okay! a day of MWL
not a single nibble off plan yayaaayayayay! Now, I'm at the library and it is only 6:00 so once I get home, there are a few things that could call out my name, but I'm also planning on an early bedtime.
So, what did i eat today?
B: nuked potatoes, greens, garbanzos, and fruit salad
L: savory garbanzos, rice, greens, fruit salad
D: refrito soup, two big servings (I was HUNGRY)
but this is the cool thing. lately, when i get that little teensy tiny, itty bitty, miniscule *blip* of a hunger pang at about 3:00 at work, I head straight for the fridge and see what's in there. I don't eat coworkers' food, but often times there are leftovers from B-day celebrations or what have you. Well, anyway...that tiny little *bip* of a tummy tinge came today and I said "Dang, I'm hungry" and DIDN'T get anything from the fridge! I said to myself
"Self, you'll survive until you get home and make some food." I said to my stomach "Stomach, you aren't TRULY hungry. You had a fine meal at 12:30, and it's only a few hours since, so SHUT UP. I will feed you in due time."
and when I got home there were two big florets of cauliflower in the fridge which I grabbed, while grabbing the ingredients for refrito soup:
chopped onion
diced garlic
italian seasoning
something spicy like salsa or crushed dried peppers
in a 5 qt saucepan saute the onion and garlic and spices while opening cans1 lg can of diced tomatoes
1 can of refried beans
1 cup of frozen corn
1/2 cup of quinoa, uncooked
once you have the tomatoes open, put them with the stuff in the saucepan and bring to a boil. Add all other ingredients, and cook for 15-20 minutes.
I also threw the last of a bag of raw kale salad mixture into the pot.
this was DELISH! i ate two servings.
So, i made refrito soup and sat down to eat, and there was a box of GS thin mint cookies, open, with one single little cookie edging its little brow out to peek...just yesterday...okay, the day before yesterday...I would have eaten "just one" but today i asked my kid to put them away. Proud of myself.
I still have a major munchy going on, though. My appetites are up big time, and I still feel some stress over events in my life. Maybe I'll do like KKrichar and get some exercise.
i never did get the elliptical I was planning on.
Oh, I didn't mention it here: one of my big stressors over the past few weeks was the breakdown of my Saturn while I was driving home from work, the week-long search for a new one, having some electrical stuff fixed at my house, having some "unwanted" admiration from a man
(don't get me wrong...I'll take admiration, you know? but it was not right, not the right timing nor the right man, so even though it was very flattering and ego-boosting, it wasn't welcome and it added stress)
so i didn't get the elliptical because I spent the rest of my tax money on a new car. Maybe I did mention that here, now that I think about it. And my new car...I LOVE my little coracle, really i do...but it needed some fixing, too. *sigh*
and it was the five year anniversary of my marriage blowing up, and the one year anniversary of losing a beloved client to murder/suicide last March,, and the anniversary of my wonderful Bill passing away is coming up, too.
yeah I ate treats and sweets.
see? Life is always going to throw things at me. there are much better ways of dealing. i've got to break the habit, that's all.
and that's all for today. i wanted to get out and walk, and maybe I still will. it's nice out.