Woke up about an hour ago, had a bowl of creamy mushroom soup and went outside to start shoveling. The snow had turned to sleet by the time I got out there. A good 5 inches of the mix, mostly loose snow, was on the ground.

I got some pictures of one of the dark-eyed juncos that have been hanging around yesterday, but the sun had went down too far to get good exposures. I'm going to try again Monday. Without my birding camera, I have to be sneaky to get close enough for a good shot. Sneaky in this case means feeding them on fenceless fenceposts near the window.

For breakfast yesterday I had cream of mushroom soup; for lunch I had spaghetti o's topped with monterey jack; for dinner I had ricotta and spinach stuffed ravioli in tomatoe sauce with parmesan and green and blacks olives; for my first healthy snack I had a clementine, for my second health snack I had dried blueberries.

I didn't get in my exercise quota and I had a white chocolate Lindt ball. Mmm... it was good, but definitely not on the plan.

I almost almost did it today. So almost I was tempted to say I did. I had a bowl of mushroom soup for breakfast, a bowl of ramen for lunch, a bowl of potatoe soup for dinner, and pumpkin seeds for my healthy snack. However the free samples at Whole Foods added up to another snack. At least it was another healthy one. Close, but no cigar.

I ate a reasonable breakfast and dinner (a bowl of mushroom soup and a bowl of ramen). However between those two meals I consumed a great deal of food. However, seeing as most of it was consumed at a wedding reception, I won't beat myself up too much about it. Maybe tomorrow will be the first day I succeed in my meal plan.