Day 3 (12/3/08)

Well today was a win for a couple of reasons (1) the earlier blog; (2) ate fairly healthy when I ate out for breakfast (not by choice); (3) had 1/2 a delicious dinner; (4) didn’t have any candy today (not even fun sized!); and (5) I think I’m down about 5 pounds since Sunday afternoon. Now don’t go think I’m starving myself and that’s how I lost 5 pounds in a few days. In fact, given that I post my food daily, you should know I’m definitely not starving. I’m sure a lot of that weight, as typical when starting a “diet/lifestyle change” is water weight. Additionally, I think a lot of the excess weight I had (I was about 7 pounds heavier Sunday than I was before I went on my Thanksgiving trip on Wednesday) was some sort of water/sugar weight from crap I ate over Thanksgiving. I realize that is not logical, probably has no nutritional basis, etc., but something has to explain it!

So bad part of the day (if there must be one) is that I didn’t work out this morning. I planned this so it’s actually not a big deal, nor a disappointment. I knew that last night would be a late night and then it turned out I had a breakfast at 8 a.m. this morning (I found out about 3 p.m. yesterday) so the combination of those two things made me think it might be best if I take the day off. My legs were also aching a bit from the increase in running so they needed a break too. Back to the gym tomorrow morning though!

Onto the food for the day:
B: Ate out (because I had to). Had an omelet made with low calorie/cholesterol eggs that also had sundried tomatoes, avocado and some other things. Ate two of the pieces of toast (which I think was one piece of bread total) and had fruit instead of potatoes. I think, overall, I made good decisions eating out.

L: Lean Cuisine Swedish Meetballs

S: Chips Ahoy 100 cal bar. Also YUCK which is seriously unfortunate. Going to have to find a 100 cal alternative. Thankfully there are a lot of options out there for this nowadays.

D: So there’s a story that goes with this dinner. A month and a half ago I came across a recipe for sweet potato fries and decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, at the time, the only knives I had in my apartment were apparently as sharp as a butter knife so I felt like I was hacking a sweet potato apart. The fries ended up being delicious but I decided I needed new knives before I ever tried the recipe again. Lucky for me, my good high school friend had invited me to a Pampered Chef party that was 2 or 3 days after the sweet potato incident. I ordered myself plenty of new gadgets, that I’m sure I’ll be talking lots about, but most importantly I invested in 3 lifetime warranty knives. I got my order yesterday but wasn’t home last night. I decided that tonight I’d try the sweet potato fries again. The new knife was incredible! And the sweet potato fries turned out even better. This is the recipe I used. And these are how my fries turned out:

I also made some rice in my new microwave cooker. The rice was very good, but my cooker made a mess of my microwave. I think I put too much rice and water in for the size.