Woohoo! Weighed in at 180!

After work with temperatures in the 50s I took a 30 minute walk.

B - Steel cut oats & 1/2 grapefruit
L - Zesty veggies with brown rice, apple
D - Sauted collards & onion, grilled portabello mushroom on WW round, dried cherries

OK, tomorrow is Burns Day and I am celebrating with the Scottish Society!

B - Steel cut oats & 1/2 grapefruit
L - Cabbage & lentil soup, walsa crackers w/hummous
D - Zesty Veggie Stew w/ brown rice, dried fruit

Weighed in 181

Week with no CASS!

Working day at Wally World. Steel cut oats for breakfast. Took in for lunch black beans & rice and an apple. Got home to watch the playoffs. Had popcorn. Thanks to my sister, I now pop the corn in a lunch bag in the microwave. Eat them plain.

For supper ate a Boca burger on a whole wheat round, with mustard and sliced pickle. Later had steamed collards, a bunch. A few dried cranberries was dinner. Well Sharon found some pistachios so I ate them. Feeling a little stuffed.

No, chocolate, salty snacks or alcohol for 6 days.

Weighed in 181.

Re-read this blog last night. My goodness on May 20th it will be five years I have been posting about my ETL experience. Some things stand out. I am on a roller coaster. My love affair with CASS which is a result of emotional eating from stress.

I really need to deal with that.

I think maintaining ETL will be much easier if I totally give up drinking alcohol. I do enjoy my drink. It is a stress release for me. I enjoy the social aspects of it. Not drinking would have an impact on my social life. Wow! That says something doesn't it? Okay, limit my drinking to a social occassion and one drink. You know, I think it just would be easier to quit, altogether.

Made a batch of steel cut oats.

Breakfast: Oatmeal, 1/2 grapefruit


Worked at the day job, this Saturday. Took my lunch to work which was steamed veggies and rice. Had an apple.

Tried a new receipe for dinner which was steamed bok choy with orange-agave sauce. Ate a serving of raw almonds and black beans and rice. Ate the last two of almond date banana 'cookies'.

Weighed in at 181

Back on the Wagon

CASS is a difficult mistress to dismiss. I am four days now in not seeing her.
My stats as of Wednesday, 1/18 is
Weight 184.o
Waist 41"
Fat % 25.5

Weighed in this morning at 182.

Have only eaten three meals a day with no snacks. Lunch and dinner have been homemade soups, stews, black beans & rice and spinach salads. Breakfast oatmeal. No alcohol, chocolate or salty snacks. Feeling fine.