I can’t believe it’s been 7 years!! I won’t even think about how many pounds have been lost since then. You guys would be floored.
So what does that mean? It means I have a shit ton of things to do before his party this weekend.
To answer bigprof’s question from yesterday “what is lemon verbena cottage cheese”: there is this product Rachel’s Wickedly Delicious Cottage Cheese that I’ve seen at my grocery store for awhile. The flavors are quite intriguing, so this week while I was doing a proper grocery store run, I thought “why not”. I’m not a HUGE cottage cheese fan, but if it’s mixed with stuff, I can handle it. The stuff is pretty good! The lemon verbena one had blueberrys and blackberries in it. The roasted red pepper one I had today was interesting. It was good though. I still have a cucumber dill and a pomegranite one to try as well. Would I eat these all the time? Prob not since I can only handle cottage cheese in small doses, but they are quite tasty.
Breakfast: Rachel’s Roasted Red Pepper Cottage Cheese - 120 cal
Snack: Pumpernickel Bagel w/ 2 tbps red fat cream cheese - 330 cal
Lunch: Turkey/Spinach Lasagne (which I’m so glad I made into lasagne instead of tryng to do pasta rolls) - 234 cal
Breadstick - 150 cal
Dinner: Chicken and Summer Vegetable Tostadas - 398 cal
Black Bean/Couscous Salad with Jalapeno/Lime Dressing - 91 cal
I caved when i got home, decided i didn’t want/feel like cooking so we went to Tijuana Flats.
Breakfast: Rachel’s Lemon Verbena Cottage Cheese - 140 cal
Lunch - 1/2 French Twist Wrap from Roly Poly - 264cal
Baked Lays - 140cal
Snack - goldfish crackers- 70cal
Dinner - Turkey/Spinach Pasta Roll Ups that I am making into lasagne instead b/c it seems easier. - 234 cal
Breadstick - 150
Salad - we’ll estimate at about 100 cal after the stuff I loaded it with
Total Calories for the day: 1098 - quite a bit lower than the 1200 I should “strive” to get each day. Well, maybe it was a little more b/c I ate 2 mini chocolate bars today so perhaps I was at 1200.
Exercise: 2 mile run
I woke up this morning feeling like crap. That hasn’t happened in a long time. I’ll try to explain what I mean.. my stomach doesn’t hurt, but it feels… gross. It usually happens when I eat late at night or go to bed very soon after eating junk. I didn’t eat late at night, and I was up long after I ate junk yesterday, but I think it’s because I ate so much junk. Ugh… I’m not even going to go into what I consumed yesterday but let’s just say birthday party and alcohol.
So I do care about this despite the claim in my last post that I didn’t. Now I just need to get the energy and mojo to start doing somethign about it again. I don’t have any problem running.. it’s actually taking the time to cook healthy meals and making sure that I’m staying in my calorie range is what I can’t seem to get a handle on lately. I’m tired of cooking and preparing and..blah. I need a personal chef. I’ve been eating a lot of lean cuisines and stuff for lunches. I’m wondering if I should stop that for awhile and focus more on “whole foods” meaning non-processed stuff. Maybe that would help. Of course, that just means MORE cooking and preparing… and the frozen meals are portion controlled already. But they don’t last very long… meaning I’m hungry about an hour after eating them. I usually take leftovers but that only works if I actually cook… and assuming there are leftovers!
What do you other working women do for lunch at the office?
scale numbers creeping up… not a joke this time.
I guess it’s time to buckle down.. but you know what.. I just don’t care right now. I mean, I CARE, but I don’t really care enough to do anything about it. I need a kick in the head or something.