9/30/17
Good Morning - Happy Saturday - My favorite day of the week! It's 7:15 am and I slept really good last night. This morning I weighed 179.7 - that's just about 6 pounds from 9/19. I'm very excited about this journey and very hopeful. Brightline eating is hard in some ways, but very easy in others like prepping my food the night before. Which I realized when I woke up this morning I forgot to do that. But I'll just get up when I'm done posting and write out my menu.
A couple of things - I meant for this to be a daily journal for myself, but obviously that didn't happen, but looking back over the week, I'm sure a weekly or a few times a week will be good to start.
Friday was a bit of a mess. I started out at 5:15 hiking up Cowles Mountain with my bestie Diana. We didn't go all the way up as I was on a bit of a time constraint. It's really fun to chat with her while hiking. I wouldn't go if she wasn't there with me. Anyways, I had a walking date with my new friend Melissa at Lake Murray at 7:30. I got to meet her cute little Corgi Bruce. He's 8 mos old and just adorable. I got home, took a shower, ate breakfast of eggs, rice and a banana and off to work I went.
At lunch time I went in the kitchen to eat and couldn't find my lunch bag. I searched around for it and then realized I left it at home. Panic ensued. I knew I couldn't go the rest of day with out eating or I would turn into a crazy person and eat every m&m in the office. My boss said - "go to the Marketplace and get a salad"! Great idea because I was thinking taco shop. In my mind I'd already bought a burrito and threw away the tortilla! I drove down the street, past the taco shop and up to the Market place deli on 5th. I went over to the sandwich counters to review the menu but didn't see a salad at all - I'm like what kind of deli doesn't have salad? I finally decided to ask the lady at the counter if they had salads, she said "Oh yes, they are in the case right in front". Whew, I had walked right past them! They had about 10 choices of pre-packed salads and I almost went for the greek but there was no chicken in it and I figured I might be starving an hour later if I ate that. Then I was slightly tempted at a Cobb salad for the bacon. I'm a bit afraid to eat pork right now. It's my favorite meat - Bacon, Sausage, Ham - Yum. But I think I might go over the edge if I eat any of that. So as I move down the counter reading the ingredients and the prices, I notice they are in order of price. I get to the end and see they have a salad with Lettuce, chicken, blue cheese crumbles, blueberries and green apple. Perfect, the most expensive salad at 7.99! But thankfully I got paid today and could swing it. I chose a red wine vinaigrette to go with it and out the door I went. Disaster averted!
Dinner was another story - I came home and had to pick a chicken. Meaning pick all the meat off the bones. I buy Rotisserie Chicken from Costco. They are $5 bucks and delicious. I bought 2 yesterday and put them in the fridge. It was a bit harder to get the skin off a cold chicken, but I think I plucked more meat off of it cold. I mean, I could man handle the chicken and really rip it apart. It was gross but the net weight of meat was 22 ozs! That works out to $3.63 per lb of tasty cooked chicken. I don't think I've mentioned that raw meat kind of grosses me out so I'm not sure if I would ever take the plunge and bake a whole chicken myself - plus it's summer and too hot! Anywho, I was really tired after that busy day and decided to lay down before Ted came home. As I drifted off to la la land he walked in the door and woke me. Then Kels came home and we were going to listen to a speaker at church with the campus ministry. I hadn't ate dinner yet but I really wasn't hungry. Ted had Chipotle for lunch and still full from that. I heated up the edamame from my lunch and ate a few bites of carrots and radishes, ate the olives and left for church. I munched on the edamame on the way and that was dinner.
Today is a new day and when my post is complete, I'm getting in the shower and put my menu together. Thankfully a new day is a fresh start :-)
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