Does this blog make my butt look big?

Breakfast was a phenomenal wrap stuffed with zucchini, tomato, onion and egg. With about ½ Tbsp of Shredded cheese and lettuce. Yum!

I’m going to eat junk food for lunch as I wend my way out of town and home to the parent’s house. I’ll make up for it by eating something green for dinner.

I NEED TO EXERCISE!

Thursday is the loneliest day

Breakfast was leftovers from dinner, but only about a Cup and a half worth. The snack is going to be another Nature Valley granola bar pack.
And now we’ll see how well I do eating healthy and at home while the boy is gone for a month.

Lunch was another Lean Cuisine meal - Butternut Squash Ravioli and veggies, it really is one of my favorites.

Bag of popcorn for a snack, lite butter. I really don't think I like this kind of popcorn.

But dinner! Ah, dinner...sashimi deluxe. Bliss. It was 3 slices of 4 different kinds of fish with ginger and soy sauce on the side. No rice. Oh, and a bowl of really thick miso soup. It was all heavenly.

Now I'm watching a subtitled Indian movie, Water, I'd better pay attention.

Mmm beer.

Yeah... kinda regretting the beer last night. But it was fun. I hadn't had more than 1/2 a beer or a couple sips of someone else's drink for a long time. I'm thinking that instead of posting my weight every morning because it is going to be too up down up down that I'll post it once a week. If I end up cheating too much because " I don't have to get on the scale for another 2 days.. I can make up this brownie, etc) then I will go to once a day weighing.

Dinner last night was covered in the gravy from the chicken drippings but I don't care it was lovely and I ate it all. I was good the rest of the day and damn it I wanted messy food. And now I'm on a quest to find a cheese that tastes good with squash. What ever I pulled out of the fridge last night was not it. The squash was good though, I love this time of year. Especially because I get comments like "ooh are we having more crazy squash again?" And by crazy he means : Not standard yellow summer squash that turns to slime when most people cook it. I love under cooking vegetables and getting the surprised look on his face of "Hey, I used to hate this stuff".

But back to the goals for today. I need to package up another stroller. Yes I am insane and that should be good for about 20 min of calorie burning frustration topped with lugging it to the Post Office.

Wednesday - HUMP DAY

Whew – not feeling shiny today. But in spite of that, or maybe because of it, I’m eating okay today. Cheerios and soy milk for breakfast. Loads of water and a Nature Valley Oat & Honey bar for a snack.

Now what to do for lunch? I’m ravenous after the staff meeting at work, but I don’t know what I actually want to eat...

As it happens, I went to my favorite Vietnamese noodle shop for lunch and had the veggie egg noodle soup. Yum! I have no idea how many calories, etc. But I'm feeling good because it was loaded with the vegetables.

Dinner: something from a cookbook called Greek Skillet in a Pita. It was lamb, tomatoes, chickpeas, onion, celery, zuchini, In a pita. With some plain yogurt & hummus. The corn I bought was totally awful, so I had about a half an ear of it.

Oh, and a beer.

No exercise on the horizon today.

Wed 10/3 ...

So today I post my weight... eew. My scale says I am 217, up from 180 2 years ago. I am having lots of fun guilt over the fact that my heart condition wouldn't be as bad had I limited the Doritos diving. That and the fact that I think I weigh more than a pregnant friend. So today the goal is to take 15 minutes for myself and stretch (will have to lock up the dogs). So far the intake has been !!!coffee!!! My usual breakfast also includes a banana.

It's Tuesday, 10/2...

So I’ll get to the gym in a day or two to see where things stand with the weigh in. I figured in the mean time I could still get this food diary thing started.

Lunch: Lean Cuisine Salisbury Steak with Mac & Cheese. Only 280 calories. I hate how high the sodium is on these microwave meals. But only 9 grams of fat, so I guess it’s a bit of a toss up. I’m a little upset that there weren’t any veggies hidden in here, but I’m going to make up for that with all the green on my dinner tonight.

Snack: Barbara’s Crunchy Organic Granola Bars. IT was 190 calories for the 2 bars in the serving. Kind of tasty, kind of not, but this was the last package in the box, so it’s really irrelevant now. Only 1 gram of fat though.

Exercise: Walked for about 10 minutes with Anna after lunch. Not great, but hey, it’s a start. I’m also going to be hoisting and moving a small sailboat tonight – that’s got to count for something.

Dinner: Okay, I wussed out. Things ran late after work, too late to cook, IMO. So we went to Qdoba for dinner. Rice, beans, yummy. And apparently, "fresher means healthier." I got the Ancho Chili BBQ Burrito, naked. Slop in a bowl. But, it was tasty slop. So there you go.

More goodness tomorrow!

Onward and Downward

Well it was this or duct tape the fridge and I think I'm supposed to cook dinner as one of those wifely duties so blogging it is. So far today I've had 2 cups of coffee and sat on my @ss all morning packing boxes for the first Post Office run of the day. Hmmm, not a stellar start.

So we're getting started

In order to form a more better us...Roses and I are committing to blog about our attempts, successes and failures in weight loss.

Each day (or most days, as it happens) we will log a food diary for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. We will also keep track of our exercise each day.

This will be the place where we motivate each other, whine about our momentary set-backs , and cheer each other's success.

Go us!