LynnCS The discussion Friday night after the meeting was very interesting. I t was nice to be able to talk to some of the long time members, without the constraints of the formal meeting.
dlee Thanks. The wife is currently not drinking coffee, so this would be a great time for me to quit. I had been using soy or almond milk to cream my coffee with, but switched to black earlier this year.
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The wife is still not feeling well, since her motorcycle falls from the previous weekend. We needed to get a check in the bank, so I went to Frederick alone. There's an organic grocery store there and I was out of kale. They sell a red kale that I firmly believe is grown in old cocaine or opium fields..lol just kidding, it's really good though. They also have a cafe. I bought my kale and ordered their tempeh sandwich, and sat down for a nice solo lunch.
After I got home, one of our sons called and wanted to meet us for lunch, in Frederick. We met at the mall and since neither my son or my wife had eaten, we went to her favorite diner. I had told them both before hand, that I didn't mind going, but I had already eaten lunch. They ordered their food and I ordered coffee. The wife actually got mad at me for not eating with them.
I assure you in the past I would have had no problem ordering a salad or something and then eating dinner later in the day. But those are not the rules of my abstinence. 3 meals and day and NOTHING in between. That's how I made it through day 17.
Monday I have to visit a client at one of their remote sites. The person I'm meeting up there is a long time friend and he's aware of my way of eating. I'm taking the wife with me, because there's a restaurant where he wants us to eat breakfast with him. Here's their website.
http://mamiescafe.com/ Might be fun to order their veggie omelet and to hold the egg and cheese. It's frustrating though, to try and get a place like this to not use butter/oil/cooking spray when preparing a meal on a well seasoned cook top is almost impossible.
I've been thinking about the weighing myself thing. I read the Uncle Buck success tips that
Katydid linked to in a lounge post, where he says to stay off the scales. One of the people at OA said she has not weighed herself in 10 years. She knows what size she is, but even at the doctor's office, she faces away from the front of the scale and asks them not to tell her the result. A couple of them also said that you need to surrender something to be successful in OA. The examples given are if you have always weighed your food and logged it, to stop. But if you have never tracked your input, to start.
Which left me wondering. I know when I was successfully losing weight, I was weighing and tracking regularly. Probably too often though. As I gained 40 pounds over the past year, I very rarely weighed myself. For now I guess I will continue to weigh, but only once a week. How's that...
Happy Sunday all..