Starting weight (7/15/08):  279.8
Yesterday:  268.0   Today:  267.8  
Change today:  -0.2   Loss-so-far: 12.0 lbs.

Yes, I hate to cook.  That has not changed.  But. 

But I like to eat!  I’m not in agony, missing carbs like a junkie - but I sure wouldn’t mind biting into a decent piece of pizza.  And if that’s gonna happen, if I’m ever gonna enjoy that taste, you know, the taste of a steaming hot slice, just thick enough, just thin enough, with tangy sauce and molten cheese and pepperonis with just the right spicy zing…

If I’m ever gonna enjoy a slice of pizza or any of the other carb-laden foods that have been at the heart of my daily diet since, since geez, since I can remember (without dropping the diet), then I’m gonna hafta cook. 

So yesterday I bought an eighty-dollar mixer.  A mixer!  For me!  The woman who like never cooks, ever!  It’s gorgeous - black and shiny, it’s a MixMaster, not so different than the one my mother had a zillion years ago.  It has beaters and it has dough hooks - I’m not even sure what exactly a dough hook does (!) but I knew I had to have those dough hooks because a couple Carbquik recipes I found actually mentioned them.

Ohhhh boy.  This is gonna be interesting.  So far I’ve made one thing with my new mixer:  little low-carb biscuits.  I say little because they are flat.  Reallllly flat.  If they were supposed to rise during baking, well, they didn’t.  They’re cute, though.  And not horrible-tasting, just flat.

My new quest is now to make the perfect low-carb pizza dough.  Yeahhhhh.

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