What a great day!

More specifically, what a great dinner!!  I made spicy garlic bok choy with Gardein "Sirloin" Tips over brown rice and I absolutely loved it!  Had to make sure I only ate one serving though!  I will absolutely be making that again - I really don't care that no one else in the family liked it.  I think that just shows lack of sophisticated taste buds on their part (and no - I don't care that one of them is only 9!!!  :) 

So I didn't make it to my WW meeting this week.  I was feeling just too awful on Monday to get up there.  I thought about going to a meeting tonight just to weigh in, but decided to give it a week.  Maybe then I'll see the slightly larger drop I've been wanting.  I'd also like to know why I am not losing anything in comparison to some other people I know.  I am seeing friends of mine post things like "I lost 3 lbs in one day" or I lost 5lbs this week" - what the heck?  Am I getting up in the middle of the night and going through the Taco Bell drive-through in my sleep or something?  Once again, I KNOW that continued losses like that are not "healthy" and that the losses I've been posting are the "right" way to go - but come on! 

I'm trying to decide what my reward will be for getting to my 10% weight loss.  Maybe a small tattoo, or a makeover.  Of course, the way I'm losing I'll be so old by the time I hit the 10% goal my reward will be a fresh glass to put my dentures in!!  Just kidding - I have great teeth, I won't need dentures!  I'm really looking forward to when my current 24-hour-glass figure gets closer to an 18-hour-glass figure!   

Family said it was "quite edible".....

Decided to make lasagna today.  I was going to make a vegan lasagna but so far I haven't had much luck in getting the family to eat the vegan offerings - even if they were extremely tasty in my opinion!!!  I did use the Yves "meatless" meat crumbles when I sautee'd up the onions, garlic, mushrooms and spinach but then instead of mixing it into a tofu version of ricotta and mozzeralla I used low fat versions of the real thing.  Works out to be 9pts a serving and the actual quote when I asked if they liked it was "well, it's quite edible."

I still haven't mentioned that last nights pepporoni pizza was a Tofurkey pizza and completely vegan!  I didn't even know the Tofurkey people made frozen pizzas.  I'll have to utilize that more.

I still don't see myself ever becoming completely vegetarian or vegan once Lent is over, but I can see me limiting my meat intake to only a couple of times a week, and making more vegan choices.  I do feel better overall.  The key, of course, is to continue to journal, journal, journal about every bite that goes into my mouth.  I have to be dedicated to finding out how many points things are because I keep finding my brain wanting to say "oh it's vegetarian - it's practically free!" which is SO not the case.