It's after 9 PM on my first day of healthy eating. I've done "okay" but not as great as I need to be. When I posted last night's blog I was at my in-law's house in Southern California. We did not arrive home to Bakersfield until after midnight and when I woke up this morning I didn't know what to eat. I didn't have anything healthy on hand (we had been gone for over four days). So I packed up the girls and we went grocery shopping at Trader Joe's.
It was sorta funny. I woke up hungry, ready to eat anything so I knew I had to get out of the house or I'd be blowing my new diet on the very first day. I didn't make coffee, get them food, nothing. I just got us all dressed and filled their sippy cups and off we went. I did, however, stop at Starbucks. I live right by a drive-thru one and I couldn't resist. I need to be alert for a morning of shopping with two young kids!
Breakfast: A grande iced coffee with two Splenda & half & half. Estimated calories: 80 & 6 grams of fat. (The "Barista" put too much half & half in it so I got my calories/fat estimate by doubling a serving of half & half's amounts.)
My girls gave me a bit of a hard time at Trader Joe's. My youngest chucked her sippy cup on the floor splitting the cup up one side and causing a HUGE spill on the floor. I got home having spent a frustrating $41.93 and didn't have anything to eat. I got plenty of veggies, some whole wheat pastas, some brown rice, some "Morning Star" veggie "sausage" patties, some firm tofu and some fruit. But nothing for lunch.
I went through my cupboards and found some veggie soup. Score! I was so hungry -as you can imagine! I had been good to pass-up the goodies they were sampling at Trader Joe's (though I gave my portions to the girls since they had been dragged out of the house without breakfast).
Lunch: Veggie Soup. Calories: 160; Fat: 0. I felt like something like a good grilled cheese was certainly missing... But it was tasty and I gladly had the whole can!
Later on I went to Sam's Club and got some more fruit and per the request of my husband I got in the food court line to get him a "Power Aide" drink and a fresh baked pretzel. I knew our girls would want some too so I got two pretzels. As I waited for them to bake the pretzels I had a big craving for a cold Coke. It has to be at least 102 degrees outside and I really love Coke. I used to like Diet Coke, but when I was pregnant with my second daughter I got a huge dis-taste for it and to this day cannot say I like it anymore. I know that I should not drink diet drinks, but at least they have no calories. I thought about it obsessively while those pretzels were baking. I had a hard time not wanting to just go back in the line for a second drink cup. But I thought about how dumb I was being and how bad coke is for me -especially with all the high fructose corn syrup!
But when I got the pretzels in my hand, warm and smelling so good I lost it! I had half of one. I don't normally like them that much, but today's was very tasty. I had a hard time stopping at just half. But I thankfully did.
After I got back home I went back out to Costco - I was trying to find some good chicken and beef to make for dinner since I was at Trader Joes and then later at Sam's, but didn't find any worth getting. By the time I got to Costco it was about 6 PM and I was STARVING, despite the pretzel I had just eaten half of. At Costco I ended up having a few of the potato chips my toddler sampled. And I tried a very small bite of a "Weight Watchers" fudge Popsicle bar But I didn't have anything else! Honest.
Snacks: Half fresh baked pretzel; about three salt & vinegar chips and a bite of a diet ice cream bar. Calories *estimated* 220; fat *estimated* 3 grams of fat.
When I got home I had chicken for bbq-ing and steak for my husband and girls. I cut up a bunch veggies (asparagus, broccoli, yellow squash, etc.) and I mixed some olive oil, grilling salt and crushed garlic together with the veggies in a foil packet and had my husband throw it on the grill for about 12 minutes. I made the brown rice and we had a "nice" healthy dinner.
I put quotes on "nice" because I heard my oldest cry nearly the whole dinner, "I don't like vegetables!" And my youngest just threw off her steak and screamed at us.
Dinner: 3/4 a medium sized chicken breast; about a cup of lightly cooked veggies; and about 1/3 cup of cooked brown rice with a small amount of lemon pepper for seasoning. Estimated calories: 420; estimated fat: 7 grams.
After dinner we all took a walk. It was hard with the dog wanting to sniff everything (we sadly never leash-trained her like we did our first dog) and our oldest complained nearly the whole time that we walked to fast, that it was too hot and that she was tired. We probably walked half a mile at a non-brisk pace. It was not the ideal start to getting back into shape, but at least I got out there. It was a hot and not easy day...
After our walk I had some water! I am estimating that I have had 5 glasses of water so far. I should have already had 8, but before I got to sleep I am sure I will have at least 6 down. :-) And I know -on average- I was not getting in 6 glasses a day in my recent history.
And about an hour later I had a bowl of cut up fruit. I had delicious strawberry slices, some thawing mango chunks (I love eating partially frozen mango!) pineapple chunks and some honey dew melon chunks. I enjoyed it, but I would be a liar if I didn't tell you that I could so have a slice of cake right now, or some cookies. But I am okay. I am a bit hungry still, but I usually go to sleep hungry. I am one of those people that is almost always hungry. SO I am sorta used to it.
Snack: two cups of cut fruit. Estimated calories: 150; fat: 0 grams.
Overall, my first day was not too bad. But I need to be better prepared for my meals so I am not so hungry and tempted to just eat anything in sight!
Total estimated calories: 1030 -wow! I just added it all up. I had much less than I expected and much less than I planned for. I said yesterday I was going to try for 1,500 calories a day for my first week. Maybe I will go have a snack to bring the count up to at least 1,200. ???
Total estimated fat*: 16 grams.
*I am less interested in counting fat, but I did today. I may not give my estimated fat amounts every time I do a food diary type entry as I did today.
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