Today was interesting. I'll tell you right off the bat, it started off perfect and then made a quick turn to not so great. All in all, it was still not actually that bad. That being said, not a day I can repeat over and over if I want to succeed. Here we go. . . . . .
Breakfast - Cheerios and 2% milk. Normal breakfast. No big deal. Also had a glass of Trop 50 OJ which I really just drink to get some different things in me. I think it's good to drink some Orange Juice on the regular.
Today, we relied on Grandma to take care of the kiddies so that Kristyn could get some stuff done and go to a baby shower and I can help out a friend by driving her to PA to pick up a new car out near Bloomsburg. So around 9:30am, I packed up the kids and dropped them off. I was smart enough to pack myself yesterday's leftovers for lunch and 3 snacks - 100 calories or so per snack - to get me through 4.5 hours of driving, in addition to my gallon of water.
The drive out was great. Had a chance to catch up with Traci and I put a huge dent in my water. Had to stop off for the ol' restroom and avoided buying anything!!! WAHOO! Back in the car and made it to our destination. On the way, I had 1 of my snacks - the cheese/cracker sandwiches. 200 calories.
For Lunch, I grabbed my cashew chicken leftovers from yesterday and heated it up and all was good in the world. BUT then I could just not resist the bag of bagels and I made myself a buttered bagel after I completed my entire cashew chicken lunch . NOT NECESSARY! Argh. But it was damn good. Not too big of a deal, right? No. BUT that's not it . . . . . .
I got in the car to head back and without the company, I found myself getting much more tired. I grabbed my 2nd snack - the Rice Krispie Treat. That got me through about 20 minutes and then I decided to pull over at a rest stop and get a nap. 20 minutes later, I got back on the road and still was exhausted. I decided that I would give in and get a Red Bull. ONe thing that I have realized is that when I don't have one every day, they actually work! I really wanted to go a month without one, and I lasted 5 days. Not so good. BUT at least this was not a "habit red bull." It was an "I'm exhausted and need to drive red bull." Now this is not the end of the world BUT while I was there, I sidestepped over to Burger King and grabbed a 10 piece nugget. Why did I do this? Because BK has 10 nuggets for $1.00 right now and I said to myself, "Self, I have $1. I don't have to charge it and it's a really good deal!" Then I proceeded to throw them down like potato chips because in my mind, if I eat really fast, it didn't really happen.
I got back to Clifton to pick up the kids and went home to make dinner. Of course, I could not go through without having eaten the 3rd snack, so I had the FIber One brownie (110 calories.)
Dinner - this was Buffalo Pulled Chicken Night. Usually we make this in the crock pot and let it sit for 6 hours. We forgot about that in the morning, since we didn't have the chicken yet. So I looked it up and turns out that we could do it for 20 minutes in the instant pot!!! WAHOO!!!! So, I gave it a shot. 20 minutes later, I had some buffalo pulled chicken on a bagel thin. We were supposed to have broccoli and quinoa, but we were just too lazy. This meal was approximately 500 calories. Not bad.
So as you see, it was not a great day. Was it the worst of days? Certainly not at all. In fact, this was still better than most days from October 1-December 31. BUT not up to par for what I'm trying to do. Let's try to add it all up. . . . . .
Cheerios - 210ish
Milk - 130
3 snacks - 400
Cashew CHicken - 300
Bagel -300
10 piece nugget - 470
Red Bull - 110
Buff Chix/bagel thin dinner - 500
TOTAL: 2,320. I mean, this is really not the end of the world. I've done MUCH MUCH worse than this in my day. BUT without the bagel, nuggets and red bul, I'd be sitting at 1,460 and that would be a KILLER day.
LATE UPDATE: I went downstairs for 2 spoonfuls of ice cream and ended up eating about 2 or 3 servings Of it instead.. I really didn't mean to, but it definitely Happened. I think I will just tack on about 500 calories for that. argh
Back to it tomorrow. I'm not down about myself today. Disappointed a little that it happened so soon, but for the long run, an imperfect day here and there is probably healthy for the brain and a better strategy for long term success, right? I mean sheesh - I lost 10 pounds in 5 days. I deserve a Red Bull and some nuggets, right? :-)
Tomorrow - I will kill it! I already have my menu picked out and ready to go and it's gonna be a great day.
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