Breakfast: 2 tbs peanut butter (on a spoon, of course!), 11/2 coffee w/ soy creamer,1/2 raisin bagel w/ Benecol and cream cheese

2 waters, 1/2 c. milk

Snack: walnuts, slice of hot pepper cheese w/50% less fat

Lunch: Bowl of Tomato soup, spinach, 2 slices of hot pepper cheese w/50% less fat

down 3 lbs so far...yah! I'm shooting for 2 more by Thanksgiving. I think I can do it!

b: bowl of shredded wheat, big tea w/milk, 1t honey

l: leftover tatertot casserole, 1 diet coke

H2O: behind the usual ~12oz

Breakfast: caved this morning and got a steaming hot pumpkin walnut muffin to go with my coffee (with sugar because got a scary email from a trusted friend about aspartame being POISON... what do you guys think of that, by the way?)

Lunch: fish, noodles, green beans, spicy tofu and a green salad (small portions of each, don't worry!)

Dinner: pork chops, caramelized onions, rice, and a mandarin orange

Today's demon: feeling guilty about not exercising more.

I think it's an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/antpoison.asp

Pre-breakfast: 2 cups of hot water

Breakfast: turkey breast sandwich on whole wheat toast, with butter, avocado, jalapeno mustard, spinach, black pepper
cup of black coffee

Snack: about 30 red seedless grapes

Lunch: half a peanut butter and raisin sandwich on whole wheat bread
cup of black coffee
about 30 baby carrots
banana

Snack: small pear and 1 oz. pepper jack cheese

Cup of hot water

Dinner:6 oz. mixed berry low fat yogurt

Cup of hot water

This was a really strange day for me, and by the time I got home from work it was too late to have a real meal, because of having to wait two hours after I eat to take a pill.

I wore a dress today that I haven't worn in three weeks or so. Usually I wear the belt that goes with it in the third hole, but today it was perfectly comfortable on the fourth hole.

Oh my... I didn't get the ant poison email. This is what he wrote:

"Tonight I was reading, Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d by Candace Pert (2006). Many of you will recognize her from her ground-breaking work in psychoneuroimmunology when she was Chief of Brain Biochemistry for the National Institutes for Mental Health, and, later, for her book, The Molecules of Emotion. Anyhow, in chapter 4, she says very clearly and convincingly that there is overwhelming evidence that Aspartame, the artificial sweetener known as Nutrasweet, Equal, and Spoonful is extremely toxic, and dramatically affects mood, disease, and can cause death. It becomes methanol and formaldehyde as it breaks down in the body."

Well, I don't know... Will have to do some more research, but I'll lay off the Equal in the meanwhile. I'm not addicted to it and so would rather play it safe.

Well, here are other links that say it's safe.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

http://www.tostepharmd.net/pharm/herbs/aspartame.html

But I avoid it anyway because I don't like the taste. When I went with my husband to his diabetes education classes, one of the nutritionists said that aspartame is composed of two ingredients, one of which (phenylalanine) is bitter. When combined into aspartame, it tastes sweet to most people, but some people can still taste the bitterness. I'm apparently one of those people.