Holiday Preparation -- Activate Cycle Day 3

Good day today!

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...)

1. 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...
2. 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...
3. Too much coffee again today, but at least I avoided the chocolate treats that are hiding in the white cupboard at work...
4. 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!

Holiday Preparation -- Activate Cycle Day 2

Back in the saddle...sort of...

Today was the low calorie day of the rotation -- no starch allowed -- this was a tough one because I really wanted toast with my breakfast.  Oh, well...

I didn't pack a big enough lunch so I was pretty ravenous by dinner time.  Gotta remember to stock up on some appropriate snacks and keep them in the fridge at work.  I did better with the water today, but still didn't quite get enough in to compensate for the extra coffee that a co-worker brought in -- a lovely treat on a day when it was sorely needed.


Today's Menu:
(Accelerate menu)

Breakfast -- 2 scrambled eggs, 1 mandarin orange, green tea
Morning Snack -- vanilla yogurt with strawberries, water
Lunch -- Dr. Mike's amazing taco salad (oh, how I have missed that meal!)
Dinner -- Dr. Mike's chicken vegetable soup, small green salad with carrots, cabbage, dressing (balsamic vinegar/olive oil), water

Oops, just realized that I missed the second probiotic serving...

One pair of my dress pants that was fitting "just right" when I got to Cycle 4 is now so big that they look like clown pants -- all baggy and falling off if it weren't for the safety pins I used to hold them up.  It's gratifying -- this particular pair of pants used to be so tight that I had to leave the waistband button undone and they were super-uncomfortable to sit in -- really tight in the bum.  Not so much anymore!  Looks like I'll be doing a little shopping this week...