hi thanks everyone!
For my dinner out, i ate completely off plan: a pasta dish, tomato based sauce but SOAKED with oil. I also had foccacia bread with various dips: tapenade, pesto, and a white bean puree...so, I blew Thursday night.
Friday...lemme see if I can remember. i never got anywhere near a computer on Friday...
B: I don't remember friday's brekkie...
L: a big tossed green salad; potatoes and sautee'd cabbage (col canon without mashing)
D: popcorn...sheesh...off MWL again. It was unbuttered and only lightly spritzed with soy sauce, but still illegal.
SATURDAY:
B: cooked grape nuts* porridge sweetened w/fig bits and frozen bananas; Earl Grey tea
L: black beans (home made so SUPER low sodium); a slice of home made whole wheat bread**; a huge green salad w/gingered carrot salad dressing that was pretty terrific.
D: (planned) Big green salad w/the fixin's and baked yukon gold taters...or maybe col canon again. i have a lot of cabbage.
*the grape nuts are too processed to qualify, but they have a LOT of fiber, these are store brand and the ingredients list does not include any oil, HFCS, or soy lecithin. I really was pleasantly surprised with the amount of fiber they contain. I'm going to finish them, and then get me some steel cut oats back in the house.
**on the bread. I was polishing off the slice when it hit me "hello! MWL? duh." so it would appear that i must retrain myself. It'll come.
Also, this is good: i am back to exercising again. I walked to the post office yesterday evening...gosh that was so nice. I love houses just as the evening is darkening outside. The window lights come on, people are sitting down together for dinner, some neighborhoods are popping, with kids out on bikes and skateboards, dads standing over the hood of a car or sitting with a hose in their hand to water the lawn and watch the day die down. That was about a mile one way. Took an hour to get there and back.
and today, I walked to the library from my home, which is about two miles one way!
so I'm working my muscles again, after quite a long hiatus being a couch potato
The cool thing about where I live, I have to do uphill NO MATTER WHICH WAY I GO, both ways. Seriously. I am on the top of a hill in the middle of a basin, so i go downhill, then uphill to get where I'm going, and the same, coming back. Down a hill, then up a hill, to get home. Good for my legs. Good for my heart.
I'm at the library now, and may not get to check in tomorrow. I definitely have my work cut out for me, getting my mindset and habits back under control, but it's happening. I actually threw away some junky chocolate stuff yesterday, knowing that the taste of it wasn't gonna be worth it. I wouldn't have done that before, but I didn't need it sitting around being mediocre and "NOT WORTH IT!"