Thank you, Mark!
Plan for today is to stick with vegetable soup (might also include a pot of split pea soup if I feel like it) and potatoes. I have some oil-free mashed potatoes in the fridge and some russets in the potato drawer, along with some compliant hash browns in the freezer if I want to waffle them.
Weight today is 285.4 (about 65 down from my high of 350, about 10 up from my low on December 1st -- not too bad for a couple of lax months). Yesterday, my chronic pain was pretty bad, but that makes sense since I've been eating so-so (not terribly, just so-so) since around Christmas.
We're on a project to try to use up the excess food in our place instead of buying as many groceries. Partner is going every few days to the store to get fresh veggies, and I'm cooking up the grains, beans, etc. before we buy more. Today, probably split pea soup and a pot of some kind of whole grain -- I have so many! When I buy too many whole grains, inevitably some of them go rancid before I have the chance to use them, so from now on, I will use up what I have and then buy ONE more and use it until it's gone, and so on, unless I need something for a specific recipe.
Today's our anniversary, which we don't really celebrate (we're more into just being sweet to each other every day), but I'm gonna use it as an excuse not to go into work on a Sunday to catch up with paperwork, which I was considering doing. My kid is probably coming over later and we're gonna watch Killing Eve and probably make some homemade mochi. She will fill hers with green-tea ice cream, and I will fill mine with bean paste if we get around to doing it at all. Mochi isn't MWL, but it's McDougall-friendly, so I'll play it by ear.
Also, I'm no longer on SparkPeople, so I'm going to figure out some other way to post photos. May set up an Instagram account. SparkPeople was encouraging me to be in a diet mentality, count grams of stuff, etc., and that's just not healthy for me personally.
Today's food:
1: veggie soup
2: salad (tomatoes, bell peppers, green beans, balsamic reduction)
3: split pea soup
4: decaf cashew-milk latte, cherries
5: cold split pea soup (surprisingly good)
6: broccoli (roasted -- got tired of taking pics)
7: off-plan comfort food (rough day)
There's no easy way to share Instagram photos here, so I've started
a twitter feed for my pics instead, and I'll see how that goes.