Monday, March 22, 2010 (Day 58)

I’m at 198.  I’m very proud of myself because I made chicken enchiladas yesterday for dinner.  Of course, that has a lot of cheese and a lot of sour cream.  Oh, and the onions and garlic are sautéed in butter.  And all the tortillas.  Well, I made mine a little different.  All I did was put a single tortilla in a pie pan.  Then I combined onion and garlic sautéed in NO butter.  I added green chilies (more than a single serving should have so I could have a lot of flavor).  Then I added the cooked chicken and just cream of chicken soup.  No sour cream, no cheese.  I put the chicken mixture on top of the single tortilla.  Then at the end of baking time I added a little cheese on top.  It was just as good as the real thing!  I didn’t miss anything and it worked with the calories I had available for the day!  I was so pleased!  I’ve been spending a lot of time worrying about how much weight I’m going to gain when we go on vacation at the end of May.  According to my calculations, I will weigh about 179 when we leave for vacation.  We have a LOT of restaurants planned already.  I’m going to try and order well, but if we go to a Diners Drive-ins and Dives joint and their specialty isn’t healthy, by golly, I’m getting their specialty.  And I’m going to try to exercise every day, but who knows how that will go.  I figure I’ll be up 10 pounds when we get back.  That’ll put me back at 190.  That sucks!  I want to stop worrying about it, but I can’t.  We’ll see.