed mostly away from tempura at the Sushi place.
Did not partake in the pizza ordered to myself (there was no stopping me with the cheese sticks though)

So I was really happy with the amount of food I ate. I did not attempt to 'Sonoma Eat Out' I kinda think that's boring and not something I will ever do. It will sometimes happen, like when I go out for steak, but otherwise I think eating out just needs to be hedonistic.

~The PJBA

Week in Review

Dear Junkies,

After my marathon grocery shopping on Sunday, I was ready for an awesome Sonoma week (week = Su-Th). That's what happened! Failing to plan is planning to fail and all that jazz. Also working everyday this week in off peak season helps a ton. I even made lunch for Ryan twice this week! Other fabulous things are happening as well, Ryan is becoming more amenable to doing the dishes. The amount of nagging I have to do is decreasing, and the length of time dirty dishes sit out is shorter! Last night he even covered and put away the leftovers!

I am preparing for house guests (as you can tell by today's copious updating) and will not eat home prepared much at all this weekend. I'm not really looking forward to that, because I think it will mean me gaining some weight, and i am oh so hapy in the 150s. But Ruth will be with me, so maybe she will guide me to goodness.

Here's what I've been eating.

Tuesday

1/2c Grape Nuts + 1/2 FF Milk

Spinach Salad with 3 oz pork chop, 1 tbsp Gorgonzola and red wine vinaigrette
6 oz FF plain yogurt
1/2c blueberries

Sicilian Tuna Steak-Ryan's Wave 1 fave, revisited
1/2 c strawberries

1 glass blush wine-finally gone, also used this for the tuna (instead of a dry white), smelled awful, tasted just fine

1"x1" flat squar of 80% dark chocolate--YUMMY!

Wednesday

1/2c grape nuts 1/2c ff milk

Greens with Beans and Artichoke-very good, first time have Great Norther Beans, they were very tasty
3/4c Raspberry Mush-so I experimented with purchasing frozen raspberries. I just bought em then kept them in the fridge until I wanted them, at which point I had a water mush on my hands. I'm not one to give up at set backs, so I rinsed of the berry paste and put 3/4 c into a baggie for me and one for Ryan. It was horrid. Tart and gross and a wretched texture.

piece of string cheese-FULL FAT, it has been literally YEARS since I have had full fat string cheese, what a joy!
1c broccoli florets

Grilled Morrocan Pork Tenderloin Kabobs-I really had my shit together here people, since the recipe called for a 1-2 hour marinade, and I get home at 7:20pm I started the DAY BEFORE making and starting the marinade, then called Ryan 30 min before I left work for him to start soaking the kabob sticks! This was terrific. Ryan says possibly his new favorite
Tunisian Carrot Salad-I couldn't find Harissa Sauce and was not even considering spending an hour to make something that is a small ingredient in a side dish, I might not have a life with all the wedding planning but I do have a job and high sleep requirements! So I used hot Chile paste instead. This was good, I love carrots
Steamed Brown rice-I barely burnt the rice! It was pretty good, like Chinese Buffet at 3pm good, which is certainly a step up for me! Also I added a dab of olive oil and salt n pepper.

Shared a bottle of wine with Ryan Castle Rock Pinot Noir-we gave this to friends for their housewarming because it looked good, and I am relieved to say I was right! A bit more than my normal price point, but worth it.

Thursday

1 slice bread w 1 tbsp Peanut butter
1/2c straberries

Sonoma Express Wrap featured above
1/2 a Granny Smith apple-left over from barley night
1 string cheese-mmmmmm

Ditto on last night's dinner, pictured below!

Celebration

Dearest Junkies,
This past Saturday was time for a reward! After I did so well at the party on Friday (and received some ego boosting compliments) I was ready to eat some regular food. I had a Sonoma bfast and lunch, skipped the snacks, then we went to Spin for dinner and to watch the KU vs K State game. It was so enjoyable, and I did hold back a bit compared to how I have eaten there in the past. So, very nice.




