Straight to the Point

Breakfast:  Espresso with 1 tsp sugar

Regular coffee w/ FF Coffeemate

Green Monster:  Almond milk/flax meal/1/2 banana/spinach/Amazing Grass

 

Lunch:  Salad with all sorts of veggies,  7 shrimp, 1 TBS feta, 3 Kalamata olives

1 Honeycrisp apple;  1 TBS almond butter

 

That is it so far today…I picked up an organic produce box Monday and we are gorging on fruits and veggies. 

 

I will try Kale Chips later today with the head of kale that came in the box.

I am sucking at entering things into WW too these days!  But I know I am staying within my points.  

Boy do I need to  be writing when biting!

Ahhh…The Weekend

Normal weekends are very challenging for me to stay on program.  Today should be a little easier as I am alone most of the day.  FabHubs is working, FabTeen is off at an Eagle project (I am going too in a bit), FabPreteen is at her dad’s, and  FabStepson is at his mom’s!

When I am not going anywhere and only feeding myself, food is easy.

So this morning starts off with one Eggo Blueberry waffle (something I normally would never buy but I caved into Ms. FabPreteen’s pressure) with 1/2 TBS of almond butter.  Also an espresso.  Today I decided to try the Agave syrup instead of sugar in it.   Not as sweet as usual, but not bad.

Sometime between now and leaving I want some form of Amazing Grass drink, either in Green Monster or just plain.

Finally my “Before Pictures” have been sent off to the BL 2009.  Eventually I will post a progress series here on the blog…but I need to make some visible progress first!

Then I am off to the Eagle project, a spiritual workshop, and  home for more things of my To-Do list.

Dropping The Ball

Oh Yeah…that is me!  I have way too many balls in the air at the moment and I have dropped the ball that is daily food journaling!  A big  No-No!

Yesterday was a complete train wreck anyway as far as food was concerned.  At FabPreteen’s school it was Hispanic Heritage Day (She wanted to bring  in Greek or Jewish food to celebrate her own nonHispanic heritage LOL!).  I made plain ole rice which didn’t even get opened anyway because one of the other kid’s grandmother’s made a huge tray of Cuban roast pork (YUMMMMMM!) and another huge tray of rice.

But the spread was fantastic!  I was really impressed with how many parents sent in stuff to our class this year.  This is 7th grade!  Last year we would get very little!

I was going to be good…really I was!  I started off the morning with a bowl of Kashi U cereal with Almond Breeze, and  an espresso.  I also made a Green Monster to drink on the run.

They had tons of skits and a mariachi band that was great. 

Then we went inside to eat.   I was not going to eat any meat!  I haven’t all week since a little chicken Monday night.   But I broke down as usual.  My plate wasn’t too  bad…I had some roast pork (I left the skin over), some rice, a bunch of salad, half  an empanada, a croqueta (okay…those  are bad!), half a pan de bon (Colombian cheese bread),  three or four maraquitas (fried plantain  chips), Coke (ugh!), flan (OMG that was so good!).

I didn’t eat the brownies or cupcakes.  See..I  showed some restraint!

Back at home later on I juiced up all the grapes for FabTeen.   It was pretty good (I had a sip!).  Then I juiced up my energizing apple/carrot/ginger/beet combo.

Around 7ish we were hungry and FabHubby was working late so the FabTeen and I decided to try out a new restaurant near our house that has stone-fired pizza. 

We ordered the  one that has Ricotta, Fresh Mozzarella, Fresh Basil, Homemade Sauce, and I didn’t realize it had prosciutto on it until it came.  Also, I had eggplant added to it.  I looooovee ricotta and eggplant on my pizza.

It was good…we were hungry.   I had THREE slices.  Yes, three (head hung in shame).   FabTeen kept telling me that this isn’t like regular pizza as the crust is extremely thin, almost cracker-like, so it wasn’t so bad.   He is so cute!  He had three slices too…but he is a teenager and a guy.  They can do that!

We brought  the leftovers home for FabHubby.

Today better be better!

The Very Hungry Lady

Yes….today I am like The  Very Hungry Caterpillar!  I must be off in my intake of something (protein?  carbs?) because all of a sudden, about 20 minutes ago, I nearly instantly became ravenously hungry.   It started as a little nag but I can’t believe how fast and furious the stomach pain and frustration and irritability and feeling  BAD set in!

I quickly fixed it with a sandwich of Arnold’s Whole Grain Sandwich Thins, a staple in my diet that goes with almost everything for only 1 point!  On this I piled some salad and 2 Tbs of  baba ganoush.

Up until then, today I have had:

An original Green Monster, my favorite actually.   Just the Almond Milk, flax seed, spinach, banana, and Amazing Grass today.

