I was mostly good this weekend with my parents and siblings being here. And I believe that they enjoyed all the food I made for them: baked banana oatmeal, chicken nuggets, honey mustard chicken on cauliflower "rice", frittata, and dry rub burgers (which really aren't so dry rub anymore, because I like the seasoning better mixed in with the meat).
I had a couple of cheater moments this weekend...there was a chocolate bar at the food co-op that looked really good - chocolate with almonds and toffee, and I had a burger when I went to the airport to pick up Kurt...but all in all, I was pretty good. Kurt and I were talking about what he ate while he was away...and well, he was less good, but he still tried really hard to not give up entirely.
Our biggest challenge to date has happened now though. We both are "sick". Kurt got off the plane with a low grade fever and sore throat. I am not sick (as told to me by PA I saw yesterday) but I'm having the worst allergies EVER - which is causing me to be completely congested with a sore throat as well.
As a result, neither of us has the energy to want to make food. Last night we cheated with a pizza, but tonight we are going to try to not do that again. It's so easy when you are not feeling well to say "whatever" and just get something quick and easy and not good for you in the least bit. It's definitely going to be a struggle until we are feeling better.
We need to go grocery shopping. The funny thing is we haven't gone in a week and a half, but we had enough left over stuff that we haven't needed to. When I was putting the dry rub burgers together to freeze before my parents got here, I realized that I already had 8 in the freezer...so I cooked all the new ones, plus those 8 and we had extra for our lunch and dinner on Monday and our lunch again yesterday. I also found an extra lb of ground beef in the freezer which we are making meatballs with for tonight's dinner and tomorrow's lunch and an extra thing of pork chops for tomorrow. So I started thinking that even though we spent a little over $200 on our last shopping trip, it actually lasted almost two weeks.
On the way home today we have to run by the grocery store...but I don't think it's going to be a full trip...just enough to get us through Saturday so we can go back on our weekly schedule - essentially fresh fruit and vegis, something for dinner Friday and side dishes.
So, now for some good news!! Monday was 8 weeks since we've started our "life change". In 8 weeks, Kurt is down 18 lbs and I am down 20 lbs. YEA!! We've had a lot of challenges and we've struggled quite a bit, but we're headed down the right path...so we need to keep on keeping on.
That's all for now...time to get ready for the day...after I put up some of the recipes that I've been promising for a while!!
