I've lost another couple of pounds. It seems as though I managed not to gain any weight in New Zealand with all the full fat cheese and the million Korean bi bim bap vegi rice bowls I ate. They did have things like diet soda and various weight watchers foods there, including muffins at a bakery cafe chain.

Since I got back I have been living on lean cuisine mushroom & spinach pizzas, which I really like, hence the living on them part. Also I eat lettuce with small amounts of low fat shredded cheese from trader joe's and spray salad dressing. I also eat lots of trader joes' frozen fruit and frozen berries.

I eat sushi for the fish protein & omega acids (the good kind of fat apparently). Also they come in such small sizes that if you get one or two rolls, you're getting just the right serving sizes of fish and rice / starch and you can't end up eating too much rice like you can with rice bowl type dishes. I find that the small sizes of the pieces of sushi somehow makes me concentrate more on eating and enjoy it more. If I have a bowl of berries and a chocolate flavor diet soda around, I feel like I've eaten enough too and don't get weird cravings for other things.

I love plum wine - especially the kind that's made from fermented plums (as opposed to wine with plum flavor). My favorite local sushi restaurant in Brooklyn (Tamari on 5th ave x union/berkeley) has mixed drinks like sake and chocolate or sake and plum wine, so I started mixing the sake & plum wine I get at trader joes. I put it in 2oz starbucks shot glasses that I inherited when a former roommate moved out. That way I know exactly how much I've had, and I tend to pay more attention and enjoy it more while I'm drinking it. I just have to make sure that the shots don't start to add up!