The scale lies...

How can the scale say I haven't lost any weight this week? Yet I feel smaller, lighter, my clothes fit better. I have had nothing to drink for 4 days. I've barely eaten. I've had no bread. The only cheating food I've had all week include half an egg roll, and a handful of wasabi peas. The scale has to be WRONG......

But then the only exercise I've gotten all week has been one pilates class. I am so sick I can hardly breathe at all. It's freezing outside. Winter sucks.

The New York Diet is actually not bad. Knowing you can go 4 days without a drink makes you feel just a little less like an alcoholic. The Augesten Burroughs memoir "Dry" has helped keep me on the wagon (or is it off?-just like the Seinfeld episode I've never understood this phrase). I have been wondering when you know you have a drinking problem? Is it when you can't remember the last day you didn't have a drink? Is it when you drink to the point of passing out every night? What if at 5:30 pm every day you want an ice cold beer? Or at 9 pm when the 2 year old is tucked away sound in her bed and you hear a glass of wine calling your name? Is it when you hide your drinking? I mean really hide it? Like in your car? in the basement? When you dilute liquor bottles to make it look like you drank less? When one 18 pack might not be enough for a Saturday night? Now these are not all true for me but I've known people for whom they are.

I don't have a drinking problem I have a drinking habit. I think that's probably on a t-shirt somewhere.

I made it thru Friday night pizza night with a new recipe for portabello pizzas where the mushroom is the crust. They were really good. I made two of them for me. A wheat crust pizza for the hubby and a bisquick crust for the 2 year old. I would definitely make them again. They were just as fulfilling as the wheat crust version. I simply cut off the stems and degilled them. Then brushed them with olive oil, salt and pepper and baked them in the oven for about 10 minutes. Pull them out and top them with your choice of toppings. I put onion, garlic, turkey pepperoni and tomatoes on them. Along with sauce and cheese. Then put them back in the oven and baked another 5 minutes.

I have mastered the desire for bread.
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