Author: Wattle

I am positive I will never be as slender as a gray hound. Simply stated, I like eating too much.

So how did the weigh in go? Quite well. I am happy with my maintenance weight today of 79.0 kilograms which is half a kilogram more than at the end of Januberry. That is a good result given that each second day sausage rolls were on the plate for breakfast and on Saturday nights home made pizza was on the menu.

The continued walking has also played an important part in the weight maintenance. Portion size will need to be adjusted downwards if any hint of missed walks appears.

Thank goodness for freezers. The remaining sausage rolls will keep quite happily until we reach a month which has a mixed foods breakfast menu, or until they annoy me so much I just eat them!

Having only one weigh day each month should reduce the temptation to eat less the day before. After all, there are still plenty of other days each month to eat in the manner which will lead to achieving weight loss or weight maintenance goals.

So would it be tempting for me to eat less today, on the day before weigh day? No! Not on your nellie (whatever a nellie might be).

I wonder if I could pair motivating words with cabbage?
“GREAT” cabbage. “Value” cabbage. “Great Value” cabbage.
“WIN” cabbage!

The cream of carrot soup recipe is particularly versatile. It could just as easily be “Cream of pumpkin soup”. Just boil more pumpkin than carrots.

A thicker composition would be achieved by straining some of the water out of the saucepan before mashing the carrots and pumpkin. A name change could be, “Thick pumpkin soup”. Serve it without the dollop of cream if it is a weight loss month.

Plum sauce may be bought at a supermarket if fresh or frozen plums are not available. Just watch the sugar content in it and use it sparingly.

Try adding an onion to boil with the carrots and pumpkin. That would give it a slightly different, but still nice taste.

Tonight we are going to sprinkle some nutmeg on our “Cream of Carrot soup”.