The Westering Hills

Breakfast: two pieces of buttermilk rye toast with butter; coffee with cream.

Lunch: I had an interesting lunch, born of the fact that it was already 10:30pm last night when I suddenly realized I hadn’t prepared my lunch to take to work yet! I scrambled around in the kitchen and put together another fruit bowl with the rest of the Anjou pear, golden apple, and navel orange. Then in another bowl I threw in a big handful of sugar snap peas, half of a sliced orange bell pepper, about half a pound of shrimp with salt & pepper, and a bunch of cherry tomatoes. I tossed a small hunk of mozzarella cheese on top of that. So I had all of that for lunch, grazing throughout the day, finishing the afternoon off with the last cupful of the soup.

Dinner: I used up almost the last of the fresh linguini by making this easy and yummers dish. This is a no-brainer as I always have these ingredients on hand. We had this with more rye toast. I kept my portion small in the spirit of hara hachi bu and was completely satisfied. Which brings me to. . .

Today’s observations: please see comments between Jeci and myself on the previous entry. It really is unbelievable how not hungry I am this week. The lunch I had today? Completely satisfying. In the past couple of days, I have made it all the way to 11am before my stomach began to think of food. Before this week, I would already be rummaging in my lunch bag at work by 9:30am! I’m not missing snacking or even thinking about it. Mealtime is mealtime, no snacking required. I did not expect this at all, especially with a lunch like today’s, consisting mainly of fruit and veggies with a bit of protein and dairy. Whoda thunk it?