Well, this new year come-back was a bit on a slow pace until yesterday.  Yesterday was the first day this year, where I truly (enough to follow through on) had an urge to really analyze my diet or make healthy choices.  Many days this month, I felt like I needed a "bar atmosphere" in my kitchen.  I need a bouncer at the door, forbidding me to enter unless I have proper clearance...and I needed a server to cut me off when appropriate.  

I actually went back into memory lane over this idea, when I was twenty-two years old...One evening, I joined a friend at a club and we enjoyed a couple drinks called "long island iced teas".  That is really the last detail of the evening I recall.  To this day, I will never forget the astonishment of seeing large sharpie type "X's" on the top of my hands when I awoke.   Apparently, I was "cut-off!"  Where was that bar tender last week?!  Do they do house calls??? No need to bring alcohol, just a good large point sharpie marker!
Well, sadly there's not one coming and I am going to have to moniter myself.  So here is my menu today:
Breakfast: 3/4 peanut butter toast (I had to share with my little one)
Snack: 1 orange
Lunch: half veggie sandwich and protein shake
Dinner: Bowl of italian garden soup (with kidney beans added- and I can have up to two cups of soup) and a slice of homemade bread.
Total Calories: 1045...right where I need to be in order to start losing some of those festive holiday cookies I'm still packing around.

Here is my lunch...delish!  The chocolate protein smoothie is always good.  Also, veggie sandwiches are my favorite!

 Nothing like dinner done early!  This is essentially the zero point garden italian soup from weight watchers, but I added kidney beans.  It smells like the "Olive Garden" in my kitchen.