2:30 pm - salad of red leaf lettuce, balsamic vinegar, crumbled bleu cheese, 1 cherry pepper.

2:45 - 4 tsp. parmesan cheese

3:30 - getting ready to make my famous “salty, crunchy, healthy snack - toss Post Wheat and Bran Shredded wheat bisquits in a “Chex Mix-ish” mixture of butter, olive oil, seasoned salt, and whatever other spices you prefer…bake like Chex mix at 200 degrees for one hour, stirring every 15 minutes.

Lunch: Beans and Greens (navy beans, cooked with bacon) 1 cup - 200, spinach, sauteed with a sprinkle of salt and cider vinegar, whole wheat toast - 120, natural peanut butter, 1 T. - 100, Polaner All Fruit Blackberry spread, 1 T. 50, 1 cup milk - 120,

Total for lunch: 590 …..whoa! Hopefully I’ll get some good energy from this later on!

 Total for the day so far: 990 …..WHOA!!! What am I gonna eat for supper??? Naked lettuce????

  I had a dream about Matt last night. I insert Julian Sands pic here because I don’t have one of Matt and they look a lot alike. We were at his parents house, and T and L were there too (as we used to gather there in “the good ‘ol days) There were some other people there too, including one very beautiful young girl whom I didn’t know. Matt came in, I was sitting at the kitchen table with the others standing around, the girl was in the livingroom. He saw her, or heard her, and he walked right through the kitchen, past me without so much as a glance in my direction, with this enthralled look on his face….I was disappointed, but very soon he came back into the kitchen, I was sitting with my back toward the livingroom, and he came up behind me and hugged me and started kissing me on the neck! …..It is so strange!!! Here I haven’t thought about him in so long and then early this morning I have that dream about him! I wonder if it means anything………

On to the business at hand:

I didn’t lose any weight last week, not surprising I know, what with all the pancakes, etc. I feel pretty ok with yesterday’s food, exercise or lack thereof is another matter. I’ve got to force myself to do some exercise, even when I’d rather shoot myself in the foot.

And I’ve got to get serious (again!) about MEASUREING  everything that goes into my mouth. I’ve gotten careless - dipping peanut butter out of the jar, pouring olive oil into the salad, just ’cause it’s good for me doesn’t mean it won’t impartially add poundage if I overdose on it!

I don’t know….in a way, I feel “light” ….”thinner” ……clothes are pretty loose. But on the other hand, my tummy is still “out there” I thought last night as I perused the reflection in the mirror, “This gut has got to GO!”

Breakfast: Wheat and Bran Shredded Wheat Bisquits, 1 T. flax seed, 2 T. Walnuts, 1/2 cup 2% milk - Total calories: 400 (really, that’s my best guess…I’m too lazy to go look it up)