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We put up pictures of dinner last night, but I realized we may have left you all with a false understanding of how much we ate. So here’s a picture of lunch to show you that only half the pork chop and stuffing was eaten last night. One slice of tomato from the heirloom salad. Some roasted veggies. Jon had more of those so he only did one piece of bruchetta, and I did less veggies, but did two pieces of the veggies bruchetta. The real indulgence was the homemade carmel sauce from Whole Foods. They make it only during this time of year, and it is the best carmel dipping sauce I’ve ever had. It’s seven dollars a tub and totally, absolutely worth it. So good, we didn’t dip apples in it, just fingers. That’s good carmel sauce.

		Notice that Lunch is half of the Pork Chop from Dinner.
Dinner	Lunch

My point on the food is that it’s portion control and being well-balanced on your food that has helped me lose fifty pounds and keep it off, and gone from a size 14 jeans to a size 8. Well good nutrition, and exercise. Diets don’t work without exercise, and exercise may not help you lose weight if you’re still eating crap. By the way, low fat doesn’t mean it’s good for you, it just means low fat. Jon and I gained weight, and felt horrible, on the no fat eating plan we tried for a few months. Our bodies need some fat just so our digestive systems can function properly, and apparently without some fat in our diet our bodies think we’re starving them so they hold onto every ounce of stored fat they can find. Eek! so not what we were wanting.

I left a lot on my plate at lunch, too. It really gripes me that vegetables are so important to staying healthy. Me. Hates. Veggies. But my digestive track and my whole body really likes them. Curses.

My point is that we couldn’t possibly eat everything you’re seeing on the plate and loose inches, or even keep them off. We’re still having a little bit of a learning curve on how much food Pili needs to plan for each meal. Because being healthy still doesn’t mean you can eat tons of it. I had a friend who gained fifty pounds on nothing but orange juice and fruit. You can over indulge in anything. It’s all about portion control and eating healthy things.

The big problem is that you can’t stay on a restrictive diet forever, eventually you grow bored, or your body adjusts and then you are plateaued. When you’re already feeling deprived and then you stop loosing inches it just feels like insult to injury. So, we’ve struck out on our own to find a way to eat well, but healthy, and not to feel deprived. So far, we’re maintaining, we’ll see how it goes. But we have a ton of veggies chopped and frozen ready to go into more good meals. We’re trying to organize and get ahead of the curve, or I should say that Jon and Pili are trying. I spend most of my time up in the office writing on some crazed deadline or other, or at the gym.

I’m hoping that after I finish this latest Merry book, DIVINE MISDEMEANORS, that I’ll be able to sit down and blog about the exercise that we’ve found works for us, and the food. For right now a good rule of thumb is meat no bigger than the palm of your hand, and lots of veggies and salad. Pasta goes on the palm-size, too, though we find that protein, veggies, and salad, are what works for us on a regular basis. Still trying out those whole wheat pastas, but now with homemade sauces.