Marvelous Monday

Hello, faithful blog followers! Today I'd just like to tell you about my food. I had an epiphany yesterday, but I don't have time to write about that, and it's been a pretty awesome food day, so I'd rather tell you about that.

For breakfast I had oatmeal (real oatmeal, not the stuff in the little packets) with fresh raspberries (actually they were frozen, but when I poured the hot oatmeal on them they were close enough to fresh). So delicious the way the hot oatmeal causes the raspberries to burst and ooze their raspberry goodness all over the bowl! Then I stirred it all together so every bite had a bit of raspberry in it. AMAZING! Unfortunately, raspberries are crazy expensive (a fact I accidentally overlooked when I put them in my shopping cart this weekend), so I'm enjoying them now, but realizing that I probably won't get them every week. I also had some yummy coffee. I knew I wanted coffee this morning, because I didn't sleep well last night. So I started the coffee maker in the lobby with crappy Folgers. But as soon as I had started it, my good friend Tom said, "Corrie, would you like some french press coffee?" Of course I said yes! And it was delicious. Absolutely wonderful.

Lunch was pretty typical. I mixed a can of tuna with a chopped up dill pickle, green onions, cayenne pepper, and fat free yogurt. Crazy fact I learned a few weeks ago: You can mix fat free yogurt with tuna, and it works just like mayonnaise! The tuna is so strong you can't really tell that it's yogurt. Awesome way to be slightly healthier and still not give up on familiar food textures and tastes.

My snack was a Kashi TLC bar. These, too, are crazy expensive and I won't be getting any more boxes of these guys unless I get another coupon (the only reason I bought the first two boxes). But talk about delicious! I had a dark chocolate coconut bar and it was so yummy, plus it totally kept me satisfied until dinner time.

Dinner was pretty awesome too. I made Chicken Pad Thai from a recipe I found on the WW site. I cooked the chicken last night so it was already ready, and put everything else together tonight. The whole thing was crazy delicious, and enjoyed every last noodle in my bowl, which is good, because the recipe made 6 servings of the stuff, so I'll be eating it for awhile! Fortunately, that means that I'm pretty much set on lunches for the week (and I have something other than microwaveable soup to take to Joe's when I work Wednesday night). I guess cooking for one isn't as hard as I thought if you have the time and if you don't mind leftovers. I don't mind leftovers if they're good, and I try to work ahead when I have the time (like last night I didn't have anything to do, so I cooked up a whole bunch of chicken, very lightly seasoned, cut it into little chunks, and stuck it in the fridge so whenever I need it for all the other meals I've planned this week, it's already ready!) to make up for when I don't have the time.

I don't know why I think you need to hear about what I ate today, but you know those days when you look back on the day and think, "Everything I ate today was awesome!"? Well, today was one of those days. You should definitely have one of those days too. Enjoy your food, dang it!

Oh, I should also mention that I weighed in again this afternoon and I'm down another 1.4 pounds, bringing my total weight loss to 22.2 pounds. Only one pair of jeans fit anymore (a pair I've always been to fat to wear until now...not sure why I bought them when I couldn't fit into them at the time, but it's paying off now!), and all of my other clothes are way too big for me. I have the saggy-butt pants that look absolutely ridiculous on a girl and I'm swimming in all my old shirts. One of these days I'll need to go buy all new clothes. I wish I had been ready for this on my birthday (last week) but, alas, I'm still shrinking and would hate to buy more clothes that would just be too big for me in a few weeks. What a great problem to have!!! Here's a previous picture alongside a current picture for you to see the differences so far...