New Week, New Me?

 No. But it IS a new week, so I always have the chance to be a different me. 

A version of me with the most expensive makeup I've ever owned. It's still me. 

I do need to make it a daily practice of writing SOMETHING. Maybe it will be useless words, or maybe it will be something relevant. We'll never know until I do it. 

I listened to something this morning, and now I'm re-listening because there was a lot in there that hits home: 

In other news, I think I kicked some major food-prep ass yesterday, and have most all of my meals made, along with his evening meals, etc. Here's what I (we) got done in approximately 2.5-3 hours yesterday (the condensed non-step-by-step version: 

• He grilled his chicken boobs and turkey burgers 
• I cut/cleaned celery (and promptly forgot to put some in his lunch pail today) 
• Prepped vegetables for salads and roasting 
• Prepped frozen cauliflower for cauli mash (nuked for five minutes, then dried on low heat in skillet) 
• Made a pan of roasted veggies (broccoli, asparagii, mini peppers, onions, zukes, yellow squish, fresh thyme, olive oil, minced garlic) 
• Pre-boiled broccoli for the roasted veggies, broccoli salad, and my meals in three batches because I was trying to weigh/measure everything for my tracking and making recipes for Cronometer
• Cooked a package of bacon (for me, for broccoli salad) 
• Made caprese salad (cut up two pints of grape tomatoes, fresh basil, sliced red onions, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and cracked black pepper) 
• Made broccoli salad (broccoli chopped into tiny florets, an individual box of raisins, sunflower seeds, bacon, chopped red onion, and dressing [mayo, apple cider vinegar, stevia, dash of smoked paprika] 
• Made cilantro lime rice (out of a box) for his lunches 
• Made cauli mash (cauliflower, homemade Boursin cheese that I mentioned last week, I think, salt, pepper, Knorr chicken bouillon powder, butter, heavy cream) 
• Cut up Al Fresco Mild Italian Chicken Sausage, and sauteed that and the broccoli for my meals
• Made a new batch of Jamaica for my water
• Made the Elote corn for my chicken salads
• Remembered to get my birria chicken out of the freezer and defrost it properly (miss you, Alan)    

All in all, it was an excellent weekend. I am quite proud that I did not fall off the wagon for more than a minute here or there. We ate at a place called Ziffle's Rib Bar for lunch on Saturday. I had a gigantic bbq chicken salad, some bites of his ribs (I CANNOT EVEN ... They were heaven) and a few fries. Had a few diet pops here and there. I did buy a bag of Elote Corn Cheetos. I ate about 12, before I threw them away. They were disgusting.

Yesterday, can't remember what I had for lunch. No, I had a chicken salad (the usual one, but with a grilled chicken breast), then my beloved tried something new for dinner. It didn't quite work out, so we went for Plan B, and I had some yogurt and berries, and some pecans. 

Ohio has decided to go back to Winter for whatthefuckeverreason ... Holy FUCK it's cold. 

I did learn, last week, that I've been eating far too much protein and fat for my lunches, so Friday, I cut way back, and had a different salad, and the results were obvious. So, I'm going to cut down on the amount of chicken I add to the birria salads, and also cut back on the dressing, and hopefully, I will not feel like complete ass every day after lunch. 

I was tickled to discover that I actually LOST weight this weekend instead of finding it again. 

Current stats: 

Weight: 207.8

Blood sugar: 112 (a bit earlier this morning) 

I have many many things to do today, workwise, so I'd better get to it. 

Happy Monday, happy week!