Breakfast

Today I cooked up some steel-cut oats ($1.59 a lb) and a little corn meal ($1.09 a lb) for my breakfast. Mom and I ate it, but the kids stuck to cereal. Steel cut oats are a little odd - they have a very different texture from "regular" oatmeal - even though they get nice and soft, you have to chew them as you're eating. Somehow, the chewing is very satisfying and I got really full on one bowl, where I could usually eat two of Cream of Wheat or quick oats. Good stuff! I guess that's why those damn liquid diets just don't work very well. I gotta have something to chew!
I changed up my medicine lately (Lamictal instead of Prozac for my bipolar disorder) and it affects my appetite and cravings in a weird way. How? I haven't been craving sweets or Diet Coke like I used to. I mean, I still like them and I'll eat them once in a while, but it's not like "I gotta have a soda and some Oreos right now!" I guess I was using those things as mood lifters when I was dragging. Wow. Stablizing body chemistry is awesome!