First time in the last four years that I haven’t gone to Walt Disney World (WDW) this time of year. It’s an awesome way to get away from the doldrums of winter. It just didn’t work out this year time or money-wise. Color me sad. 
Everything else, though is excellent. Well, except for the little matter of my SO slow weight loss. I always hit the mid-180′s and my weight just won’t budge. Given that my eating is superior and I’m exercising 6 days out of 7, I do expect a swoosh one of these days. Soon. I hope.
I have managed to easily avoid all grains and sugars. The only tempting thought has to do with cupcakes and since I am absolutely, positively, not going there, it is pretty easy to just say no to myself and be done with it.
Fruit intake has been occasional … mostly because it’s hard this time of year to find good-tasting fruit where I live. Except for bananas which I don’t like to eat everyday because of their high carb count. But man alive when I do eat one it tastes super-sweet. I did get some delicious oranges a couple of weeks ago, but lately they haven’t been worth it, price-wise ($2.29/lb) or taste-wise. I also made the mistake of buying some strawberries a couple of weeks ago … blech … talk about tasteless.
Vegetables on the other hand have been pretty tasty. One of my favorite lunches is tuna salad with tuna, green onions, shredded carrots and zucchini, tomatoes, celery, mini-cucumbers (you wouldn’t believe how much I pay for this delicacy … $5.00 for 14 oz … ouch), lemon-pepper seasoning, pickle relish (or chopped pickles if I’m out of relish) and home-made mayonnaise. I usually make a batch of vegetable soup to start the week and then we have roasted vegetables with salad for dinner (along with a protein).
I am looking forward to springtime in the Rockies … which I hope is going to show up sooner or later. I plan on taking my bike to the bike shop next week and getting it tuned up in the hopes that when I get back from my month-long trip it will have warmed up enough to bike. That may be just what I need … to up the exercise even more to get the scale moving again.
). Sometimes the only thing available to me was fresh vegetables (and most of the time only because I brought a tray). A couple of meals I couldn’t find a plain piece of protein to save my life.
