Thursday, May 20 -- Week 20, Day 5

The day started out innocently enough...

BREAKFAST:

• 1 cup apple juice
• 1 pita broiled with mustard and 1 oz. cheese
• 1/2 cup skim milk

This was actually really good. I wish I'd been able to broil it instead of microwave it, because that would probably make it even better. I even enjoyed the mustard. It gave it a nice tangy surprise. I will definitely do that again in the future, probably on english muffins.

LUNCH:

• 2 T. peanut butter
• 2 tsp. strawberry jelly
• 1 slice homemade wheat bread
• carrot sticks
• 1/2 cup homemade applesauce

This also was very good. I'm not wild over carrot sticks, but I'd certainly rather eat them than celery sticks! And how quickly a simple PBJ has grown on me. I REALLY enjoyed it this time! Maybe I was just super-hungry...

DINNER:

I am going to make more excuses. We were supposed to have beef shish kebabs. I set out the meat to thaw, forgetting that we have no oven, no broiler, and no gas for the grill. So nothing else was thawed. It was a really really bad day. I was literally in tears by the time Mark got home. He took pity on me and went and got a pizza.

And that's all I'm going to say about that.

One of the best things about dieting is that each day is a new start. No matter how badly I screw it up one day, I can always try for a better day the next day. I'm not completely convinced yet that doing my own menu is going to work. I think I've lost my momentum this week. It's been a week full of unexpected complications. I will try my own menu again next week. I looked at the next week in the WW book and have made my modifications. I'm ready for a new week!

I'm looking forward to tonight's dinner though, because I believe we're getting gas for the grill so we can have our shish kebabs, which reminds me to marinate the meat this afternoon. I think I'll parboil some potatoes. We also have a green pepper and some sliced mushrooms (not sure how well sliced mushrooms will stay on the skewers, but we'll see). Maybe some onion chunks on Mark's. Anything else?