by nayasmom » Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:10 am
I made the decision not to renew my monthly subscription to Spud Fit, so 3/12 my membership will be cancelled. I'm okay with it. I've been spudding for 6 months now, so I'm pretty comfortable with the decision. I'm not going to stop Spud Fit, not even close! It's been wildly successful for me where McDougalling started the process before stalling for a couple of years. It's a slow, methodical process, and I'm used to thinking of my diet in terms of spuds first, spuds last, spuds always. However, after Andrew Taylor's year of spuds ended, he kind of took a back seat to his group on facebook, and now his path takes him in other directions, so he's not as 'there' as he needs to be to help guide and support the new spudders. Now, there's so much cross-talk about other foods being introduced, or use of inappropriate ingredients in recipes, and so on, and that's just too much of a trigger for me. I sound like such a harpy when I continually repeat the rules of Spud Fit to those who should know better if they would only READ the rules. But in the end, it's not them... it's me, how my mind works, how I think and react to things, so it's up to me to figure out what I'm to do about it.
I'm comfortable with my decision. I can do this on my own. Hell, I live in a town of meat-eaters, smokers, drinkers, and so on, and there are maybe 3 other people in this town who are vegetarian/vegan, so yah I'm a fish swimming with sharks, and what's new, right?
My brother and his wife are here for the weekend. Yesterday we went to Lassen NP with snowshoes and my original idea was to sign up for the ranger-guided snowshoe tour but since we rented snowshoes for my brother, I thought we could head up to the Sulfur Works first or instead. The ranger at the information desk said the guided walk would take about 2 hours and was considered somewhat strenuous, which kind of put a damper on enthusiasm for two first-time snowshoers.
My SIL went very slowly, and I followed her, because the slowest person should always lead, and she had to stop to catch her breath several times but made it all the way and back again, so she deserves some snaps for that. It was a great day. We did go out for pizza for supper. I know, pizza isn't spuds, but I knew I was going to have pizza, and I'm not sorry nor do I feel guilty. I had it without sauce, only tomatoes, and plenty of veg on top of that, and it was delicious.
I've got spuds in the oven for breakfast and later snack. I plan to make some no-oil tempura veg with steamed rice for my peeps later, but that's maybe up in the air, as I have no idea what to do today. I would love to not drive anywhere, but ... probably we will drive somewhere!!
This event has spurred me to straighten out at least the downstairs, although I'm not done, so they haven't been over to visit. I'm a hoarder, there's no doubt about that, and I have a hard time keeping up with housekeeping, and that's the way it is. Well, okay, I've had a time this season keeping the house warm, and when it's not warm it's downright uncomfortable, although probably for most people it's quite warm. I'm just overly cold all the time for some reason.
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