wassonc's Journal, 03 Aug 12

I would love your soup recipie!! And yes I cannot spell recipie!! LOL!  

lol! I really didn't follow a recipe: 1 can of navy beans rinsed, two red potatoes cubed, ham cubed (I just eyeballed it to match how much potatoes there were), one head of broccoli that I chopped the top yummy parts into small bits, one small container of heavy cream, one table spoon of butter, and enough chicken stock to make it look like a soup. I threw everything in the crockpot and gave it a good stir right before leaving for work and let it cook on low all day. It was done when we got home :) 

I'm glad you are still running. I hurt my foot wearing stupid shoes and I haven't been able to go to the gym for 3 days now, so I understand not being able to run for a couple of days. I can understand how you are not wanting to count calories right now. It can be a total drag counting calories for months and months and months. You begin to feel like you are a slave to them. You begin to feel like all your decisions revolve around them. You begin to resent the time and energy it takes to keep on top of them and track them. I know all of these things. And I'm not going to tell you that you should do it anyway, because I'm not. Believe me, there are some days I don't want to do it either. But I am in a spot where I have to track - because I absolutely have to know where my carbs are, even if I decide to freak the calories. That's why I see myself being on Fatsecret forever, just to track those carbs. So doing that, I can't let go of the calories. The two go hand in hand for me. But you are different. Your health doesn't depend on tracking. So if it's not for you right now, then so be it. It's great to see you back posting, and it's great to hear about what you're doing, what you're eating, how you're exercising, and great seeing your cute video of heavily makeuped wine drinking broads telling us to go flip ourselves! 

Thank you for your response KmartDollie- I think I need to just focus on eating healthy foods instead of unhealthy foods (which is normally what I do when I am stressed) and I guess I felt like "If i'm not tracking calories who cares if I post a journal entry?" I don't know why I get such a kick out of those GIFs, but they make me smile so whatever. I'm weird- no shocker there!! 

soup sounds delicious. if it wasn't a billion degrees here everyday! i cook the same way - throw crap together. glad your result was tasty. must be the butter and heavy cream!