Long last few days...

Hi all - sorry I haven't posted in the last few days.  It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride to say the least.  On Thursday my Grandmother passed away after a long battle with various health related issues.  She was 92 and lived a pretty full life.  My family has been in a crazy planning stage with everything.  The services are tomorrow and I am up now working on putting together a pamphlet and Adam is working on a picture board.

On the same day she passed away I completed all of my requirements to graduate with my Bachelors in Human Resource Management.  It is a great feeling, but at the same time I don't want to overshadow the severity of the loss my family is feeling.  I will be more jubilant about college as graduation date approaches (late May).

Food wise I have done really well.  I am eating about a cup or so of food at this point which is about where I will stay.  Today I went to Panera and had half a sandwich and soup.  I was unable to eat the bread on the sandwich aside from one bite (mostly because I didn't want to chance becoming full on the bread and not being able to eat my protein).  I had lunch with my friend Arianna.  She is such a dollface - just adore that girl!  She had lap band surgery on Monday and she's already fully out and about.  She has the most positive spirit.  I know she is just going to do so well with this!

This week I've also gone out to eat a few times and have done just fine.  I always stick to high protein and low fat / low calorie foods.  I have found so many that are just so good.  Every day I have been doing a protein bar from South Beach Diet.  The peanut butter one.  It's like 9 grams of protein and really healthy - more protein than a Kashi bar.  I think I'm going to get some of the Kashi cereal and see if I can make it actually not taste like cardboard lol :D  We shall see =P

I made chicken fajitas at my Mom's tonight for my best friend Josh and my Mom and Dad.  It came out really well.  I made guacamole too and some rice.  Now, rice has been the only food to disagree with me thus far.  I am pleased to say I was able to eat a few bites of it tonight and did just fine.  I will say the rice tonight had a much softer texture and seemed to be fully expanded already so I did fine with it.  Hard rice (like fried rice) is something I doubt I'll ever be able to do again.

I have to be up kind of early to go to Kinkos and print stuff out so I am going to go for now :).  Hugs to all, and hug your Mom and Grandmother if they are still around :-)  Tell someone that you love them today :)!