thanksgiving is over

Hey Everyone,

Thanks for signing on today. The holidays are over, and now its time to get back on track. The diet track. and we all know what the first three letters in diet is DIE. lol. ok ok...lets hope we all wont be dying on our way to a healthier way of life. I know that after being a 18 year veteran/drop-out/16 time re-joiner of weight watchers, i know that the only thing that makes me stick to a "food plan" is if my food isn't boring.
When I actually stick to the plan, it works. This time around Ive lost 34 pounds of my yo-yo weight Losing weight has never been a problem. Ive always been able to lose weight.. aahh..but alas, the secret to keeping it off has eluded me. As Allison just likes to eat whatever she wants!
The other day, i said that I was going to make salmon with a cinnamon-pear balsamic glaze and had every intention of fitting into the points plan(which I'm proud to say I did).  I cooked my salmon with the balsamic, i also added a touch of honey. It weighed 8 ounces cooked. I cut it in half and brought half to Michael in the hospital because i know he'd appreciate it (hospital food is so icky). I charged myself 5 points.
I must say, I had very high hopes for that Salmon, but for the most part, in the cooking process the cinnamon-pear flavor disappeared. So from now on rather than waste it on fish, I will just enjoy my tasty vinegar on salads. This will definitely make eating salads more interesting as they tend to get very boring.

So i was watching "The best thing I ever ate" and Ted Allen was talking about the twenty-four dollar spaghetti at Scott Conants restaurant Scarpetta. It's spaghetti with tomato sauce. He said It's so good he would pay thirty-four dollars for this pasta. He said that once you have pasta the way its supposed to be cooked, pasta everywhere else will be  horrible experience. So i ask myself, do i want to go eat the best pasta of my life if its just going to ruin it for the rest of my life everywhere else. Well, I watch Scott Conant all the time on "chopped" complain about red onions and what a crime it is to rinse the pasta because then your sauce wont stick to it properly (bullshit...i rinse my pasta all the time, and my sauce sticks just fine)
So I would go just to see if his pasta and sauce is worth the twenty four dollars hes charging. So if only for the experience, i can say  it was either the best I ever had and write Ted Allen a thank you note, or ask him to reimburse my money.
ok....I'm off...must make my 2 point cheese sandwich and portable rice cake snacks

(oh the joy in dieting)

until next time