Seattle Sutton or Stay a Glutton

Ok.. I took a few weeks off.. .away from 'the food'. Maybe it was the change of weather, I don't know. But I am thankful that I learned enough while on the Seattle Sutton meal program that I could recognize the portion size I should be eating instead of the size I used to eat... And because of that, I didn't gain ANY of my weight back during my 'break'. I also learned many new foods I could include in my daily diet where before I was a bit at a loss of what to eat that would be good for me! So unlike the Jenny Craig type programs where they hand you the food and say eat it... this FRESH prepared food program does teach you what to buy at the store, or order in a restaurant, if you let it. Let's face it, Jenny's food (I call it pouch food) isn't sold in stores or restaurants....


So after my brief "va-ca" away, I am now back to ordering and picking up meals. I started back on Monday Oct 16th... and my grand total weight loss as of yesterday was 17 lbs - ir 16.5 if you use a digital world to be precise. (Close enough for me!)

I am very proud of myself and will continue to move forward. I feel much more energetic and happy! I look forward to having to replace many wardrobe items!

Keep on Truckin!

In these meals we get fruit for ALMOST every meal. Many times Fresh fruit and there is an issue as to it's ripeness sometimes so.... My suggestion is this. When you pick up your food for the half-week, look thru the meals, and find the 'fresh fruit' in each.(pears, plums, pluots, NOT grapes, etc) REMOVE them from the packaging, and put them on your kitchen counter. Leave a note in each 'tub' that there WAS fruit in it... When it comes time to eat that meal, don't worry what fruit WAS in it, take the RIPEST fruit on the counter!

Pears:
Placing pears in a paper bag will help them ripen faster. Be sure to check them daily so they don't get overripe. You can also leave them out in a fruit bowl and enjoy their beauty as they ripen. Add apples or bananas to speed up the process. Place ripe pears in the refrigerator to slow further ripening. Once they are ripened, pears will generally keep in the refrigerator for 3 to 5 days. Unripe fruit can generally be kept for a week or more, however, pears will not ripen properly inside the fridge.

It's got to be very difficult to ship fruit not knowing if it'll be ripe when we need to eat it PLUS some fruit ripens faster than others... so as long as we eat all the fruit in that week.. it doesn't seem to matter if we switch fruits!

Fruit Suggestion to Seattle Sutton: Maybe pears are too difficult to gauge the ripeness factor of... and my congratulations on the discovery of pluots... but plums are good too... and there are many different plums to choose from.

Oh My Gosh! I haven't blogged since Thursday??? I don't think I can remember back to Friday. :-( So I'm starting with today...

Breakfast was a healthy, crunchy pumpkin flax cereal mix, that I did enjoy with skim milk poured over it.

Lunch - some sort of southwest cold pasta salad with bowtie pasta, kidney beans, corn, salsa, red onion, green onions, garlic, cumin, chili powder and red bell pepper mixed together with some salad dressing... not bad actually, and then a small piece of dessert, i think was bread pudding...

Dinner, I have to pick up, but I hear it's Meatballs and Noodles! TTYL