Good eating!

Today was the third day for my 3 day beans. If you'll remember, the first day was beans over rice, seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic powder, served with homemade biscuits, the second day was baked beans with hot dogs, seasoned with mustard, ketchup, and brown sugar, served with homemade cornbread. Today was creamed beans. The first day I made the beans I saved the bean water (more like gravy). Today I took that back out of the fridge, added a can of sweetened evaporated milk (sweetened because I forgot to pick up molasses) and some honey (for the same reason). As an afterthought, I went ahead and mixed in some cheese. While waiting for that to cook, I fried some diced red potatoes. When the mixture was done, I mixed it into the bean mixture from yesterday, and served it up with the fried potatoes.

So far, Jim hasn't come into the house to eat it, but my friend Susan is over and she said the beans were delicious, and the fried potatoes were perfect :) So I'd say the evening was a complete success!

ETA: Jim came in and he is delighted with the beans. He's still in awe that I was able to stretch one batch of beans so far. He also said the potatoes were awesome. WhooHoo!!! I am really learning so much about how to feed my family, and in a healthy way! Yes I realize that fried potatoes isn't exactly the most healthy thing to eat, but the beans are very healthy. Lots of protein there :)

I also made oatmeal cookies again, and they were quickly eaten up by Luke, Susan, and Katie :) I'm going to make another batch tonight to take to the pumpkin shoot tomorrow. I know people will enjoy them :) I need to get a cookie jar, I've been making cookies so much lol plus I want to make more. I need to make the no-bake cookies :)

Back on the HCG thought, today was my first day off the drops. This morning I was 139.0 This is the weight I need to stay within 2 pounds of. That means I can weigh as little as 137, or as much as 141, but not outside that range. If I go outside that range to the lower end, I need to up my calorie intake. If I go outside that range on the higher end, I have to immediately stop eating any food for an entire day, while drinking quite a lot of water. At night I eat the biggest steak I can stomach, however I like it, and then that should get my weight back within the proper range. The entire purpose of the maintenance phase is to stabilize my metabolism. At this point there is a very shaky balance. I need to make sure that this balance is not thrown out of whack before my hypothalamus has adjusted to the new weight and caloric intake.