10 POUNDS IN 11 DAYS!

DAY 12

• This morning's weight:      236.8        
• Fasting Blood Sugar:           133            
• Breakfast:                                               

       2 slices crisp bacon

       1 cup Kashi Lean Cereal

       1 cup skim milk

       3 sliced strawberries

       2 cups coffee (no additives)

• Activities:

       Put pinto beans on to slow cook
       Washed and dried clothes

       Went to Walgreen's for nitro patch Rx

       Went to Albertson's for tonights dinner out

       Watered backyard

                                                

• Lunch: 12:30pm

       Pastrami w/Swiss on Rye

       Tossed salad leftovers

       3 Zesty Pickle Spears

• Activities:

       Smoking ribs - spare and short and sausage

       Beans are done
       Preparing to do wild rice with toasted cashews for group dinner tonight
       Need to shower before tonight, I smell of mesquite smoke

• Snack

       grapes

       Crystal light lemonade

• Activities
• Blood Sugar before dinner: N/A
• Dinner:  9PM

        Pork Wellington:

           Split tenderloin of pork, stuffed with apricots, then wrapped with

           proccuito, puffed pastry and fresh herbs served with asparagus and

           wild rice.

   THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY: 

     
     Unfortunately this is turning into a food blog. It was intended to be more about writing and reading and changing choices and character. One area I certainly have succeeded in is losing weight. Ten pounds! And, I have been able to occupy my time with things other than eating and television.


     I need to focus more on my writing and finish reading the books I brought with me. I only have several chapters remaining of Same Kind of Different as Me. I must say I was a little disappointed in the author dragging out the agonizing death to cancer of one of the main characters over 12 chapters. I suppose it was central to the story but it drove me deeper and deeper into depression. Now it has only a few chapters to lift my spirits before the final pages.


     Having dinner with Justin and Kara at their friends house was quite a diversion. There were eight of them in all. They meet Saturday nights to enjoy an exotic meal and a wildly diverse discussion. They are all teachers in their thirties. They all seem to share an affection for animals (There were five cats in the host's home) and a disdain for the school system, students and their parents. Which is why I edited the group photo and their names from these pages. 


     It was an entertaining evening — a conglomeration of Twilight Zone, The Simpson's and an assortment of reality TV shows.
  

     I look forward tomorrow to church at Grace Bible Fellowship and an early evening (5pm) dinner with Steve, Claudia, Pat, Kara and Justin. We're having a good old-fashioned Texas BBQ!

     My overall grade for today: A-

     How did you do?