thanks, janice.

i'm kinda planning to go cold turkey, too, starting tomorrow.  i did well
today, but i did eat leftover homemade lentil stew from the day before.  it
was too good to waste and i was so proud of myself for making it from
scratch.  at dinner i said right away i didn't want a baked potato and my mom
still tried to put one on my plate.  i repeated that i didn't want one.  she
looked shocked and oddly dismayed.  "you're not going to eat a POTATO?"  i
ate the salad, skipping the croutons and only adding carrots and sesame seeds
to the lettuce, and i had some no-cal, no-carb dressing (there's salt in it,
but oh well...i haven't had a chance to get to the store to buy ingredients
for my own).  i ate the mushrooms although i'm pretty sure they were sauteed
in butter.  the steak was grain-fed, i am sure, but i ate that, too.  it
wasn't noticeably fatty.  it was weird enough for my mom that i refused a
potato.  luckily for me, we don't eat a big dinner together every night.
it's more like 2-3 times a week.  when we 'fend for ourselves' i can eat
whatever i want, mostly unnoticed.

i'm glad to hear that it's going so well for you.  i'm hoping to reap some of
the benefits as well.  :-)

-robin