Saturday November 12th

Breakfast: 2 poached eggs w/english muffin

Lunch:??? Pop chips, celery w/hummus, turkey pepperoni

Dinner: Cauliflower pizza, pumpkin pizza crust pizza, salad (The girls are coming over for homemade pizza and movies. I'm making 2 kinds of crust and trying to make everything as healthy as possible)

Activity: Running outside - Didn't happen

Lots to do today. Have to get everything ready for tonight.

To Do:

1. Wash Dishes
2. Laundry
3. Grocery shop
4. Reconcile checkbook
5. Decorate Christmas tree
6. Make pizza dough
7. Clean floors

I ended up only making the pumpkin pizza crust because it made 2 pizzas. One half for everybody so they could choose their own toppings. It worked out so well and the crust was awesome. I got it from Neverhomemaker's blog. They make pizza all the time and have a ton of recipes. That same dough can be used to make garlic knots which now I really want to try. Here is the recipe. 


I ran out of time to do everything else today so tomorrow I will get up and start laundry and get my checkbook reconciled and see what else I need to get done before I got to Shanetha's intermural game at noon.

I'll also run the nutrition on the crust to see what it comes out to. There still is flour so I know for you guys it still can't top the cauliflower crust. Edit: I just ran the nutrition and for two slices the crust (it's pretty thick) turned out to have 450 calories. That's pretty high but 2 pieces is more than enough and it's super filling. And to know that you made it your self and it's all natural is really awesome.

Saturday

Time to get back on track!!  Seriously.

Breakfast:  coffee with half and half, sugar free oatmeal
Lunch: acorn squash, quesadilla
Dinner:  butternut squash fries, baked BBQ chicken legs

Sounds like you have a really fun night ahead!  The pumpkin pizza crust sounds good!!  Do you have a recipe??

To Do:

1. clean out garage   (Yay for being able to use it again!)
2. wash work clothes
3. wash towels
4. do dishes
5. clean off kitchen table
6. clean out fridge
7. hang pictures in hall
8. pick up living room
9. study for test
10. give dogs a bath

Kind of an ambitious list....haha.  

Friday 11/11/11

Breakfast: english muffin w/1 tsp earth balance, pineapple chobani

Lunch: Kaisers with mom (either a buffalo burger or a salad) Mom's doctor appt ran too long so I ate with Sarah instead. Ordered the hummus sandwich which is just hummus and veggies on naan bread. I forgot it came with fries so I might have eaten them. They were so good! And it wasn't a huge portion so I feel okay about it.

Dinner: ???? Maybe a hummus melt

Activity: Rest Day

I have declared today (other than Veterans day and a really cool date) Decorate for Christmas day. I'm going to watch Christmas movies, eat some lowfat popcorn, maybe drink some cocoa and decorate my house until it looks like Santa's workshop exploded, haha.

Thursday

Breakfast:  Turkey Sandwich w/cheese

Snack: Pineapple chobani (I have started buying the 2% instead of 0% because I heard that it makes you soak up the calcium more so than with fat free)

Lunch: Turkey sandwich w/tomato & spinach, apple w/cheese

Snack: Cottage cheese & pineapple

Dinner: Stuffed eggplant and chicken patty

Dessert: Chocolate mint soy milk

Activity: Zumba class (57 minutes, average hr = 154, peak = 179)

I got up this morning and the scale was down 1.5 from yesterday and down 3.5 from last week so I'm feeling super good! I have done really well this week with tracking all my food, planning out all my food, not eating out and exercising everyday. I will take a rest day tomorrow.

Feeling a little worn down tonight. It was a little bit of a struggle to make it through class but felt good when it was over. I think I'm ready for the weekend. Need to rest and make some decisions. 

Thursday

Breakfast: quesadilla, acorn squash
Lunch: Panera 1/2 a panini, small amc and cheese, cookie (didn't do so hot here!)
Dinner: stir fry with no rice and lots of veggies!

I'm finally back!  So, I did really good at these interviews--I will post more about it tonight!

So taking the oatmeal and packing lots of snacks helped a ton!  I felt much better on this trip!!  I turned down donuts and bags of candy, which made me feel good!!

