No Prerequisite

Earlier this week I got back my wedding band. It turns out that the downside to losing 40 pounds is that nothing fits anymore, from shirts and pants to, yeah, jewelry. The one thing that hasn’t changed size (besides my feet, I guess) is the one thing I wish would: my head. I could use a smaller head both literally (so I can find hats and caps that fit) and figuratively (I guess I can be a bit full of myself at times.)

Anyway, now my wedding band won’t just fall off my hand anymore. It was bad enough last summer in Mombasa (when it fell into the Indian Ocean and I was ridiculously lucky finding it at low tide), but recently it would fall off just getting out of bed. Literally. One morning I came back upstairs from letting the dogs out  and saw it on the floor, next to the bed.

New clothes and resizing jewelry are the expensive part. Otherwise eating healthier has actually been less expensive for us. I know that studies show that poorer Americans have less access to and ability to buy nutritious food, but cooking at home instead of going out has saved us a bunch of money, and the types of meals we have are relatively inexpensive.  We eat a lot of rice, and every other day or so we have chicken, or hamburgers, or hot dogs. Breakfast rotates between cereal, oatmeal, pancakes, and French toast. Skim milk, egg substitute, low-calorie bread, and no-calorie maple syrup keep those breakfasts from getting out of hand.

I might start posting a few recipes here, since I’m doing so much cooking but I always forget to bookmark the sites where I find recipes I like.

Now if only I could do something about the size of my head.