Menu Wave 2

2 eggs over easy with 1 piece of toast (I am still trying to figure out the correct amount of food when I eat real eggs, this was too much)

Mixed Greens with Turkey & Blue Cheese-this will surely become a staple for me

6" pizza with eggplant and portobellas-definitely more grains than I needed for the night, but a very reasonable size
Tomato Basil Soup-this came with my pizza, I shared with Ryan, had about 1/4c it was good, but was blandish
1/2 carafe of wine-this is the problem with this place, a glass of wine is $5, and the carafe is $9, so it's fiscally irresponsible NOT to get the carafe, luckily we were there for about 4 hours, so it really spread out the consumption

What I didn't get-gelato (ryan did) and the awesome pita and hummus appetizer we usually eat

KU won in overtime by one point.

~The PABJ

yay!

Dear Junkies,

This morning was magical! I am in a new decade after 10 days of hovering .4-2 lbs over the new decade mark.

I got to see my new studio today. Everything is so nice and clean and organized! And it won't be too busy there at all, which will really help me stay on a healthier eating schedule. Plus we are right next to the store office and water fountains, so I will have quick/easy access to the fridge and microwave as well as water. So all of that is very nice as long as I don't get bored out of my skull.

I had a nice little treat today in the form of an after lunch dessert. I met with a DJ for the wedding at Starbucks and got a small non fat hot chocolate. Sure I could of had tea, but they use cheesy tea there, and what I really wanted what a hot chocolate. SO I had it and did not explode.

Today's Menu
Wave 2

2 pieces of whole wheat toast with two tbsps of PB-super duper yummy, ate at 8:30 and 11:15 I suddenly "give me food now crashed" I kinda suspected that would happen with all that bread

snack-FF plain yogurt (barf a licious) and 1 c strawberries (delicious)

Chicken Salad w spinach and pita-Chicken salad was good but i but up the apple to small, I got a new type of pitas this time and they were much less card boardy than last time's brand.

snack-2 Laughing Cow wedges and 1c of red pepper strips

Lentil Soup
Squash relish
spinach with sun dried tomatoes and vinaigrette
Herbed pork tenderloin
1 glass Nobilo Sauvignon Blanc

So I mixed up today's dinner from mostly yesterday leftovers, but meat from day before yesterday for a little variety. I figure this is an ok mix since I just switched meat for meat. Does that sound right to you fellow Sonomaer(s)?

Cheers to tomorrow,
~The PJWBA

Dear Junkies,
There have been some bumps of my cooking adventure. Lots of them are due to the unavailability of ingredients in my home or a poor understanding of cooking terms.
I suspect today's issue was due to one of my old nemeses, math. There was a point when I was good at math, even enjoyed it a bit. Then I got more into photography and into the part of Math that included words instead of numbers or single letters, and it's just been downhill from there. Four years of art school didn't help with my math skills that much either.
Here what I am getting at. The image to your left is supposed to be of Hearty Lentil SOUP. The result of my efforts was not a soup at all. I blame math and Guttersen. Why make half of my meal for 6 people and half of my meal for 4? She regularly throws in 8 or 12 in there as well. I would wager that if she did a market survey of her following she would find out that it's mostly couples or singles. But it tasted fine.

I also had a new discovery on the cooking front. Roasting cumin smells like the boy's locker room! Almost instantly my kitchen was turned into a locker room at the end of football season (I know I went in there on a dare once). Cumin doesn't smell at all like that if you use it in a pan or oven. Very curious.

