Week #3 Update

No pictures this week. I did try some new things though including some steamed rice-flour dumplings with a sticky soy-sauce sauce. I'm not a big fan of how the texture and I don't know if I'll be eating them in the future, but it was interesting to try.

This week I need to make another big batch of sunomono and I'm going to try out making tsukune (basically little oval meat dumplings in a soup base).

I am down .8lbs to 223. It's progress at least. I haven't been exercising much other than a few walks of 2-3 miles each. I'm going to step that up next week and try to get at least a 3 mile walk in every day now that the weather is nicer. I'm down almost 3lbs in 3 weeks, so it could be worse. It'll take about 2 years to lose all I need to lose at this rate, however, so definitely need to step up. On the other hand, I'm learning to make some pretty delicious food, so that's good :)

Week #2 (late) Update

I ended out week #2 with .2lbs down at 223.8. Not the best progress ever, but I'm cutting pocky and mochi icecream out from now on since I can't seem to stop eating it.

Here's pics of various things I made during the week:

This is the oyakodon (parent and child bowl). I've been making this almost every night. It's so delicious. I should probably add veggies to it, but onions count, right?


And this is the wafuu (curry) that I made. I used sweet potatoes and parsnip to replace regular potato and carrots, and I had no actual curry spice, so I just mixed a version of my own. It was a lot of work, but very tasty and fed both of us for two full dinners.

I'll update more on Friday.