Recovering from Fried Shrimp and Cheesecake

And I'm back in the 220's! What a relief. It really sucks that it took three days to drop the weight I gained on Saturday.

I went grocery shopping again today and spent what I would consider another sizeable amount of money on food. It's not that spending 50 bucks for an entire week of meals is much for anyone else who is used to cooking, but spending that much on food at one time is still hard for me to wrap my head around. But still, with preparing food as I am, I'm only eating out about one time a week, and I'm not blowing money on the grill at work, which is saving me between 5 and 10 bucks a shift. I figure I'm breaking even financially. If I'm eating better than before, then I consider it a plus.

Also, I'm becoming creative with my cooking abilities. Well, creative from a non-cooker perspective ends up being pathetic and unremarkable, but I'm getting better at what goes together to make a tasty but healthy meal. For instance, a tuna melt with onions browned in olive oil, then done up with green onions, chopped parsley, two cans of tuna, and then mixed together with cottage cheese and sliced grapes and served on a wrap or toasted bun makes for a wonderful meal. (Actually, I didn't add sliced grapes because I forgot to buy them. But it still sounds delicious.)

I continue to find that my body thinks it's not losing weight unless I'm hungry, which would lead me to eat less to maintain that hollow dieter's hole in the pit of my stomach. So I have to constantly remind myself that eating enough (a.k.a. NOT STARVING ALL THE TIME!) and exercising are what make it work. Going without food is bad. And eating crappy diet food is also bad.

There are my words of wisdom for the day.