I’m now officially down 10.5 lbs! I started this diet almost three weeks ago at 187.5 lbs. This morning, the scale showed 177.0 lbs! Woohoo!
Diet Journal for Yesterday: High-Protein Slimfast shake for breakfast, High-protein Slimfast shake for lunch, very small salad (sans cheese but with regular buttermilk dressing) and hardboiled eggs for dinner (Eggland’s Best, of course!!), and a midnight snack of a Clementine tangerine that I shared with the pups.
My boss, Darin, did me a big favor as we were leaving work yesterday – he warned me that he would be bringing in Panera breakfast today for everyone in the office, and graciously promised that no French Toast bagels or raspberry flavored cream cheese would make it into his bag this morning. As long as those two things aren’t in there, I can totally trust myself to be good in the face of temptation. 
Thanks, D!
In other news, Jamie continues to improve. He has gone without Albuterol the past 2 days, and is still doing better all the time. He’s still very, very tired at night and won’t stay up and play with us longer than 15 minutes, but he was quite agreeable this morning and even let me put his coat, hat, AND mittens on him before school. (Usually I have to settle for some sort of diminished combination of those things.) I did not press my luck and attempt shoes; instead, I just located the newest pair of socks I could find in hopes they would still be extra warm and fuzzy on the inside. His corduroy pants were long enough to cover his feet this morning, so I think he’s fine. Plus, I think we left his sneakers at Grandma’s house. Oops.
And that’s the latest from here. More later. Hopefully by Monday I’ll have shed a couple more pounds to post about!!
–Gracie
November 16, 2007 at 11:03 pm
I think you should make a new tag especially for weight-loss posts. You should tag them “The Incredible Shrinking Woman.”
Hard-boiled eggs sound good. Unfortunately, boiling is the one thing I can’t do with this surplus of eggs my hens have produced. For some reason, our girls lay eggs with two membranes: One that sticks to the shell and makes it come off cleanly, and one much thinner membrane that appears to be super-glued to the white, so you have to either settle for an egg with pieces of membrane stuck to it (icky-poo), or you peel off half the egg white trying to remove the membrane.
Ah, well. If that’s the price of fresh eggs, I’ll take it.
November 17, 2007 at 12:07 am
Em, your problem is that the eggs are too fresh. Let them age for a couple of weeks in the fridge and try boiling them. Has to do with the amount of air that is inside the egg. The older it gets, the more air there is. That’s why you don’t want to make Easter eggs with some you just bought that week. And if you consider that the ones in the store could already be 2 or 3 weeks old (or more) you can see why yours won’t turn loose of the shell.
November 21, 2007 at 12:56 am
Ah. Maybe I’ll try boiling the ones that have been around for a little while.
November 21, 2007 at 10:26 am
Yay for you!
Just got done working the DFI. That was interesting!
November 21, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Well done Gracie!
We’re really pleased to hear you’ve made Eggland’s Best part of your menu plan! Have you checked out the recipe section on our website http://www.eggland.com yet?
Wishing you continued success.