Trust me, it is not will power!

Yeah it is Thursday! Does not mean only one more day of work for me. It just means I get to come home to lots of good shows on the DVR. I can not wait to watch the Office. It is another cold, freezing cold day here. At least the sun is out. That helps.

I have talked to quite a few people lately that say, "I do not know how you did it, you must have the best will power ever." Here is the most honest thing that I am ever going to say. It is not will power! If you open up a box of cereal or a bag of peanut butter cups and I do not have a eating plan for the day I will eat the items above without thought. But, if I have a plan I can allow myself some of the food if I feel it will fit into my plan. More than likely I will turn it down because I have everything planned that I will eat for the entire day. By having this relationship with food allows me to truly be free. I know that for most people this will not work. They may feel like this is too constraining. For me though this allows me to spend my time without thinking about food. I do not have to spend hours thinking about when I will eat next, what I will eat next. Now I know around what time I will eat and what I will eat. This allows me to say if I am full then that is all right, I do not have to finish everything on my plate. On the other hand if I am hungry then I can eat my snack if I am truly hungry. More likely I will wait until my normal snack time, because I know that the food will be there waiting for me.

Here is another honest thing, I am not perfect. More often than not this works for me, but there are days where I eat more or less. My mantra is that no one is perfect. I will take each day at a time and if the day is very difficult I will take it one hour at a time. The truth is you can not live more than one hour at a time anyways, so why rush it?

Food for the day: carb check bagel, cream cheese, and SF jam
Lunch: chicken stir fry pictured above. Instead of rice I used quinoa as the grain. (Same veggie blend from Whole Foods as last time) It was actually really good. I think that it is more of a texture thing rather than a taste thing.
Snack: new clif bar and cheese
Dinner: more stir fry, yogurt, and a cookie
Snack: orange

I am off to work. This is my mid-week hump. Wishing that it was the last day for me, oh well. Hopefully it will not be as cold when I leave work tonight. I can hope!

More food I love!

Let's be honest shall we? I love food. I love trying new flavors and textures. So, here are two new things that I ate today. The popcorn is amazing! It is caramel apple and it tastes so rich like an apple just dripping with chewy caramel. They are full sized bags and if I figured it out correctly, if you eat the whole bag it is 5 points. I hate figuring out caloric findings on popcorn. They set it up like if you would make 2Tb and the nutritional information is different pre and post popped. It is very confusing, but either way it is very delicious!

The other fun thing I ate today was this nectar bar. The flavor is lemon, vanilla, and cashew. This nectar bar is my favorite one that I have tried thus far. It had such a good texture and the flavors just exploded. I would pick this bar over just about any dessert on about any day. I love this Clif bars. One thing that I like so much about these bars is that they are made with less than five ingredients. So often, bars have millions of ingredients, lots of which I don't even know what they are. Good work Cliff bar makers!

The day was a long one and work was even longer. Very busy tonight and I am exhausted. I did not cook anything today. I ate leftover chicken fajitas and a frozen pizza for meals today. I think I am going to make stir fry tomorrow. It is so cold here. When I left work my dashboard said that it was -9 degrees out. I think that when it is this cold everyone should be able to stay home under a blanket. That is a deal I think everyone can agree on!

I'll be honest, today I am just plain tired!

The title pretty much sums up everything for me today. I am exhausted. Yesterday my throat and ear started hurting and today I think that it is trying to take over my body. I wish that I could just lay on the couch with a blanket over me. I mean essentially that is what my body is telling me that it needs and sadly I can not give into the need.

Last night when I got home Kevin had a little gift for me. He had the new Biggest Loser Yoga DVD with a bow and sticker on the package. That was so sweet of him to get it for me. I forced myself to do it today. I did the five minute warm up and then the 20 minute beginner. I will be on the beginner for awhile:) My arms and legs were shaking. As Bob says they were "cooking" Thanks, Bob!

I also made Kevin's birthday cake. Not that he would really mind, but it is a WW Dark chocolate cake that I found a recipe for. It was super easy. Well all except for the part where you have to puree the sauerkraut. I wonder how it will taste. I am going to serve it with some Cool Whip. I will post on it tomorrow or the next as his birthday is tomorrow.

Food for the day....I did not cook anything today. Oh well, I feel icky and that was that. For breakfast I had the usual oatmeal. And, as usual it was good! For lunch I had a cup of leftover turkey chili from the freezer and a peanut butter and jelly on an English muffin. I have not had peanut butter in a long time and it just sounded so good to me. I did however just measure out a Tb instead of eating it straight from the jar. Tonight I am going to just give in and have a frozen meal and some veggies. Today I have labeled as a wash.

The Clif nectar bar yesterday, the chocolate and raspberry, was great. I really do like those a lot. This afternoon I am going to have 1/2 of a kashi chewy bar I think peanut butter and chocolate. I am not having the whole bar because it is 6pts. I cut it in half for a more reasonable 3pts.

So that it is in a nutshell. I am hoping that I feel better tomorrow. This is going to be a long night at work.

Day two!

I am trying to figure out this two photo post thing. It may take me awhile to get it all under control. I posted yesterday about my Clif bar that I was going to enjoy and enjoy it I did. Although, I flavored it incorrectly. It was actually a cherry pomegranate bar as you may be able to see in the photo. Today I am having a chocolate raspberry. These are very delicious, especially for the 3 pts. For breakfast I did the good old standby of oatmeal, flax, milk, etc and followed it up with an apple.

For lunch as you can see I had a grilled chicken breast and some seasoned brussel sprouts. I love brussel sprouts. I just drizzle them with olive oil and some sea salt and crushed pepper. Cook them for 5 minutes in a hot pan and then stir. Give them about another 5 minutes and there you have it. I topped them with some Parmesan cheese that we had left over.

Dinner will be some of the leftover spa meatloaf and smashed potatoes. I will also enjoy some more brussel sprouts.

It is colder here today than yesterday, but I am proud of myself. Molly and I again went for a walk. It was a little colder than I would have liked as I couldn't feel my legs by the time we got back. But, I was happy that we did it none the less.

Tomorrow I will be baking a low fat chocolate cake for Kevin's birthday. we shall see how it turns out. It is a WW recipe that I fount.

Ok, off to work! Have a good afternoon! Oh day one back at work wasn't as bad as I thought. It was a lot harder to get up today though.