Mission Accomplished

I return victorious from the grocery store.  As soon as I decided to go back to "South Beach Living" as the dude who wrote the books likes to call it, I a) wrote a blog post about it (my first post in oh, 8 months), b) talked to Marshall a bit about my decision (he was supportive, as he usually is about my endeavors) and c) took the bus to New Seasons to stock up on food that I can and will eat on this plan.  I am loathe to call it the dreaded d-word cuz the d-word sucks and has too much baggage associated with it.  So.  What'd I get?  I got boneless, skinless chicken breasts, a piece of london broil, some canned turkey chili, assorted veggies, salad mix, new salad dressing (always a good incentive to eat salad) hummus, some pre-cooked turkey, pickles, diet ginger ale and among other things, a box of incense.  Cuz I like incense.  I also got a new toy.  It's a kit in a can of sticks and connectors to make a 3-d star thingy.  When I was a kid we had this super-cool kinetic star thing my dad built from a kit, and while this thing is probably not quite so cool, I think I'll have fun building it. 

I also ate a salad from the salad bar at New Seasons, which was yummy and healthy feeling.  My plan right now is to cool up 2 chicken breasts today in order to have them ready to eat when I am ready to eat, and perhaps I'll have some london broil within the next coupla days. 

I suppose that today is as good a day as any to go find the bathroom scale in the basement.  When I was last on the plan I immensely enjoyed the small victory of stepping on the scale every few days and have it register me as weighing a bit less than before. 

Tonight is date-night so Marshall and I are gonna head out to the Portland Art Museum later this evening in order to take in some culture and make good use of the family membership we bought last weekend.