• Pasta: small shells, cream style corn, diced tomatoes, guacamole
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade
• Burritos: tortillas, fat free refried beans, guacamole, shredded lettuce, diced jalapeños, cabbage slaw
• Starbucks Dark Roast Cold Brew Coffee, Elmhurst Walnut Milk, Jordan’s Skinny Mixes Peanut Butter Cup Syrup

NOTES: I’m starting to feel like I’m eating too much.  Not sure what is going on, but I am hungrier than normal.  I also need to back up and look at how often I am having steamed vegetables with my meals.  I think next meal plan will be a return to basics.

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• Starbucks Dark Roast Cold Brew Coffee, Elmhurst Walnut Milk, Jordan’s Skinny Mixes Peanut Butter Cup Syrup
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade
• 2 wraps: quinoa salad, tempeh, enoki mushrooms, roasted grapes, shredded lettuce, cabbage slaw
• Oatmeal: oats, pumpkin, Syruvia Sugar Free Pumpkin Spice Coffee Syrup, Jordan’s Skinny Mixes Peanut Butter Cup Syrup, pumpkin spice

NOTES: The addition of roasted grapes was excellent in today’s wraps.  I also ended up adding a little mustard on Justin’s recommendation and it worked really well.  I really like enoki mushrooms, but since I have to go to Crape Myrtle Market to get them, I forget about them.

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• Sauerkraut Soup
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade
• Oatmeal: oats, pumpkin, Syruvia Sugar Free Pumpkin Spice Coffee Syrup, Jordan’s Skinny Mixes Peanut Butter Cup Syrup, pumpkin spice
• 2 wraps: quinoa salad, tempeh, enoki mushrooms, shredded lettuce, cabbage slaw

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• Sauerkraut Soup
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade
• Japanese White sweet potato, russet potato, cauliflower, nutritional yeast, G. Hughes Sugar Free Caribbean Jerk Sauce
• 2 wraps: Smoky Rice, cabbage slaw, shredded lettuce, tortillas

NOTES: Okay, I finally get the fuss about Japanese sweet potatoes.  They were so good, I’m immediately switching to those.  I could easily eat one of them every day.  I don’t know why the market is dominated by the inferior orange sweet potatoes.  Is it just me?

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• Sauerkraut Soup
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade
• Pita Sandwiches: pita pockets, cabbage slaw, shredded lettuce, spicy hummus, chickpea salad (mashed chickpeas, unMeat Chicken Style Chunks, dill pickles, Walden Farms Sweet & Tangy Chicken Dip, nutritional yeast, dill, garlic powder)

NOTES: The sauerkraut soup was better today.  I guess it needed time in the fridge.  It had become nicely spicy, which was a nice surprise given the lack of spices in it.  I loved the pita sandwiches I had for dinner.  I don’t know if it is just having bread or if the mix was just right, but it made me very happy.  Because I used bread, I counted out the calories and each sandwich was about 200 calories, which I thought was pretty decent.  They were incredibly filling.

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• Starbucks Dark Roast Cold Brew Coffee, Pacifica Oat Milk, Jordan’s Skinny Mixes Peanut Butter Cup Syrup
• Soup: onions, sauerkraut, broccoli, miso, diced tomatoes, potato flakes, vegetable stock, garlic powder, onion powder, white pepper, mushroom seasoning, Tabitha Brown Sunshine Seasoning
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade
• 2 wraps: tortillas, Roma tomatoes, shredded lettuce, spicy hummus

NOTES: I’m not sure how I feel about the sauerkraut soup I made.  I like it, but it isn’t one I could eat all day.  I portioned it out for eating throughout the week; hopefully I will continue enjoying it.  The wraps were completely different.  They were both simple and perfect.  My grandpa ate tomato sandwiches all the time, and the older I get the more I understand it.  A little bread & a little tomato is just fantastic.

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• Great Value Donut Shop Cold Brew Coffee, Torani Sugar Free Hazelnut Syrup, Pacifica Oat Milk
• steamed cauliflower, black beans, Walden Farms Thousand Island Dressing, Prozis Hot Ketchup
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade
• Russet potatoes, green peas, Sky Valley General Tso Sauce

NOTES: Feeling fantastic.  I hadn’t really worried about today’s weigh-in, but it almost couldn’t have gone better.  Normally I’d worry about losing 10 pounds, but last week I was feeling unwell and didn’t do my weigh-in until later in the day when I finally felt like it, and by then I had eaten.  The fact that I lost no weight was disappointing, but I have been braced for plateaus.  It looks like I didn’t need to worry too much about it.  I’ve just felt great today.  The type of energy I have is so much better than the over-caffeinated days over the past few years.  I should have done this before, but understanding is reached when it is reached.

I’m trying to remain cautious about progress.  I still have a long way to go before I am a healthy weight and can do as much as I want physically.  I feel confident in my ability to get there, but I don’t want to celebrate as if I’ve completed some goal every time I lose a little.  A loss is fantastic, but I just need to keep moving forward.

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• Soup: pumpkin, tomato sauce, carrots, leftover soup from previous day
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade

NOTES: The tomato and pumpkin worked really well with the flavors of the mushroom onion soup.  I partially blended the leftover soup and added today’s new ingredients, which made this soup much creamier.  Very hearty.

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• Soup: cremini mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, College Inn Mushroom Stock, mushroom onion soup mix, garlic, onion flakes, onion powder, Serrano peppers, Anaheim peppers, mock chicken, white pepper, mushroom seasoning, red pepper flakes, Italian seasoning
• Happy Belly SF Pink Lemonade

NOTES: This soup was excellent!  I forgot to start my low calorie density plan yesterday, so I’m doing the 7th through 11th this month.

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