In less than two weeks I will have been on my new healthy lifestyle eating plan for a year and a half. What I have discovered is that I was very good at losing weight in the first half of the time and very good at maintaining the weight loss in the second half. Unfortunately, I would still like to lose another 20 to 25 lbs. My eating habits over a week’s time have turned into two very good days, two bad to very bad days and the rest kind of in the middle. Weight loss is stalled. I’m up a little, down a little and it is frustrating. Frustrating turns into a dinner like last night’s.

Lots of good intentions to begin with – 4 oz. of shrimp with 2 oz. of whole wheat pasta, a bunch of vegetables, a salad and a little wine. Somehow that turned into 4 oz. of pasta (with parmesan cheese instead of just salt), no salad, lots of wine and even part of a bag of pretzel pieces (left over from when Jonathan was here in April.) So bad. I could not even bring my salt and wine bloated self to step onto the scale this morning. Apparently I was tired of dieting yesterday.

But hope springs eternal and today was a good day. John suggested we have a shrimp stir-fry using the shrimp we were supposed to use yesterday. I cut up a massive amount of vegetables and made brown rice. (I also cut up my thumb but omitted it from the stir fry.) John cooked our dish in the electric wok which gets super hot.

John busy at the electric wok

I spent some time while he was cooking looking out the window. It is so pretty here.

Hmmm, should we eat outside tonight?

When dinner was ready, I took half my portion. I always like to know that there is something left for seconds. We ate dinner inside since it was still over 90 outside and watched Roger Federer lose in the semi-finals of the French Open. (rats)

A little bit of shrimp and a lot of vegetables in an Asian stir-fry served over brown rice

Anyway, just goes to show that just because you screw up one day, you can make it better the next. Plus it teaches valuable maintenance skills.