Bread and cheese

BEST food in the world is bread and cheese. I managed to live through yesterdays flavor point day. Today is 1800 cal plus I have extra calories saved. I had Catherine make some more pretzel bread and for breakfast I had 2 rolls with cheese---2 ounces is really quite a lot of cheese. Plus a bowl of blueberries and milk. Perfect. Tasting anyway.

Tonight Catherine has to work which is unfortunate, because I'm making a fodmap free pizza. To see if it will help her gastro problems at all. The fodmap diet is crazy restrictive. Especially hard is no onions or garlic. EVERYTHING I cook has onions and garlic. I'm hoping she's not so sensitive that even a little will bother her. I'm hoping that by moving in the right direction she'll start feeling better, even if things aren't perfect. fodmap is NOT low-cal. For example, she can't eat soft cheeses like mozzarella, but she can eat cheddar. I'll make her half cheddar and mine mozzarella. It will be good for me to practice fodmap for her because it will help me learn--daily--that food is there to energize us and make us feel good. I admire Holly (from 300poundsdown) and others who really have no choice but to severely limit what they can eat. Given the amount of whining I do for just cutting back a little, I'd hate to think what my psyche would do  if I were given a blanket restriction against bread or sugar or milk or something like that. I like to think that heaven contains a big banquet of everything for these people.

Meanwhile, I'm preparing for next week's challenge. I have a conference in Jackson Hole. That means conference buffets, and at least one really good Mexican restaurant. The good news is that I'm attending with normal weight people. I'm going to do what I did on my mission and simply copy what they eat. That should ensure that I don't go completely crazy. Maybe.