Day 2

This day is July 2, day 2. Which is also my wife, Jodi's, birthday. I had already planned a bbq for her birthday knowing I wasn't going to get to eat it, but I was going to cook it. My 16 yo daughter, Salina, and I went through mom's phone book to get her friends' phone numbers to secretly invite them to the bbq, so there was A LOT of food. Jodi didn't understand why so much food for just the 4 of us and her 1 friend and her 2 girls who were traveling from Nevada to visit for the weekend. She soon found out. The friends starting showing up and I fired up the grill. Everyone was having a great time and the kids were LOVIN the newly put in pool, as was Jodi.

I had a slab of honey bbq porks ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, and carne asada-no chile. One of Jodi's "unexpected" friends brought a very good pasta salad to add to the feast, and the friend from Nevada brought a Nothing Bundt Cake for the birthday. All hard to resist, but I did. I did enjoy a few beers, which is NOT part of the diet, but I figured hey, it's only day 2, this is a party, and it IS liquid :). But no, beer will also be cut out of my diet for it metabolizes into pure sugar once broken down and that is totally contradictory :(

I did fine. I ate my soups while the others slammed some serious grub. They saw me avoiding the bbq and again, were very impressed and made quite good converstation. No new pledges for the day, but 3 of the people here had already pledged earlier so they actually got to see me in action....eating liquid. I figure I can make it through a party with all my favorite ingredients and fiesta in the air, I can make it any day. But there are some left overs for tomorrow that I usually help clean out of the fridge, so we will see what tomorrow brings, but still so far so good. Go ME!!!