I know! I'm loving it! My goal is to lose another 21 by the end of the semester (another 11 weeks) so that for Christmas (Yule for me anyway) I can get the butterfly tattoo on my thigh in honor of my mother (she's not thrilled with it, but I thinks she's secretly flattered).
Lunch:
1 cup microwave polenta
2 cups veggie chili
1 oz light cheese
Snack:
small nectarine
light string cheese
Dinner:
tuna
1 cup couscous made with 1/3 tbsp olive oil
1 cup steamed veggies
2 cups salad with 1/2 cup diced tomato
2 tbsp light raspberry pomegranate dressing
small apple
Snack:
cucumber slices with 2 tbsp reduced fat ranch dressing
small orange
Totals- 2096 calories, 38.5 gms/fat, 42 gms/fiber
You can tell that around lunchtime I started getting tired, but I hit the store and got enough veggies and fruit until Friday when I have to stock up for the weekend. It's my new system.
Oh, and funny thing when you start exercising... your muscles protest. I thought my phone was vibrating in my pocket when I realized that my thigh and hip muscles were spasming. They've been doing it all day and I almost didn't answer my phone when they weren't spasming. -sigh-
I am pretty proud of my dinner tonight... I had leftover gimme lean sausage from the pizza from 2 days ago so I decided to make a "meaty" tomato sauce with the gimme lean sausage, mushrooms, onions, garlic, diced tomatoes, tomato paste and some various italian spices. I then sliced up some polenta and baked it in the oven and I also roasted some green beans in the oven.
The polenta baked nicely and I covered it with my "meat" sauce and served the green beans on the side. It was a pretty good dinner
Lunch:
2 cups salad greens with 12 tomato, diced, 2 tbsp whole almonds, 1/4 cup light feta cheese, and 2 tbsp light raspberry pomegranate dressing
medium baked potato with 1 tbsp Brummel and Brown, 2 tbsp fat free yogurt, and green onions
Today has been ridiculous. Its gray outside, I dropped 2 more pounds in 48 hours (no idea how it happened, I'm going by the scale. Maybe I was retaining water or something), and my body is absolutely aching, so I took the bus to class today. Feel mildly bad for it, but I can always make it up on Saturday.
I have a toaster oven so I cooked them in that rather than the oven. I think they only needed a little over 2 hours in the toaster oven so that is what I did.
Its a wee bit high in fat, but I think all the extra fiber sort of balances it out. I'll just watch it for the rest of the week. I wanted to go out walking, but I didn't even get up until 12:45 today! I'm going to be forcing myself to sleep at 10 tonight. Oh well.
I know that my last snack was weird, but I actually wasn't eating enough and was a good 300 calories under where I needed to be. There are worst things to eat than Wheat Thins and reduced-fat cheese.
I am bloated like crazy from bad food. After my race on Sunday I had a "can't stop eating" day and yesterday was a little better but I still had a couple totally unnecessary items (like the chips and salsa and 2 scotch ales )
Drinking water like mad today, 64 oz already and it's only 10am! Trying to get a good flush going here, a run this afternoon should help too.
Today's menu:
B: Kashi GoLean with about 1/2 c mixed berries, soymilk
S: Watermelon
L: Seitan veggie stir-fry w/ brown basmati rice
Baby lettuce salad with apples and walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette
S: watermelon, apple
D: Probably BBQ baked tofu with mushrooms and onion on a sprouted wheat bun
The stir-fry I made for dinner last night tuned out really well, after I sautéed the seitan and veggies in the wok in some sesame oil I tossed together a sauce using Thai peanut sauce, Thai sweet chili sauce, juice of 1/2 lime, minced fresh garlic and ginger, and seasoned with coriander, garam masala, black pepper, dash of cayenne and some fresh cilantro. Can't wait to have leftovers for lunch!
I know! I'm loving it! My goal is to lose another 21 by the end of the semester (another 11 weeks) so that for Christmas (Yule for me anyway) I can get the butterfly tattoo on my thigh in honor of my mother (she's not thrilled with it, but I thinks she's secretly flattered).
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