Saturday January 14, 2012

I'm having a bit of writers block trying to come up with something to talk about on here. Nothing is really new or different.  My weight this week was the same -big surprise.  I'm thinking I might have to do something to shake things up a bit but I'm not sure what?  I realize that the last 18 lbs will be the slowest to lose.  Rosalie said she took a long time to lose the last pounds, and Amber said she was stuck for a long time also, so I'm not really discouraged...just tired of being at this weight!  It really is like the scale is stuck - but I know its not, all of us in the house use the same scale.
To give you an idea of what I'm eating, here are my last two days as far as I remember:

Day 1
Breakfast:  two coffees with heavy cream, benefiber, and stevia
                scrambled eggs with mushrooms, onions, bit of spinach and bit of cheddar cheese
          
Lunch:   Chiplote salad with black beans, cheese, grilled peppers, and pica de gallo

Dinner - grilled slices of london broil with wine sauce, mashed cauliflower with cream and Parmesan,
             steamed broccoli
Snacks thru out day:  coffee with decaff, cream stevia, two coconut muffins, 3 squares Lindt 85%
                                chocolate

Day 2:
Breakfast - two coffees with heavy cream, benefiber and stevia
                 3 link sausages, scrambled eggs with onion, cheese and mushrooms
Lunch - Running errands so had two orange flavored coconut muffins, handful of roasted almonds, and
             cup of decaf with truvia and heavy cream

Dinner - homemade meatballs in spaghetti sauce (Delallo 1sugar per serving), green beans marinated
             in vinegar and capers
                         
Snacks thru out day: two coconut muffins, 3 squares Lindt 85% chocolate, coffee with decaf, stevia,
                               and cream

So those are basically my days.  I think everything is allowed and within the boundaries of the BFC, but maybe it's too much rich food.  I don't know. 

I'll tell you one thing that is a bit hard when following the BFC and that is cooking dinner for six people every night.  I have to come up with something everyone likes and will eat, but I have to make sure it's BFC friendly for my husband, my son and myself.  Here is an example of how frustrating this can be.   I tried Jorge's Raspberry Porkchops one night for dinner.  By the time I prepared the raspberry/mustard coating sauce and ground up enough nuts to dip it in and then coated seven pork-chops (a girlfriend here that night) and got two huge pans out to fry them in, trying to make sure they didn't stick to the pans (which they did), and meanwhile got brussell sprouts chopped up and put on roasting pan in oven with olive oil salt and pepper, and then had to make a pot of brown rice for my non BFC eaters.  It becomes quite a chore!!  After all that, no one really liked the pork chops that much!  They were met with such a lackluster reception that they are off this house's recipe list.

I sometimes think how much easier this would be if I was just cooking for myself!!  First of all I could eat when I wanted to, not at a set dinner time (here it is 6:00pm), secondly when you are just making one piece of protein you can take much more care in the cooking and do it right, and thirdly I wouldn't have to come up with some kind of brown rice, whole wheat pasta, or potato to go with my meal(because I don't eat them any way!) and lastly I could eat the same recipes over and over and not have to worry about people being bored with the menu.    Oh well, one day they'll all be moved out and then I'll probably miss my days of family dinners........or not?
Hope those that were sick are feeling better, and everyone is having a nice weekend and doing something fun!!