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I hit a wall last week and when I sat down and analyzed where I had left off and how I was feeling and what I was saying to myself ... I AM BORED!!  I don't have a wide range of foods I eat. 

And like you, I don't like lots of stuff to mess with.  I want quick and simple actually.

That's why I figure if I write down all the recipes I've tried and liked -- then I can remember ... I mean, I just remembered this crockpot recipe I made earlier this year cause I had written it down.  However, if I hadn't dropped the recipe box on the floor, I wouldn't have remembered.  Isn't that pathetic!

So I figure if I just write down what I do know how to make .. and because I don't remember stuff too well ... I need to write down the instructions & ingredients as well. 

But for other stuff -- like me making oatmeal and cooking up sausage or bacon or whatever to eat with it, I'm just going to write it on a 3x5 piece of paper.   I can put down french toast or scrambled egg or whatever. 

Then when I sit down and write out my menu, I'll have them in nice little stacks ... like breakfast, lunch, dinner ...

And I'm going to learn about freezing foods.  I mean, if they sell waffles frozen in the store -- then why couldn't I make waffles at home and then freeze them up to eat later.  Do my dinners the same way -- then I know that my frozen TV dinners were healthy and didn't have all that trash in it.

Does that sound like it could work?  I'm going to start working it up tomorrow ...  I'll keep you posted ... I figure it's just another experiment that will either knock down the wall I hit hard last week or the wall will just grow a couple more inches.

Have you ever checked out those recipe books for 3 ingredients, 4 ingredients, 5 ingredients.  They'll probably at your local library ... you could check them out to see what new dishes you could make.   That's why I've been clipping out recipes out of magazines ... so that when I hit this BORED -- I would have a plan in place.   That was an old plan ... and because I'm just now picking up this goal again, I plan on seeing how well it works.

Hope you had a good weekend.  and your weight loss story sounds about right ... maintenance is learning how to be satisfied at a weight the body likes.  I know that I will probably never see 120 lbs because my lean muscle mass is coming in at that weight ...  my trainer & I have talked about it and I just may end up weighing in at 140-145 lbs or so.  We both agreed it's just something I had to deal with now so that when I finally got rid of 10% of my body fat, I wouldn't be freaking out ... better to be prepared ... the neat thing is, my body will be defined and it won't look like I weigh that much ... muscle weighs more .. it's just something I knew was going to happen -- the women in my body have muscles ...  it's just part of my genes.