2/27/09

Today's goal is simple: eat better than I did yesterday.

I went with protein for breakfast, and still lower cal than my usual breakfast bar. And I traded in my normal hot cocoa for something better for me.

Plus, I'm being better to my back, after having fallen DOWN this morning. I took the rest of the day off, and rested.

The trend continued at lunch, where I had to get creative. I woke up from a nap later than my usual lunch, and was starving. I was also cold. I wanted something yummy, filling, and WARM. The problem being, to get something warm, I had 3 options: 1) Grab insta-food easy to heat up and use up my last remaining lunch meal. 2) Heat up something in fridge - all we had were some cheddar dogs that are 270 cal for JUST the dog. 3) Cook something - which would have been disobeying Jason's orders to rest. So, I had to get creative. And I did.

I started with salad - 2 cups of my salad mix is 15cal. I didn't measure, but it looks like i have a cup and a half. I'm rounding up. Dressing always kills me - i can NOT stick to the '2 tbsp for 40 cal' on my light ranch - i always at LEAST double that. So I switched to salsa - because it's thicker, i can use less, so i put in roughly 2 tbsp. that came out to 20cal. woot. I wanted something filling, so I added a piece of string cheese, split up into little nibbles. that was 80 cal. At this point, I decided I needed a little MORE oomph to my salad, so I poached up another quick egg at 70 cal. That added some heat. Now, none of this is all that warm (the egg doesn't do that much in a salad!) so I added a calorie-free mug of peppermint tea and a sweater!

For a snack, I had about 6tbsp of salsa (30 cal), 7 toasted ritz crackers (sour cream & chive flavor - 130 cal for 14 = 65 cal) , and a piece of string cheese (80 cal)

One egg, poached with/ salt & pepper - 70 cal 7am
Mug of hot chamomile tea - 0 cal AND no caffiene! 7am
Lunch Salad - 185 cal 11:30 am
Mug of hot peppermint tea - 0 cal AND no caffiene! 11:30 am
Snack - 175 cal 4:30 pm

For dinner, we're went to a friends house. I couldn't really track calories, so I just tried to be careful. I had:

• A hamburger (small) with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and very light may on a potato bun.
• About a quarter cup of Potato salad
• About a quarter cup of some sort of macaroni tuna salad (I did not know it had tuna. YECH)
• 10 kettle chips, lightly salted variety
• a touch of some sort of garlic onion mustard - trader joes brand. I dunked a few chips in it. Maybe 1 tbsp total, but I doubt it.
• 5 thin mint girl scout cookes

All this was at about 6:30ish.

I was hungry on the way home, so we swung through Jack in the Box and I got a grilled chicken pita snack. That was about 11:30pm


Daily Total: no freaking idea.