Pigs fly over my grocery cart

I went grocery shopping tonight.

If you’re following my blog, dear reader, you might have noticed something I mentioned in passing this past week. My mom helped buy and prepare my food the first two weeks of the Just Lose It! contest.

I didn’t ask or expect her to help, but she took a keen interest in my decision to change my lifestyle, learn how to cook and lose 50 pounds. My trainer gave me a comprehensive packet a week before this started. It outlined the program and had some sample menus and nutritional information. My mom saw it sitting on the counter, read through it and before I knew it she was shopping for my groceries and helping me prepare a week’s worth of food.

Does my mom live with me, you might be asking?

No, I live with my mom. Believe me, the women are lining up around the corner.

This is a temporary gig, and I’ll have my own place in March again, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about today.

I went grocery shopping for just the second time tonight since I began the weight loss program.

As I took my items to the checkout stand, I looked down at them and had to laugh.

Lettuce, bananas, yogurt, carrots, bell peppers, oranges, cantelope, low-fat string cheese, tuna, cottage cheese, whole-weat tortillas, avacados, grapes.

For a moment, I wasn’t sure if this really was my shopping cart, because flying pigs were circling it.

Food Journal (click to view):
Breakfast: Whole wheat penne pasta with lean ground turkey and garlic sauce, handful of walnuts.
Snack: Greek yogurt mixed with blueberries, small portion of almonds.
Lunch: Tuna salad and green dinner salad from New Seasons.
Snack: Protein bar.
Dinner: Grilled chicken, brown rice, small apple.