Dear Waves,
I'm sorry that you are having a difficult time.
M.

I had two Arby's junior roast beef sandwich's for dinner.
And cottage cheese.

I am really trying to make myself find good foods again.

I also had a cheat earlier today. Derrick and I were at the mall,
and had some cinnabon food.

But that is okay, as he said, its been a while. I haven't had
any since last time he and I had it.

Donna:grouphug:

blacken talapia with brocolli and califlower and chocolate kisses:rolleyes:

edited to add that i drank 3 blueberry beers and ate lots of candy peanut brittle and plain peanuts while we watched 3 episodes of lost season 6....oh it is so good. The beer and the candy and the lost!
lol
bizi

well. i have officially gained back a couple pounds. :( sigh.

yesterday i made vegetable soup for dinner.... more a sort of minestrone actually (different vegs cut finely, handful of beans, handful of rice.) dad loes this soup.

i also made two buckwheat salads. i wanted to make a tabouley-salad facsimile. i used buckwheat thought because we have some that needs used. i mixed most of it with parsley tomatoes red onions and lemon juice. supposed to have other ingredients but oh well.... i was working from memory of what i'd eaten from Gooding's. :rolleyes: i left about a cup behind and just dressed it with a little pesto sauce (from jar).

mom and i ate those today. mom liked both, but preferred the tabouley-salad-facsimile one she said the grain was a bit bland, but i think part of the reason is i overcooked it (had a few mishaps there :o) and then it absorbed a lot more moisture from the vegs. she said the pesto one was a little too strong for her...i can make use less pesto next time. so then mom mixed the two and said that was good, so i am going to add a little pesto to the salad version. (the buckwheat-with-pesto version is all gone. :D)

my dad made an amused/disgusted face at the buckwheat. he sneered at us eating it. he had leftover veggie soup for lunch.
little does he know :D...... i snuck in about a half cup of that over-cooked buckwheat ... i'm sure it mostly disintegrated by the time the soup was done.... hehe! ;)

i found out buckwheat is another complete protein, it is gluten free, good for high blood pressure and lowering cholesterol! wooohoooo! :D

~ waves ~

p sounds very good, do you put pasta in it or jsut the rice? theey always put pasta in most of the minestroni soups but wondered if that was an americanized thing. I love tabouli!!!!! and pesto, your meals always sound so good. bizi:)

i lost three more pounds even with cheating
bobby

that's great Bobby!!!! :):):)

~ waves ~

minestrone
 

not americanized.

minestrone is not a specific dish - it just means "big soup" and is generally bunches of vegetables, often leftovers, cut up, or whatever one has on hand. beans are often added, and pasta OR rice are typically added. in the US we get more pasta-oriented things, because most immigrants are from the southern (poorer) parts of italy where rice is practically unheard of - pasta always used. in the north rice is common - in fact there are rice plantations. pasta is also used in the north however.

pasta and rice are never used together. either one or the other. even in asian dishes, that have pasta-like preparations based on bean, or rice starch, i've always seen a single kind in any given dish.

the only place i've ever seen a pasta + rice type thing is in rice-a-roni :D (and i'm not even exactly sure what's in it, grainwise, lol!)

~ waves ~
p.s. i like rice-a-roni! :D

Re: food
 

Believe me, I hear all of you who are on that journey to better nutrition, less weight, and feeling better altogether. I wish all of you the very best, and hope the results of your efforts pay off. I think what turned it around for me is fear, no kidding, I got scared about what the weight was doing to me. I thought I would die from it, and with all my other medical problems, I had to make that choice. I am now on the other side, but maybe I can offer hope, and a few tricks I did to help, I did have help too with others in my life that encouraged me to keep on doing the good food routine. I miss pasta and lots of butter, that wont change, but I do find other things that take the place of that food. keep in touch, let me know what the hard parts are, and maybe I can talk to you about it. I do care as I spend 90% of my life about 186lbs and I am 5' 2''. I did get up to 192 at my highest. I weigh too little now because of my surgery, but I will correct that too and become stable. I do care about all those who go through this diet stuff that is so hard. ginnie:D

hi ginnie!
I hope that you are resting and healing from your surgery.
It is nice to see you here and I appreciate your taking part of this thread...so thank you!
(((((HUGS))))
bizi