Day 2 - Lazy Friday

Total weight:  (-) .9 lbs

Today's Challenge - Grocery shopping today.  This is a good thing because I can choose all good things to have in the house.  The only problem with grocery shopping is that I will end up wanting to eat EVERYTHING that I bought!  Not a big deal.  Just a little bit of willpower needed.

Exercise - went for a short morning run.
1.2 miles
13:07 minutes

Breakfast - I actually ended up skipping breakfast.  For no good reason.  Just happened.  We also didn't really have ANYTHING in the house.

Lunch - Cold cut sandwich - this includes Low sodium turkey, Pepperoni and Yellow American cheese on a bagel thin.  Now - let's talk about this, because many of you will say that there is something bad with cold cuts.  I understand that they are not the healthiest thing in the world.  But let's face it, I will be eating cold cut sandwiches on this diet.  I always have, and I still lose weight when I do.  I will not eat one every day.  That would be silly and unnecessary.  But I will not waver on this.  It is a MUCH better lunch than my usual 2 slices of pizza, garlic knots and root beer.  And it's a lot cheaper too!  Bottled water was the drink of choice.


Snack - Sobe Lifewater ice pop - good deal on these at Pathmark, so we tried them.  only 40 calories each, and a nice alternative snack when i want something good.  I also had a 60 calorie no sugar pudding pack.

Dinner - Kristyn made a great meal for me tonight!  It was a steak stir-fry.  Rice, green and red Peppers, steak with soy sauce.  She did GREAT!  It was awesome.  Had some water with it.

Snack - 1 serving of  goldfish.  This little bowl is approximately 1 serving of goldfish.  When I use the bowl, it's ok.  When I get a cereal bowl and fill it up - that's when I'm in trouble.  Little bowl = success.

Snack #2 - I am craving a little snack at this point and I'm thinking that it's going to be some cheddar cheese and about 6 ritz crackers.  That should be it for the night, except of course, for some bottled water or seltzer.  Hopefully I will not be checking back in later!

OOPS - I had a handful of goldfish.  probably about 1/3 of a serving, before I went to bed.

What I probably would have eaten if i was not trying at all:
Breakfast - Taylor ham + Egg on a bagel from Petracco's Deli in Nutley
Lunch - Likely a trip to Zizia Pizza in Bloomfield.  There i would get 1 chicken parm slice, 1 plain slice and 3 big garlic knots with a diet coke
Dinner - Pretty sure that even if I was not trying, Kristyn would have cooked, so that would have been the same.
Evening - Not really sure

Good day overall I would say.  Keeping a little active by getting a short run in.  I plan to increase the run another tenth of a mile each day for the next 4-5 times I run and then work on increasing my pace for 1.75 miles before extending the run any more.  Gets me to listen to some jazz while I'm running too, which makes the run more enjoyable.  Pretty happy with my food intake.  Probably could have had a few less on the cold cuts - snacked on a few slices before I made my sandwich, but really not bad in the end.

Looking forward to a good scale reading tomorrow.  Yes - I check every day.  It's not bad for me.  Keeps me in check if I realize i had a bad day, it motivates me to do better that day.  The first week, I am capable of dropping 5-7 pounds if I do it right.  Then it slows down considerably, so I need a good jump start before band camp starts on Tuesday!

See you all tomorrow!  Thanks for reading.

Spoiler alert - results in the morning:
(-) 3.6 lbs