Day Ten

Here we all are day 10, 1/3 of the way there, only 20 days left.  I think we are all getting used to it, of course we all have the occasional craving (see yesterdas blog) or temptation (Michael sent me a picture of the box of doughnuts that were in his office today), but when it comes down to it the food we are eating is good  an we re all enjoying eating some new things or some things we hav not had in a long time.

We can all agree that this is not easy, that every day you see or cook something (for the kids not on the diet) that you just want to taste.  How can a little taste of mashed potatoes or a piece of pepperoni covered in sauce and melted cheese (no I am not missing pizza :-) ) hurt us during the challenge?  You don't take that taste not because you will be "cheating" we don't take that taste because we accepted the challenge and we are committed to it.  For anyone that has made it through day 10 you know exactly what I am talking about!!

I went to Wegmans tonight to grab a couple of thing ( and it was a good escape from the smelly high school wrestling room).  Michael was surprised I was gone for over 45 minutes.  Even though I only went for a few things I still had to take the time to read labels and decide what I can buy and what I can't buy.  If am going to make a mistake at this point it is not going to be because I bought something I could not eat.

Great simple dinner, beef short ribs with roasted green beans and mushrooms.  It was an easy crock pot recipe that I will be making again in the next 20 days.  We need to make more next time, I had to limit dinner consumption so we would have some leftovers for lunch.  We are going to make breakfast sausage over the weekend and I roasted more almonds tonight ( the macadamia nuts were $13.99 a pound and I was  not sure they were "good").

Here we go to day 11 and weekend number two.