Whatever I Feel Like

So I made the much anticipated Pina Colada tonight for my snack. It doesn’t have tofu in it – just milk, frozen pineapples and coconuts. It’s not bad. Next time I will go heavier on the pineapples as this isn’t very fruity. Also the coconut pieces are kind of distracting for a shake. I’m not sure how to get the coconut into more of a liquid form… maybe I’ll have to research that. Wow. After getting to the bottom of my shake, I’m going to say that I definitely have to research a way to get this smoother – that was nasty! Hmph.

I wonder if there are other people out there reading this site who eat like I do: no sugar, no flour, no wheat, no caffeine. I was thinking I could post some of the recipes/foods I eat for ideas. I belong to another site that is specifically for the food plan I’m on, but there isn’t a whole lot of exchanging ideas for foods to eat because there is a cookbook that most of the members there use. I haven’t sprung for the $40 cookbook yet – choosing instead to be creative on my own. Tomorrow I’m going to try my breakfast loaf recipe with different types of grains. I typically use oat bran, but I’m going to try steel cut oats and rice farina and a 7-grain hot cereal this week to see how they do. After that, I want to experiment with different dinner tofu loaves. I know this probably doesn’t sound too appetizing to most people, but I swear my food is so good!! It’s amazing how your tastebuds change once you don’t have sugar, flour or wheat in your diet.

The pool party at my sister’s house turned out really nice. We all had a good time and the weather was perfect. We couldn’t have asked for a nicer day. I even got in a game of volleyball, but it has been too many years since I last played – I was awful! Oh well, it was still fun.

While we were there and I was laying out, I started thinking about how I wanted to lay out more. I’m no where near as tan as I usually am in the summer. The way my mind works cracks me up – I am soooo compulsive! For the past few months I have just been so busy with working around the house, working at my job, doing side jobs, doing service work that I haven’t had much time for relaxing. So today I spent some time relaxing and one of my first thoughts is, how can I lay out more? That’s the way it is with me: more, more, more. If one is good, ten is better. If I’m busy working, then I need to be working all.the.time – no breaks! If I’m laying out, then I need to lay out all.the.time and be the darkest person ever. That middle ground – it’s so elusive. One of these days I’m going to find it, though, I swear. The problem is I’ll probably make that an obsession, too – I’ll be driven to find the middle ground. I will strive to be in the middle ground area all.the.time. Yeah… it’s just in my blood, I guess. I can work hard to change my ways, but my natural instincts are just so contrary to what is healthy for me. At least I’m aware of these things today… gives me something to look forward to – working on myself until the day I die. :-)