Here's today's Menu

1/2c Grape Nuts 1/2c Skim Milk

1 Baby Bel Cheese Wheel

Sonoma Express Wrap-2 oz Pork Chop, 1c spinach, 3 halved Cherry tomatoes, 1 tsp parm (freshly crumbled), 1 tsp Roasted Garlic Balsamic Vinaigrette
1c Quinoa Pilaf

Hearty Lentil Soup(ish)-pretty good
Fish with Zucchini Relish-Ryan really liked the relish, I really liked the fish (tilapia)
Spinach with Roasted Garlic Balsamic Vinaigrette
2 glasses Nobilo Sauvignon Blanc

~The PABJ

The Honeymoon is Over

Dear Junkies,
I have definitely lost my perky excitement for the lifestyle change. This is probably due to a combination of factors: the natural decline in interest, the severe decline in weight loss, the negative emotions of menstruation, the expense, the drastically cut back social life, the less drinking.
It just seems so hard to socialize without eating and drinking in the mix. Even Ryan feels bored with our eat a nice home cooked dinner and watch Hulu/Movies every night. There's just no excitement. Now obviously Sonoma lets you drink, and it's a healthy amount of drinking, but it's not the same as what I have been doing.
As one of my friends in weight loss put it, "I guess it took awhile to gain all the weight, so it's not going to go away quickly." It sure was a whole hell of a lot more fun gaining it though.
So besides controlled drinking the other thing I am not doing very well is sticking exactly to the diet. For instance I have had grape nuts every morning of Wave 2, instead of mixing it up like the planned menu does. Also I am repeating days to use up the food.

At this point I am going to try to recapture some of my enthusiasm and be more by the book. I won't be exactly by the book because I just can waste that much food. But less freestyling.

I haven't dreamed about eating for quite sometime, that's got to be a good sign.

Here's the DL on yesterday.

1/2c grape nuts 1/2c skim milk

1/2c Serrano Shrimp
1.5c Spinach
1/2c Cherry Tomatoes
1 small Whole Wheat Pita
1/2c Cantaloupe

Herbed Pork Tenderloin-I got a really nice cut this time, it seems hard to find one of these though
Roasted Garlic Spinach Balsamic Salad-HyVee didn't have Escarole and the Produce Guy couldn't recommend anything similar, so I just used all Spinach. I didn't get the benefit of wasting all that time roasting the garlic though. It didn't taste garlic-y enough to me. Anways, the Balsamic was very yummy.
Cantaloupe

2 tbsp peanut butter 3 stalks of celery. Two stalks is certainly not enough to get the right ratio with that much PB, and I am obviously not giving up anything with the word butter in it that I'm allowed to have.

~The PABJ

Catch-Up

Dear Junkies,

Yesterday I was a complete mess. Just an emotional wreck so I didn't post anything about the day before. The day before was pretty fun. I followed Sonoma all morning and afternoon and then took a planned dinner break since we had KU tickets and it's something we do about once a year and due to time constraints pretty impossible to find reasonable food. So anyways, my eating got very out of control, I had a little more to drink than I planned (I am definitely not adjusted to drinking on a Sonoma tummy yet) and woke up really disappointed with myself, a little hung over, tired and crazy emotional. So that's just going to be the end of that because I am done thinking about it.

At work yesterday it was SO SLOW. I had three appointments in the morning and NOTHING after lunch. But you know what, I didn't think about going to get gelato (heh, blogger thinks that work is misspelled and suggests fellatio) or cookies or anything, so there's something positive.

So food yesterday

Menu
Wave 2

1c grape nuts 1c fat free milk (is this really how much cereal I am supposed to be eating, it seems like way too much)

2c zucchini leftovers-so good, no microwaving necessary
2 slices leftover pork loin

Cod with Summer Vegetables en Papillote - the recipe called for Haddock, too expensive and Cod was reccommended for similar fat content and it was on sale. This dish seemed prety bland to me. The Cod was delicious, the veggies just seemed lack luster. Ryan put hot sauce on his, I just added some salt. Meh.

Boo Hiss!

Dear Junkies,
I fell into some old habits today. First of all I woke up and cared too much about the number, especially since I am retaining water like my name is Hoover. So I know it's bad weight loss karma to weigh yourself everyday, it just makes me so happy when the news is good, of course the reverse devastates me. Secondly, I let consumption try to be my solution for a million little annoyances. I'll just put a list out there to get it off my chest.

