Sunday Wrapup

[neadods]

My love affair with Goal Happy lasted less than a week; it wasn't as easy to use as I'd hoped and it won't give you extra credit for extra goals. I think it's still a good tool, but not the one I want for this task.

Little Free Library
The only thing gone since last time is a Bon Appetit magazine (I forgot that I just started a subscription and bought the latest. D'oh!) I've done a dozen-book shakeout; we'll see what happens.

House Renovation
Went to Community Forklift and bought 20 bricks to throw down the hole created by a rotting treestump. The idea is to throw bricks/rocks into the biggest parts of the hole to discourage insects from settling in, then to dump soil over the rest and turn it into an herb spiral.

I also seriously have considered buying enough bricks to make a brick path where the roses used to be, but after the trouble it took me to get 20, I think I'd rather pay someone to deliver directly.

52 Organizing Missions (still goldbricking)
Secrets to communicating in emails and voice mails
4 steps to getting rid of debt (that one? Pretty sure I know all there is to know. 20 grand to go.)

52 Weight Loss Missions (name and shame: up .4 lb)
Flick on the Action Switch
Choose Smart Diet Actions

I'm not using the "log everything you eat" book to actually log everything that goes into my mouth. Someday I will, but right now I'm focusing on metrics that are more immediately important to me: how much sleep am I getting? Does that affect how I eat? (hoo boy. Yeah.) Not just what do I eat during the day, but *when*? Important part, that... I knew I had a little boredom nosh in the early afternoon, but I didn't realize that it was inevitably within a 15-minute window. Fortunately, fruit seems to hit the spot.

Also, if I use the Lunch Blox with green veg in the big container, vegetable soup in the medium container (even veg soup with starch in it), I don't get post-lunch coma (which I've also tracked). So vegetarian/vegan recipes have just rocketed to the top of my To Be Learned list. There's only so often one can face brussel sprouts or broccoli.

New Recipe
I haven't actually tried one, but I've looked up single-serve peanut butter soup and homemade ketchup. I'm going to try the rice-pudding-without-custard recipe with oat bran.

And having satisfied myself that I've learned a good basic bread stuffing recipe, I'm turning next to finding a good basic potato soup recipe, in the hopes of being able to leverage that into everything from peanut butter soup through tomato bisque.

Oh, and I'm still looking for a baked bean recipe. No, I'm not, but I'm obviously needing to do a better cut-and-paste job on my Sunday wrapups.


7 items donated/trashed
I suppose I really can't count the LFL rejects I just took back to the Book Thing. Well, one of the things to do today is to do a serious cleanup/purge of my bedroom.

Other Accomplishments
- Got quotes from a key Elementary episode.

Yeah, that's a lame list, but I don't talk about work online and the majority of this week's energy was caught up in a big thing at work.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'll look into that, thanks!

Right now, though, I think it's possibly more important to know my eating *patterns* so that I can then start slotting better choices into them - fruit instead of candy for the afternoon snack that I never thought about, for instance.