I completely forgot to weigh myself this morning. Since I don’t feel like undressing to weigh myself now, I’ll try to remember to do it tonight. Given that dinner last night consisted of the usual from P. Terry’s AND ice cream, I’m certain that I didn’t lose any weight. I just hope that I didn’t gain too much.

I think my attention this morning was diverted to my sore toe. My left big toe has been a victim of gout two or three times in the past, so it’s arthritic and prone to soreness when flexed too much. My feet in general have given me a lot of trouble over the past few years, and I hope at least some of that trouble is weight-related and will resolve when I actually get down to a reasonable weight.

I’m going to try to make steak salads for the next two weeks beginning Monday. Eating meat is a weird psychological challenge for me, but obviously I manage to get over it as demonstrated by my many visits to P. Terry’s. It’s a bit different when I cook meat, though, as I’m easily reminded that it comes from an animal that was once alive. But I’ve tried to go vegetarian before, and for some reason I just end up craving non-vegetarian protein. I could probably go without meat most days if I could eat beans, but beans are high in carbohydrates, so they can be problematic when dieting (although I once lost 70 pounds because my diet consisted mostly of black bean and cheese burritos from Trader Joe’s). Anyway, I haven’t been able to get away with eating strictly vegetarian salads for a while now, so perhaps adding a little steak to them will help me stick to salad-eating better. We’ll see…