It felt pretty good to post a 5 pound loss yesterday, but I’m no dummy - losses will be fleeting unless I stay up on my eating and I started planning for today last night when I packed my bento box lunch for today. Staying focused, chanting my mantra (“Vegas, baby, Vegas“) and who knows - I might just have some success again for once.
Today started off with a challenge when I had to go to the service center to get a tired repaired on my car. I know they bring out a couple of dozen doughnuts every morning and I knew there would be plenty available to me should I choose to partake, which I did not. A couple cups of coffee got me through the visit.
So having gotten through that hurdle, how does the day look?
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Breakfast was a banana-nut muffin. Now I know some of you are going to tell me there is probably more calories in that muffin than in the doughnuts I passed up, and you would probably be right. But I know it has less than 2 Sausage Egg McMuffins and a hash brown, let me tell you. And besides, for whatever reason this muffin always fills me up until lunch. I know a doughnut would not have done that. I’ll try to eat more oatmeal for breakfast, I promise.
Lunch was a bento box I made up last night and I admittedly packed a few too many things into there. I could have done without the carrots and cheese stick. Or maybe the carrots were OK. The chicken breast was cold, this weekend I made six chicken breasts poached in milk, a recipe I’m going to be writing up later, and it was sitting on top of a bed of herb greens, although I wasn’t thinking and put some salt on them when I was packing the meal so of course the salt drew all the moisture out of the greens, meaning they were pretty much all gone by the time I had lunch. I had a small side of grilled veggies I bought in the deli, a side of pomegranate dressing to dip the chicken in (and for the greens that didn’t make it), some puffed rice crackers and for dessert some tapioca pudding to which I added some pomegranate arils. I loved those added to the tapioca, really made the dessert.
Afternoon snacks of a banana at work and a protein bar in the car on the way home. Fortunately the roads were not as slippery as yesterday.
For dinner I made my brussel sprout side dish that I will be making at Thanksgiving (4 quartered and roasted sprouts, teaspoon of toasted walnuts, pomegranate arils and a very light drizzle of pomegranate dressing. I used a tiny bit of olive oil when roasting the brussel sprouts. Heated up one of my leftover chicken breasts and had some vermicelli pasta tossed with a little Parmesan cheese. Side salad with herb greens, baby tomatoes and a few baby portobello mushrooms. Yogurt for dessert.
It’s 7:00 as I write this so of course it is possible I am not done eating for today, but that’s one of the reasons I’m writing this post. I can’t very well eat after I’ve written all this, can I?
No, I didn’t think so.
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Reader John Bonk thought the day looked heavy so I ran the numbers as best I could in the Daily Plate and came up with the following, which is indeed a little heavy. At my weight right now I’d like to be between 2,000 and 2,200 calories. Extra things like the cheese stick didn’t help, and the grilled vegetable salad was an issue. I took a guess at the muffin, they had a large banana nut muffin at 440 calories so I used that. Clearly I should be pushing for the oatmeal in the morning.
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