Day Seven

Breakfast:  I was a little tired of my morning omelette, so this morning I went with:
1/3 C oatmeal
1/4 C raisins
1 oz. chopped almonds
Cinnamon and Nutmeg. at 7:45.

It was a really good breakfast.  I'm glad I tried something new.

Between church and meetings, I didn't get my lunch in until 3:30.  I was very hungry, but made the choice to go ahead and prepare my taco salad instead of getting something instantly.  When I was done, I was craving sweets- not hungry, but craving.  I'm trying to differentiate between the two.  I ended up snacking on two .5 oz candy sticks- the old-fashioned kind.  That helped.

Paul rocked the grill again at 7.  We had steak and steamed vegetables.  I added to it a piece of wheat bread and cantaloupe and honeydew.  Food was on my mind a lot and I wanted a dessert.  I went ahead and had a Hershey's bar.  It did the trick.

For an evening snack, I had an oz. of almonds at about 9:15.

I drank 8 glasses of water.

This evening, I put together all my morning snacks, lunch salads, and afternoon snacks for the next four days.  I hope they stay good.

Tomorrow morning is my first workout at 5:30 for the new school year.   Let's see how I do. :0)

This being the end of the week, I need to review my goals:

Goals for this week:

1. Write down all my food and activity choices and report back nightly to this blog.
2. Transition back to eating 5 meals a day.
3. Eat whole foods whenever possible.
4. Work out three times a week.
5. Take Pippin on a daily walk

Goal 1- I did it!  I wrote down every bite I ate and reported it here.

Goal 2- The transition is still taking place.  I think next week's school routine will help.

Goal 3- I did really well.  The things I had that weren't whole foods: licorice, the sandwich bread, my salad dressings, the chicken teriyaki sauce on my sandwich, the McDonald's parfait, taco seasoning, diet root beer, diet 7up, fruit dip, veggie dip, kettle corn, some of the Sweet Tomato choices, 2 potato chips, 2 oreos, the Hershey's bar, and the stick candy.  

     As I look over this list, it looks like it's the smaller things to the side that weren't whole foods.  The bulk of what I ate were good choices.

Goal 4- I did it!

Goal 5- Nope.  It turned into an every-other day thing on the days I didn't work out.  I'm ok with that for now.

Next week's goals:

1. Same as above.  I need to keep making this a priority.
2. Same as above.
3. Same as above.
4. Same as above.
5. Take Pippin on a walk three times.

(Physical Activity:  Sunday is my day of rest.  I got 3326 steps in.)