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"That looks a little low on protein, is that average for you?"

No -- I just haven't had dinner yet. I usually eat yogurt or cottage cheese or drink a soy protein beverage in the morning, but the store has been out of it lately. It's yummy - Bolthouse Farms Positively Protein Chai Soy drink. Have you had it?

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lol EWWW! Sorry, I'm such a picky eater -- not a chance. One of the women in my anorexia group let me taste one of her food-drinks, maybe Ensure? blech! Not for me.

In fact, that's why I couldn't get into any of the eating disorder programs around here: I'd have had to eat their foods, and considering how traumatic is can be for me, there was no way that I could see that being helpful. I did ask the nearest day program if I could make arrangements to bring my own food, which I could work out with them, but they said nope, no way, no how, not a chance, uh-uh, fuggedid. (They also told me that their program would "cure" me of being picky, because that was part of my eating disorder, too. Well, guess what? I've made it past 40 as a picky eater, and it's just not a priority for me to get over it. I eat a lot of things, and don't see any reason I should learn to eat hospital cafeteria food now.)

But my husband and I eat late, too. And these days, breakfast and dinner are my big meals -- dinner varies, now that my husband finally allows me to cook different things, but breakfast is a poached egg, pomegranate juice, and a starch. The starch vaies: on Sundays, we have Hungarian pancakes (palascintas), Saturdays we have different things, like popovers, pecan waffles, buckwheat pancakes (which we had this morning), or the like, and the rest of the week it's either Pillsbury biscuits (which my husband loves) or toast. Breakfast is the meal I look forward to most, I think, because it's the one that we've got down to a science. Dinner can be a problem. Mostly because my husband is perfectly happy to start cooking at 11PM. Grrr.

OK. That wasn't anything helpful, was it? Just rambling...

One thing I know helped me lose weight was eating a slightly bigger lunch than dinner, and mostly having a salad for dinner. Of course, that's anorexic weight loss, but it was still helpful. (There, way to tie that in to the thread. yeah, I'm good..)