The Beads Diet

me, myself and my diet

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Day THIRTY-SEVEN

Sep 15

Posted by marlyse in Journal, Positive, Trouble | 1 Comment

Today I started up lap swimming again. Had not even realized how much I had missed it in the past few years. It’s a bit of a drive, but I’ll combine it with a trip to the Whole Food grocery store on the way home.

This day is not easy. Not only that it’s 4 weeks to the day that Tricky past away. But food wise. My second last milk day on the program. I’m not cheating, but boy, am I ready to. On the other hand it’s a feast as I know it is only one day more after this and then I am truly on the way back. I have already begun digging my head into what I could cook in the veggy departement, I want something different than the past few weeks to celebrate my first fish… and not having rice or such with it does seem kind of… lacking. So I’m looking around what really will make a perfect feast. Have a whole day left to find it!

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Day THIRTY

Sep 8

Posted by marlyse in Journal, Positive | 4 Comments

It is plain wonderful knowing that I am now counting down the days remaining on beads.

One of the ways I have been able to sustain BLT – no Bite no Lick no Taste – during this program is the fact that I am reading more cookbooks, browsing more recipes and watching more cooking shows on TV than I usually do. Matter of fact is that I am pretty much constantly sucking them in. Funny thing is, all of this does not make me prone to falter but it gives me strength to keep on going. In my mind I am constantly building on my Cooking & Baking List for the Future and that list is extending and extending and there is so much I am looking forward to cook and to enjoy! Others on this program avoid anything remotely resembling temptation, me on the other hand, I go and sit right into the smells and suck them in – just like enjoying second hand smoke for a couple of minutes when one of my old wanting to smoke again urges comes over me. Food smells lucky enough don’t put fat on me. The first thing I can’t wait to cook is a real nice veggie frittata with a great salad on the side.

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Cooking and baking in the future

Aug 15

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I think I am going to make a list of things I suddenly have the urge for and which I really miss. So far it’s been all about Swiss recipes (yes, I am American only by marriage). Last night it came out of the blue and now again, another sweet treat from there. Today’s craving I can understand, after exchanging email with my cousin Cornelia – who had just finished painstakingly copying a 120 years old handwritten cookbook from our great-grand-mom into a usable, 65 pages long PDF booklet with incredible Swiss cooking and baking treasures.

During our exchange I suddenly felt really, really, very, very homesick. It’s not been too bad the past few months but it always comes back. I haven’t been home in much to long of a time. When it washes over me it’s strong and it always feels like a dead end as there is no solution to remedy it except accepting the fact that I’m no longer there and that people I love dearly and who have played such major roles in my life are getting older and pass away.

Alright, so here are the first 2 items for that

to be (in moderation) baked and cooked in the future:

  • CHEESE
    • Raclette
    • Fondue
  • BAKING
    • Nussgipfel
  • TREATS
    • Coup Vermisell

I am sure this list will fill up over the corse of this program :-)

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The devil is in the evenings

Aug 14

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This was the same on any “normal” diet – the cravings came creeping up out of nowhere after 6 PM and would peak by 10 PM.

Smells and pictures of delicous hot chocolate, Vermicelles with whipped cream (equivalent to the American Montebianco) are swirling through my head, and this is just the beginning.

I’m not hungry, but I surely could eat now. So… Diet Coke it is.

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A glass of wine

Aug 13

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Oh yeah. That is exactly what I am missing at this moment. A nice Merlot. For a brief moment I get these same “I am being punished” feelings I used to get when I quit smoking. Lucky enough I know that this is an irrational feeling and just something that watching TV triggered. With this the motion evaporated quickly, but I did promise myself to double enjoy my first glass of wine, then when I again can.

In case you didn’t know, first rule is “don’t cheat”.

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