[Mindful i Mouse] Truck Meal Photos

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We ended up stopping around 5 pm yesterday so I decided to cook dinner in the skillet instead of the lunchbox oven. It means better flavour and a chance of pace, even with the same ingredients. I added some bell pepper and onion to my husband's sliced potatoes and cut up the sausage. To my sausage, I added just a couple of bits of onion and bell pepper and the rest of the turnip greens. Unfortunately, the steam from the food fogged the camera lens, switch obscures the dinner: It tasted much better than it looks, and in fact I was very pleased. The lunch photo: Here is what my husband eats and what I eat on the truck (his in the background by his seat). I eat his apple core, he has potatoes added to his and mine is just sausages and fresh veggies, sometimes with cheese, sometimes with egg. Right now there's more veggies than usual because we have to eat it all within a week, but as we run out and until we can schedule a Walmart stop, mine will go down to mostly meat and cheese. This time I paid attention to the amount of sausage I cut, but I ended up feeling too full and so will cut an even smaller piece today, or cut the veggies down. Something. I haven't taken a breakfast photo yet. I will try to remember tomorrow. I did take a photo of my tea pecans: BG was 86 this morning, absolutely fabulous. I did not test for ketones last night, but once in, i shouldn't need to test more than every few days or if I eat more carbs than usual. I am feeling better each day and love the sense of wellbeing when in ketosis. I love how it manages the blood glucose so well. I am still feeling strange not monitoring my calories and have momentary fears that I am eating too much, but the next " test " is when I weigh myself on Saturday and that will tell me how much I may have actually gained in December (I will compare it to the home-time weight on a different scale of 242) and see how much over 232 I weigh, which was the last weight I weighed at the end of November. I am hoping to be at least in the 230's. I have been spending a lot of time on a couple of forums and . Of course, as it is every year, lots of people have weight loss as a New Years resolution and are all gung ho to lose weight, but most will drop off and many will yo yo back and forth, disappearing when not eating well and reappearing swearing they will do it this time. I could not even begin to count the number of times in over 30 years I did that very same thing. I am actually surprised that i did make it for more than a year, continuing on, struggling a few times, but continuing on, day after day, trying to find the answers I need to know to make this the very last time I have to lose so much weight. I have lost and regained over 100 pounds three times as an adult. Enough! I told my husband this morning that I want to " get it " this time, it's only partly about the loss, it's also about getting why I ended up with diabetes, why I keep regaining and why I use food as a drug to calm anxiety. More than just my weight needs to change. My thinking needs to change too. Menu today: B- golden flaxseed mixed with peanut butter and hot coffee, coffee with whole milk powder L- summer sausage and cheese, diet pepsi T- raw pecans, tea D- chicken sausages with sundried tomato and provolone, tomatoes, cucumber, olive oil and vinegar I feel like I am eating too much. I am slightly hungry before each meal, but not really hungry. I think the excess sausage at lunch is part of it, and the pecans at tea seem to fill me up too. I think rather than eliminate anything, I will just slightly reduce the amount. It’s weird, I know, but I actually like feeling hunger before a meal. I wonder if the level of hunger indicate whether we are in a weight loss or a maintenance mode? Hmmmmm…. --

Posted By i Mouse to Mindful i Mouse at 1/06/2011 07:03:00 AM