I have finished all my errands. I ran and got the restaurant gift card I needed to get for my boss, purchased some new workout pants, a pair of new jeans for the hubby, and did the grocery shopping.
Here’s the deal, **Mr. Taters ** thought we weren’t eating very healthy food. As I looked up the low fat and weight watchers recipes, I discovered I have been cooking low fat all along. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t do all my cooking from scratch, I make the occasional Hamburger or Tuna Helper, or something with the Zatarains line of products, and the lasagne I make is absolutely decadent, but other than that, we really do eat pretty healthy food. However, I will make some of the “new” :rolleyes: recipes that I found, just to make Mr. Taters happy.
It makes me feel good to know that I’ve been doing things with regards to cooking in a healthy way. That means all the stuff I learned when I went through a big weight loss stuck with me. The only issue I’m going to have is that there’s going to be lots of groaning about the brown rice. I like it, actually, but the family was pretty sick of it last time we went ALL LOW FAT ALL THE TIME.
Mr. Taters has gone to pick up a table for my mother. He’s being a good son-in-law, although he would have rather have stayed home and relaxed.
I must say, since I’ve committed to going to the Y with him, his disposition toward me has improved. He wasn’t really talking to me a lot before that, which obviously hurt my feelings. He usually goes to the Y with a friend and our nephew, but has decided we’ll take our vehicle down there too in case I want to leave sooner than they usually do. This is also in case I overdo it and make myself sick. I usually do that when I first pick up exercising again. I don’t do it on purpose. I don’t feel like I’ve overdone it, and then BAM! all of a sudden I’m sick and lightheaded.
There’s nothing exciting going on here in Taterland. In a couple of hours I’ll make one of the new recipes I ran across. I do plan on jazzing up the brown rice with just a little of dried apricot, celery and craisins. I’ll make some sort of boneless, skinless chickie breast recipe to accompany the rice, along with some steamed veggies. I was eyeing the asparagus at the grocery store, but it just didn’t look all that great, so I passed on it.
Taters, you’re definitely on the right track with portion control and all, but probably the main thing is to just eat more regularly (as you already know, skipping meals is not good). I’m still working on portion control, although I have made some headway there.
