Meal 5 was wine , water and pita crackers what can I say it's friday night

Ilene! Wine is good for us anyway, right?

Well, I am so proud of myself. DH and the kids ordered pizza last night and I went to pick it up after an hour at the gym. I was really hungry so I ordered a salad with chicken breast, tomatoes, blue cheese and pecans. It was very yummy. I skipped the pizza, had a protein shake and this am the scale says 152. My goal is to not have a "free" day this weekend. I'll have yummy things that might be a little expensive or complicated to make during the week, but they will be on plan!

Today:

protein pancakes with blueberries
cottage cheese with blueberries and pecans
eggs, small potato, cheese, red chile (+ spinach maybe?)
I need to go to the store so pm snack will be based on that.

Dinner will be out with DH. I'll look for something on plan---sushi (would be lovely!), but a grilled protein and steamed veggies or a salad.

Exercise will be a run. Either 4 miles at a tempo pace or something shorter with sprint intervals.

Have a great day BFLLs!

ABSOLUTELY!! .....

Today I have not plan, so I gotta stick with clean stuff ....

M1 was flax bread toast with peanut butter and coffee in front of the fireplace...M2, I have not idea but I think it'll be my old easy standby of protein oatmeal, super easy and safe...

Last night I went for a 40 minute run it was a perfect night, I rarely if ever run at night, don't know why not but it just rarely happens, anywhooo it was a PERRRfect evening, both my partner and I thought we had had the best run ever, we stopped to walk maybe 3 times for 1 minute and that was it...

Midwife: I'm proud of you too. Pizza is my weakness. I list about fifteen of my favorite mom and pop places right of the top of my head all within a five minute radius of me. ~sigh~ But if given the choice to slurge, I would choose the Saturday date night too.

Ilene: Wine?! I'm not even going comment. Your in good company, Pat added dark chocolate to her Meal too. I love your pic by the way. I keep forgetting to tell you that. You do have a beautiful and bright smile. It's still too icy to really run here so thanks for sharing your night run with us. I'll just live vicariously through you for a while. (I do see some people out there hoofing it but I think they are insane.) I'd much rather be safe than slip on the ice and freeze to death.

Okay. Meals:

M1 Protein Oatmeal
Sweating Ashtanga Yoga class
M2 4 egg white omlette, FF cheese, celery sticks/1tbs peanut butter/apple, 1 ww bread (still hungry )
M3 Cottage cheese, yogurt, berries, nuts
M4 1/2 c ww pasta, sauce, turkey meatballs, huge green salad
M5 Hard boiled egg whites filled with homemade hummus.

Yep, I'm missing a meal from earlier this morning. Probably why I'm so hungry. I may need to move meals up an hour to keep from blowing it later today.

LOL - just stopping by to let the world know that I actually CRAVED cottage cheese today. Yep, started craving it yesterday and realized I had not eaten any since probably Tuesday. Mixed up a little cc and yogurt today and put that smile back on my face! I guess I needed a little salt.

Craving cottage cheese?? Woohoo!

Dinner was a success. We went to a Vietnamese restaurant and clearly I am part-Vietnamese. I ordered a rice noodle bowl and it arrived:

crunchy veggies on the bottom
rice noodles on top
and grilled chicken and shrimp on top of that.

I put a little bit of sauce on it and was in heaven.

Well I am thrilled with my choices this weekend! Scale this am 152.

Today:

ww english muffin/egg/canadian bacon/cheddar
cc blueberries pecans
lunch---salad with protein and beans (hopefully!)
protein shake, fruit
dinner--turkey sandwich, bell pepper strips
try for another protein shake before bed

The kitchen is stocked but I haven't had a chance to boil eggs for this next week yet. That will be on my list tomorrow.

Planned rest day, but if it is quiet I'll do some core and stretching.

25 mins run
m1: banana
m2: cc cherries
m3: soup
m4: ham roll, salmon roll, dried tomatoes, artichoke & olives
m5: broccoli quiche ( 2 servings)
m6: glass of berry lemonade

Midwife/Jen - your meals in a bowl always make me smile!

I lost track of most of what I ate yesterday (in my mind that is), but we went out to dinner last night to celebrate: my birthday (1/7), our anniversary (1/22), valentine day, and DH leaving for 16 days - oh wait, that was only MY celebration Anyway, we had planned to go a place here where we live that serves Mediterranean type food. We walked in and the specials were great - and then they told us there was a wine tasting and we couldn't eat for close to an hour. So we left and drove to Anchorage. After stopping to see a friend whose DH is in ICU (another long, and too sad, story) we went to a new (to me) place. I ended up with Korean grilled flank steak with a ginger sauce, on the side, with broccoli/cauliflower and 1! asparagus stalk - huh? I love asparagus.... Anyway, there were also mashed potatoes. Boxed up about 1/3 of the meat, 1/2 the potatoes. Also had a glass of red wine, and for dessert, a pear/almond sorbet - heavenly. DH scarfed down his whole dinner, a beer, a piece of sour cream raisin pie, and more than 1/2 of my sorbet! He almost never eats this much, but he had been exercising pretty heavy the last few days. He flew off to Las Vegas, where he gets picked up and taken to Death Valley for a week of hiking (an Elderhostel group). After that he's off to southern Colorado and then Seattle to visit friends. Me, I'm having a laid back Sunday.....

B - 2 eggs, ww toast
S - ff latte
L - chili
S - whoops - haven't had one....
D - rest of last night's dinner with veggies

Oh and I bought all kinds of things at the grocery yesterday to make some "bowl meals" for myself this next couple weeks!

Reporting in from free day here, not loving it. Interestingly, chocolate is too sweet and stuff I used to mindlessly consume......blech! Bill Phillips, what have you done to me?????? My idea of a cheat day now is going to be steak and potatoes and not chocolate and icecream. Oh, this is bad. And very sad!