Belated since my last week was kinda all over the place. Tonight I made mexican corn hash and paired it with a bagged "southwestern" salad. Very tasty!

I've been thinking about taking off my recipe training wheels for a while and doing my Own Thing. I mostly just get all the ingredients for a recipe, read it over once, and then go from there on my own, only going back to the recipe if i need to check something. I think I'm good if I just start making up my ingredients lists and recipes myself! I'm planning to go to winco this week to buy spices for my spice rack since most my current spices are 3+ years old and not very flavorful anymore. And I'm missing a lot of important ones like oregano lmao.

Recipe under the cut + a brief weight talk (semi-neutral, numbers mentioned!) under the cut, I'll put a line before the weight talk if you want to avoid that!

• Dice potatoes and toss with smoked paprika, salt, and pepper, and roast on a tray at 425f for ~25 mins.
• Char a can of corn (drained) in some oil in a pan, leave it in one layer until it starts burning then stir it and keep charring it a bit until you're satisfied., then add some minced garlic and stir til fragrant. add some oil and a diced red onion and diced green pepper of choice, I think this one was a Serrano? honestly no idea.
• when the potatoes are ready, add them to the pan as well. Stir in some hot sauce of choice, this was a packet of something I had, again I don't know what it was, it tasted like taco bell Diablo lol.
• melt some cheese of choice on top, this was monterey jack.
• the lime cream sauce is mayo, sour cream, paprika, and a ton of lime juice and lime zest.

--- weight talk under this line ---

I've been noticing a change in my weight, pants don't really fit the same and my belt needs to be tightened more and more. At the dentist last week they asked me how much i weighed because they needed to dose some of the medicine correctly (it wasn't anesthesia? so idk what for they just said 'medicine' lmao). I gave my last known weight but I was curious when I got home so I dug out the bathroom scale (I keep it hidden and hard to get to so that I can't focus on my weight unless i really need to) and genuinely im 11 lbs lighter than last time I checked, and it's noticeable. I'm sub-200 now, which is the first time I've been this low since I had an ulcer and I was in the throes of my ED. That time, when I was this low, I felt AWFUL, since I was malnourished and lost the weight very rapidly. But this time it's been slow, and I've been eating really well and I feel really good. I'm surprised at this, because usually losing weight makes me really nervous that I'm relapsing, but I'm really certain I'm not. I've been mindfully eating through these dungeon dinners and such and cooking a lot of my own food and eating things that aren't the same nutritionally-devoid safe foods (yes yes fed is best but you do get deficient in Vitamins and Proteins and Stuff when you literally only eat peanut butter toast. unfortunately.)