Those are, from left to right, cashews, peanuts, raw organic pumpkin seeds, and raw organic sunflower seeds.

Delicious and healthy! These ought to keep my blood sugar stable and help me avoid all of the tempting fast food on the road.

Anyway, I am leaving shortly… and am stopping just outside St. Louis MO for the night. Today is the shortest leg of my trip, only about 5 hours. The place I’m staying tonight has room service, so I am going to order a yummy chicken or steak dinner with veggies.

I’ll be updating this blog whenever I can, hopefully daily!

Time to hit the road…

Tags: Food Photos, nuts, seeds, snacks

Well I’m one pound down in 2 days… !

Not much else to report here. So here are some random photos…

This was my breakfast yesterday:

That’s Kashi Maple oatmeal, some mixed fruit, and coffee.

I went out and bought a new digital 19 inch widescreen monitor:

Now let’s see if I can get another pound down on the scale by Monday morning!

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My lunch on Saturday: Pasta Italiano soup, mixed exotic fruit, cottage cheese, about 420 calories

I was talking to a woman yesterday, who like me is borderline diabetic. We were swapping horror stories about blood sugar crashes and what causes them. She told me that fruit actually helps stabilize her blood sugar, but ONLY when she eats it in moderation, like 4 ounces at a time. Her doctor actually told her that. When she said that it occurred to me that she is right! When I first started this fruit - in - the - morning - plan, I wasn’t having the blood sugar problem. It was only when I started eating larger quantities of it that it became in issue.

So now I know how to completely eliminate the blood sugar crashes. Along with cutting back on my fruit servings and doing what I said in the previous post about adding fat and protein to each meal, I will be just fine (and I have been the past 2 days).

Anyway, eating healthy has truly become second nature for me. The weight is coming off, my stomach is shrinking each day and I am feeling a LOT better. I exercise pretty much every day too. I’ve gotten into a routine though where I only exercise for about 25 minutes a day. That probably seems like too little for some of you, but it’s doing me just fine. The weight is coming off at a healthy rate and that is what counts!

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I am making an effort to include even more fruit in my day’s eating plan. When I eat it, it gives me so much energy, completely curbs my appetite and makes me happy knowing I am filling my body with nutrients.

And for anyone who complains about how much sugar is in fruit… relax. Natural sugar is so much healthier for us than all that processed crap. One of my main goals is to cut out processed foods from my diet (except cheese, which I simply cannot give up. :-P).

So this was my first meal today:

(1 organic peach and 1 organic nectarine, which is technically 2 peaches since nectarines ARE peaches with smoother skin).

And my second meal:

1 cup blueberries and 4 cut up medium strawberries. Oh, and a cup of coffee.

I went and bought tons of organic fruit and veggies yesterday. Since I don’t really like most raw vegetables (plus they cause lots of stomach upset), I got some organic frozen veggies to heat up on the stove with my lean protein dinners.

Anyway, my weekend trip was cut short for reasons I won’t get into. Suffice it is to say that I am home now and doing OK.

I’ll update later on with what I have for lunch and dinner, if anyone is interested!