Meal Planning and Food Porn

One of the things I find most helpful for sticking to any eating plan is to figure out what you're going to eat the following week, making a grocery list, and then (in a perfect world) STICKING TO IT!!! I however have three children and a husband so invariably things end up in the cart that I never put on the list. But that's them. Not me. I stick to the list. Always. Mostly. Okay, I'm just as guilty!

Some of the fun of meal planning is surfing food porn to get ideas of different stuff to eat. Because, another helpful tip to sticking to an eating plan is variety. If you're always eating the same ol' thing. You're going to go INSANE, black out, and wake up covered in the tattered remains of an eating orgy. No one wants that.

So I have been food experimenting and it has been a lot of fun. And this week is no different. I'm excited to try making low carb:

Coconut Shrimp with dipping sauce
Chile Verde Chicken Enchilada 
Chicken Alfredo w/ "Zoodles"

I don't know if I've mentioned this already, but I hit my surgical goal weight. I go in Tuesday morning to do the official hospital scale check-in. From there I have to get and EKG and a surgery date. But I'm super happy that I've lost 25lbs since July 15th.

In other news: 

I went to "Back to School" Night at 4ft's school. Yeah, I had to schedule a one on one meeting with his teacher. Apparently, 4ft is a talker. Who knew, right? And he was the only one that had to change his color to yellow yesterday, which is a warning. So I get the fun of going and trying to come up with a "Silence 4ft Plan" with his teacher to help him be more successful with the closing of the mouth motion. When approached with the need to work on not talking so much he told me, "This is going to be the hardest skill I will EVER master." He also added, "Maybe we should just stick tape to my mouth." I told him, "I don't think there is a strong enough tape out there to keep that mouth closed." "Duct tape, mom. Everyone knows that fixes everything."

My kid. Is. Awesome.