It has been a great year overall…..for blueberries. Fairly terrible for a lot of other things. But for blueberries, I don’t remember a better year. They have been cheap and ranged from pretty good to very good.
Eating the blueberries plain is good. Putting them in pancakes…..also good. Making blueberry cobbler, Texas style was very, very good. I have done all those things this year. But I haven’t made a pie. If I can stop eating them long enough to have any left over for pie, I will do that. It’s been awfully hot for baking, though. I will hope for a cool day.
I like to focus on creating a world I want to live in. That means letting out my desires and creativity in cooking and food in general. The portion has to be controlled, but the kind of food is up to me.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – burrito bowl with 100g meat (250); 30g cheese (110); 130g refried beans (110); 2T sour cream (60);
- 530 calories
Lunch – Big Greek Cafe $5 Gyro Wednesday!!!! (600);
- 600 calories
Dinner – 13 ounces of ziti, sausage, and cheese slow cooker bake (520);
- 520 calories
Snacking – blueberries (50)
- 50 calories
Total for the day: 1700 calories (limit 1850)
It's always up to you
I have been paying more attention to my body. That isn’t all good. I am still 34 pounds away from my initial goal – to lose 125 pounds. (Wow, though, 100 pounds lost may not be far off.) I am still 50 pounds away from a more final goal of 185 pounds. Nobody will look at me (unless they know me) and recognize I have lost a lot of weight. They just see someone who is 35-50 pounds overweight! Well, as long as I am losing weight I can tell myself that I am thinking like a thin person on the inside. My body is just the lagging indicator. And things are going well this week for weight control. I even have blueberries.
You must always keep in mind that your goal is to build the life you want and live it. If you don’t then your life is just the things that happen to you. Being in control of my weight is only part of the life I want for myself. Right now, it is taking a lot of my runtime, but it is also rewarding. You can set up your life so that the accomplishments are rewarded. That’s partly why I focus so hard on rewards. They are rewards for achievement and they are meant to help create the life I want. Achieving is better than accepting and should be rewarded.
Encourage yourself with rewards, it’s much better than punishment. The beatings will continue until morale improves, right?
-The Doctor