Visible progress!

Day five or six of my diet (sans tricher -- without cheating, no it's not continuous, I haven't cheated during 5 of the last 8 or 9 days).

I am now down to 58 kilos, when once I was at 61!!! That means I've dropped over six lbs! However, I'm going to keep cheating all weekend and then obviously next Thursday.

Only one or two more kilos to go and then I'm happy and fitting nicely into my clothes again :)

And since I'm on the subject of Thursday, I think I'm going to have a six- or seven-person potluck style Thanksgiving at my apartment next week. My mom and I were looking up fun recipes online all day yesterday, so I'm very, very excited about this prospect.

Like I've already said, Carrefour has cranberry sauce and I already have pumpkin soup ready to prepare. I think I'm going to give it some French flair and make some kind of autumn tarte, like of the pumpkin, apple or nut varieties.

Check out some of these recipes I'm looking at:

• Paula Deen's pumpkin cakes (AKA, let's add a pound of BUTTA to that)
• Pear Tart, from the tartelette blog
• Caramelized Nut Tart
• Apple Galette
• Apple Walnut Torte
• Caramel Nut Tart
  

And WHOA on Barry Bonds. The greatest thing about that article on MLB.com is now Dublin, Calif.'s shout out as "that jail cell to hold Bond's former trainer" for three months. Yep, I grew up in that city! We're now famous thanks to MLB.com -- questionable fame albeit, but I'll take it. He's an asshole and deserves whatever punishment he gets. I'm glad someone's finally cracking down on the rampant "under the table" use of illegal substances in the MLB.