Another day...

So, here I am... Third day reading the book and I still haven't had time to finish it. I'm almost done. I think I already have a lot of the information I need to start this new moment of my life.

I know it might be a mind thing, but I weighed myself the day I bought the book (that was one of the reason why I bought the book so desperately). I was weighing 190 pounds. I know, I was shocked too. Scared and feeling like crying. Today I went back to the scale and it's weird but I was 186.3 pounds. I don't know if I lost just water in these 2 days, but I certainly lost something. I made sure to use the same scale so I could have a precise number.

Yesterday, after writing the first post I was really hungry but I didn't want to eat pasta or sandwiches. I found in the freezer this small package with different kinds of vegetables like spinach, broccoli, peas, carrots, green beans and other stuff. I cooked with a low fat tuna fish. It was great and only 85 calories! I ate everything all by myself. Felt so full I could hardly walk. I hate that feeling, but this time it felt like it wasn't so bad, I can't really explain.

Well, today I decided to make something different for dinner. I still didn't give up meat, milk or eggs, but it is a process and I hope to do that eventually. I make a delicious pepper stuffed with ground beef. I baked them in the over and they were really good. I Thought only that was not good enough, so I wanted to make a tomato soup. I don't really like those can soups and decided to make it from scratch. Yes, from scratch! Went to Food Lion and spend a lot of money in vegetables and things I needed for my soup.

It's incredible how here in the US natural, unprocessed food is so expensive. I kind of gave up buying some oranges and apples due to the price. I'll go to Walmart tomorrow and get them there.

The soup was really delicious. Strong taste from each of the things. Spent hours chopping, slicing and cutting stuff. But it was worth it. I love cooking.

I'm going to put the recipe here in case anyone feels like doing it too. I recommend it. It's enough for 6 people, so I guess I'll be having tomato soup for a couple of days. So here it is.

TOMATO SOUP

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup chopped carrot
• 1/4 cup chopped celery
• 2 (28 ounce) cans crushed tomatoes
• 3 1/2 cups vegetable broth
• 1 tablespoon vegetarian Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 4 drops hot pepper sauce

Directions

1. Heat oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Saute onion and garlic until onion is tender.
2. Add carrot and celery; cook 7 to 9 minutes until tender, stirring frequently. Stir in tomatoes, broth, Worcestershire sauce, salt, thyme, pepper and hot pepper sauce. Reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 20 minutes, stirring frequently.

Hope you enjoy it. I did.

Beijos,
XXX

Roberto