Then I finished off the tub of Fage yogurt with the mix-ins.  It had:

5 ounces plain yogurt

About 1/4 cup of canned pumpkin

1 TBS honey

1/2 banana

1/4 cup of Kashi  U cereal

A bunch of cinnamon

 

I thought this would hold me until lunchtime!  But it didn’t.  So around 10:30 when I started getting hungry I pulled out the juicer and had a glass of carrot/apple/beet/ginger (my favorite!).  Today’s was particularly sweet…don’t know why.  Maybe ‘cuz I tossed a Gala apple I had that nobody was eating in there instead of the usual Granny Smith.  Definitely have to make that again…it was really really great!

And then about 11:30 or so is when I had that unexpected ravenous attack!

Now I am trying to decide if I am still hungry or not.  I feel “yes”…but I am trying to give my body some time with the sandwich to see if I can get away without eating for a few more hours.

Revisiting the Rest of Yesterday

Since I never had the chance to come back on yesterday and finish off my meals, I wanted to quickly log in what I had the rest of the day:

Lunch was an awesome salad with my fresh organic produce topped with half an ounce of feta and 4 Kalamata olives from the Middle Eastern store.  I put a splash of red wine vinegar on top, although I didn’t need this…the feta gave enough flavor.

On the side I also had a TBS of baba ganoush, a TBS of hummus, and an Arnold Sandwich thin for the dips.   I originally had brought out a piece of the whole wheat pita I bought at the Middle Eastern store the day before…but to my great disappointment it was moldy!  I will take it back to exchange…but I had to settle for the Arnolds.

Dinner was on the run…as it always is on Tuesdays.   Not only do wee have scouts on Tuesday nights but we have to pick up two of our kids from two different places (one from his mother and one from her father) and they do not live close.   For tonight’s dinner on the run I mixed up the rest of the avocado and made some more of that delicious homemade guac (chopped up scallion, grape tomato, and a huge amount of  cilantro…then a sprinkle of lemon juice and salt).  I put this on an Arnolds again with a bunch of lettuce.  This was Heaven!!!

I also took along a Honeycrisp apple but I was too full to eat it!

When I got home I still had 5.5 points left!!!  So I snacked on two  of the oatmeal/flax/raisin cookies and indulged myself with 2 tsps of almond butter…I rarely have enough points extra to have that treat.

I ended the day using exactly my allotted 22 points!  Not bad.

Not Quite Pumpkin Pie

By 11:30 I was starting to feel a little hungry but I didn’t want to stop working quite yet for lunch  so I had my Green Monster of the day.  

Since I had an open can of pumpkin in the fridge I decided to experiment a little and turned this into a Superfood bounty!  Into the blender went the Almond Milk, 1 TBS ground flax seed, 1 scoop Original Amazing Grass Superfood, big handful of raw spinach (from the organic box!), some crushed ice, and I dumped a whole bunch of pumpkin pie spice into the blender as well.  I had brought out a banana for sweetness, but decided to save the extra point and didn’t add it in.

Not bad!  Not quite pumpkin pie filling, but sweet and very good as far as these green powersmoothies go.

Best of all, full of super health goodness with pumpkin, spinach, and cinnamon (in the pumpkin pie spice) all from the Superfoods list…plus the big benefits of the flax seed and the Amazing Grass. 

All for only 1.5 points!

Speaking of pumpkins…while the rest of the country seems to be breaking out into fall, here in South Florida we are SUFFERING through a heat wave this week!

In my house we have not had A/C since last fall.  Not so bad when it was cool last winter but this summer in our house was brutal for our family.  Since right now we don’t have $$ means to replace it, we have eagerly been anticipating the arrival of October, which, while we don’t cool down as much as the rest of the country, is when the humidity breaks and normally we get some relief from the brutal hot and sticky temps in the 90s. 

Yes…normally in October we make it down to the 70s, but all this week will be record highs for South Florida.  OH JOY!

Kicking Off The Day

Today started the same way I start most.  FabTeenager asked for juice this morning instead of a Green Monster, so that is what I had as well.   His was carrots and Granny Smith apples, mine was the same with a little bit of beet and fresh ginger thrown in.   A very refreshing and energizing way to start the day.

After the school run I was really hungry!   I forgot to put the oats in the fridge last night and originally I was going to have a yogurt mix-in (fresh fruit and cereal mixed with the yogurt) but I was so hungry I decided to pull out the Egg Beaters I haven’t had in a while and make myself some Egg Tortillas.  I used two corn tortillas heated up, on each I put one cooked Egg Beater, 1 TBS reduced fat shredded cheddar, and 1 TBS salsa.  That was really filling.  I also had a shot of espresso with 1 tsp of sugar along with this.

This came to a total of 6 points.