I guess I run now

one pound loss this week. I know I should be thrilled given how terribly I’ve eaten & how little exercise I’ve done this week, but the 1 pound a week cycle was what I was hoping to break out of — in a big way —by taking on getupnow’s 10 pounds in one month challenge.

Okay, enough feeling sorry for myself. I didn’t expect to lose 2.5 this week…by Thursday I was hoping for .5 at the most, so 1 pound is still 1 pound less…AND, if I’m looking at this in a glass-half-full sort of way, that’s the equivalent of 4 pounds of pressure off of my knees this week. Sounds a lot better when you put it that way!

Okay, off to buy some fish & veggies for lunches & dinners this week & cottage cheese, cherries, and yogurt for snacks.

So dinner was good! Salmon was on sale, so I got a giant filet (20 ounces) for $8.50! Came home & cut it into 5 dinner-sized portions and one lunch-sized one (about 2 ounces, but perfect for topping a salad). Then I marinated them in olive oil, chopped garlic & some fresh parsley, basil, chives, and tarragon. Ate one, froze 3, and have lunch & dinner all ready for tomorrow.

I also made the whole wheat couscous getupnow recommended. Loaded it up with eggplant, summer squash, zucchini, grape tomatoes, and my few remaining sundried tomatoes. Was delicious & made enough to take me well into next week…until I left it on the counter to cool & the dog ate it. Was a lot of food for my 50 pound pup & I can’t imagine what the eggplant is doing to his tummy right now. It’ll be a long night, I think.

So I’m bummed about losing all that good food. The only real difference between my usual couscous brand & the healthier whole grain variety was in how I felt eating it…felt like health nut who obsesses about what kinds of fuel she feeds her body. I like this particular dinner fantasy a lot, especially after I joined hubby for a hot dog at Coney Island before he left this afternoon. Back on the bandwagon tomorrow.

Exercise was a 1 hour walk around the dog park & a 1 mile walk with the dog tonight.