1. Apparently my new under eye concealer is giving me a rash with slight swelling. When I showed Ryan he said, (gasp with horrified expression) 'Are you sure you want to go out in public with that.' That being my face I can only assume. He apologized.
2. Zito nailed me in the face, two awesome scratches on my chin, slight scabbing.
3. I am having helacious cramps. Worst I've had in at least 12 months.
4. The restaurant we planned on going to at the casino didn't open until 4 (we got there at 1:30) and after we waited to eat we found out that 3 months ago they cut back their menu-translation the only vegetables on it now are deep fried or iceberg lettuce.
5. This didn't happen yesterday, but I can't get the damn underline off!

So there were several trials. I guess I should be zen and say something positive about each of those things now. Sephora takes returns, I love Zito, at least I'm not preggo, they still have their huge margarita there, I got the underline off.

Anyways, here's my Menu

Wave ? Day 13

1/2c egg whites

Laugh Cow Light Herb Cheese Spread Wedge

2 cosmos (feeling sorry for myself at the casino waiting for food to open)

Mushroom Hamburger. I skipped the bun & got iceberg lettuce with balsamic instead of fries etc. I refuse to call what they gave me a salad, but we've already been over that.-It was the best thing I could figure out on the menu

1 onion ring (Ryan's)

Naked PopCorn (at Leap Year the movie, I don't recommend the movie) approx 4c-Disappointed with my meal eating

Half of a whole Wheat Wrap-Angry Eating, did not make me feel better

Overall the day was a bust. Especially lame since Ryan and I rarely get a day free together. But what can you do?

~The Pasta Addicted Bread Junkie

Spicay!

Dear Junkies,
Today was a totally weird eating day. I slept in until and about 10:30 and wasn't hungry at all when I woke up. So no bfast, a weird lunch-ish thing and a super yummy dinner. More on the Menu below.

Szechuan Shrimp was dinner and is pictured to the side. You might notice a lack of shrimp in my image. That's because they were buried under all the mushrooms I hand picked out of Ryan's plate. What a baby!

Good news on the Ryan front I got him to do almost every dish from tonight's dinner. Thus the me picking out all his mushrooms for him as a reward. Dishes have been a sore spot between Ryan and I since we began living together. And even more so as I have been putting so much more time and effort into cooking I feel like he should do the clean up. He feels more like doing the dishes sometimes, but not ever in a time frame that suits me.

I had my first wedding nightmare last night. You know how I feel about using that word, but this was terrible. Basically, it was the wedding day and I had as much done as I do now. I didn't know what dress I was going to wear, seating charts, flowers, cake, all undone. Ugh, at least I woke up. Funny thing, I saw my Mom today and the first thing she said was that she couldn't sleep last night worrying about wedding stuff. So here we go.

The Day's Menu
Wave 1 Day 12

1 celery stick with 1 tbsp left over yogurt cucumber dip

1 tbsp peanut butter on a slice of whole grain bread

1/2 c grape tomatoes & 1 mini wheel Babybel cheese

Szechuan Shrimp-minus the pea pods, I somehow missed those on the list. I used the water instead of Sherry. This was so good. About the top of the heat level I can do, even hot enough to swell Ryan's lips just a bit. It had a nice sweetness to it, I think possibly from the Sesame Oil. Next time I will use more green onions on the top.

~The Pasta Addicted Bread Junkie

Celebration

Dear Junkies,
So last night I celebrated my end of Wave 1 (although I still have food for two wave 1 dinners, so I might extend it a bit more), my new jobness and my weight loss to date. I fit into a shirt I bought last year, but have never been able to fit in it. It was one of those 'I'm going to loose some weight soon' purchases. The picture is of said shirt of me feeling amazing!

