Carry on

Yesterday's breakfast was a peanut butter and jelly panini with a serving of Noosa raspberry yogurt, almond slivers and strawberries. I'm loving this yogurt and I only serve a left! noooooo. The panini was really good, although messy. I found this panini in the weekend and just flat breads cut it in quarters, spread peanut butter and jam on the middle and roast in the skillet for a few minutes.

I made another batch of soup yesterday and had a big bowl of it for lunch. This was just as good and now I have leftovers for today. I am looking for a tomato soup now, preferably without much room, does anyone have a recipe?

For early dinner I had two pancakes made with Bob's Red Mill whole grain Mix. I added a handful of frozen blueberries and topped with butter and agave maple syrup. Blueberries make the best pancake mixers!

For a late dinner I had peanut butter and chocolate banana soft serve. Only two frozen bananas, 1 T peanut butter, 1 T cocoa pureed in the kitchen machine. Just like soft serve! Best invention ever, thank you internet.

No exercise yesterday. I have no real excuse. Felt under the weather, down, wonky knee ... the usual. Will exercise today, no excuses.

I've lost weight and it feels really good. I do my best to just put my head down and keep going. In the beginning stages of losing weight, I start to get excited, so often. I start to think, I got this. And then I get full of confidence and I stop doing what I'm doing to reach my goals, and I quickly go from that I have this what the heck just happened? I get in my head. I forgot my process, so just trust that confidence comes track.

Along with this blog I keep a detailed journal at my side. I write down everything. And I do this so I can go back and see what worked and what didn't. I use it for those weeks when I don't lose a lot of weight, or when I lose weight. So I can see exactly what is going on. Weight gain is sometimes just a salty meal or not keeping an accurate record. And so many times I let those little things upset me when the scale is displayed a bump and think, why not try? And that is crap. Forest for the trees!

I don't want to use this expression, but it is appropriate for how I feel: keep calm and Carry On. I just want to trust that I do the right thing and that Yes I am losing weight and that Yes I should do this every day and not it kills me not, and Yes I can have what I want, and no I don't have everything and Yes I can make of switches, and I'm okay. I know that if I want a Blueberry Pancake for dinner, I'm going to eat vegetable soup for lunch. And I can do that and still lose weight. I am losing weight. Whew!

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