neat! June 6, 2008

look at this neat ticker i created through myfitnesspal.com

Created by MyFitnessPal – Free Calorie Counter

now i can track my progress with a little orange fish, just what i always wanted!
today has been a light food day so far, i’m stuck at the office for longer than i normally would be on a friday and i hurried out the door this morning so i had to pack all of my food and i ended up just throwing a bunch of stuff in the bag.
breakfast was my yummy cottage cheese-vanilla yogurt muesli and the rest of my fresh cantaloupe. this breakfast is my favorite because it’s uber filling and incorporates all of my favorite flavors. i only have one pre-portioned serving left so i guess i’ll just have to make more!

i got distracted doing a bunch of stuff while i was eating (because i was already in the office) even though i know i’m not supposed to multi-task anything with eating i didn’t really have a choice this morning. the busy-ness caused me to forget to take a picture ’til i was almost done with it and forget the cantaloupe altogether. but everyone knows what cantaloupe looks like… delicious.
lunch was an avocado-tuna nicoise pita, again. i’m over it, didn’t even take a pic. i need some variety in my lunch! i’m craving a really good salad. i’ve got a few favorites but they’re all from expensive restaurants and have dressings that i’m sure are too good to be low-cal. to surprise my tastebuds with something different, i had half a grapefruit with some splenda sprinkled on top.

and that’s it! that’s all i’ve eaten today. just 655 calories. i’m not hungry, i just wish i had some flavor. i can’t wait ’til my larabars come in the mail!

gotta love those pita pockets June 4, 2008

i’ve decided that the tuna salad i have that was leftover from the baby shower is a tuna nicoise salad of sorts because it has olives, artichoke, red onion, tomatoes, etc. not really etcetera, that’s all that’s in it besides tuna and lemon juice. i like it a lot and i have quite a bit of it left so i want to eat it before it goes bad. same with the avocado. and from that logic, lunch was born inside a pita pocket, duh.

mid-morning i also had a snack that i got from the ‘making the cut’ book. it’s actually supposed to be a breakfast dish but i love it for anytime. i had completely devoured it before i realized i hadn’t even taken the camera out so there’s no picture but it’s a combination of yogurt, cottage cheese, oats, slivered almonds and cinnamon. isn’t that considered muesli? either way, yum! i made a huge batch of it last night once i had all the ingredients so there are still 4 servings of it left. that’ll be gone by the end of the week for sure.
i’m up to 935 calories on the day and i’m craving a larabar =-0

pita pockets=love June 2, 2008

i might eat everything i ever consume for the rest of my life inside a pita pocket. they’re amazing, i get the sandwich feel for half the calories. i mean, who can eat only one piece of bread at a time anyway? i gotta have my filling surrounded by bread on each side, call me crazy.
lunch was a whole wheat pita pocket with mashed avocado, leftover tuna salad from this weekend and some spinach leaves with a cup of grape tomatoes on the side for a grand total of 395 calories.

i know, i’m awesome. check this out:

and i got to eat it! i can’t wait to see how many combinations i can come up with to fill these suckers. stay tuned…

weekend June 2, 2008

saturday morning i had a smoothie before working out. i put a cup of nonfat milk with half a frozen banana and a cup of frozen peaches. it was so think and frozen, like a milkshake! of course i added the customary 1/2tbsp. of flax oil, too. total was 253 calories. i drank it on the way to my saturday morning jazzercise super-workout.

the rest of my food choices were kind of a blur because i just grazed a lot. i tend to do that on weekends… i’m not super proud of it but i’ll be reevaluating my habits and tweaking what i can for maximum energy and weight loss until the big beach vacation (BBV) in july. i really want to look my very best, of course, but i also want to win the $100
here are some food highlights from the weekend so i can catch up:
i made the hungry girl peanut butter fudge with pumpkin and it was delicious! i’ll definitely make it again. it was a big hit at home with the fam, too. i had three squares with coffee and toast.

salad for lunch before we hit the road to grandma’s:

at my cousin’s baby shower i had a lot of fruit and some bites of pretty much everything else except the pasta salad and the slaw dishes.
this tuna salad was my favorite and i paired it with some cantaloupe wedges:

really yummy cake for dessert (loaded with sugar, i’m sure):

an artfully sliced strawberry:

breakfast sunday: an over-easy egg on toast with some laughing cow spread.

chicken taco for lunch with grandma’s highly caloric cheesy frijoles

some more baby shower cake :/

and i’m spent.

early breakfast makes for an early lunch May 29, 2008

i’m not used to eating this early but i will have to get used to it while i continue to go swimming in the mornings. lunch today was the leftover tuna-hummus from yesterday on a bed of spinach with half an avocado. remember that’s what i said i wanted to have for dinner last night? but that was before i remembered my alternate dinner plans. it worked out well because it tasted better today as a salad for 485 calories then just plain the way i had it yesterday for way more.

temp check: annoyed with my eyeballs! i am going to buy some goggles immediately after jazzercise tonight, i cannot be having this everyday!

starbucks! May 28, 2008

i added 80 calories to breakfast with a mid-morning pick-me-up of a grande iced skinny vanilla latte from starbucks. it was yummy but since i haven’t been drinking coffee everyday it made me kinda jittery. that’s good, it means i’ve been successfully weaning myself off of coffee. weaning is tough, the baby is currently being weaned off the bottle and he does not like it at all.

so i had my iced coffee and it kept my stomach happily feeling full until 2pm. i remember why i liked coffee so much, it really suppresses my appetite! i concocted a tuna dish for lunch today involving hummus. but first i had steamed carrots.

i think i oversteamed them, some of them were shrivelly. i like them really soft, though, and they still tasted good. i don’t think i’m reaping any of the benefits of the starch because i have to eat them warm, at least i like to. i can’t find the article on the weight-loss benefits of starches but i’ll keep looking for it. potatoes and carrots are going to make a comeback!
so my tuna salad today was 5oz. of canned albacore tuna (which i am going to stop buying because of the mercury levels) and 1/2c. of hummus. again with the the hummus. but i really like it. i also added 1oz. of organic unsalted sunflower kernels for the monounsaturated fat that prevention claims with shrink belly fat. i’ve been incorporating some into every meal so we’ll see if it helps.

it doesn’t look that good but it was delicious. that hummus flavor just agrees with my tastebuds. the tuna packed in the protein and the sunflower seeds added a crunch. i’m super impressed with myself right now. only thing is it was pretty high in calories, 663 for the tuna salad alone. i didn’t finish it all because i got full so i’m saving the rest for dinner. i plan to eat it on a bed of spinach, perhaps with some avocado if i can afford the extra calories.