Carry on.....

How does that song go? Carry on my wayward son, there'll be peace when you are done. ???

I feel like that song should be rewritten to fit my current situation. So here we go......

Once I rose above the clutter and confusion

Just to get a glimpse beyond the illusion

I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high

Though my eyes could see I was still behind

Though my mind could think I still was going to make it

I hear the voices when I'm dreamin',

I can hear them say

(Chorus)

Carry on my haggard lady

We all know that you are not lazy

Lay your weary head to rest

We know that you're doing your best

Music was on my mind I guess. Finally had music day this weekend. Woot woot !!

LOL....yeah. So, the purge goes on. And on. And on.

Yet, all I can think about is food. I am (without a doubt) food obsessed. Ice cream. I love the flavors of ice cream. I have never liked the 'cold' of it. Brain freeze is not my friend. So digging deep into the problem with ice cream and why I should not be eating it ever again, I find that it is full of 'gums'. Those are bad. Especially carrageenan.

So how do I replace ice cream in my healthy world of eating? It's the flavors, not the cold, that appeals to me. The flavors are filled with 'sugar' so that's not good either. It's okay to cheat a little bit on this diet as long as you continue to keep to the plan.

For me, the secret is just two things. Start every meal with fiber and end every meal with a 10 minutes saunter. It is working for me. So to throw in a little treat now and then is fine.

I tried making butter pecan pudding as a substitute for butter pecan ice cream. Without lots of sugar it just didn't hold up. It was okay, just not good enough to satisfy that ice cream craving that haunts me now and then.

But Lays potato chips haunts me almost daily. What's bad about those is the deep frying. Yes, I have an air fryer and I could make my own potato chips without any oil at all or just a little bit of the good oil (Extra Virgin Olive Oil aka EVOO). But.... that takes time and effort and it will not be the same without all the grease and the tons of salt. Likely I will find myself making them anyway because I cave in to my cravings pretty easily and start figuring out how to get what I want in a healthy way.

Anywho -- here it is May 4th. Star Wars is significantly on my mind, of course. Yes I am a fan. I am a fan of anything that starts with "Star". Hee hee hee.

So "MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU"

Why are mountains so funny?

They’re hill areas.