Thursday, January 30, 2014

What's for Breakfast? I'm Starving!!!

Oh baby!  Long time no write!  Why?  I'm faaaat!  :)  I was doing marginally ok all the way up through oh... last spring then... Oh whatever!  I have no good excuses... I just got fat!  But now I have reached the maximum level of fatness I can live with so here goes again!  The final humiliation was having to go buy fat clothes to wear to Hawaii since I could no longer fit into my summer clothes from last year.  And having to excavate my fat pants out of the closet sucked too!

Right now I'm about 12 lbs off of my weight watchers goal so I'm working the plan hard and beginning to see results.  It's like a big game.  You play the game and you lose weight and maintain.  You cheat... yeah... you get the picture!

This is also a very lazy day.  I thought I might catch up with all of you non facebook friends and give you a brief update on stuff in my life.  All of you facebookers just forward to the bottom of the post and avoid all the pics you've already seen.  Unless you like re-runs.

 I'm just sitting around watching the snow come down and I love it!  I know many of you have recently been slapped silly by the weather this winter and probably don't like snow much right now but we are used to it and actually we need it.  Here are a few pics of the snow in my life...

This is my bug covered with snow.

Tank and Lucy are posing in the snow.  Tank is doing a great job of staying don't you think?

The garden shed all covered with snow

And taking a break at the ski lodge a couple of days ago.

I gotta say.  It was SUPER hard coming back from Hawaii and going straight back to winter!  
I just love lounging around in the warm weather while it's winter at home :)  Just for the sake of
contrast here's what that looked like...


Our friend Dave Sasaki (hi Dave!) lives up on a hill in Honolulu that looks out over Diamond Head and the ocean.  This is a snap shot from the lanai where I  spend the majority of my time just gazing.  Occasionally we venture off the hill and go out and about.  Here are a few of those out and about shots...



This was out for a stroll in the park.  Some of the trees are so big!























This is a sunset shot... I really like the way you can almost tell it's me but you can't really see my fatness :)



Another super fun thing we saw was the giant waves.  There's no way to tell from this pic but the waves on the north shore were the largest in 10 years.  40 to 50 feet.  Nobody was allowed on the beach.  This was taken from the roadside.  You can just see the really large swell behind the giant splash.  



























And another shot of the wind and waves


The last non food related thing I just have to share is the newest pics of my gorgeous grand daughters :)



this is Aubrey who is 5 and is proudly holding up her first lost tooth.  I love this!


And Charlotte and Kamilla all dressed up for their school pictures.  Aren't they just soooo cute?

So finally back to breakfast!  This morning I was soooo hungry that I decided to break down and cook two eggs.  Usually I just allow myself one but I just didn't feel like that was going to cut it.  I dragged out the 18 pack of eggs and opened it up and just about freaked out when I saw the single little egg in the carton that I swear I just bought a couple of days ago!  Then I remembered... my Paleo diet daughter Amberlyn aka egg hog had just made crepes that morning and had in fact single handedly scarfed down the entire carton in the last few days.  Oh ok... to be fair she only ate 17.  She did leave one!   I immediately sent her a scathing text to make sure she brings more eggs home.  Ok I confess... I'm sure she had some help with the eggs.  But you know how it is when you are starving and you need to eat something NOW and the very thing you are looking for...

So yeah.  I got a little overly excited but I came up with a revised plan while still sticking to my weight watchers points.  I decided 1 egg would have to do and decides yes to bacon!  Add the miracle ingredient that increases the bulk of almost any meal when you are hungry... cauliflower!  I cooked the bacon.  Wiped down the pan to remove the excess grease and sauteed the cauliflower in the tiny bit of remaining bacon yummys.  Then when it was close to being soft enough I added a tablespoon of water to the pan to deglaze and pick up the rest of the flavor.  Add just a third of an ounce of finally grated cheese to the top and there you have it!  A 4 point breakfast that was just delicious.  Also I learned that the runny egg yolk was very tasty on the sauteed bacony cauliflower.  



Ok... what's for lunch?!?  I'm starving again!  But I am shrinking!

Ciao!