Good morning everyone - Happy New Year! I have a lot planned for today - my last day before returning to work tomorrow - some of which is meal planning and shopping. I'm glad my first week back is only three days until the weekend.
I'm an adult who never outgrew ear infections, too,
Ruth - and if you've lived with it long enough, you know when one is coming on and just what to do. Unfortunately, they typically mean a trip to the doc of some antibiotics. Hope if you need some you're able to get them soon.
Cottage, I hate to throw food out, too. Since I'm the only one at an unhealthy weight here, I have started to nag other people to eat stuff rather than toss it. 'Course I have been known to eat stuff rather than throw it out myself.
Twynn, I'm curious how you use allrecipies.com. I get so overwhelmed with the number of recipes out there I see in my in box, at the South Beach site (and here!) but it sounds like you have a routine; if it helps with meal planning though feeling overloaded, I'd love some tips.
Hi, jenn, Jennifer, Lisa and Cyndi! Karen, hope you have a great get-together today!
I did pretty well last night plan-wise. I have this weird anxiety that people will notice I'm not eating what everyone else is at a party and start to talk about it. And since this was a fondue party, my anxiety was pretty high. (Imagine people sitting around in a circle dipping - it was the hosts and three couples.) But since we got there after the cheese fondue was nearly done, I only had veggies to choose from anyway.
I had not anticipated that there would be NOTHING I could drink, since I also gave up caffeine. It was all juice, soda and alcohol. So I kept refilling my cup of water at the kitchen tap, which raised the anxiety a bit, but by the time the chocolate fondue came out, I was surprisingly non-interested. I guess there's something to this Phase 1 business, huh!