OK, middle four: grrrrr!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

I'm tracking diligently. And that middle four persists.

Want to see a middle three again.

Not giving up until the scale gives up and moves back down.

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Pizza = salty = middle four

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Yesterday was another lovely day -- thoroughly enjoyed my jaunt to the art gallery, which is a log cabin structure set in a marvellous wooded ravine with window views echoing the subjects of the Canadian landscape paintings.

However, the day ended with pizza!! Well within my calorie range . . . . but this morning I did weigh in at 140, up from the 138 where I've been sitting for some weeks.

Not a big increase, and I'm thinking it's because the pizza was pretty salty stuff . . . but I'll be keeping a close eye on it. And getting my weight back down to a middle number 3 asap!!

(Size six jeans still fitting very comfortably . . . so I'm not worrying a whole lot!)

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Lovely Day

Friday, October 21, 2011

Had lunch today with two business/professional colleagues who are also good good friends: we were "debriefing" after a file we'd worked on together. Great food, great conversation, great feeling that we are growing together professionally and getting better at the work we do together . . . and that our friendship is getting stronger too. Went back to my office and had renewed zest and energy to plough into what had accumulated while I was away.

Tomorrow I'm going to go to an art gallery for an exhibition of Canadian paintings . . . and I know I'm going to enjoy that too. It's in a gorgeous wilderness setting, and I'm already very familiar with many of the pieces but there is always something new, or a new way of thinking about something well-known.

Gotta work for at least part of Sunday -- have a tricky thing to do Tuesday and need to get prepared. But I'll make time Sunday as well to spend with DH and Charlie.

Work is stressful at the moment. Friends, art, time with DH and Charlie: these are great ways to alleviate the stress. And remind myself that life has moments of joy and beauty. Yeah. It does.

I'm not better at my job if I work work work all the time. Less can be more. And often is.

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If you've got something nice to say . . .

Friday, October 14, 2011

"Weren't you a model?"

I'd just stepped into a convenience store. Coming down with a terrible cold (yup, it's caught me). Nose streaming. Eyes streaming, too: with my specs on, not my contacts. Not a lot of makeup. Wearing a B-list suit: not expensive when new, now kinda baggy. And on my way to a pretty sad event: open house to honour a long time colleague, now in palliative care.

Not feeling my best, that's for sure. And not thinking I was looking my best, either.

So: no way that clerk could be speaking to me. And I kept looking through the gum rack for my fave, Dentyne Fire. Really cinnamony.

"You look so familiar. Magazine work?"

I looked around. Nobody else in the store. And the clerk was smiling at me.

So I smiled back, just a little. "Uh. No. Never a model. But thanks anyhow. Not something people ask too often, when you're sixty years old."

"Sixty??" She really did look surprised. And then she added, "It's the way you carry yourself. You move like a model. I was sure I'd seen you before. Modelling. "

Now I beamed at her.

"You've made my day, actually. Thank you!"

"Well," she told me. "I really did think I recognized you as a model. And I always tell myself, if you've got something nice to say, you might as well say it."

Yeah!! I'll remember that!!

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Canajun Thanksgiving! Pre-fab less flab!!

Friday, October 07, 2011

This will be our first Thanksgiving in over 27 years without kids at home! Just the two of us . . .and the weather is gorgeous here, warm and sunny with bright bright leaves.

There will be a very simple "pre-fab less flab" Thanksgiving dinner.

I've already made roasted root vegetable soup: parsnips, sweet potatoes, beets, butternut squash all roasted earlier in the week and zapped through the food processor with some broth, onion, curry powder . . . it's a lovely orange red colour, super texture.

And I'll hurl a frozen prestuffed prebasted turkey into the oven while we head off to the golf course. In my view, one of the most amazing technological developments of the 21st century!

With a few simple sides: peas, carrots, corn, wild rice (thanks, Uncle Ben), cranberry sauce (ditto Ocean Spray).

Dessert? probably low fat vanilla ice cream and berries. It will all be ready in a flash.

I've never forgotten my US Thanksgiving dinner in Austin in 2009. Corn bread stuffing with pecans, green bean casserole with French fried onion rings and sour cream, a huge range of salads jellied and chopped, a very special cranberry sauce with pineapple and mini marshmallows and walnuts, home made breads and dips and then a luscious array of elaborate desserts too: at least a week's worth of planning and preparation, each individual dish laboured over and utterly delicious but so high calorie! and waaaaay too much food . . . really!! Much much appreciated but . . . . too much. Yeah!!

Sure there are lots and lots of people in Canada who will be putting on a serious spread . . . but I'm domestically challenged, not planning to change any time soon either! The more time I spend thinking about food and working with food, the more I tend to eat.

So: pre-fab, less flab.

It works for me.

And gives me more time to get out in the glorious crisp air, shuffling through the leaves, looking for golf balls and woolly bears!

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