i miss cheese

today i was doing some searching for recipes since i need to figure out some new ways to spice up my meals. primarily i am looking into thai and indian spices since they use a lot of spices and less meat and stuff. i will keep you posted on what i find. in the mean time, i ran across several types of recipes that sounded great but they all had cheese. i miss cheese. dairy (except the 4 oz of skim milk) is pretty much a no no for the next 30 weeks. from time to time i might want some bread or something but the desire for carbs passes. this whole longing for cheese... yea it has been here for a while. today i started thinking about how nice a puffed pastry filled with brie spread onto apples sounds. sadly, all i can do is dream.

in other news, weighed in today. down 2 lbs from friday! YAY!!! that was nice to hear since today i was feeling a bit big (i think it was the shirt i was wearing). i also noticed that when i put on my jeans, which had been pretty snug until i had been wearing them for a bit, they were actually comfortable and weren't snug at all when i took them off the hanger. nice motivation for me there. it couldn't have come at a better time either.

tomorrow i leave for a business trip until friday. normally i would be really excited about this but with the whole diet thing, it is a lot harder. the trip means that for the next 3 nights i will be eating out, lunch for the next 4 days will probably consist of lunch meat and other off plan foods, and it will be hard to abide by the plan as a whole. i have found that breakfast is about the only meal that i am actually able to control and have stay on plan. hopefully the places we go to eat have options that i am able to order to be close to plan. i am also taking the carb blockers with me so that i can help to prevent a major weight gain.

tip of the night: i was in the mood for ranch and i decided that chicken strips was a good plan. so... cut your 6 oz chicken breast into strips. coat strips in 1 beaten egg, then coat in a crushed akmak cracker mixed with chili powder and mrs. dash southwest seasoning. cook chicken on stove-top in a pan sprayed with pam. they really were pretty yummy. the egg counts as the breakfast egg if you didn't have it yet, and then you get a protein.

not sure how much blogging i will be able to do while on the trip but i will do my best. have a happy and healthy week everyone! i would love it if you would let me know if you think i should celebrate at 20 or 30 lbs down and what i should do as the celebration. the 20 mark is coming up with in the next week or two while 30 will still be about a month or more down the road. i think it is important that i celebrate one, milestones are important to help keep the motivation.