Had a great week, all except for my weight loss, or should I say, weight gain! I gained back 3 lb's, and I can attribute it directly to my weak spot for Nalley's Chili. I had three, yes three can's over the past week, all on late night chili cravings! Damn you Nalleys, and Damn me for my weakness. I have hardened my resolve to loose weight, and haven't even looked at a can of chili this week! I will win!
Shannon gave up her ticket so I could take Dad to the Succaneers game, and we had a blast!
We tailgated, then climbed up to our nose bleed seats. The flyover was the Clearwater Coast Guard's plane and helicopters. That alone was priceless!
Now it's get ready for Thanksgiving.
This year we have M&D, the boy's, and Amber, Mark, and Pat over for an early dinner. With the diet kept in mind, we are not going to deep fry the green beans, just the turkey's, yes, turkey's as in two of them so we have left over turkey!
The boy's are each bringing or making pies, and we are very excited to get into our Turkey Triptophan coma's!
The only down side to this Thanksgiving was it was going to be Larry being down here for his first deep fried turkey, and unfortunately, he decided to join his departed wife. OK, wipe a tear away, and move on!
Shannon spent a good portion of today making the bread crouton's from her home made bread, for her stuffing. OMG, I am oh so going to have to eat as small of a portion as possible, but eating early on in the day, just means I can have two dinners!
Back to the fun, just finished baking the yams for the twice baked sweet potato's!

Yesterday Revisited

OMG, note to self, a pork loin roast meal serving has more than our 19 grams of fat. Sub note, do not eat two more servings later on in evening unless you can stay close to your bathroom... So good tasting, but so bad on our system!

11/14 update

OMG! Mother made a 8 bone pork loin (I've never ate one before), that knocked what had I had socks on, off! WOW! The flavor was outstanding, and now I have to believe that her claiming her oven sucked, was only a feint ploy!
Now I will have to look into my personal recipes to come up with something for next weekend.
Seafood is my thought for now.
Dad is going to go with me to next weekends Buc's game, while Shan and Mom are going shopping. So looking forward to that, but need to rest to get ready for next Saturday night. Cannot let mother feel she has taken the lead for more than a week.!

11/14

Another beautiful day here in South Florida. My weigh in yesterday showed only 1/2 pound loss, but it is nonetheless a loss. Heading to M & D's soon for dinner. Wondering what she has in play this week. In M's mind, it is still a contest, but, there is no contest.
Still not smoking. Not sure why I even bother to say that, but the blog is called a Verity quit's smoking after all. This past week we had our surf n turf dinner, and had both boy's home at the same time.
Aaron is going in Monday to take his ASVAB testing to see what the Navy will offer him training wise, and if it's good enough in his mind, he may be joining up. We have our fingers crossed, as age 21 is going to get here quicker then both boy's realize, and when that happens, if they are still here, I am packing them up myself.
OK, back to some stuff, then off to M & D's

November 7

Wow! Woke up to a nice 65 degrees. This is more like our fall again!
I spoke the bad juju yesterday when I mentioned to the wifey that we were already into November, and hadn't had any storms. So of course today we have one moving into the gulf of mexico, and they think it could be near us by Thursday. I say bring it on!
Going to see if M & D read this blog. Today is our turn for dinner, so we are throwing a curve ball at them. Shannon is cooking a delicious creamy ham & potato soup, and yes, it is low fat! Not going to tell them that Shan cooked it, and see what Mom says! I'll bet dollars to donuts that she thinks I cooked it unless she reads this beforehand!
Going to be a great day as I have a few honey do's to take care of, and the convertible is acting up. Sounds like the power steering. Oh well, going to take it to my pro Salvador to have him check it out.
On the weight loose, I am now down 15 lbs, and Shan is her lowest weight since starting the dieting. Loving the food I am cooking, and feeling the effects of the weight loss!