Goal setting

Goals suck, but I'm going to set some anyway.

I want to lose 15 lbs by New Years Day. That comes to about 1.5 lbs a week, reasonable by everyones standards.

I'm going to use this blog as a healthy eating journal. (I almost said the d word --- a kiss of death worse than the G word that I did use.)

Today, I have eaten eggs poached in grits with cheddar cheese. I added onion flakes and garlic powder, because it was close at hand. No butter or butter type food. For most people, that may not be a big thing, but it's big for me. I think of grits, bread, potatoes and pasta as a place to put my butter and cheese and even mayonnaise. I really like mayonnaise.

Tonight I will eat poached fish and mashed potatoes. Because of the colonoscopy, I have to have a low residue meal. That means no vegetables or grains. Potatoes are OK. So is white bread, but I don't eat that.

I used to eat white bread. I loved to pull a piece and roll it into a pellet of dough and eat it. Sometimes I'd put margarine and sugar on it and eat it. It was better when I learned to broil it. Add a little cinnamon to the sugar and you aren't even a marginal eater any more. You've gone legit.

I also ate white bread with margarine, Vienna sausages, and a slice of American processed cheese food, broiled until the cheese food blew up like a parachute and settled down again on the Vienna sausages.

I guess I have made progress.