Up for the Challenge!

"Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet." ~Dan Bennett

Started a Spring Challenge today, to "Put some Zing in my Spring!" The plan is to lose 10 pounds in the next eight weeks. Let's hope these aren't false hopes! I'm ready. Have been on track all week, so I'm already wayyyyyy past the first four hours!        

Been Gone Too Long...

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."
                                                                                                   --William Shakespeare

OK, Vacation in Hawaii is not conducive to weight loss.  Neither is my granddaughter's successful Girl Scout Cookie Campaign, which came just before I left...but the cookies were waiting for my return!  Why didn't mice or ants attack while I was gone????  I think Grandma was her best customer.  Yikes.  But, I didn't blog while I was gone either.  My test as too whether that makes a big difference won't work if I don't blog!  So, an open box of Tag-alongs, and another of Samoas reside in my refrigerator.  Then there are the unopened thin mints.   Everyone I know should come over and we will have a cookie party!  Just don't let me eat any more!!!!!

"Tempt not a desperate (wo)man".

<sigh>
Was doing well all week.  Even did great all day...I passed up the peanut butter cookies, the rice krispie squares, the chocolate bars.  But the chocolate covered pumpkin seeds gave me an excuse to try something sweet and "healthy."   But it was worth it....!

"A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal." --Pat Conroy

 

 

 

So what could be easier...good food delivered straight to my front door.  Too bad a chef didn't come with it.  Hmmm..."Prep Time: 10 min."   I think they were referring to the time it took me to read the recipe.  "Trim off and discard the end of the radishes; small dice."  I think it took me 10 min just for that part.  Luckily I didn't dice a digit or two into the mix.  "Pick the cilantro leaves off the stems; discard the stems."   Another 5 minutes. 

 

I use cilantro a lot, but I've never really worried about getting the stems into things.  It is soooooo much easier just too cut it all up with a pair of scissors.  But....I was true to the instructions, and followed the directions step by step...

 

An eternity later, I had a wonderful dinner!   What a shock!  It even looked just like the picture.  I wish I had taken a picture of this delectable work of art, but starvation had set in and I didn't want to pass out from hunger before I could partake of this latest delicacy.

 

I have to say, it was absolutely fabulous.  What a sense of accomplishment!  I have tried two of these meal delivery services, and if you don't like to go shopping  and want to try different things, this is a pretty cool thing!  A real plus...no bunches of left over ingredients that you end up playing "guess what this was" weeks later while cleaning out the refrigerator!  Or, like with my recent Vegetable Curry recipe experience, TWO jars of curry and garam masala, because I had forgotten that I had already bought it for another recipe that I never made (and most likely ended up trying to identify the unused ingredients weeks later in the fridge!)

 

Tonight's dish:  Seared Cod & Date Vinaigrette.   One of the best meals yet. 

 

 

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;"

Oh, I wish that time did creep!   Almost 2 years since I last posted here.  Journaling kept me on track, so now I am starting over again, hoping that I won't put off til tomorrow...again, and again, and again.  I got so busy with the new job that I took, that I found myself not taking time for myself.   And so many things have happened.....!  Some good, some bad, some terrible.  but...."to the last syllable of recorded time;" day, by day..Life goes on!