Size DOES Matter!

8 lbs! I'm so relieved to finally have some forward progress, especially since I haven't been able to cook all week. As I said in an earlier blog, this is an eating-out week, and has been difficult at best.

I learned a valuable tip last night. At our weekly try-to-speak-Italian get together at a friend's house one of the group brought pizza. To be specific, it was a Papa Murphy's Gourmet Vegetarian pizza. If you haven't had one, I suggest you try it - they are...I can't even think of a good word to describe them...tasty, delicious, yummy - those don't even come close. The good thing about their gourmet pizzas is that they use white sauce instead of red sauce - and I'm a sucker for white pizza. Having only one slice is as impossible as eating only one Lays potato chip, so I had two. But I made sure each slice was small, so in total I had the equivalent of one slice, but it took longer to eat it and so I had the illusion of eating more. Apparently size matters!

Continuing along that vein, I've been told that one of the keys to successful weight loss is to chew slowly. Frequently I tell my husband that I didn't get enough chewing pleasure, and then I'm scrambling through the cupboards trying to find something to satisfy that chewing need (what am I, a teething baby?), or even worse, having seconds of whatever we had for dinner, when it would have been better not to eat so quickly - to extend the chewing pleasure, if you will.

Anyway, tonight is yet another eating out venture. This one will be easy - I already have my meal choice made - another good tip for whenever you already know what's on the menu.

I'm going back to cooking again on Saturday - I know it's hard to believe, but I'm actually looking forward to it! What IS this world coming to?