the mascot

A couple of nights ago as I sat down to eat dinner, my hubs said he knew what I needed and left the table. When he came back, this is what he had.

Just seeing this little beanie baby made me go all ‘awwww’ and everything. You see, Bub was given this doggie during radiation. And of course, I’ve kept it nearby. (hubs snatched it off my dresser) But then hubs reminded me of his name…

Tiny! We all laughed at that. (and it took me 6 or 7 shots to be able to read the tag.. very tricky shot for a little point and shoot!)

I want to be tiny(er).

My plate is tiny.

My portions are tiny.

Hopefully my tummy (inside and out) will be tiny(er) too.

So Tiny still sits on the dining table.

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I checked out The Weigh Down Diet book the other day.

It’s been good to have a refresher on a lot of things. I used to have this book, along with the workbook and tapes from doing the study at church. That was so long ago that I’ve tossed all of it. So I was glad my library carried the book.

One of the things she talks about is a typical meal. And one word kept coming up during reading that I had forgotten about.

Dissecting.

I remembered about eating half. I remembered only eating the best looking chips and breaking one chip in pieces to eat it. And I even remembered eating one M&M in about 15 minutes by letting it truly melt in my mouth and then popping it open by pressing it against the roof of my mouth and letting all the warm chocolate ooze out. But I had forgotten about dissecting.

So today I put that back into practice. We ate lunch at McAlister’s. I got a half sandwich and a bowl of chili. I ate part of the sandwich. There was a lot of bread there, and not all were the choicest bites. I tore off bread bites that would be ‘just bread’. I hate dry bread bites. And as I ate slowly, I realized the half sandwich was looking bigger and bigger. So after a while, I opened my sandwich and ate the meats out with the toothpick that comes in it to hold it together. Then I ate a few bites of the pickle that come on the plate. I ate a little bit of the chili with the four crackers that came with it. I like cracker in every bite, so I broke up the cracker so I had a lot of mini-bites. I drank some of my tea and I was comfortably full. Of course, every meal put into practice looks different, but that gives you an idea.

I haven’t forgotten about the mainstream diet post. Stay tuned. : )