A dish of spicy cabbage and beans fresh from the freezer - 125 g of those little ruby gem potatoes that are so quick and easy, and a veggie sausage - dressed up with roasted red pepper sauce and a spoonful of sour cream (again! - but need to use it up). Above my dream calorie count for the day - but a good healthy deficit and a full belly - and maybe the bender is nipped? (not in the bud - but before it becomes an all encompassing vine.)

Yeah - what he said!

so far today, my fast breaking clementines and an amazingly delicious little green gage plum that was hiding in the fridge from the weekend. And right now - some delicious pumpkin and spinach "breakfast daal" with a nice dollop of greek yogurt and a sprinkle of pumpkin seeds and raisins - this feels really decadent. The freezer is bountiful at the moment

Supper? STBD - but probably eggs and veggies and ???

@eliezalot that looks amazing! Does this serve as your complete dinner - or do you serve it on "something"?

My egg & veggie dinner didn't materialize. I'm still battling. Brain/body/HAMSTERS are just being so stubborn. Instead I had half of the part bag of cocktail samosas I found in the freezer and 1/4 of a smallish watermelon. It is maybe a good thing. Tomorrow (no doubt) I will finish those samosas, and will not replace them any time soon. So that temptation is gone. I really want to buckle down and eat strictly whole foods for a few weeks and get the cravings under control - and then I'll start building "treats" back in.

Today was a kinda healthier food bender type of day - still eating too much for comfort, but not the standard binging fare so it is progress in its own weird way. And then I remembered I was giving myself a few days at maintenance - so all in all today is a win! I seek progress - not perfection (if only that were really true )

Walking has come to a bit of a standstill. Not sure why. Maybe the heat/maybe using all my energy not eating ... lol. I won't worry about it yet though. Even Laine - the furry one - is not particularly keen on walking. Tomorrow temperature is supposed to drop 10 degrees. We'll start the day with a good one in the cool morning air they are promising.

eliezalot wrote: »

Channeling @Bella_Figura tonight with a rainbow stirfry (and feeling pretty proud of it!)


From the garden: Orange bell pepper, serrano pepper, bok choy, 2 small stripey eggplants, thai basil, and garlic chives.

From the fridge: Purple cabbage, onion, red bell pepper

Cooked in toasted sesame oil and stir fry sauce, topped with chili oil.

This looks really good….I would eat this!

conniewilkins56 wrote: »

PAV why did you rub your sausage on the corn?..( snickering here! )

Laurie what is a samosa?

And Elizalot, I love those colors

And I had a mini binge….I am so screwed!

You made me laugh with that, Connie - I didn't even question that odd behaviour on PAV's part!

Samosa are lovely deep-fried Indian appetizers/snacks. Just a little spicy. Vegetarian is common - but they also come in chicken? I'll find a picture and post it.

Sorry about the binge

eliezalot wrote: »

Channeling @Bella_Figura tonight with a rainbow stirfry (and feeling pretty proud of it!)


From the garden: Orange bell pepper, serrano pepper, bok choy, 2 small stripey eggplants, thai basil, and garlic chives.

From the fridge: Purple cabbage, onion, red bell pepper

Cooked in toasted sesame oil and stir fry sauce, topped with chili oil.

@eliezalot That looks (and sounds!) delicious! You’re now a co-member of the Eat The Rainbow squad! 🥗🌈 🥗🌈🥗

So super not healthy food coming up!

I went to the state fair today. Was walking around for 4.5ish hours. I didn't get to eat everything on my list (not even close!), but I got some yummy stuff.

Breakfast was a grilled cheese on ego waffles.
Lunch was a peach/apple slush and a corndog with mustard.
Snack was a Bavarian cream puff.
Then I got a ribeye sandwich which I bought home and had with cheetos (free bag from a Pepsi tent).
I also have a big pretzel and cheese dip and a caramel apple with peanuts.

Oh, and I bought some local mustard BBQ sauce, summer sausage, white cheddar and caramel popcorn, strawberry hibiscus tea, and strawberry shortbread.

The sausage was spicy Italian and it was shedding some fat in the pan which I applied on the corn that had none!

And in spite of the snickering, even if I were driving tactically, I wouldn't run over the little ol'prego lady ❣️😘😹

Had a lovely Bella colorful salad (1/4 left over for tonight) and a good sized ear of boiled corn. Had the butter in the freezer and rubbed my corn with frozen butter 😂😹😂😹 to the tune of under 1.5g. and made it 2g by pouring enough salt to feel my blood pressure mount 🥺
not, medically, recommended; but tasty, and very few extra calories! 🤷🏻



Perspective: salad is over 1700g of ingredients, or > 3.7lbs!😂

Left rest of salad uneaten, but I'm a good 330g into at 1 kg bag of cherries 🍒

Heading OUT for a patio dinner tonight at dad's insistence 😨

So "cheating" by eating the left over salad I logged yesterday without re-logging it (I'm so wanting in the logging department: a regular rebel 🐹 😉) plus two extra large local farm boiled eggs that at 150g in the shell are closer to three large eggs in size.

I figure that should keep me going till dinner, which probably won't be earth shatteringly high (1.5-2k probably) given dad likes steak house type food, so we're heading to the Keg instead of all you can eat sushi or Indian where I could do some REAL damage! 😇

Change of dinner plans - woohoo! Son number two is coming so we are picking up middle eastern for him and son number one, and falafel for me. Dinner with my two boys - not much more I could ask for.

I'm working on my resolve to just have falafel balls, some pickles and tomatoes - no pita bread. If I start working on that idea now, perhaps I will build up the strength to stick to this plan before he arrives.

150-200 calories for the pita bread is really a waste. I could have a couple more deliciously deep-fried falafel instead - or some extra tahini sauce!