A Trip to the Doc...

...not because I'm sick. I just went in to get some routine blood tests ordered. I haven't had a "check-up" in...well, a long time. So I thought it may be time to do that. See, the Paleo Diet claims to lower cholesterol, manage and/or eliminate Type 2 Diabetes, etc. I don't believe that I have high cholesterol or anything, but I do have a severe history of diabetes in my family. I'm at a risk for developing it; especially if I don't change my eating and get to a more healthy weight. I've been having problems with my blood sugar fluctuating for several years, and it's gotten progressively worse. So, good ole' Doc ordered some baseline blood work for me to have done in a couple weeks. Should be interesting to see the results.

Onto the food for today. Once again, I'm singing the Leftover Praises. This morning for breakfast, I had two eggs over easy with some of the chicken I roasted a couple days ago. Yum! Talk about a protein boost first thing in the morning!

Lunch was...you guessed it! Leftover pork/carrots/zucchini/cauliflower from yesterday. And as an added bonus, the pork loin made enough so I could also use it as the main dish to tonight's dinner. That's right, folks, out of one pork loin I got 4 dinners, 3 lunches (big brother doesn't generally eat dinner a second time), 4 more dinners, and will likely have enough for at least 2 lunches tomorrow. So my 3.5lb pork loin has earned its weight in cost, to say the least! Now that's what I call economic!

For dinner, I shredded the pork, put it over a big bed of red leaf lettuce, added a little dressing and a handful of trail mix (for the record, as long as big brother doesn't come into contact at all with nuts, he is fine - he is not anaphylactic to the dust. We are very, very careful if we have any sort of nuts in the house, and we don't get around children or otherwise irresponsible/uncapable people if they are eating nuts of any sort, because risk of contamination is too great). I added a big scoop of green beans that were canned from my parents' garden, and dinner was complete.

The green beans are so hot they're still steaming!