6 Week - Day 20 &21

Day 20

Soul Food: Psalm 119

My Food:

Breakfast: Breakfast salad

Lunch: romaine topped with taco lentils and lentil buffalo sauce

Snack: Banana Split Green Smoothie

Dinner:  Chose from a buffet of leftovers, two bowls of broccoli and green beans, one bean burger, a few celery sticks with cookie dough hummus

My Thoughts:

I saw 175 on the scale today!!!! That was thrilling.  I also was able to button a pair of jeans from The Box.  That was also exciting. 

We had our co-op classes today. I did well eating while out.  When I was craving a hot mocha madness coffee for our long drive afterwards I was able to mix up a green smoothie for myself instead.  I am feeling so glad that making these better choices is becoming easier for me.

We headed to the campground the guys have been staying at this week. I pulled together a buffet for dinner from the leftovers we had at home and in the camper fridge. I was really glad there was so much once I put it all together. Such a better dinner than the take out the guys have been eating all week. The boys wouldn't agree with me, but I really like knowing they are getting some kind of real nutrition in their bodies.

I also decided I wanted to take a pic for seeing progress. Once again, the place I most want to see some progress is in my face. I'm adding todays pic to my photo tab on the blog.

Day 21

My Food: 

Breakfast: Restaurant fried potatoes with mushrooms, spinach, and broccoli, cup of fruit, baked beans, decaf coffee

Lunch: Breakfast salad

Dinner: pie plate filled with a head of romaine, raw broccoli and carrots, a scoop of black beans with corn, onion, green, 'shrooms, lentil buffalo sauce for dressing and a vegan "cheeze" sauce and an orange for dessert.

My Thoughts:

I TRIUMPHED over the Chinese food for dinner tonight!! We've been painting all day, so I was a little bummed thinking I would have to make some choices about food that I didn't like. However, we were able to pull together a breakfast salad for lunch.  For dinner, my guy ordered Chinese food for the fam.  I debated eating it so that I could be kind and join the fam. But I really just didn't even want to eat the food. Not only do I not want to undo all my hard work, I just know that I'll end up feeling icky from all the salt and oil in the dishes. 

I can't believe I didn't eat it. I did have a few bites of the leftover veggies that my three year old didn't eat, but that was it. I'm really happy about that. I told my guy, "I'm still *enjoying* years worth of Chinese food on my body. I can afford to go without tonight." ;)

The scale was up two pounds from yesterday. I don't get that at all. I ate really great so I can't blame it on my food. I do think my digestion was a factor.  Whatever it was, I FIT into those jeans and wore them all day.  I don't care what the scale says, that's exciting right there. :)

Looking Ahead:

We painted my kitchen and dining room today. I'll need to put my kitchen back together tomorrow while the trim gets worked on.  I'll be busy with that and then I'll need to get groceries and see if there's any energy left for kitchen work. 

I'm really glad for the food I am able to prepare each week. It's helping me so much to have something simple to heat and serve when life gets crazy. Even tonight, my dinner was so much more enjoyable with the sauces that were ready to eat. That helps me stay away from Easy and stick with Health.