Saturday, June 13,2009

Today was an example on how difficult it will be to eat out for an entire day. We left this morning at 7:00am to head down the shore to meet up with friends. First stop breakfast at a local place in Tuckerton, NJ. Ordering breakfast isnt too difficult, Spinach and Mozz omelet, no potatoes and 1 slice of rye toast. Everyone else is ordering pancake and french toast...easier for me to resist those, not my favorite breakfast food. After breakfast we head to the flea market for some walking and shopping and then down to Smithtown for lots of walking and browsing. We decided to have dinner at the Smithtown Inn. Here is were the difficulty begins. Resisting bread and butter, but it is possible. Selecting dinner on the other hand is hard to resist. Since I am in my countdown to a smaller stomache, I treated myself for the last time for awhile to prime rib. I took my time and savored every bite and brought home half my meal for my husband to eat during the week. I felt good, not stuffed and we were able to walk again after dinner for about 20 minutes to the car. On the ride home from the shore I had an hour to reflect on my past, present and future eating habits. The truth is I have 5 more days to taste foods I might learn to do without. Then 2 days of liquids and preparing for surgery and a new life of thought, health and happiness.

The weather at the shore was perfect, the kind of day when you know and appreciate how wonderful is God, that he created it all for our enjoyment and pleasure.