February 15, 2010

breakfast: 1 packet plain oatmeal, 1 packet maple and brown sugar

lunch: 1 red apple (delicious!! so tasty!! better than candy all day long!!)

3 rice cakes with humus

dinner: to be determined...



Maybe I can work in a workout tonight...dentist appt at 5:10 so may get home in time to get out before full dark...to be determined as well...

OK, so the workout idea was a pie in the sky...next week we'll work on that. For now, two good days in. That's all it is one day plus one day plus one day...one day at a time for many days and there you go!

Dinner: yogurt parfait (vanilla yogurt, frozen (thawed) cherries, dash of go-lean crunch as "granola" stand in. 1 1/2 pc of whole wheat toast with butter, veggie scramble w/ egg beaters, onions, asparagus, zucchini, apple and tomato...dash of olive oil to make it all cook up. Yummy. And full. Looks like I am short some fruits and veggies...need to prioritize getting more of these into the diet. Surprisingly little in terms of cravings today...would have thought I'd be yearning for those sweets by day 2...we'll see what tomorrow brings.

If I can make it to Friday with all good days this week I will reward myself with a Starbucks breakfast...medium hot chocolate made with skim milk, no whipped. Pass on the pastry that I usually get...the pastry of choice these days is a blueberrry scone...yum. The scone really has no redeeming value whatsoever. If I could go the rest of my life without eating one (or anything like it) I would surely be better off. The drink, well, its not really that bad for you when you consider I'm supposed to be drinking the milk anyway...the little bit of chocolate in the drink it not adding a whole lot over just a warm skim milk. Milk just has a lot of calories...not much you can do about that if you are supposed to be getting the dairy in somehow. It comes with a price no matter what the form. Something to look forward to over the daily dose of oatmeal.

February 14, 2012

breakfast: bottle of water, packet of apple-cinnamon oatmeal

lunch: chicken breast, some terriaki sauce, spicy green beans. Feel quite full, but would eat the fortune cookie if I did not stop myself...it is sooo weird that my body and mind both seem to want to continue eating even after I am full. It makes no sense. I know the science behind it is that our bodies were trained in the earliest days of man to get and hold on to all the fat they could because we might need it...biology has not caught up to the world as we live it. And we live it wrongly too often. I think that I will NOT eat this fortune cookie, I will throw it away, and I will win this particular battle with nature.

Now on to dinner... already I am trying to think what we can eat that will be low points for the grownups, healthy and filling for the kids, easy to fix, and simple to clean up after...is that too much to ask? For a working mom with three kids, two dogs, a house, a husband who has been out of town for 5 days ... does not seem like it should be so hard!

A good rule of thumb, and one I lived by when I was part-time, was no food at the office after 4:00. None. No snacks, no candy, no soda...if you made it until 4:00, you can make it until dinner. If you are not hungry by now, its because you simply are not hungry. No hungry, no eat. Why is it not that simple? That should be my mantra...no hungry, no eat. No hungry, no eat. What's that reggae song? No something, no cry...no something no cry...what the hell were the words to that song? This is going to drive me crazy...

No woman, no cry.

Dinner: tilapia fillet dipped in eggbeaters then Italian breadcrumb/asiago cheese mixture with a dab of BBQ sauce on top. Cabbage with balsamic vinegar. Dark red kidney beans. 1/3 glass of red wine. Thought I was in the mood for the wine so I opened a bottle...not so much. Pretty good day.

Could not seem to work exercise in...that will have to come as the weather heats up and the sun in out more in the morning. The morning is the best time for me to be working out since I hate "fake" exercise (treadmill, elliptical, etc.) I prefer to be able to get outdoors and do things...we'll see if I can focus on losing some lbs first and then I'll add in the exercise...for a triathlon this summer I need to lose some weight before I start trying to run on this body!!!