Ooops! Day Seventeen . . .

Well, as you can see I missed blogging all last week. I was in McCall on my annual "teacher retreat" last week and although the cabin we stayed in said that it had wireless internet we couldn't manage to get out laptops to connect to it. I've been home a few days but am just now getting back to blogging. Maybe that's because I wasn't very good while I was gone and broke numerous rules of the diet . . .

I did really good for the first few days and the friends I was with were amazing at helping me find things that I could eat. I drank mostly apple juice but Jennifer made me garlic mashed potatoes the first night we were there and they were so good and pretty much pureed that I didn't think they would hurt me. Tell you what though, everyone else's steaks looked amazing!

The next day however, was not so good. We went into McCall to do some ceramics and because everyone was hungry for Mexican food, that's what we had. I ordered a chili rellano thinking it was mostly eggs and cheese and wouldn't be too bad on my stomach but when they say liquids and then pureed foods, I don't think they mean Mexican food. I couldn't eat but a few bites which managed to sit way high in my chest making me feel like I wanted to throw up but I knew I didn't want to! The rest of the day I had juice and a tomato soup in hand for supper. I won't be trying Mexican again for a while.

The last night we were there we went to a really nice, quiet restaurant where we sat and visited and laughed for many hours. The food there looked amazing and I was told it did not disappoint anyones tastebuds. I decided I could have a baked potato with some sauteed mushrooms and just chew the heck out of them. The baked potato was fabulous but the mushrooms, which I thought would be a few sliced ones on the side, turned out to be a huge plateful of beautiful, whole, sauteed mushrooms. There were way more than I could and should eat so I shared them with everyone at the table. The baked potato sat well and I didn't eat more than I thought I could handle. When I felt like I was full I quit eating. I left a lot of my food on my plate but oh well, I guess that's the way it's going to be for a while.

It was Kennedy's birthday party tonight here at our house but I was good and didn't have any cake or ice cream. I do think I could probably have had a little bit of ice cream but because it's probably high in sugar I refrained.

All in all, I think it was a good week. I broke some of the rules but I am now committed to be back on it, right where I should be. I had some apple juice for breakfast today, a strawberry slimfast for lunch, and some mashed potatoes and gravy for supper tonight. I promise I'm going to make this work or die trying!