I think we're starting to get somewhere

Today was full of success.  I'm patting myself on the back.

We will keep this simple. I just want to share with you my day today.

7:30 am:   I woke up late after having a really strange dream involving snakes and rushed off to work.  After getting started I realized I was hungry and I made myself a weight control apple cinnamon oatmeal and a black chai tea (no milk, no sweetener).  I had a productive morning and a snack of string cheese around 10.

11:45 am:   About lunch time I nuked a bowl of Amy's organic black bean soup. I haven't had this one before.. maybe not my favorite, but satisfying.  I thoroughly enjoyed a super yummy honey crisp apple in the car on the way to run an lunchtime errand with a friend.  As we left the store a frozen yogurt place appeared in front of us in all its glory and at the same time we said, "do you want frozen yogurt?".

1:00 pm:   The woman inside was very friendly and "talked me into" a small serving of fat free frozen yogurt. She explained that it was 25 calories an ounce and she knew how to squirt out 4 ounces.  I added some fresh strawberries on top and was happy, happy, happy.   Haha, you thought I was going to say we didn't have any, didn't you.

3:30 pm:  More productive work after lunch and an afternoon snack of a string cheese and later a greek yogurt.  Also I remembered to drink some water right about now.

5:45 pm:   After work I packed myself up into my car where I have stashed a couple of sets of workout clothes and walking shoes and I drove off to YOGA.  I stretched and breathed and warrior two'd my way through an hour of yoga. I was dismayed to realize that the yoga muscles I had previously built in my legs and stomach are gone, but I'll get them back.

7:30 pm:   After yoga and finally home for the day I followed through on my pledge to myself to cook that broccoli in the fridge!  In fact, I made broccoli, chicken breast, a noodle packet with some added red pepper and a little salad.  And the best part?  I made enough for dinner plus two left over meals.

9:45pm:   And it doesn't end there!!  I watched an hour and a half of TV and turned it off.  I'm writing this post and going to bed.  So all in all a very successful day!

I am sure if I were to be in a nitpicking frame of mind I could find things to criticise, the yogurt, the pasta.... but I'm here to focus on how many good choices I made today.   Remember, Small changes can make a Big Difference.

I also wanted to take a minute and look at just my dinner.  I have heard a lot of people (myself included) say, "its so hard to cook for one" and "eating healthy is just so expensive".

For tonights dinner I steamed $2 of broccoli, cooked a package of pasta $0.85, 2 chicken breasts $2 on sale, half a red pepper from the fridge, lets say $.75, a handful of lettuce and 8 grape tomatoes, maybe $0.50.  So that's roughly $6.  And then remember I made three meals with that. And they weren't puny meals either.  So, $2 a meal for a healthy filling dinner.  Cheaper than a $5 footlong.

 

That's a regular size dinner plate and its the same amount of food on the plate as in the containers.... I'll have to start paying attention to how food portions look in different containers, more on that later probably.

Today's "Yay's and Boo's".

Yay!

1. Its all yay's baby.... you just read all about it.  :)

Boo!

1. Nope.

~E