Weight: too much pork and apple stew last night!

Sorry, everyone. I’ve been a bit MIA around here. I have a lot going on at home and I’ve not been able to spend any time blog reading. As it is, I’m barely eeking out a few minutes to post here. I’m hoping after this week things will calm back down a bit and I can get back on track.

Today is my oldest son’s 17th birthday. Finally, he can go to R rated movies without me. He’s jazzed! We’re going out to dinner with my parents tonite to celebrate. We rarely eat out because of a) expense and b) Sean’s food allergies. However, my ‘rents are paying and we’re eating at Mary’s Pizza Shack who offer a gluten free pizza crust! Yay!! They do not have casein free cheese, but you have two choices there. Either bring in your own cheese and they’ll make the pizza with that (I’ve done that in the past, it’s worked great!) or just get the pizza without cheese (which is the option we’re choosing tonite.)

My plan for today is to eat but keep things on the extra light side and just have one slice of pizza tonite. We’ll see how that goes. Oh, and there will be cake! And I will probably have one small piece. Cause TOM is here with a vengence right now and I LOVE CAKE!! If I don’t have a piece at dinner with everyone else, I’ll just obsess about it and end up having a super huge piece when we get home, eating two to three times as much as I would have if I just had a regular piece with everyone else. I know me. I don’t need to set myself up for a binge. And so I won’t. It’s ok to eat normally, to have a small piece of what you want. It’s the denial, the “bad or forbidden” foods list that jacks everything up. That’s not to say that I have foods I won’t eat because they are trigger foods for me. Like chips. And muffins. But I can have a small piece of cake and be satisfied. Unless I’ve denied myself the cake and then cave later on. Oh BOY, is that the set up for an out of control food orgy! No more. I know myself too well.

UGH - it’s just pouring rain out and I do not want to get up and moving today. I want to stay snuggled up in bed and sleep all day. Why must my life suck so? Ok, it doesn’t really suck. I’m just tired and lazy today.

Have a great October 13th everyone!!