Good afternoon, plant-based friends! I am so glad to find you here. I checked in ysterday and ot interrupted before Ihad time to write a check-in note.

Mihani - I am so sorry you had such a rough day at work yesterday. I hope that toast with PB and bed with a good book was as comforting as it sounds, and I hope that today is going better. And a big hooray to staying out of the snack cabinet.

Tracking - I so get that feeling too tiresome. On the whole, I get better results if I do track, so I do. But that's just what works for my personality/wiring. And it has to be free, for me, and MFP seemed like a good option when I went looking at them a while back.

As it happens, I am out to track all my food today. I have been slacking and comfort-eating, and my weight has crept up. Nothing disastrous, but enough to ring a bell and say pay attention.

Shred - Your perspective from history sounds great. I have been reading quite a bit on and off this year.

Austin-land update: My husband is still recovering from his bicycling accident. We figure he he was going 20 miles per hour when he stopped too suddenly and landed... not perfectly. He studies martial arts and actually made a pretty good landing (I could see from the scratches how he had landed. He used his training and the fall could have been much worse. As it is, it's just inconvenient (it was his dominant hand/shoulder) and still painful (but gradually less so). Progress, but it means I have a lot more stuff to do, for now.

My food/plan today:
Breakfast: fresh mango and apple; broccoli, spinach & blueberry smoothie with spices, a few cashews
Lunch: steamed spinach and garbanzo beans; a bowl of steamed mushrooms and carrots with chopped grape tomato & onion; a bowl of steamed acorn squash with cinnamon and cashew milk
Snack (planned): apple & cashews
Dinner (planned): steamed cauliflower, with fresh tomato & onion; big salad; fruit

Oh, Austin: Ouch! About two years ago I was rushing to get the recycling out in time, caught my slipper on a ridge in the marble in our entrance way and fell entirely on my right side (for some reason the only thing I could think of was holding onto that recyling bag so I didn't make a mess). So, lessons I learned: 1) fall well 2) don't rush!

My husband and son did a great job of caring for me, but for someone who is active, having to recover from an injury was almost as bad as the injury itself.

I'm thinking of him!

Mihani: Some books have come in, and I'll have to pick them up tomorrow, so I'll let you know what treasures they are.

I really have to do a far better job of devising meals I actually want to eat...! This week, brought me down to .5 lbs of where I was before I took a sharp turn, so that's good..but now I've learned that variety keeps me on track, so vary is what I'll have to incorporate next.

Good evening plant friends!

Today, 10k steps, and ran off some recipes from the Weight Watchers website to try this week. I really, really, really need variety.

3 months ago, in addition to no longer eating animals/fish and most dairy, I gave up any kind of flour product. And, I haven't done much to replace flour with any grains or beans, so that's the next step!

Oops, hit that too soon.

We are a dog loving household here, so I envy the puppy! I always have biscuits on me, more often than not I can find a small zip lock bag of biscuits in a purse more often than a lipstick!

So glad, Austin, to here your husband is mending. Is he going to do physical therapy..I found that the hardest part of my recovery. I so admire physical therapist...it is tough work, and my physical therapist was so patient with my crazy level of whining.