Wednesday

Breakfast: 2 poached eggs w/cheese on english muffin

Snack: Cinnamon roll oatmeal

Lunch: On the Border 2 chicken tacos (no chips!!!)

Snack: Trail mix at the office (I was starving and didn't bring a snack with me. I'll do better on snacks tomorrow)

Dinner: Stuffed eggplant & chocolate mint soy milk for dessert (their new holiday flavors are AMAZING!)

Activity: Trying out new zumba class at Northside YMCA (The class was really great. It had toning zumba at the end which I love and the instructor was really good. I think I shall go back.)

Tuesday

Breakfast: 2 poached eggs w/salsa on an english muffin

Snack: Oatmeal

Lunch: Soup w/crackers, apple w/cheese

Snack: pineapple & cottage cheese

Dinner: Mexican Casserole

Snack: Greek Strawberry yogurt

Activity: Zumba

Heard back from the doctor yesterday and all my results came back normal so I guess I'll just start taking birth control again to regulate all my hormones and I should be fine.

I'm feeling really good about this week. I've been sticking to my workout schedule and my menu. I think I'll be able to only eat out once this week so everything is really back on track.

I read a pin yesterday that said weight is not the ultimate goal and it showed a girl at 127 pounds and then at 136 pounds and she looked so much better at 136 pounds. This again reminds me of why I quit Weight Watchers in the first place. Yes, it holds me accountable but I'm not sure I believe in the ultimate goal anymore. When I workout and eat right I feel so much better and start to not care about the scale because I know I'm doing something good for me. I think I'll try it on my own for November and see if I can keep up the mindset.

Monday

Breakfast: 2 poached eggs on english muffin w/salsa

Lunch: soup w/crackers, apple & cheese

Snack: cottage cheese & pineapple

Dinner: Mexican casseroles (from Beth's Journey blog)

Activity: Gym Time (28 minutes on elliptical & 25 minutes on treadmill) 550 calories burned, 4.75 miles

Sunday

Breakfast: Apple w/laughing cow

Lunch: Interurban veggie plate w/only half of the honey mustard and no bread

Snack: 1/2 c. cottage cheese w/pineapple

Dinner: Rest of spaghetti squash w/kale mixture & poached egg

Activity: Gym time - 1:08 on elliptical (Average hr = 159, peak = 175) burned 706 calories. 6.06 miles

To Do List:
1. Clean kitchen
2. Clean kitchen floor
3. Grocery shop/Meal plan for week
4. New workout clothes


I think this may be the first time I have crossed off everything on my to-do list. Feeling really great about this week. I made a workout schedule last week for the whole month and I've made my menu with two new recipes on it for this week. I'm excited to get back to being super healthy. I'm also going to join Weight Watchers tomorrow. I'm just trying to decide when the best time to go to a meeting will be.

PS I also went to the doctor on Wednesday. She did blood work to check my hormone and thyroid levels so hopefully I'll be hearing back from her tomorrow. I got my pap results back on Friday and everything was fine so I'm interested to see what the hormone levels say.

Sunday

Breakfast: acorn squash with butter, 4 slices turkey bacon, iced coffee
Lunch:  low carb chicken quesadilla, sour cream, acorn squash
Dinner: pulled pork on a thin bun, baked cauliflower, pickle
Snack: sugar free cherry pie filling

So I reeeeeeally need to go get groceries, haha.  No idea what I'm gonna have for lunch or dinner.

I've been kind of pouty about food lately.  With these interviews, I'm really not sure how it is going to be possible to as healthy as I'd like because they are the ones that provide the food. I suppose I could pretend to have a gluten intolerance?  Last week was awful and my stomach still hurts from all of the crap I ate (donuts, cookies, a goodie bag full of candy, pizza, bagels, Dr. Pepper).  Hopefully this coming week will be better.  I need to make a good effort to at least try to pick good foods.  Airports and hotels are really difficult to find healthy food in.


I went and got some sugar free instant oatmeal, some almonds, and some thin buns.  I made up some trail-mix with the almonds and some sugar free chocolate chips and fiber-one cereal.  I'm also going to make a couple of peanut butter sandwiches on the thin buns.  That should help me avoid all of the sweets on this trip. I'm going to try really, really hard to track on this trip.  I leave for Kentucky tomorrow and get back on Tuesday, so hopefully I can keep it up for two days.