I still enjoy eating my leftover Indian dishes. I’ve been having them for lunch and dinner the past few days. It may get old, but not yet. I like the chickpea dish better than the lentil dish but I think I could spice up the lentils and make them more flavorful. I brought some to [...]

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I stopped for a soda on the ride home today.  I don’t usually stop but I left the office early to take the kid to a doctor appointment. The lady who runs the convenience store was restocking the Slim Jims.  As I’ve been stopping in there from time to time for some years, I usually [...]

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Part my prep for a run at a vegan food plan is learning to make more flavorful vegan dishes so, this past Thursday, I took my first class. I signed up for a local adult education program: Learning to cook Indian cuisine. Fourteen people to prepare 9 dishes. We divided into 5 groups and each [...]

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Every movement needs a symbol. I’m thinking of turning this into an embroidered patch to sell at OA conventions. Never too early to place your order. I’m pretty sure someone will be a little pissed off about that one. It’s a joke. A creative outlet. And yes, the clip art is legal. From time to [...]

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For a while there I was writing almost everyday. It was nice. It was a habit, like weighing and measuring. Once I get in a groove, I can keep going. It becomes a habit and then momentum helps me keep going. More than once this has kept me abstinent. Lose the groove and it’s hard [...]

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The only requirement for membership in Overeaters Anonymous is a desire to stop eating compulsively. That’s our third tradition. Success, whatever that is, is not a requirement. Achieving a healthy weight, whatever that is, is not a requirement. Eating sanely is not a requirement. No other requirements. Just a  desire to stop eating compulsively. The [...]

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We changed to daylight savings time today. It seems to have confused a number of people which resulted in a market that was less crowded than usual. No complaints here. I had very little on my list today. I topped off my cottage cheese supply and bought some veggies for another batch of stew. Aside [...]

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Up at 5:30am. Breakfast at 6:45. Out the door at 7:10 for my 8:00 meeting. Hung around for the business meeting. Left for OA service at a local addiction conference where I was signed up for service from 11-2. I brought my W&M lunch with me and ate it quietly around 11:45. Hung around after [...]

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I started writing this post when “Breakfast was a few hours ago”.  Now I can say that about lunch but what I really want to write about is breakfast. I’ve had truly “normal” breakfasts all week. By normal I mean not just cottage cheese or eggs but MY cottage cheese and MY eggs. MY homemade [...]

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I’ve been feeling less than 100% since getting home. A bit of nose and head cold I think. Sleeping okay. Food is fine. I was supposed to follow-up with my doctor to make sure the pneumonia is completely gone BUT her office called and canceled. That visit is rescheduled for the 12th which is the [...]

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