Sunday:
Breakfast/lunch occured at 11:45 (due to the fact that I had insomnia and stayed up until 3:00 this morning--just an hour later on each end than the day before. You know what they say about weight, health, mood and sleep? Well... We didn't have my traditional Sunday morning Nutrigrain Eggos in the freezer nor did I have any eggs, so I couldn't make just about any sort of breakfast I could think of except cereal, and that is just wrong on Sunday, so we determined to go to the grocery store. At that point I said: "Screw it! It's so late now and we should eat before shopping, so let's just go to the (local non-Starbucks) coffee shop!" There I had a little over half of a mochaccino (shared with himself)--I always forget to tell them I don't want whipped cream--frankly it just means less space for coffee and steamed milk, so I scraped that off, as usual; ham, egg, and cheese on English muffin, and a vanilla "Light and Fit" yogurt.
Afternoon snack: the last truffle of the six I bought last night--might've been nice to have added a clementine for a little more vitamin oomph.... Diet Rockstar...yup, we're sucking wind today, and, well....at least it has vitamins....
Dinner--well, when I eat it, will be rotisserie chicken breast (probably with a dollop of BBQ), rutabaga mash, and a steamed (from frozen) veggie medley in garlic-butter sauce. Will be fore-going wine tonight (this is a tough one, but so far I've been continuing a glass of wine, and dessert--even though light ice-cream and not having terribly good results--in any case the last of the bottle of wine from the last few days went into the chicken soup I am making from the rest of the chicken. I think I'll be going for my usual 1/2 cup of light pumpkin or maybe egg-nog Dreyers ice-cream (these are my *fave* flavors, only out during the holidays, so I've stocked up...)
Haven't left the house today except for that jaunt to the store--not gone to the gym, nor done yoga, which I told myself I'd do if I didn't go to the gym. I suppose I could still do it before I hit the sack tonight....
Saturday:
Breakfast: 2 egg omelet (I usually use 2 eggs and the equivalent of one egg via Egg Beaters, or vice versa, but I used up the last of the Egg beaters earlier this week, and hadn't the presence of mind to add to my grocery list--consequence being Sunday morning...) with 1 link apple chicken sausage, onion, mushroom and shredded colby-jack; 1/2 whole wheat English muffin with peanut butter, kiwi fruit, coffee and oj (with lower sugar). We were fueling up for a hike in the snow, but point should be made that I stayed up late, woke up late, ate breakfast late, left the house late, and that meant that we ended up having ....
Lunch: 1/2 banana before we finally walked out the door, and 1/2 protein bar (shared with Bryan on the trail) that I really only intended to consider a snack, but we were hiking for several hours, up to twilight---not good planning on my part, since I would have brought us each a protein bar if that wasn't the last one in the box, with the result that we were really exhausted and famished when we were done.
Dinner: at a Spanish/Mexican restaurant in the town closest to our hike (ie. not our town), where we proceeded to demolish a basket of tortilla chips (bad news--and typically I try to hold myself to a few) and share a 1/2 carafe of sangria (which was really larger than we expected...or needed...probably 2 1/2 cups each--more wine than I'd normally consume at dinner). Small bowl of cream of asparagus soup; Tilapia with shrimp, scallops and a tomato-pimento sauce, steamed veggies and black beans with a couple spoonfuls of rice. Dessert was two truffles from our fave chocolate shop and splitting a tall pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks. (I guess I'll have to chalk up regaining the entire pound I lost yesterday to the chips and sangria, since otherwise it doesn't make much sense, seeing as we didn't otherwise eat more than normal seeing as we basically skipped a meal, and got lots of exercise. It's this shit that gets dieters down!
[gotta go...I'll work on this some more later] okay, where was I? Lessee. [the rest after the CLICK]
I went on my veggie-buying spree Wednesday: all I can really remember well are dinners, but I may come up with it stream-of-consciousness style.... I think we had oatmeal with banana for breakfast one day and eggs with turkey bacon and english muffins w/ cashew butter another, fairly typical. Blanking on the third day. I went for salads for lunch--Wednesday I ate a protein bar before grocery shopping and made a salad at the salad bar there; Thursday I had Thai-style tuna (super-spicy--this is Bumble-bee brand, comes in a 5 oz tin and there are other flavors; whole thing ends up being 220 calories) over salad and crackers with hummus; Friday, pretty sure I had a can of soup with crackers and cheese. Been snacking on clementines and chocolate-covered espresso beans. The day I went to the store I got a chocolate cupcake...not a typical snack, but I'm a sucker for chocolate-iced chocolate cupcakes. What's one here or there? Although perhaps that might be a better sentiment for maintaining weight rather than losing it, if I want to continue having wine with dinner and ice cream (even light) for dessert.
So Wednesday night I went nuts with the veggies--made a stirfry of the lean chuck stew meat, marinated in a ginger-teriyaki sauce and served up with more along with snow peas, red peppers, onions, garlic, and bok-choy. I did end up boiling up the buckwheat soba noodles, which I think are nicer with beef than chicken. Then Thursday night I used the rest of a bottle of vodka pasta sauce (that's just tomato pasta sauce with some cream--nice with chicken or seafood), with sliced garlic chicken-sausage links, chopped tomato, onion, mushrooms, and spinach, served over whole wheat linguini, may have had small side-salads with that. Friday night we had the rest of the stir-fry with soba noodles. Don't usually have pasta three times in a week..... but at least we had plenty of veggies. Here's a pic of the stir-fry:
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