I was starving last night, and desperately craving chocolate (that is the first time that has happened since I started this project in June -- not bad...). You would think that because Hallowe'en was just here that there would be some chocolate in the house. Nope. The kids didn't go out this year, so I had bought a couple of boxes of treats for the house -- and it's all gone. Just a few packets of Reese's Pieces left. Yuck...
Anyway, I settled for a Nutrigrain bar around 10:00 (Traci hangs her head in shame -- she should have just gone to bed...) -- tasty, but not satisfying when you want chocolate...
Did a little shopping before work and bought some new pants for work. No more clown pants for me!! So excited -- get to wear pretty new things tomorrow!
Today's Menu:
(Activate menu)
Breakfast: peaches & cream oatmeal (yummy -- I will explain in a bit...), coffee
Morning Snack: vanilla yogurt with red grapes, coffee
Lunch: small bit of steak, 1/2 cup brown rice, steamed baby carrots/yellow beans/green beans (all leftovers from Monday), water
Dinner: chicken breast stuffed with ham and swiss cheese, noodles, steamed peas/carrots, water
Evening Snack: glass of red wine (it was a long day...)
- Peaches and cream oatmeal. This is so easy to do -- I cooked up 1/3 cup of quick cooking oats and mixed in a Del Monte Orchard Peach fruit bowl (packed in water, not light syrup) and a splash of milk (just enough to thin the mix a bit). That fruit bowl is only 30 calories -- great -- but it's not the equivalent of a whole peach, so I probably should have had another fruit as well...
- The chicken at dinner was NOT something that is "allowed" -- prepackaged and breaded -- but it was waiting for me and I couldn't face the salad that I had planned, so I ate it. The noodles were bad, too. Not even going to talk about them...
- Too much coffee again today, but at least I avoided the chocolate treats that are hiding in the white cupboard at work...
- The wine? It was a long day...
I managed most of the water I needed today. I feel better this week than I have in the past few weeks, which I attribute more to the water than anything else, though I'm sure cutting the bread out has helped. I was having toast or a sandwich every day for a while, and the weekly weekend pizza pigout probably wasn't a good idea, either.
Well, I get to weigh-in tomorrow morning. Looking forward to it!
