Day 4 - Movin' Right Along

 Day 4 - Movin' Right Along

Weigh-In:  x-8.1 pounds - this is going to slow down pretty darn soon, but I certainly would love to keep up the 2 pounds per day progress for a few weeks!  :-)

Breakfast:  The Joey V Special Breakfast Sandwich - as usual - Turkey Sausage, 1 whole egg & 1 egg white scrambled on an everything bagel thin.  By the way, one unspoken thing about this sandwich is that I cut up the sausage and cook it with the eggs, so it's all 1 piece.  Sort of like an omelet on a sandwich, but without the cheese.  LOVING that addition of the pepper.  Such an added flavor!

Snack: Mid-morning Whole Fruit ice pop (Strawberry)  Again - I think this was today . . . . . . I figure I may as well just write it anyway, just in case. 

Lunch: Had my last of the 3 chicken, potato and corn plates I made.  THis one was BBQ chicken.  All out of those for the week.  But we have leftovers for the next few days, so I'll be good.

Snack: Before my "PM Remote Sessions" for school, I had a healthy choice fudge bar.  I think they are like 90 calories or something.  

Snack #2: When I got home, I had 6-7 pretzels and a small handful of mini M&Ms.   Just a little something to hold me over.   Unlike many people, I am actually capable of just a teaser - a tiny bit of food to please the craving - without going overboard.  It only works though when I'm on a roll like I am right now. 

Dinner: Kristyn made a great meal tonight.  Spaghetti squash with gravy (red sauce, for those who have clearly never eaten Italian food with me) and chicken sausages.  It's a healthy version of spaghetti and meatballs, in a sense.  This was De-Lic-Ious!  Looking forward to these leftovers for sure!  Treated myself to a diet sprite with dinner since I'm in great shape with the water. 

Water Update: at 5:55pm, I'm pretty much done with the gallon.  Have about 5-6 big gulps left. (And I'm not talking about the size of a big gulp at 7-Eleven, I mean 5-6 literal gulps of water and I'll be done.  

Snacking: So tonight was lost to random and intermittent light snacking.   handful here, a pop there, etc.  Over the course of the night from 6pm until I went to bed, I think I had 2 oreos (140 calories), a handful of salt peanuts, 1 sugar cookie (40 calories), a handful of pretzel - maybe 7-8 pretzels, a handful of mini M&Ms and a whole fruit ice pop (70 calories.)  Actually not nearly as bad as I thought, but still - I could have done better.  The problem is that I finished the water too soon and so I had nothing to fool myself with, so I just kept going for a little bit here and there.   I'll do better for sure. 

You may be laughing at me because a couple paragraphs ago, I bragged about my ability to not binge on snacks but then  had a million snacks.  Realize that the list of things above was over the course of 6 hours and none of them were binges.  Last week, I would have had 6 oreos, 1/4 tub of ice cream, 4 sugar cookies and a bowl of goldfish in that time. So I stand by my ability to not binge.  I just need to stop going to the snack cabinet when I'm bored or Mad at the Yankees.