So, for the celebration, we went out to eat with some friends and I picked a restaurant where I knew it would be easy peasy to stick to wave 1. But I forgot about the fresh, warm bread they serve with delicious, soft, butter. Oh friends it was terrible. They brought our drinks, then set down the temptation. I looked at it. The draft in the room was just right and I could smell the butter. I could smell butter! Ryan realized I was staring at the bread Adan moved it away from me. But it was too late. There was one itty bitty piece of the loaf, like literally the diameter of tablespoon and the thickness of a Hallmark envelope with card inside. So I had that piece with butter on it. I made it last almost till the salads came, several bites of heaven.
After that it was pretty easy going. I had the house salad, just avoided the carrots and had oil and balsamic on the side, and only ate about half. Then someone had a piece of bread, but it wasn't cut all the way through and there was a little bit left at the bottom after they got their piece, so I had that piece too. Then Ryan took the bread away. Luckily he and I were sitting diagonal from each other so I really couldn't reach it.
I had an 8 oz top sirloin with steamed vegetables. the steak was delicious, I really love this restaurant because they know medium rare means that no part of the steak (besides outside) should be brown, just pink and red for this girl! The veggies were good, fresh and cooked to proper tender crispness, but I have to say they lacked the seasoning that Sonoma has.
I even made my glass of wine last about 1/3 of the way through the main course. I in no way intend to lead you to believe that I only had one glass of wine. I had 2 at home before we left (over the course of two hours), and three at the restaurant. It was a celebration! But I did really stretch out that one glass!
So after all of that we went home to celebrate some more and at some point the boys ordered cheese sticks and pizza from my favorite place. Luckily, again, I was asleep by this point, the delivery didn't even wake me up.

So today's menu

Wave 1 Day 12

1/2c Egg Whites

Spinach & Lentil Salad-I'm not a huge fan of this, edible for sure

1/2 c grape tomatoes
1/2 cuke sliced

1 Laughing Cow Mini Babybel Cheese round

Salad w oil n vinegar
8 ox top sirloin steak
steamed veggies
3 tablespoons of bread

5 glasses of wine!

So I had a great time, stayed on the plan pretty much food wise, and could have drank more but didn't! And since it is now tomorrow I can tell you that I am holding steady weight wise!

Dreaming Night 7 & Day 8

Sorry Folks, no picture today!
The night's dream's were basically event less food wise. I was in High School taking pics for the school yearbook of the Plaza lights and the lights were already off and Ruth pricked her finger on a needle. So a little of your basic school struggle dream with Sleeping Beauty thrown in there. Don't worry I warned Ruth.

Today was my first day of Wave 1 where I had a pretty active day at work, 6 sessions in three hours, all 24 months or younger subjects, so lots of chasing, and I only worked a half day. So I was definitely hungry when I got off work, even though I had had my lunch and snack already. I added in some extra peanuts to tide me over. But around 10pm I realized I never ate dinner, so that explains a bit.

I shopped at Whole Foods for the first time for tonight's dinner, mainly to get my meat there and they were out of Pork Tenderloin! Then I went to the Wal Mart grocery across the street and they were out too! Then I called 2 other grocery stores and found a place with it. Who knew it would be so hard. At any rate, I didn't totally buy into Whole Foods in any new way. I think it's a good store for the 'weird stuff' and prepared foods and loose tea, but that's about it.

Then I tried on wedding dresses and had a great time. It was probably a combo of being 7lbs less and at a nice store with better gowns, but what fun!

We also had a little dinner get together with the parents tonight. I had a Margarita and it was delicious. What's that you say? Not on Wave 1? Well very true, but I made the decision at the beginning to go for a lifestyle change, and there is no lifestyle where I'm not having A drink when family comes over, at least not one I want to live. So I feel good about that decision.

Wave 1 day 8 Menu

Whoops! Forgot Bfast

Asparagus Salad-I skipped the lemon this time and liked it better

Pork Tenderloin w Vegetables Ratatouille-really delicious, wasn't very pretty looking though
1/2c Barilla Plus rotini-Yay for pasta, and for my for only having that amount cooked!

11 almonds
1 Babybel cheese round
28 peanuts