Starting Weight: "X" (I'm not disclosing the number at this point. I'm really not so happy about it, so I'll tell you the starting point when and if I get down a considerable amount.
Breakfast: I cooked breakfast today! Been Talking about doing it again for awhile, but finally went ahead and did it! Had 1 egg and 1 egg white, scrambled with 3 turkey sausage links on a bagel thin with a little salt and lots of pepper. This really did the trick. It's so simple and I can really do this every morning if I just stop hitting the damn snooze button. Hoping that I do. (This sandwich is good for about 300 calories.
**On a typical Sunday morning since moving to Norwood, I would go out and grab a breakfast sandwich at one of the local bagel shops. Taylor Ham, scrambled eggs and a hash brown on a toasted bagel, accompanied by a red bull. A typical deli bagel is going to start at 300 calories alone, without anything on it! So This is a victory. Less carbs, less salt, and less cost!
Lunch: Well, I went ahead and cooked up a package of chicken breasts into little grilled chicken nuggets on the George Foreman grill. Just ate a few of them while I was cooking. That was all I really needed. Probably ate what, 8 ounces of chicken, if that? Probably hit in the area of 350 calories worth of chicken here.
I had initially poured myself a glass of ice water. but then I spilled it. The cup landed on the raw chicken and so I dumped it and decided on a Diet Sprite. I'm using Diet Sprite as something to trick myself into thinking I'm having something bad. Looking to use this trick for a couple weeks and then get off the diet soda. I'm aware that diet soda doesn't necessarily help things long term.
Snack: Had myself an italian ice. Luigi's brand. Nice creamy italian ice. These are 100 calories. Last night, I made it a point to eat the rest of the chocolate ice cream so that I can start off strong today without having that staring me in the face. Normally, I'd take a spoon to the 1/2 gallon of ice cream. It would take me about 4 snack sittings to get through the half gallon. Often, I'd add hot fugde, oreo crumbles, sprinkles and cookies. So my little italian ice - that's a victory!
Snack #2: I had an oreo. This was 70 calories. I gave one to Joey and could not lay off. I do not feel bad about it. 1 freaking oreo. I have been eating oreos 6 at a time lately, so 1 is such a victory.
Dinner: I had about 10 oz of chicken with BBQ sauce, a baked potato with ketchup and some canned corn, which I washed and strained the juices out of before eating. Pretty solid dinner, I think. I guess I might be better without the condiments, but they make or break a plain meal, so I'm not apologizing for them. :-) I went with water for this meal. This meal helped a lot. I was getting my classic "1st day of diet" headache. This was a hearty meal that made my head stop hurting.
Btw. Made 3 lunches for this week. Yum!!! BBQ chicken and Sriracha chicken.
Snack: Kristyn made these football sugar cookies. The kids love them. They are 40 calories each. I had 2 of them. I swear to you, I usually, eat about 10-12 of them when she makes them. Again, it's about a realistic ability to maintain new habits. I may sound like I'm making excuses, but I'm not.
Breakfast - taylor ham, eggs, hash brown on a bagel
Snack - lots and lots of pretzels
Lunch - home made Texas Lollipops (this is sausage wrapped in bacon and smothers in BBQ sauce. I think had about 7-8 of them which equates to 1.5 pieces of sausage and 4 strips of bacon.
Dinner - 2/3 of a 14 inch pizza with meatballs and ricotta
Drinks - 6 bud lites
Snack at night - I don't remember, but I'm positive I had one. :-) If I remember correctly, it was a huge bowl of goldfish.
**Side note** I went to the supermarket and loaded up on some snacks to keep in my freezer and office at school, some condiments to leave in my fridge at school, and some "Smart Ones" and "Lean Cuisines" to keep at school. The purpose of that stuff is to make sure I NEVER have an excuse to go out for food by myself. I mean, if a friend wants to go to lunch, I'm gonna go. But I'm not wasting money, time or calories on eating out. Not only trying to shrink my belly, but also trying to shrink my credit card bill!
This change of habit will save me $5 every morning and an average of $10 for every lunch. On top of that, a couple times a week for my "pre-dinner snack" at 7-11, which is another $6 or so. So we are probably looking at about $320/month on school day lunches and breakfasts that I've been charging on that I can just have at home or school. Dinners out - that's a whole other ballgame! But we are good about eating at home already for at least half of the nights.
Wanna know what the scale said about today? Gotta check in tomorrow to find out. :-)
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