Today I went shopping for the food I plan on making and freezing for the week I am resting up after my operation. I had to choose frozen meals that I could tolerate for my lunches since i will be one handed for 10 days. I settled on Kashi's frozen chicken entrees as well as some vegetarian meals from the health food section of the grocery store. I will try one Amy's pasta bowl. Unfortunately, I will have to eat some cheese products this week since so many frozen meals have dairy in them. I hope my stomach survives. I just couldn't tolerate all the other brand name frozen meals. They taste like rubber to me. I am making a beef stew (lean), chicken stuffed with spinach and soy cheese ( mozz. cheese for hubby ). Spaghetti/turkey sauce, and my plain yogurt-strawberry freezies. ( 2 oz. plain soy yogurt, 5 oz. strawberries cut up very small, 1 tsp. vanilla extract, 1 tbs. slpenda powder. mix together and freeze. Thaw for 1 min. in micro. Stir and crunch with spoon to make slush...eat...yummy) Hubby said he will measure out my carrots and peppers for me and put them in baggies for me so I will have veggie snacks. So, I have one week covered. That means hubby is on his own for cooking duties the last week. He'll probably grill every night if the weather permits. I just may get lucky and be able to stay on my diet or close to it through it all. Tomorrow I won't be blogging since I'll be busy doing all of this. I'll try to blog Sunday.
Tonight my thought were on one thing. I would love to see my feet. I carry all my weight in abdomen. Thus when I look down I see fat. It's getting smaller by the day thankfully. Today when I looked down I could almost see my toes. Well, after I parted the ladies. I had to smile. Come on ladies. Don't tell me this is something some of you haven't though of. I also like being able to hold my husband closer to me and not have the big blob in the way. This brings tears to my eyes. I would say this is a great reward. I tell him his losing weight also makes this worth while too. Now, I don't know how I feel about all the excess skin that I see I'm going to have. That's another problem, but I rather have it than fat. What got me to thinking about all this is when I was reading Ck's article on body image. I always felt fat even when I wasn't. I had a fat attitude. Now I feel skinny even though my body is still chubby. I will have to wait for my body to catch up.