Look at me...pop tart free!!

I'm very happy to report a pop tart free day yesterday, as well as a clean day where I didn't track my points but know I fell short of my 29.  Probably not good, but I had a very rare, never happens, there must be aliens approaching day of low hunger and no cravings or desires to eat too much.  I'd brought a big salad for lunch to work, along with some roasted vegetables, and ended up eating only the cup of vegetables while on the job.  I brought the salad home and ate it about 2:45, knowing if I didn't the universe would likely render me binge-y, crave-ish and hungry at some point before dinner.  After the salad I walked the dog with a friend - about 2 miles.  Not a huge chunk of exercise but 20 minutes worth of a good pace.

For dinner I made my favorite meatloaf recipe which happens to be low carb.  I got the recipe from Lyn's blog and my family and I like it better than any other meatloaf I've made, and we are big meat loaf lovers.  (That could sound pathetic, couldn't it?)  I've made it a point to make killer meatloaves as an adult because my mother's were so terrible;  I think she just used ground meat, maybe an egg and white bread, and it was basically like eating dry hamburger steak that was only palatable when slathered in great quantities of the off-brand ketchup she bought.  Wow - I digressed and got in a dig at my mom in one fell swoop, and both were unplanned and unintended!

Back to meat loaf - what makes Lyn's low carb is that it has no ketchup and no bread.  Actually I can supply a link to it if you're interested - it's a different taste, and DELISH.  Hopefully that second link gets you to the meatloaf, but if it doesn't, just click on menus on her menu bar and you'll see it in her list.  Anyhoo, for the menfolk, I fixed potatoes and green beans (esp. for the Mister who doesn't like what I fixed for myself in lieu of potatoes, which was a winging it concoction of steamed cauliflower and broccoli, mashed together with a little butter, s&p, 2 cloves of garlic and about a tbs. of fat free 1/2&1/2.  Wow, was the mashed mix really good - my son had 2 huge helpings, I had one, and enough left for some with lunch today.  I felt entirely righteous, dude, having such a low carb healthy alternative to potatoes. 

After work today I'm meeting a friend at Starbucks, and in the interest of keeping the WWP+ lower, I'll probably just have plain old coffee.  I generally don't like SB coffee and am a latte fan, but I'm pretty sure a tall, which is their stupid smallest size, has 3 points I think.  I'm going to google it later to see, because I'd much rather that.  Then I'm seeing my family doc for a few things like refills and slip for blood work.  I expect to talk tomorrow here about another topic about which I'm going to speak to the doc.  For the cliffhanger, if has to do with HEALTH.  And DENIAL.  And STRIVING FOR ACCEPTANCE. 

And I have to say that it's just beyond great to really be back here blogging.  Already my mind is back in the mode of filing thoughts for publication the next day.  Now if only I could get paid for the "published" products!