Tara: Thank you! My ultrasound is Thursday, so hopefully it’ll be taken care of soon. At least I have some review copies of healthy cookbooks right now, so I can make good-for-me food and still be getting something done for the review blog, which is nice, since I’m not getting much done this week! Freezing soup is good; I need to remember to freeze it in smaller amounts than we usually do so it’s easy for me to pull out a serving or two and thaw/reheat. I started with tonight’s soup—we made a delicious lentil soup, and I made sure we froze one two-serving package of it.

Exercise is hard to get in there, espeically if you feel drained as it is come night time. But after a few weeks of regularity, it’d be second nature.

One is my husband’s occasional business travel. It wouldn’t be so bad if we had a week or two of warning and could make a handful of frozen things that are low-fat that I could thaw for insta-meals, but often we have literally NO warning (one time they even sent him on a supposedly one-day trip and then told him after he was there that he’d be there for a week).

The other is I just love cooking and experimenting and good food, and can’t imagine giving up artisan cheeses, whole eggs, a good beef tenderloin, a pumpkin pie… I’m happy to cut back, but give up? Cooking and good foods are more than just calories to me; they’re a hobby that I’ve had for about 15 years or so.

One thing I’m thinking of trying is just making anything that isn’t incredibly healthy in either very small amounts (like buy a single beef tenderloin and split it with my husband… those are fairly lean and quite small), or in a freezable form and in bite-sized increments. Like, if I’m craving something cheesecakey, make it in bite-size forms and freeze most of them, so I can have a bite at a time as an occasional treat. We have a full-sized freezer, so that should work out.

The other thing is to just keep homemade healthy frozen foods constantly on hand in small packages, so if Jeffrey gets called away on business suddenly I have something decent to eat in the house.

And of course, despite our schedule, we’re just going to have to make time for exercise.

Going Vegan helps. I’ve lost 20 lbs in a few months, plus exercising has helped. But when changing diets like that, a lot of research was necessary. Too many people go veggie or vegan and just eat crap that’s not meat and call it a diet. Bah, I’m rambling.

Feel better.