Well, this week isn’t going quite as “perfectly” as last week, but I have the extra weekend weight off and am working on a loss for this week. I get kind of stressed when the weather is like this – windy, cold, icy, storm predicted for later in the week. But I’ve been turning to good things when I feel I need a nibble – walnuts, fresh fruit, etc. Still, I’m not exactly on what I wanted to eat.
Yesterday we had left overs from the previous day (meatloaf, Brussels sprouts, etc.)
That is gone so tonight we are having:
salmon (poached in water in a skillet); sweet potato (my favorite!); peas and soy milk
lunch was: tomato soup; open faced almond butter sandwich; apple
For snack this afternoon I had my yogurt and tonight’s snack is instant oatmeal.
Breakfasts are the same every week, so I won’t post them again 🙂
On the plus side, we had our monthly nutrition talk (which includes samples) and I DID NOT have a sample of oatmeal butterscotch cookie or oatmeal fudge. I did have a little smoothie with oatmeal in it – no sugar, though. And my opinion? Oatmeal in a smoothie is just wrong. As long as I eat my oatmeal for breakfast and in my bread, I’m not going to ruin my smoothies by putting raw oatmeal in them. Even ground fine, it remains in your mouth after all the other stuff has dissolved, so you end up chewing up all this ground up raw oatmeal. Weird. Then, because we had that at 10:00, I forgot to have my banana for snack. I couldn’t figure out why I was starving by lunchtime!
Yes, I had a bad weekend too… we had friends over on Saturday night and I just lost it–eating everything in sight. Somehow I have to break myself of the mindset that I have to always be eating when I’m socializing. And then they brought cheesecake. Gah! I had a slice and then later checked the points value–YIKES! So, I’ve recouped and am doing better since then (to make up for the binge!) Oh, and I agree about the oatmeal in a smoothie… I prefer smoother ingredients. 🙂
I feel so bad when I see you struggling with the same things I did at that age. So I want to remind you that you are beautiful at your current weight. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t be trying to lose a little, but enjoy your body now, because it tends to go downhill and be a lot harder to be even slightly beautiful once you pass 50. (I’m not complaining – I just wish I’d been able to feel more beautiful when I was your age!) After you pass 50, beauty isn’t so much about size, anyway.