WHAT ONE THING WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO GIVE UP FOREVER

 I decided to make a list and decide which one  deprivation would cause the most grief, havoc, joy or whatever out of my life.  It wasn't going to include catastrophic items or habits, just run of the mill everyday activity or necessity.

And this is what I came up with:  pop, coffee, tea, unnecessary shopping, walking/hiking, gym, travel, napping, bubble baths, gaming, sugary snacks, movies, driving, etc....  These are all things you can survive without but think about it.  Never ever again could you not do it or have it.

And that is what it is like being a diabetic, either type.  Diabetes just rips food right out of your life.  Oh they say you can eat healthy and be okay.  No you can't.  Go one carb over your personal limit and bang! up goes your blood sugar.  One cup of vegetables is five carbs.  If you are eating twenty carbs per day to stay within your blood sugar numbers, two cups of cooked veg is half your daily food limit.

That being said, our household being diabetics. one type 1, one type 2 and one pre, I have had to completely change my cooking.  I still make stuff I can't eat or I do eat it and don't give a crap.  Lol!!!    But it is really hard to think that for the three of us to really stay on board with keeping our numbers down we have to basically give up food as we've known it, forever.  Daunting and depressing.

Okay this is beginning to sound like a poor us whine.  I didn't mean it that way!!!  I was saying this because it is amazing how desperation breeds innovation.  And the latest innovation in this here ol' homestead is keto mug cakes/muffins.  In a land of boring eats, mug cakes become incredibly delectable!

So far I have made blueberry muffins, chocolate muffins, and another  I can't remember.  Now I am about to embark on making a savoury one...a pizza muffin.  They only have 3-5 carbs and are such a relief from relentless above ground vegetables, unadorned meat and salads with skinny dressing.  We are happy campers.  Mug muffins make unappealing food tolerable now.

Another thing we have added are shirataki  konjack noodles.  They have zero taste and are obscenely expensive, but incredibly filling.  I use them             .  mostly in spaghetti and soups.  I am pretty grateful for those slippery rubbery tasteless things!!!  I did make egg bites not long ago and I found them absolutely gross.  Slimy and eggy.  Nope not making those again.

I cancelled my trip to Vancouver.  When I tallied up the cost of the ferry etc...it made that hair appointment I had planned way too expensive.  I will go and get it done here in Port, very wimpy compared to the one in North Van, but will do til I am in Vancouver for other reasons.  Mostly I am getting ready for my Mexico trip.You would think that with the lack of food in my life I would lose a little weight.  But no....not a pound so far.  Probably just as well.  Either I am fat or alternatively losing weight makes you super flabby and wrinkly.  Not sure which is more preferable.  This is why us old fatsters prefer clothing mandatory seasons more than beachy ones.

Well thats enough for today.  Have a happy happy beginning of a new year.  Let's all try to shed a bad habit....NOT!!!!  TFL&TTYL